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The show stars John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss, the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and overseeing the team win ten championships.

Baseball is a game of potential energy.  Basketball is a game that never stops moving if it can help it, and football gives you brief pauses between mammoth clashes of 22 men, but baseball is a game for the high heat of summer, when the warmth of the day makes it preferable to slow things down. It's a game of patience, of seven guys standing at various points on a diamond while a pitcher, a batter, and a catcher play a delicate chess game with a little red and white orb that could change the afternoon in an instant if it breaks the right way. 

Major documentaries about Benjamin Franklin and Tony Hawk are on PBS and HBO. And “Killing Eve” airs its final episode.

Everything you need to know about the true story of the Showtime Lakers, all in one place.

With March Madness coming to a close, HBO’s release of its series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty couldn’t be better timed — or more anticipated. Most films about sports fail for the same reason: They turn athletics into Lifetime redemption stories drenched in sentimentality. Instead of blood and guts, audiences get melodrama. Rather than complexity, we’re served bland, archetypal heroism. The best ones claw their way out of this trap without falling into the opposite one of obsessive brutality, such as Martin Scorcese’s Raging Bull (1980). Ron Shelton’s pictures, for ...