&#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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Director Peter Berg is so preoccupied with staging superb football sequences that he almost forgets to craft a movie from Buzz Bissinger&#39;s book Friday Night Lights.
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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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The oil derricks and barren landscape that serve as the setting for &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; seem foreign to people from the small, rural communities of Arcadia and Cicero, Ind.
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The longest winning streak in high school football history came to a crushing end late Saturday night. De La Salle High School, which had fashioned 12 consecutive undefeated
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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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CHICAGO - That UFO you might see whizzing over Thursday night&#39;s Florida State-North Carolina State football game is not just a camera - it&#39;s the link between televised football and the video games they seek to mimic.
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Sports fans have been waiting a long time for a 1990 book called &quot;Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream&quot; to come to the screen.
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&quot;It ain&#39;t cheatin&#39; if you don&#39;t get caught,&quot; used to be the catch phrase in Division I sports, often accompanied by an oleaginous wink and grin.
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This is getting less and less suspenseful. It's not that Westwood's opponents aren't worthy adversaries -- it's just that high school football squads aren't supposed to have a passing game this sophisticated.
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The movie is too sanitized and not on par with the book. It ignores much for the sake of a PG-13 rating. The book &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; still stirs up anger in Odessa, Texas, for tackling the themes of racism and winning-is-everything.
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&quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; a cinematic chronicle of high school football in Texas, debuted in theaters Friday night after meeting the approval of a few Steelers who happened to view a sneak preview Thursday.
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While running drills at the annual high school football conditioning camp in Woburn last week, John Fiore of Reading High School was the guy with the smile on his face, and quite possibly the little extra burden strapped on his shoulders.
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Kansas and Virginia Tech put on the sort of show that was sorely needed by college football and the B.C.S., which has endured several one-sided mismatches this bowl season.
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Attention high school administrators and coaches: Fight Night at the local gym or football field could be coming soon. I hope I&#39;m wrong, but unless schools, players and parents take steps in response to recent news reports, it will happen locally.
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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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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.