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JUNE 02, 2008

HBO's summer sports film festival

No one makes better sports documentaries than the folks over at HBO. Starting Tuesday, June 3 and running each Tuesday throughout the summer, HBO will show its best sports documentaries at 7 p.m. Here is the summer schedule.

June 3: Barbaro. The story of the thoroughbred who captured America's imagination in 2006.

June 10: Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team. The inspiring story of the women who became legends: Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain, Kristine Lilly and the rest of the 1999 World Cup team.

June 17: Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team. My favorite of the HBO documentaries looks at, perhaps, the greatest moment in sports history.

June 24: Joe Louis: America's Hero ... Betrayed. (Note: the story of one of the all-time boxing greats will air at 6:15 p.m.)

July 1: Hitler's Pawn. Tells the remarkable story of Margaret Lambert, a Jewish athlete training to compete for the German Olympic team in the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin.

July 8: Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games. Looking at the controversial 1968 Mexico City Olympics when U.S. track medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos staged their famous protest.

July 15: Mantle. A biography of the great Yankees centerfielder on the same day as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium.

July 22: The UCLA Dynasty. Tracing the incredible success of the UCLA men's basketball team under John Wooden which captured 10 national titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975.

July 29: A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers. Revisiting a baseball team and a season that hepled heal a shattered city during one of the most explosing eras in American history.

Aug. 5: Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry. Looking back at college football's best rivalry.

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