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We haven’t thought about pole-vaulting in ages, not since we accidentally flipped on the track and field competition on TV during a long-ago summer Olympics, or maybe it was during junior high school gymnastics… At any rate, pole vaulting is a rather ridiculous-looking sport that we’ve never considered practicing, and are less likely to consider [...]

You can usually chart the quality of any given sports film fairly accurately based on how moving its locker room pep talk is – usually delivered at half-time or between the second and third periods, with the team trailing pretty significantly – and some really bad movies are temporarily elevated by stunning speeches. Ask Men [...]