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NBA.com For the Love of the Game In the gaming world, talent isn't something you're born with but rather what you acquire with enough practice. At stake for the rookies was a Xbox 360 and PSP unit, as well as all of the EA Sports game titles for those systems. In the midst of it all, Tucker, still feeling the sting of his semifinals loss, grabbed the mike of the MC and proceeded to get his revenge on White during the entire second half. www.nba.com /features/lovegame_060815.html   (1007 words)

Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston - !http://www.houstonpbs.org Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston explores Houstonians' love of the game -- from the founding of the Houston Base Ball Club in 1861 through the fanfare surrounding the Astros today. Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston goes beyond the pros for a look at Little League, high school teams, the semi-pros, amateur teams, and at the nostalgia for the once-popular minor league team called the Houston Buffs. www.houstonpbs.org - !http: //www.houstonpbs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=prd_loveofgame   (127 words)

For Love of the Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For Love of the Game is a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Shaara, published posthumously in 1991. With just two more games before the World Series, and Chapel's team, the Hawks, about to play against the New York Yankees, Chapel receives news from a sports reporter that the new owners of the team, the sons of the Old Man who had signed him years earlier, are preparing to trade him. Chapel is determined that his last game will also be his greatest, even though, with all the young new players on the Hawks, the Yankees are a far superior team. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/For_Love_of_the_Game   (488 words)

Salon Arts & Entertainment | "For Love of the Game"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The game stinks and I don't want to be a part of it anymore." Billy can't stay to talk; he has to rush out the door of the Waldorf-Astoria into Central Park to search for the woman he loves almost as much as baseball. Preoccupied by his memories of Jane and the eclipse of his masculine powers, Billy strides onto the hallowed sward of Yankee Stadium and begins to pitch a perfect game (that is, a game in which no opposing runner reaches base -- a supreme, and exceedingly rare, accomplishment). During the game, director Sam Raimi -- a onetime cinema whiz kid best known for his "Evil Dead" indie horror films of the '80s -- mostly takes us away from the diamond into a retelling of Billy and Jane's relationship, staged as if it were a soft-rock video. www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/09/17/game/index.html   (1201 words)

For the love of the game of hockey - Sports For the love of the game of hockey Not only was it evident that he had talent, but his growing love for the game became apparent as well. With such passion and love for the game, it is no surprise that Doyle's hockey success has continued at Salve. www.srumosaic.com /news/2005/11/22/Sports/For-The.Love.Of.The.Game.Of.Hockey-1112195.shtml   (588 words)

"FOR LOVE OF THE GAME " - Janet Newton And so, many games scholars around the world are busy trying to get to the root of the invention of chess, the war game. While it is possible that, in a moment of epiphany, the game of chess emerged, full-blown in a form recognizable to us as such, it is more prudent although far less exciting to assume, rather, that the idea of chess evolved out of one or more prior games played by people for thousands of years. Several authors have examined the question of whether ancient games were derived from practices and methods utilized to divine the will of the gods and/or discern the future (Pascal Romaine; C.J. Gadd, Joseph Needham); or to express religious belief (Pavel Bidev; Peter Piccione). www.goddesschess.com /chessays/forloveofthegame.html   (1356 words)

Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston - !http://www.houstonpbs.org Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston explores Houstonians' love of the game -- from the founding of the Houston Base Ball Club in 1861 through the fanfare surrounding the Astros today. Love of the Game: Baseball in Houston goes beyond the pros for a look at Little League, high school teams, the semi-pros, amateur teams, and at the nostalgia for the once-popular minor league team called the Houston Buffs. www.houstonpbs.org - !http: //www.houstonpbs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=prd_loveofgame   (127 words)

DVD Review - For Love Of The Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) As Billy works his way towards a perfect game, he begins to realize that he’s lead an imperfect life and now that Jane is leaving, he can finally see how he has hurt her in the past and driven her away. As the game draws to a close and the tension mounts with Billy striving to keep his perfect game, he begins to understand that he must choose between baseball and Jane. The theatrical trailer for "For Love of the Game" is included and is letterboxed at 1.85:1. www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/for_love_of_the_game.shtml   (1523 words)

For Love of the Game While "For Love of the Game" is a feel-good and somewhat-sappy date flick, it doesn't quite reach the heights of "Bull Durham" or "Field of Dreams". He knows this is his big chance to remind people why we love him, and he puts that anxiety to good use with a solid performance. Costner should take a step back and just be happy that, thanks to "For Love of the Game", his career will go into extra innings. www.moviemantz.com /movie_reviews/999/love_of_the_game.html   (650 words)

