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The most inspiring sports movie speeches of all time light a fire under every sports fan's heart. They are typically given by head coaches of underdog teams who need a pre-game or halftime locker room pick-me-up to encourage the pursuit of victory against a challenging opponent. They can also arise in other unique ways that encapsulate the feelings of sportsmanship, teamwork, and a love of the game that reminds every athlete, coach, and fan why they play ball.

The timeless tale of inspiring underdogs in sports movies is the culmination of blood, sweat, and tears as well as fearlessness in the face of a formidable opponent. The best speeches in sports movies often remind those it is intended for to keep up their determination and maintain their belief in themselves. The most inspiring moments in sports movies come from the mutual desire to become greater than the sum of any...

Maluma announced the U.S. leg of his Don Juan World Tour, with the tour kicking off in Sacramento, California on August 31 and ending in Miami on November 4.

“I am so excited to return to arenas around the U.S. this fall,” the 29-year-old Colombian singer announced in a press release. “I took a year off from touring to focus on perfecting what I feel is the best album of my career Don Juan.”

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“I can’t wait to perform the new songs from the album for my fans for the very first time alongside my greatest hits in what I consider to be my most ambitious concert production yet,” Maluma said of his upcoming 30-city tour. “I’ve waited to give my fans a music and concert experience unlike any other and I expect the Don Juan U.S. Tour to be an exhilarating...

Maluma is promising an “exhilarating experience” on his upcoming tour. On Monday, the Colombian star revealed that after a year of working on his Don Juan LP, he’s ready to hit the road on a world tour.

“I am so excited to return to arenas around the U.S. this fall. I took a year off from touring to focus on perfecting what I feel is the best album of my career, Don Juan,” Maluma said in a press release. “I can’t wait to perform the new songs...

Maluma has announced a North American arena tour in support of his upcoming album, Don Juan.

The 30-city tour kicks off on August 31st in Sacramento, with further dates scheduled in Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, El Paso, Austin, Dallas, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, and beyond.

A ticket pre-sale begins Thursday, May 25th, ahead of a public on sale set for Friday, May 26th via Ticketmaster.

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Maluma 2023 Tour Dates:

06/16 – Santiago de Compostela, Es @ Monte Do Gozo

06/18 – Ibiza, Es @ Ushuaia

06/23 – Vienne, Fr @ Viva Latino Festival

06/24 – Basel, Ch @ Trapeton Summer Bash Festival

07/01 – Sevilla, Es @ Puro Latino Fest

07/02 – Ibiza, Es @ Ushuaia

07/05 – Catania, It @ Villa Bellini Fest

07/07 – Málaga, Es @ Weekend Beach Festival Torre del Mar

07/08 – Gran Canaria,...

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Chris Stapleton will buttress his upcoming stadium tour with George Strait with his own All American Road Show, a series of guest-filled headlining gigs that began in April and will now run through August 2024 with the addition of dozens of additional dates.

Sheryl Crow, Elle King, Marcus King, Nikki Lane, Willie Nelson and Family, Grace Potter, Allen Stone, Marty Stuart, Turnpike Troubadours, The War and Treaty and Lainey Wilson...

No sports? No problem, says ESPN, which will air a selection of Disney sports films as part of its Friday night programming starting this Friday. The schedule will help bridge the gap created by the hiatus of most major sports events while the nation hunkers down to avoid spreading the coronavirus.

First up at bat is The Rookie, timed to Mlb’s postponed Opening Week. The film tells the story of high school baseball coach Jim Morris, who became the oldest rookie in the major league.

Continuing the following Friday, April 3rd, timed to the traditional Ncaa Final Four weekend, will be Glory Road, the true story of future...

Rock en español veterans Maná revived one of their greatest hits on Friday with an assist from Colombian balladeer Sebastián Yatra. Originally released on their 1995 album Cuando los Ángeles Lloran, Maná’s latest, “No Ha Parado De Llover” is one of many upcoming remixed classics from their great era rockera.

