The two-disc "Let's Get Sweaty" edition of this year's middling comedy "Semi-Pro" advances a recent academic theory: Even if the movie itself isn't very funny, the extras on any Will Ferrell DVD ...
Sports movies have their own tropes and clichés. There's always the underdog team, the former star hoping for a comeback, the rising star looking for his break, the down-and-out owner looking to make ...
Sports comedy films are not easy to come, and Semi-Pro is undoubtedly one of a kind. Based on the ABA (American Basketball Association) and NBA merger, this movie tells the story of an ABA team trying ...
Very much in the tradition of "Slap Shot," George Roy Hill's raucously funny and foul-mouthed 1977 laffer about the misadventures of a minor-league hockey team, "Semi-Pro" scores big laughs with the ...
This summer, Urbana will be hosting Junction Football Club, a new semi-professional women’s soccer team. The club is a member of the Women’s Premier Soccer League, an organization of 170 ...
Vermont Green FC’s Bilal Kamal, center, tangles with Black Rock FC’s David Green, left and Abdul Pare in Burlington on May 28, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont Green Football Club’s ...
In 1990, a barely-seen comedy called “The Spirit of ’76” told the story of time-travelers from the future who accidentally wind up in 1976 and find themselves coping with leisure suits, disco, Qiana ...
Q: Dear Ed: I have been looking around for a new kitchen faucet and have a couple questions about faucet types. Beside the price, what’s the basic difference between a standard kitchen faucet and a ...
The shorts are key. For those of us who recall this distressed time in our nation's recent past, we must not minimize the importance of the shorts. Semi-Pro understands this detail; it understands the ...
Whether he gets naked and shows his flabby parts or not, Will Ferrell makes me laugh. And he does it in hit movies (Elf, Old School, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory), horrible movies (The ...