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Federer ends No. 772 Marcus Willis's cinematic run at Wimbledon

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LONDON – From, say, the mid-80s to the mid-90s Hollywood was in love with sports. Season after season, the tastemakers pumped out classics: Hoosiers, Jerry Maguire, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Rudy, League of Their Own, The Natural, various and sundry Rockys….Even the bad sports movies like Over The Top and BASEketball had a certain cult appeal

Today, it’s hard to get any big budget sports movie greenlit.