Idols of the Game: Love and Money
A two-hour special examining the discordant role of finance in the careers of sports legends, featuring rare archival footage and extraordinary access to contemporary stars. The film weaves together four stories: Shoeless Joe Jackson and the enslavement of baseball players; Knute Rockne and the marketing of Notre Dame; Roone Arledge, Mary Lou Retton and selling the Olympics; and the sneaker wars with Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan (featuring a cinema verite look at Jordan's brief escape from the NBA to play minor league baseball).
- premiered on TBS and CNN
"chronicling how athletes define and are defined by their times... views of athletes that offer rare insight. Hopefully the documentarians' reservoir of energy is not exhausted. Intelligent works...are needed to uplift and inform." - The New York Times
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