A 2018 Latin Grammys gala first sparked the clean-cut collaboration where the Latin Recording Academy also honored Maná with a Person of the Year award. On that night, Latin Grammy-nominated balladeer Yatra performed an evocative version of “No Ha Parado De...

The inimitable Mexican pop queen Gloria Trevi is going back on the road — and taking Colombian superstar Karol G with her. In support of Trevi’s 2019 album, Diosa de La Noche, the duo’s fall U.S. tour opens this Friday the 13th, under an auspicious full moon, in Fresno, California.

In anticipation of their joint tour, Trevi and Karol appeared at a Los Angeles press conference, where they were surprised with a Gold record certification for sales of their scorcher of a reggaeton track, “Hijoepu*#,” which featured on Diosa de La Noche,...

With the Ncaa Basketball Tournament, aka "March Madness," in full court, it seemed appropriate to gather 10 of the best basketball movies of all time. These movies inspire, teach, and are filled with all the great up-and-down-the-court action!

Top 10 Basketball Movies of All Time10. "Blue Chips" (1994)

This look at the world of college basketball shows the price of victory, while weaving in the corruption of amateur sports. Stand-out performances by Shaquille O’Neal and Nick Nolte.

Welcome to The Television Balcony, where I'll be bringing you the obscure or overlooked big-screen exploits of small-screen stars. We're opening the Balcony with a screening of What We Do Is Secret, an independent film starring Shane West (currently featured on The CW's Nikita) as the charismatic lead in the real-life story of a legendary punk rock band.

On paper, What We Do Is Secret (2007) is like my own special version of hell: a biopic about a genre of music I can't stand fronted by an actor whose work I hardly know. In reality, however, it's one of the best obscure films I've seen in a long while, centered around one of the best individual performances I've ever seen.

Given anyone that I've taken an interest in on the small screen, I'm more interested in the small movie they did years ago than the big blockbuster. This time, it's Shane West's fault.

Welcome to The Television Balcony, where I'll be bringing you the obscure or overlooked big-screen exploits of small-screen stars. We're opening the Balcony with a screening of What We Do Is Secret, an independent film starring Shane West (currently featured on The CW's Nikita) as the charismatic lead in the real-life story of a legendary punk rock band.

On paper, What We Do Is Secret (2007) is like my own special version of hell: a biopic about a genre of music I can't stand fronted by an actor whose work I hardly know. In reality, however, it's one of the best obscure films I've seen in a long while, centered around one of the best individual performances I've ever seen.

Given anyone that I've taken an interest in on the small screen, I'm more interested in the small movie they did years ago than the big blockbuster. This time, it's Shane West's fault.

"Glory Road" is an appealing story about a basketball coach who almost accidentally engages in social engineering in his quest to win games. This is the mostly true story of the 1966 Texas Western Miners, who won the NCAA championship with an all-black lineup against the all-white University of Kentucky Wildcats. That win not only broke an unspoken barrier and transformed the college game itself but arguably helped fuel the desegregation movement in this country. The coach, Don Haskins, played with energy and dedication by Josh Lucas, was no political activist but did realize that recruiting black players was a shortcut to winning in all-white Southern conferences.

This Jerry Bruckheimer production, directed by commercial director James Gartner in a solid feature debut, should please male fans as well as those who don't mind a dose of social commentary with their sports heroics. "Glory Road" will get the new year off to a fine start for the Walt Disney Co., which no doubt is aware that another basketball movie, "Coach Carter", racked up more than $67 million in boxoffice grosses playing at the same time last year.

With so much story to tell, the movie, written by Christopher Cleveland and Bettina Gilois, gets under way in a rush so it's hard to tell if Haskins is aware of the implications of his basketball revolution. The movie never quite explores whether he realizes the amount of hatred and abuse he is exposing his athletes to and how he prepares them to face those challenges.

