What Makes Sammy Overrun?
Steve Rushin
June 19, 2000
That's just one of the provocative story lines in our fanciful summer sports-movie guide
Coming this summer to a theater near you:
Eight Men Out: An openly gay baseball team endures the infamous Black Sox (with Brown Shoes) scandal of 1919.
Admission Impossible: Patriots linebacker Andy Katzenmoyer applies to Harvard Medical School.
10: Pedro Guerrero receives the results of a court-ordered IQ test.
Shaving Ryan's Privates: It's payback time, as loathsome Chargers quarterback Ryan Leaf is hazed at minicamp.
The 39 Steps: An NBA player is called for traveling in this farfetched science-fiction farce.
Being John Jurkovic: An office worker finds a portal into the oft-concussed head of an NFL lineman.
The General's Daughter: Bob Knight ( Bob Knight) burps, bathes, bullies, diapers, scolds, cajoles and spoon-feeds the obedient apple of his eye ( Roy Firestone).
Goodwill Hunting: Sportswriter shops for clothes.
Truly, Madly, Deeply: Polygraph experts answer the question, Is O.J. Simpson nuts?