Pat Tillman, an all-star defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals, walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to enlist in the Army special forces with his younger brother just months after 9/11. Two years later, the celebrity soldier was dead, killed in a Taliban ambush. At the memorial service celebrating his life, military members extolled [...]

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Inspired by Michael Lewis’ best-selling true story, The Blind Side is not the film one might expect judging solely from the marketing materials. Bearing the burden of being potentially culturally offensive and overly schmaltzy, [...]

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