We're smack dab in the middle of baseball season, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate a good football movie. Football has taken a hit in recent years. It's often plagued with news about assaults ...

In this season of blizzards, travel delays, and grey mornings, it is a boost to the spirit to watch movies about hope triumphing over despair, particularly—since I am a retired educator, movies ...

Jun. 15—In five football seasons at Pitt, Kellen McAlone did anything coaches asked of him. "He'll come in here and mop the floors if we wanted," coach Pat Narduzzi said after rewarding his former ...

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high-school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

There’s no “I” in team, but there is in mighty. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, “12 Mighty Orphans” — based on a true story and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival — features ...