Do you hate when you tell a friend or a “special friend” that you want to go watch the game, and they give you that face, or when you actually sit through the game and you just know they are completely bored out of their wits?

Well luckily for us sports fans, Hollywood has provided us with several feature-length productions that can bring a smile to anyone. Ensuing is a list of my top ten favorite sports movies.

10. Kazaam: Kazaam is one of those movies that is so horrifyingly bad that it provides a good amount of entertainment. Shaquille O’Neal is excellent in the movie, managing to show off his “skillz” as a rapping genie who can make it rain (burgers). Shaq steals the spotlight from some ten-year-old hoodrat’s search for his estranged father. With special effects and costumes worse than Shaq’s bars, this is a must-see in my opinion.

9. Coach Carter: A movie about a coach who valued the integrity of his athletes over the number of victories in the win column, a hard thing to find in today’s age where coaches are running their kids into the ground cough*Michigan*cough.

8. Dodgeball: This classic exemplifies the importance of sportsmanship and how a competitive edge can lead one to become a great person. A movie about fighting corporations and excellent team chants. Not to mention, any race, commercial or movie that includes a cameo by Lance Armstrong is intrinsically a feel-good movie.

7. Rudy: A hobbit decides that God made football players but he wasn’t meant to be one of them. Yet, that doesn’t stop him from putting on the dark blue and gold of the Irish in a terrible coaching decision. What could be better?

6. Cool Runnings: “Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time!” If you can get past the terrible Jamaican accents (rivaling Leo’s in The Departed), you will see John Candy at his emotional and comedic best. The story of the Jamaican bobsled team’s fight for an Olympic berth is inspiring

5. Celtic Pride: Any fan can relate to wanting their team to win so badly that they would consider performing a felony if it would ensure a victory. But its hard to believe that any fan, even the most devout, would go through with it. But in this movie, two Celtics fans, played by Dan Aykroyd and Daniel Stern follow through, kidnapping the star of the Utah Jazz before Game 7 of the NBA finals.

4. Love & Basketball: This movie will definitely score points with your significant other. This movie is about balancing one’s love for a sport against one’s love for another. Can fuel positive discussion between you and your “friend” about why watching the game with friends this Sunday is just as important as spending time with him or her.

3. Remember the Titans: On a serious note, this movie was the first I saw that made racism feel real to me. Growing up in a homogenous town, I never understood the concept of race. Watch out for Rev who emerges from the team as being the most soft-spoken, but whose few comments prove to be the most intellectually stimulating of the movie.

2. Caddyshack: One of the finest comedies of the past century. Even though this movie was actually on VHS (remember those?) before I was born, the fact that it is played every single night on a different syndicated channel is a testament to its value to our society. With a cleverly entertaining rivalry between a dancing gopher and Bill Murray, slapstick comedy is at its best with the holy trinity of Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, and Chevy Chase.

1. Space Jam: Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny are an unbeatable combination in this timeless classic. Before Michael Jordan lost his cool and class at the NBA induction ceremony this past month, movies like Space Jam showed him as somebody to look up to. The movie proves to be a reminder of how Jordan was the 1990’s, as even cartoon characters would turn to him as a savior.