Instead the movie sticks to a rags-to-riches tale of a high school girls basketball coach who gets an out-of-nowhere offer to coach at Texas Western University (now the University of Texas at El Paso). With virtually no budget for recruiting and a program he can't sell to talented white athletes, Haskins travels through northern cities to offer scholarships to black standouts.

To position a deserved halo even more prominently above Haskins' head, the movie stretches the truth in two ways. Haskins won the championship in his sixth season, not his first as the movie has it. And even before Haskins' arrival, Texas Western was the first college in a Southern state to integrate its athletic teams. Indeed, the coach inherited three black players from a previous coach.

While the film doesn't soft-peddle ugly incidents of overt racism, it treats most off-court conflicts with humor instead of studied seriousness. The film views its characters as college youngsters, engaging in good-natured byplay and looking for fun.

The actors do fine jobs of capturing aspects of each player's personality that underscore his contribution on the court. Derek Luke stars as Bobby Joe Hill, the agile backcourt artist whose resentment of racism feeds his athletic prowess. Schin A.S. Kerr has a glowering presence as the formidable center David Lattin.

Damaine Radcliffe is a determined Willie "Scoops" Cager, fighting to overcome a heart ailment to get back on the court. Sam Jones III makes pint-size Willie Worsley a spark plug at guard. Mehcad Brooks as forward Harry Flournoy must battle scholastic problems to stay in the lineup. And Austin Nichols has serious and humorous moments as Jerry Armstrong, a white player forced to adjust his game and social attitudes.

Jon Voight plays legendary Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp with a face that alternates between a scowl and a look of astonishment. The film does a delicate balancing act of making Rupp the nominal villain while giving him his due as a shrewd strategist who simply meets his match in a younger and hungrier rival coach.

All the game footage is well shot and edited. The cinematography by John Toon and Jeffrey Kimball is outstanding, though Trevor Rabin's music is conventional, even at times overbearing. Designer Geoffrey Kirkland makes the gyms and locker rooms all but reek of stale sweat.

GLORY ROAD

Buena Vista Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Credits:

Director: James Gartner

Screenwriters: Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois

Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer

Executive producers: Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, Andy Given

Directors of photography: John Toon, Jeffrey Kimball

Production designer: Geoffrey Kirkland

Music: Trevor Rabin

Costumes: Alix Friedberg

Editor: John Wright

Cast:

Don Haskins: Josh Lucas

Bobby Joe Hill: Derek Luke

Jerry Armstrong: Austin Nichols

Adolph Rupp: Jon Voight

Moe Iba: Evan Jones

David Lattin: Schin A.S. Kerr

Orsten Artis: Alphonso McAuley

Harry Flournoy: Mehcad Brooks

Willie Worsley: Sam Jones III

Willie "Scoops" Cager: Damaine Radcliffe

Mary Haskins: Emily Deschanel

MPAA rating PG

Running time -- 114 minutes...

After portraying a football player in Friday Night Lights, Derek Luke is switching to basketball. The actor has signed on for the 1960s hoops drama Glory Road for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the Walt Disney Co. Also joining the cast is The Day After Tomorrow's Austin Nichols. To be directed by James Gartner, Glory Road follows the true story of college basketball coach Don Haskins, whose all-black Texas Western team won the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship in 1966, beating an undefeated all-white Kentucky team.

Ben Affleck won't be strolling down Glory Road for the Walt Disney Co. and Jerry Bruckheimer. A studio spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that Affleck has fallen out of the film that was due to start lensing in less than a month. Sources indicated that his departure had to do with his deal -- not the $5 million payday but the backend points. To be directed by James Gartner, Glory Road follows the true story of college basketball coach Don Haskins, whose all-black Texas Western team won the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship in 1966. The filmmakers and studio have already started checking the availability of a replacement and may have zeroed in on an actor, which sources say is Josh Lucas, to take over the coaching duties.