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The new documentary is coming to TV and streaming later this month.

The story of the 1992 American men’s basketball team at the Olympics is a legendary one indeed. That was the first year that professional players were allowed to compete at the games, and Team U.S.A. was stocked with names like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson. Everyone knows the story of how dominant that team was, but until now most fans probably don’t know that they started their Olympic run with a loss in a scrimmage. Learn about the players who beat them in “We Beat the Dream Team,” the new documentary premiering on HBO and Max.

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"Best pick-up game you're ever gonna play in in your life." HBO has unveiled an official trailer for a sport history documentary film titled We Beat The Dream Team', from director Michael Tolajian. This is set for a streaming debut on Max starting later in February. The greatest basketball story you’ve never heard... Was it a fluke – or something more? College stars like Hill and Webber stunned the 1992 Olympic Dream Team of Bird, Jordan and Magic in practice, helping motivate the NBA legends toward their gold medal run. Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, and others recount their shocking 1992 game against the Dream Team. The doc features footage from the only surviving VHS copy of the secret scrimmage, interviews with the USA Select Team key players and coaches, and rare archival footage. With 1992 USA Select Team players Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Allan Houston,...

The TNT Sports and HBO Original sports documentary We Beat the Dream Team, directed by Michael Tolajian, debuts Monday, February 17 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.

We Beat the Dream Team reveals the little-known story of a group of college basketball players who were tasked with preparing Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and the rest of the legendary “Dream Team” for their Olympic debut in 1992.

In an unexpected twist, the college team, which featured Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Allan Houston, Rodney Rogers, and Eric Montross, shocked the NBA superstars by defeating them in a scrimmage – an outcome that ultimately helped propel the Dream Team to gold.

The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain marked the first time professional basketball players were allowed to compete, giving rise to the legendary team. Except for Duke University’s Christian Laettner,...

The psychological thriller Grace Point starring Andrew McCarthy (Pretty In Pink) and John Owen Lowe (Netflix: Unstable) is available now on Digital and VOD. We have an exclusive clip to share with you. Check it out below. The pairing comes forty years after McCarthy co-starred with John Owen’s father Rob Lowe in the 80’s classic St Elmo’s Fire. Directed by four-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Rory Karpf of First Row Films, Grace Point follows a young man (Lowe) on his way to a remote drug rehab finds himself in a strange town being chased by the locals, as well as his own personal demons. Andrew McCarthy stated, “Addiction touches and torments so many...

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The reactions to news that No. 1 WNBA draft choice and NCAA all-time scoring leader Caitlin Clark is likely not on Team USA’s squad for the Paris Olympics is mostly drawing outrage from fans and pundits.

The popular Indiana Fever rookie is apparently not going to be on the team, according to several reports. She has an outside shot if someone gets hurt between now and the start of the games.

A few lone contrarians pointed out by the time of the games, Clark will have played back to back college and pro seasons, and could stand a rest. But most lamented that the WNBA’s star attraction won’t be must-see TV at the games.

Some of the reactions:

Yet Caitlin Clark is not selected to the Team USA Women’s Basketball team heading to Paris for the Olympics?!?! All she does is grow the game, pack arenas, and set rookie records.

Caitlin Clark is not likely to be a member of the 12-player Team USA women’s basketball squad for the Summer Olympics, The Athletic reports, citing several sources.

The popular Indiana Fever rookie, the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer, is being bypassed in favor of veterans.

Reports indicate the roster will feature players A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner, Alyssa Thomas, Napheesa Collier, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young, Sabrina Ionescu, Chelsea Gray and Kahleah Copper.

The U.S. women should be a favorite in Paris.

Clark still has an outside chance of being on the squad as an injury replacement. She missed Team USA’s tryouts in the spring because of her Iowa team’s deep run in the NCAA tournament.

It’s been a rough introducion to the WNBA for Clark, who has been “hammered” in her own words, including one non-basketball foul by a Chicago Fever player.

Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, Kyrie Irving, Jason Williams, Elton Brand ... Zion Williamson could be better than all these guys, because a Duke great says Zw could be the best Duke player Ever. TMZ Sports spoke to Dahntay Jones, a former Duke All-American, and he says Zion's dominating season-opening performance against Kentucky last night was evidence of greatness to come. Before we get to Dahntay's words ... Did You See Zion Last Night?! Dude was Beasting, scoring...

Grant Hill, who starred on the college and professional basketball court before becoming an executive film producer, has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Hill, a former Los Angeles Clipper, joins former Los Angeles Lakers point guard Steve Nash and 11 other inductees in the 2018 class. They will be formally honored in September. The Hall of Fame made the announcement Saturday before the Ncaa Final Four semifinals.

Hill is a producer and actor best-known for Starting at the Finish Line: The Coach Buehler Story and the documentaries The Miracle of North Jackson, and The Jayson Williams Story. Before his film production career, he played professionally for the Detroit Pistons (94-95 to 99-00), Orlando Magic (00-01 to 06-07), Phoenix Suns (07-08 to 11-12), and Los Angeles Clippers (12-13) in the National Basketball Association.

Hill attended Duke University, playing four years with the Blue Devils and winning two national titles in...

Years ago, in the pages of Men’s Journal, I confessed to a psychotic obsession with the NFL draft. I dreamed of leaving journalism and being allowed to turn around a wayward team like the Jacksonville Jaguars using ideas like, “Always pick the guy who falls in the draft after a positive weed test.”

But Jaguars owner Shahid Khan never returned my calls. Moreover, I’m beginning to think the NFL won’t exist 20 years from now, because of that minor problem of the sport being physically lethal to its employees.

HBO has garnered acclaim for their prestige TV offerings, but one of their most underrated contributions to the television landscape is 2015’s “7 Days in Hell,” a mockumentary of the infamous John Isner/Nicolas Mahut Wimbledon showdown that shattered the record for longest tennis match in history. On the strengths of stars Andy Samberg and Kit Harrington, “7 Days in Hell” also took aim at a few of the legendary tennis rivalries of the 70s, 80s and 90s that brought the sport into the mainstream.

It’s a goofy, perfectly timed spoof that plays with the familiar tropes of sports docs, namely the ones in Espn’s “30 for 30” series. Apparently, it worked so well that HBO wanted more. Samberg and “7 Days in Hell” writer Murray Miller have reteamed for another trip through niche sports history with “Tour de Pharmacy,” a fictional look at a doping scandal in the world of 80s cycling.

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Chicago – “The Hollywood Show” is an exciting gathering of celebrities and memorabilia for movies, TV and pop culture fans. The latest edition will be this weekend – September 9th-11th, 2016 – at the Hilton/O’Hare Airport Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. (details below). Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com will be there to photograph the stars, and offers a Slideshow featuring the celebrities who attended the 2015 event.

Scheduled to appear at the 2016 Hollywood Show are Joyce DeWitt (“Three’s Company), Loretta Swit (“M*A*S*H”), Oscar nominated actress Mariel Hemingway, Morgan Fairchild (“Falcon Crest”) and Jan Michael Vincent (“Airwolf”), among many other favorites from “Three’s Company,” “My Three Sons,” and “The Waltons.” There is a fee for autographs and pictures, and the show offers a huge memorabilia market.

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Scottie Pippen and his wife are Furious at Christian Laettner -- claiming he still hasn't paid them back the hundreds of thousands of dollars he owes them ... and they want to collect, Now.  Around 2007, Pippen invested a ton of money with Laettner and his partners to buy a stake in the Memphis Grizzlies ... but when the deal fizzled, he never got his money back. Pippen sued Laettner and his partners and was awarded a $2.5 million...

Christian Laettner was such a legendary college basketball player that people automatically assume his professional career, which actually spanned 13 NBA seasons, was a complete bust. History is also not particularly kind to Laettner when you consider that the former Duke Blue Devil was one of the most disliked athletes in the Ncaa archives — and that national hatred is exactly what Espn’s “30 for 30” focused on. “I Hate Christian Laettner,” which debuts on Sunday at 9 p.m. Et on Espn and is narrated by Rob Lowe, explores the former Dream Team member’s storybook college career, which included four Final Four appearances and winning.

