Kurt Russell

it was 40 years ago today (Feb. 22, 1980) that a group of college kids took down the mighty Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War to deliver what is still believed by many to be the greatest moment in American sporting history and one of, if not the, greatest upset in the history of sport altogether.

Anyone who is a Netflix subscriber and baseball fan will enjoy the new documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball. It tells the story of the Portland Mavericks, an independent baseball team in the 1970s started by actor Bing Russell. The team was not affiliated with any Major League Baseball club, but they still competed in the Northwest League against affiliated Minor League Baseball teams...