For the love of the game - Chicago Tribune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Increasingly, though, imported games in specialty shops are winning fans because they are not just the latest riff on the trivia theme or another game using dice to generate moves around a board. Eagle Games brought it back as a tabletop game, with warships and cavalrymen that players can now touch, adding new depth to the game in which players create civilizations intended to last for centuries. Designers worldwide submit thousands of games a year to German companies, hoping to be one of the dozens of games released every year in that country. www.eaglegames.net /artman/publish/printer_32.shtml   (1625 words)

DVD Review: For Love Of The Game "For Love Of The Game" is one of those movies where the actors help the movie to rise above the kind of material that they have to work with. On the mound in "For Love Of The Game", Costner plays Chapel with wit and grace, talking himself through each pitcher as he makes his way towards a perfect game. Final Thoughts: I almost wish that "For Love of The Game" included an option where you could just watch the baseball scenes of the movie because they are fantastic. www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews/loveofthegamedvd.html   (1287 words)

Wired News: I Love Bees Game a Surprise Hit The most exciting element of the game for some players is the possibility that they will get one of the rare live calls in which the drama's actors talk to whoever answers the phone and then incorporate the conversation into the show itself. One of the consistent elements of alternate-reality games is the so-called curtain that maintains players' suspension of disbelief, even as they take part in futuristic dramas. To Thorne, who became notorious to many of the game's players for figuring out where the Sleeping Princess, one of the characters, was hiding and then turning her in, keeping the curtain in place is crucial. www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,65365,00.html   (970 words)

AboutFilm.Com - For Love of the Game (1999) The premise of For the Love of Game is this: The baseball season is drawing to a close. Of course, the game is an allegory for Chapel’s life, and to me, there could be no better concept for a baseball movie—framing the events of a man’s life with the events of a single game. Those of us who love baseball already understand the nuances of this seemingly simple game, but Raimi does a good job of making the psychological confrontation between pitcher and batter come to life for any viewer, partly by having Chapel mutter his inner monologue to himself so that we hear what he’s thinking. www.aboutfilm.com /movies/f/forloveofgame.htm   (999 words)

DVD REVIEW: FOR LOVE OF THE GAME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) His characters seem genuinely in love with the game, and with the women who wait on the sidelines. The romance in "For Love of the Game" is traditional at best, but the actors work overtime to make the love connection work. Preston is always a delight on the screen, and manages to overcome several mawkish moments with a genuine interest in her character and predicament. www.lightviews.com /forloveofthegamedvd.htm   (1138 words)

For Love of the Game Movie Review by Anthony Leong "For Love of the Game" is the latest valentine for America's favorite pastime, and the timing couldn't be better, with the baseball season currently in full swing. To a certain degree, "For Love of the Game" shares some semblance to "Notting Hill", in which the ambiguities, frictions, and awkward moments of adult relationships are examined and amplified via the unlikely pairing of a normal person with a celebrity, and in this latest offering, with hilarious results. Though "For Love of the Game" is plagued with a few weak spots, including a somewhat muted ending, overall, this is a film that has a little something for everyone-- the baseball fan, the moviegoer in search of an entertaining diversion, and the celluloid aficionado in search of an unconventionally-crafted film. members.aol.com /aleong1631/forloveofthegame.html   (1046 words)

JoBlo reviews the movie "For Love of the Game" Shaara's son Jeff found the manuscript of FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME among his father's works after his death, ensuring its publication after the man's untimely death in 1988. For Love of the Game combines the charm of Costner in Message in a Bottle with his love of baseball in Field of Dreams and makes a really good movie that mainly relies on the performances of the two main actors. Kevin Costner and baseball (as a game and as a metaphor for life) were born for each other. www.joblo.com /forthelove.htm   (2679 words)

Love of the Game It is a game I fell in love with It was a game I could play with my parents. game to me, but a sport if not an obsession. www.spongedaddy.com /SpongeOsophy/GAME.html   (475 words)

Dave reviews Kevin Costner's For Love of the Game The movie’s a bit of an anachronism: an unapologetically sentimental, cliched love story in a cynical age of horror flicks and wisecracking crime capers. The game scenes themselves are overwrought with excessive use of sound and slow motion, and while the film is relatively baseball-savvy, there’s plenty for diehard fans to find unrealistic. Vin Scully and Steve Lyons, playing themselves as the Fox broadcast team, appear never to mention what the Red Sox did in their game (the scoreboard shows they lost, which means the Yankees clinch a tie), and fans watching on TV don’t seem to care about that either. www.armchairqb.com /movie_game_kozo.html   (651 words)

