"You've Never Won Anything" (1998, 2014, 2020)
Michael Jordan, Whiplash, and Winners and Losers in America
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I. “Not Quite My Tempo”
The best sports movie of the 21st century is Damien Chazzelle’s Whiplash (2014), which may seem like an odd proclamation for the writer of a sports-history newsletter to make, given that Whiplash isn’t technically a sports …
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