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5 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:


Is this what’s called a cliffhanger?


It was about a college b-ball player who stomped the ***** out of a small kid in a bar here in.

 Binghamton. He got out of jail and fled to his home country in Serbia. His Visa was confiscated but the Serbian embassy gave him another so he could flee. It was my case. Guys name was Miladin Kovacevic.

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1 hour ago, Binghamton Beast said:


It was about a college b-ball player who stomped the ***** out of a small kid in a bar here in.

 Binghamton. He got out of jail and fled to his home country in Serbia. His Visa was confiscated but the Serbian embassy gave him another so he could flee. It was my case. Guys name was Miladin Kovacevic.

 

Did you guys find out why he did it?  What happened with the kid?

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11 hours ago, Needle said:

"The Best That Never Was"

and

"Nature Boy"

 

I like all of them but some are better than others. These two are my favorite.  The story of Marcus Dupree is something I wasn't very familiar with and I thought it was really well done.  "Nature Boy" was great too and Ric Flair was the man when I was a kid. 

I also really liked the Marcus Dupree story.  For some reason, I just found it captivating.  

 

I also liked "Jordan rides the Bus"....about his baseball endeavors.  

 

All of the ones mentioned above that I have seen were great - I have some to catch up on though...

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10 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

This is insane.

He's been in acoma twice.

21 broken bones.

23 surgeries.

100+ concussions (I'm not sure that's accurate)

Image result for mat hoffman injury list"

i'm just reading about this now.  the kid was 135 lbs.  my god.

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3 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

Did you guys find out why he did it?  What happened with the kid?

 

He did it because the kid allegedly pinched his buddy's girlfriends ass. The kid that got his ass kicked almost died and went through extensive rehabilitation. 
 

The Serb government tried Kovacevic and found him guilty but he got some ridiculously light sentence. He was paraded around the Serbian Parliament like he was a national hero.

 

Anyway, there is still an International warrant out for Kovacevic. If he steps out of Serbia and into a country that we have an extradition  agreement with he will be brought back here and tried.

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2 hours ago, Binghamton Beast said:

 

He did it because the kid allegedly pinched his buddy's girlfriends ass. The kid that got his ass kicked almost died and went through extensive rehabilitation. 
 

The Serb government tried Kovacevic and found him guilty but he got some ridiculously light sentence. He was paraded around the Serbian Parliament like he was a national hero.

 

Anyway, there is still an International warrant out for Kovacevic. If he steps out of Serbia and into a country that we have an extradition  agreement with he will be brought back here and tried.

 

Are you in the DA office?  

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The U

Catholics vs Convicts

Requiem for the Big East

Survive and Advance

Four Falls of Buffalo

The Legend of Jimmy the Greek (this was awesome btw, highly underrated).

Guru of Go

The Two Escobars

When the Garden was Eden

The House of Steinbrenner

I Hate Christian Laettner

Pony Excess

The 85 Bears

Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball

Nature Boy

 

Honorable Mention: The Class that Saved Coach K - while technically not a 30 for 30 its a well done documentary by ESPN films.

 

 

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On 2/4/2020 at 1:23 PM, Ned Flanders said:

I feel the same way.

"Requiem for the Big East" is a great one and I really liked "Catholics vs. Convicts"...the whole story on how that guy hustled the t-shirts was very entertaining. 

 

 

Catholics Vs Convicts was really interesting, especially the part when the kid finally made it as a walk on for the basketball team & Digger Phelps had to dismiss him because of the business he was running & told him "you threw your life's dream away for a couple thousand bucks."  

 

The 30/30 are excellent, I wish they would make more of them.  The 4 falls of Buffalo was good I guess since it hit home, but I thought it was one of the fluffier 30 for 30s that ESPN ran.  I thought they should of been a bit harder on the Bills & dig into the parting & stuff like that but they went for the angle this team never gave up.  

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On 2/6/2020 at 5:12 AM, stuvian said:

Hillsborough moved me to tears

 

Forgot about that one....or maybe chose to block it out.  Just brutal.  Hard to fathom and infuriating that incompetence allowed it to happen.

 

The other great one I don't think anyone has mentioned is "Elway to Marino".  A wonderfully insightful account of the most impactful draft in history.  Can't even begin to imagine the media firestorm surrounding Elway and the sub-plot of that draft in this age.   Even aside from the QBs, that first round had some of the greatest HOFs, biggest busts and tragic stories in league history.

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9 minutes ago, KD in CA said:

 

Forgot about that one....or maybe chose to block it out.  Just brutal.  Hard to fathom and infuriating that incompetence allowed it to happen.

 

The other great one I don't think anyone has mentioned is "Elway to Marino".  A wonderfully insightful account of the most impactful draft in history.  Can't even begin to imagine the media firestorm surrounding Elway and the sub-plot of that draft in this age.   Even aside from the QBs, that first round had some of the greatest HOFs, biggest busts and tragic stories in league history.

they need to do one on the Browns factory of sadness

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On 2/6/2020 at 11:07 PM, bbb said:

What is with the length of these latest 30 for 30s?  The new one on Michael Vick is something like 2 and a half hours or more - and I still haven't finished the Rodman one because it's so long.  


The Vick episode is 3 1/2 hours which is ridiculous.  I fell asleep halfway through part one. 
 

That’s longer than it took Netflix to examine Aaron Hernandez, who was a serial killer.

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8 minutes ago, KD in CA said:


The Vick episode is 3 1/2 hours which is ridiculous.  I fell asleep halfway through part one. 
 

That’s longer than it took Netflix to examine Aaron Hernandez, who was a serial killer.

 

So it is a two parter?   I saw it trending again this week on twitter, and wondering why it's trending a week after it was on.............I'm pretty sure I'm about an hour and a half in and yet I haven't heard one word about dogs yet...........We didn't need this long to establish how good he was at football.  

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On ‎2‎/‎6‎/‎2020 at 9:37 AM, Gordio said:

 

 

Catholics Vs Convicts was really interesting, especially the part when the kid finally made it as a walk on for the basketball team & Digger Phelps had to dismiss him because of the business he was running & told him "you threw your life's dream away for a couple thousand bucks."  

 

The 30/30 are excellent, I wish they would make more of them.  The 4 falls of Buffalo was good I guess since it hit home, but I thought it was one of the fluffier 30 for 30s that ESPN ran.  I thought they should of been a bit harder on the Bills & dig into the parting & stuff like that but they went for the angle this team never gave up.  

I couldn't agree more, those were pretty much my exact thoughts when that one came out.  Maybe it's different because we are Buffalo fans and already familiar with the subject but I felt like that episode was more cookie cutter and didn't dive deep into the subject matter.  I thought they might've explored how the Bills notoriously partied all throughout the Super Bowl weeks and I also thought they could've examined the unique relationship between the region of WNY and the Bills and how big of a deal it was for the area that it was being put in the National spotlight for 4 years in a row. 

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Due to what has been happening this weekend, I would like to add that "This Was the XFL" was a very entertaining 30 for 30. Lots of funny stories in that one.

 

Also wanted to mention "Year of the Scab", about the Redskins Super Bowl run during the 1987 strike season. Great story.

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