Random House Publishing Group | For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara Now it's the final game of the season, and Billy's got one last chance to prove who he is and what he can do, a chance to prove what really matters in this life. A taut, compelling story of one man's coming of age, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME is Michael Shaara's final novel, the classic finish to a brilliantly distinguished literary career. It was Shaara's son Jeff who found the manuscript of For Love of the Game among his father's many works, thus insuring another piece of the Michael Shaara legacy. www.randomhouse.com /rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345408921   (356 words)

For Love of the Game (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) IMDb > For Love of the Game (1999) Billy Chapel must choose between the woman he loves and the game he lives for. Set during one major league baseball game, a man relives the past five years of his life from the pitchers mound. www.imdb.com /title/tt0126916   (602 words)

NBA.com For the Love of the Game It was something I always loved doing, and no matter what I would always find myself with a basketball in my hand, shooting hoops, playing. When I first stepped out there on the court with him in DC I was caught up and the coach had to say ‘hey, hey wake up!’ and I was like ‘all right.’ I was just caught up playing against Michael Jordan. I used to dream about making the All-Star game once, and the next thing you know I made it last year when I was 23. www.nba.com /features/lovegame_030214.html   (1421 words)

For Love of the Game - Features at GameSpot As the true story behind what games actually do to people over time continues to materialize, the subject is being broached more delicately by the media. Games are such a compelling form of entertainment that can cause us to go to relative extremes in our everyday lives. It's a chance for us to consider some of the moments in our lives as game players that made us feel strongly about something that, in the grand scheme of things, is probably pretty trivial. www.gamespot.com /6122346   (513 words)

CNN - Review: Costner hits home run 'For Love of the Game' - September 21, 1999 Now, a decade later, he's suited up for "For Love of the Game," where he plays a veteran pitcher facing the biggest game, and the biggest decisions of his life. Two games are being played simultaneously, one in the stadium, one in his heart. "For Love of the Game" is a perfect showcase for Costner's strongest character, that of the reluctant all-American hero. www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9909/21/review.forloveofthegame/index.html   (723 words)

Filmtracks: For Love of the Game (Basil Poledouris) For Love of the Game: (Basil Poledouris) At the time of this film's release, there was much attention paid to a fifteen minute promotional album of Poledouris' score floating about the secondary market. In the piano solos of tracks four and nine, as well as the romantic orchestral themes of tracks two and eight, the spirit and personality of For Love of the Game are undeniably enticing. But for Poledouris fans who were disappointed after the long wait for his return to the scoring stage with Mickey Blue Eyes earlier this year, For Love of the Game is a far superior score and a good purchase. www.filmtracks.com /titles/love_game.html   (637 words)

For Love of the Game (Soundtrack) by Basil Poledouris While the amount of score released is disappointing, we should all jump for joy that the soundtrack compilation containing one measly score track was not all we were left with. Basil Poledouris was recently voted as The Most Underrated and Underused Composer, by Tracksounds visitors, and For Love of the Game is further evidence as to why he was voted so. All artwork from For Love of the Game is exclusive property of Varese Sarabande Records (c) 1999. www.tracksounds.com /reviews/forlovegame.htm   (650 words)

For Love of the Game For Love of the Game has a dual purpose: It aims both to acknowledge Costner’s vulnerability and build him back up to star status. In For Love of the Game, Costner is Billy Chapel, a major league baseball pitcher at the end of a long and brilliant career. For Love of the Game is structured as a series of flashbacks, triggered as Chapel thinks back from the Yankee Stadium dugout, and the message couldn’t be clearer if one of those meddlesome announcers spelled it out: His whole life has led up to this moment. www.citypaper.net /movies/f/forloveofthegame.shtml   (1030 words)

TechnoFILE Reviews "For Love of the Game" on DVD "For Love of the Game" stars Kevin Costner as Billy Chapel, an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. At Yankee Stadium for the last game of the season, Chapel takes the mound in what could very well be his last game ever. Raimi has avoided the temptation to turn "For Love of the Game" into saccharine, deftly keeping the film's sweetness without letting it turn into plastic. www.technofile.com /dvds/for_love_of_game.html   (593 words)

For Love of the Game For Love of the Game has a ruminative flashback structure: The conceit is that, as Billy plays what may be his final game, he thinks back on his life -- mostly the recent past having to do with the Preston character, Jane Aubrey. Jane's character is similarly sketchy; she exists to throw Billy a curveball every now and then (that may or may not be a pun; she may actually be intended as a symbolic pitcher throwing relationship fastballs Billy can't hit). For Love of the Game is painless, but it's also pompous and pious about baseball in a way that doesn't mean much to a non-fan like me. Also, I see that I've gotten almost to the end of the review without mentioning the director, Sam Raimi. www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/forloveofgame.html   (713 words)

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