&#39;Friday Night Lights&#39; conveys grit of school sports
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A stranger to Odessa, Texas, might think every young man in the small town is a war hero. The 17 year olds there - most with buzz cuts, all of them clean-shaven - are hailed by the local townsfolk wherever they go.
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Maybe what college football fans like so much about their game is that some things never change. Isn&#39;t that what tradition is all about? ...
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The scene at the end of Colorado&#39;s victory Saturday night probably was not what the university was looking for after a tumultuous off-season.
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The animated comedy held on to the number spot for a second weekend, taking in 31-point-seven (m) million dollars. Billy Bob Thornton&#39;s high school football drama &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; opened in second place, earning 20-point-six million dollars.
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Yes, there are cliched figures. Yes, if Billy Bob Thornton says &quot;Let&#39;s go&quot; one more time, you may want to scream. Yet, &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; may be the best football film ever made.
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What was supposed to be a showcase for two of the best football teams in the state turned into a showcase for one.
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The story of Mandrell Dean, a high school football star whose gang life got in the way of an athletic career, is a reminder of how perilous the transition to college can be.
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Friday Night Lights is a lousy name for a very good movie. Relax, I know the title is based on investigative journalist HG Bissinger&#39;s 1990 book, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream, acclaimed
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There was some great basketball played last Friday night. From preps to pros, many remarkable things happened that are worth talking about.
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Peter Berg directs this Texas high school football extravaganza in a tough, gritty style that gives it an unusually fine and vivid sense of place.
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To call &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; the best football movie ever made is not really that risky: While &quot;North Dallas Forty,&quot; &quot;Any Given Sunday&quot; and &quot;The Longest Yard&quot; have their champions, they are
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Florida State coach Bobby Bowden probably didn&#39;t feel very good after watching his television this weekend. First, there was monster Hurricane Frances which forced the Florida State-Miami game to be moved from Labor Day to Friday.
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Hype from the media, fans, players and coaches can make a college football game seem like a life-or-death situation. Not at the service academies.
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Game for the ages? Sorry. Game of the season? Nope. Game of the day? Maybe, but that was only because it was a Friday night and the college football schedule was light.
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Lord, is ÂFriday Night LightsÂ good, and if the season is anything like the pilot, this new drama about high school football could be great in the way of a poem or painting.
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Billy Bob Thornton stars as Coach Gary Gaines in the football movie, &quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; based on the book by HG Bissinger and inspired by the 1988 football season of the Permian Panthers in Odessa, Texas.
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Friday Night Lights, HG &quot;Buzz&quot; Bissinger&#39;s nonfiction best seller about a Texas town&#39;s obsession with high school football, could have been made into several different movies.