TMZ Photog: "How can we make people love you?"Christian Laettner: "I don't know if that's possible." Kinda sad, right? Well, it's not all pessimistic ... because when we ran into the former Duke star on the streets of NYC this morning we were trying to figure out why so many people hate the guy.  In fact, the disdain for Laettner is the topic of an upcoming Espn 30 for 30 titled, "I Hate Christian Laettner."  So,...

CBS pays tribute to announcer Verne Lundquist with a one-hour documentary special In Your Life, airing Saturday, Nov. 29, at 1:30pm Et. This documentary special celebrates Verne Lundquist’s 50 years in broadcasting. Since joining CBS Sports in 1982, Lundquist has called some of the most memorable moments in sports, including Jack Nicklaus’ famous birdie putt at the 1986 Masters, Christian Laettner’s buzzer-beater in the 1992 Ncaa Tournament and Auburn’s stunning defeat of Alabama in last year’s college football Iron Bowl. Photo: John Paul Filo/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Buzz Bissinger received a torrent of abuse for saying the NBA's popularity is declining without white superstars. Now comes Jimmer Fredette, who's dominating March Madness chatter not because he's the best-but because he's white.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about the specter of race in the National Basketball Association. I said the league's popularity was being affected because some white fans were turned off to a game in which there was not a single white American superstar.

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It was not pretty. Most of the cuts have healed except for the one on my elbow.

I fervently believe what I wrote. There was supporting evidence I should have put in but did not because a column is an opinion and space isn't unlimited at The Daily Beast. I have since discovered more compelling evidence.

Buffalo Bills linebacker Shawne Merriman chalked up a Huge victory against ex-nba star Christian Laettner -- after the original USA "Dream Team" member failed to pay back $3 million he borrowed from the NFL star. Laettner and his former Duke basketball teammate Brian Davis borrowed the cash back in 2007 to fund a series of real estate ventures -- but according to Merriman, they refused to pay him back. But a federal judge ruled that Laettner and...

Pondering topics for a column, I indulged in a thought exercise of wish fulfillment: if I had the chance to time-travel to the greatest moments in sports, when and where would I go? Inevitably, thoughts of time travel take my mind to Doctor Who, and with the imminent return of the Doctor in only ten days, I imagined sports-related destinations for the Doctor. He would not necessarily guide the Tardis to my preferred events, but without a doubt he would visit those athletic events that had some measure of intergalactic peril in the mix. Thus, I give you the untold sporting adventures of Doctor Who.

June 22, 1986

His experience in "The Lodger" gave The Doctor (Matt Smith) a taste for football (just this once I'll spare the European sporting fans my insistence in using the "S" word), so he decides to treat Craig and Sophie to a honeymoon in Mexico at the 1986 World Cup,...

Disney mastered the art of the sports underdog movie long ago, but now they’re just showing off. After crafting hits like Remember the Titans, The Rookie, and Miracle, in which real-life longshots overcome incredible obstacles and long odds to achieve athletic glory, Disney figured they really don’t even need the underdog. I give you Secretariat, which opens tomorrow on about 2,500 screens. It’s generally acknowledged that the strapping red colt was the most dominant Triple Crown winner ever, galloping into history with a Pegasus-like performance at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. At the Belmont, Secretariat was a 1-10 favorite to win the race.

For any sports fan, there are a handful of images or sequences that are permanently etched in his or her memory. There's Willie Mays' incredible over-the-shoulder catch, Bill Buckner's World Series faux pas in 1986, the amazing Christian Laettner buzzer-beater in the 1992 Ncaa basketball tournament — these are all incredible moments that live on courtesy of countless highlight reels and compilations. One of the most notorious of these is the play that became known as the "Immaculate Reception," which occurred on this day in 1972 in a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders.

In the closing seconds of a playoff game and trailing 7-6, Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw a desperation pass that was intended for halfback Frenchy Fuqua. As Fuqua went to catch the ball, he collided with Oakland defender Jack Tatum. The impact caused the ball to ricochet backwards in a long arc. Rookie running back Franco Harris...