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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Three great sports documentaries

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sports aren't just games. They're intertwined with epic stories about struggle, human behavior, historic greatness and grand emotions. In other words, sports make for great documentaries. And if you're looking for some good ones, we've got recommendations: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, The Armstrong Lie, and Athlete A.

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Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

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If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

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I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

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I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

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Radio, part of the NPR Network.

0:24.0

Sports aren't just games.

0:29.0

They're intertwined with epic stories about struggle, human behavior, historic greatness, and grand emotions.

0:37.0

In other words, sports make for great documentaries.

0:40.0

And if you're looking for some good ones, we've got recommendations.

0:42.0

I'm Linda Holmes. And I'm Stephen Thompson. If you're looking for some good ones, we've got recommendations.

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I'm Linda Holmes.

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And I'm Stephen Thompson.

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Today we are recommending three great sports

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documentaries on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. are.

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