• 1993
  • 6h
Power Plays

Summary A six part documentary series about the American sports business. View more details

  • 1993
  • 6h

Power Plays

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Evander Holyfield Michael Jordan Shannon Briggs Jerry Jones Jr.

All cast & crew

6.8

Details

Genres : Sport Documentary

Release date : Apr 18, 1993

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : KCET Oxford Film & Television ITEL

Summary A six part documentary series about the American sports business. View more details

Details

Genres : Sport Documentary

Release date : Apr 18, 1993

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : KCET Oxford Film & Television ITEL

Photos

Naked Sport (1993)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Apr 18, 1993
Welcome to the Sewer
A report on boxing, featuring Dan Duva, promoter for world champion Evander Holyfield, and ex-journalist Mike Marley who is trying to break into the lucrative fight game with newcomer Shannon Briggs.
Episode 2 • Apr 25, 1993
Be Like Mike
Michael Jordan is a basketball player who earns $3 million a year playing but an extra $25 million for endorsing products. Handsome, gifted and enormously rich, he has become a role model for young American blacks.
Episode 3 • May 02, 1993
Fields of Blood
The problems encountered by Jerry Jones, new owner of the Dallas Cowboys American football team, as he sacks the legendary coach Tom Landry and replaces him with Jimmy Johnson.
Episode 4 • May 09, 1993
Home of the Brave
Reports on the management of three baseball teams. The Salt Lake City Trappers are one of only two independent minor league teams in America, living on minimal pay and spartan living conditions. Jerry Reinsdorf manages the Chicago Bulls and the White Sox and persuaded the city to build his team a new stadium. Marge Schott manages the Cincinatti Reds but relations between her and the players are strained over allegations of her racist remarks..
Episode 5 • May 16, 1993
The Big Pitch
Agent David Levine talks about his hopes for brilliant Miami University football player Darryl Williams. In contrast, past agents Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom discuss their downfall in the scandal caused by their intimidatory recruitment of top-flight college players.
Episode 6 • May 23, 1993
That's Entertainment
A look at David Stern the commissioner of the National Basketball Association who managed to turn the image of the sport around. The present positive image of American basketball is contrasted with that of the National Ice Hockey League, with its disastrous labor relations and excessive violence.
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