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[03/02/21 - 09:59 AM] HBO Sports Presents an Imagine Documentaries and Fuqua Films Documentary Feature "The Day Sports Stood Still," Debuting March 24 Emmy(R)-winning director Antoine Fuqua will chronicle the abrupt stoppage, athletes' prominent role in the cultural reckoning on racial injustices that escalated during the pandemic and the complex return to competition in the summer and fall. |
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HBO Sports Presents An Imagine Documentaries And Fuqua Films Documentary Feature "THE DAY SPORTS STOOD STILL," Debuting March 24
A Unique Window Into The Sports World's Extraordinary Pause And Restart During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Produced By Academy Award-winner Brian Grazer And Directed By Emmy(R)-Award-Winner Antoine Fuqua; Executive Produced and Starring NBA All-Star Chris Paul
HBO Sports, Imagine Documentaries and Fuqua Films team up for THE DAY SPORTS STOOD STILL, a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the unprecedented sports shutdown in March of 2020 and the remarkable turn of events that followed. Emmy(R)-winning director Antoine Fuqua (HBO's "What's My Name | Muhammad Ali") will chronicle the abrupt stoppage, athletes' prominent role in the cultural reckoning on racial injustices that escalated during the pandemic and the complex return to competition in the summer and fall. From producers Brian Grazer and Justin Wilkes, along with Fuqua, the film debuts WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
At the center of the film is the first-person account of NBA All-Star and president of the NBA Players Association, Chris Paul. An executive producer on the project, Paul, the point guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder at the time, will relive his journey from being in the middle of the first game to be stopped on March 11, 2020 against the Utah Jazz, to suddenly living in quarantine, to his crucial role in helping re-open the NBA safely to playing in "the bubble."
Brought to life through a collection of raw interviews with athletes that detail how profoundly the sports world's pause in the pandemic affected their lives and careers, the documentary features: the NBA's Donovan Mitchell, Danilo Gallinari, Karl-Anthony Towns, team owner Mark Cuban, commissioner Adam Silver, and players association executive director Michele Roberts; MLB's Mookie Betts; the NHL's Ryan Reaves; NFL's Laurent Duvernay-Tardif; Natasha Cloud of the WNBA; LPGA's Michelle Wie West; Dutch soccer player Marten de Roon; and Olympians Daryl Homer and Laurie Hernandez.
THE DAY SPORTS STOOD STILL is an HBO Sports presentation of a film by Imagine Documentaries and Fuqua Films in association with Waffle Iron Entertainment and Ohh Dip!!! Productions; Directed and produced by Antoine Fuqua. For Imagine Documentaries: producers Brian Grazer and Justin Wilkes; executive producers Ron Howard, Sara Bernstein, and Marc Gilbar. For Ohh Dip!!! Productions, executive producer Chris Paul.
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[10/07/25 - 03:52 PM] FOX Sports' ALDS Coverage Up 14% Year-Over-Year Across FOX and FS1 3,187,000 viewers tuned in on average for the first four games of the 2025 ALDS across FOX and FS1.
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[10/07/25 - 03:10 PM] "College GameDay Built by The Home Depot" Delivers Second Most-Watched Regular Season Episode Ever; ESPN & ABC Score Three of Week 6's Top Four Games ABC's telecast of Vanderbilt at Alabama on Saturday averaged 6.4 million viewers.
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[10/07/25 - 02:54 PM] College Football on FOX Scores Big in Week Six In Week 6, "Big Noon Saturday" scored 4,627,000 viewers for Michigan's 24-10 win over Wisconsin on FOX - the most-watched noon game on any network.
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[10/07/25 - 02:54 PM] ESPN Scores Most-Watched Game 1 of the WNBA Finals in 28 Years Coverage averaged 1.9 million viewers, up 62% from last year.
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[10/07/25 - 02:40 PM] "America's Game of the Week" on FOX Roars in Week 5 as Most-Watched Telecast of the Week on Any Network 20,333,000 average viewers on average tuned into the network for Week 5.
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[10/07/25 - 01:41 PM] NBC Sports' 2025-26 Big Ten Men's and Women's Basketball Schedules Announced Featuring 75+ Games Exclusively on Peacock Peacock Big Ten men's basketball schedule tips off with a non-conference tripleheader on Friday, November 7.
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[10/07/25 - 12:49 PM] FOX Sports Acquires U.S. Rights to the 2026 World Baseball Classic FOX is set to air seven games, including three Pool B games featuring the United States team, two Quarterfinals games and the World Baseball Classic Championship Game on Tuesday, March 17 from Miami's loanDepot Park.
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[10/07/25 - 12:01 PM] Netflix Top 10 Week of September 29: "French Lover" Swoons at No. 1, "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" Chills in Top 10 Debut Plus: "Wayward" reached No. 1 on the TV list for a second consecutive week, with 14.1 million views.
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[10/07/25 - 11:31 AM] Video: "Molly-Mae: Behind It All" Series 2 Part 1 - Official Trailer - Prime Video A new chapter in her story begins.
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[10/07/25 - 11:08 AM] Friends Furrever: Prime Video Announces Cast for Upcoming Animated Series "Kevin" from Aubrey Plaza, Joe Wengert, and Dan Murphy Series regulars include Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza, Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, Amy Sedaris, Gil Ozeri, and Aparna Nancherla.
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[10/07/25 - 11:01 AM] Netflix Gives Fans a First Look at Laboon in "One Piece" Season 2 Netflix's epic high-seas pirate adventure returns for Season 2 - unleashing fiercer adversaries and the most perilous quests yet.
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[10/07/25 - 11:01 AM] ESPN Unveils Prolific 2025-26 SEC Men's Basketball Schedule, Beginning Nov. 3 More than 200 linear games will air across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, SEC Network, ESPNU, ESPNews and the all new ESPN app.
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[10/07/25 - 10:23 AM] First Look at Catherine Zeta-Jones in Prime Video Revenge Thriller "Kill Jackie" Zeta-Jones stars as Jackie Price, the glamorous art dealer whose lethal past as an international drug smuggler resurfaces when a squad of the world's most terrifying assassins, The Seven Demons, come after her.
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[10/07/25 - 09:12 AM] ESPN and the ACC Announce Men's Basketball TV Schedule for 2025-26 Season, Tipping off November 3 More than 215 games will air across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ACC Network, ESPNU and the all new ESPN app during the regular season.
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[10/07/25 - 09:11 AM] Kate Scott Named USA Network's Lead Play-by-Play Voice for Upcoming WNBA Coverage Scott, who enters her fifth season as the TV play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers, will anchor USA Network's season-long coverage of the WNBA through the Playoffs and WNBA Finals.
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