Jackie Robinson

The Sports Xchange MLB to host screenings of '42' with teens Major League Baseball announced Monday that it will host screenings of "42," the movie about Jackie Robinson. All 30 teams plan to take thousands of teenagers from around the country for...

After suffering a couple of box-office disappointments, Tom Cruise posted his first No. 1 film opening in years at the multiplex this weekend. The 50-year-old's science fiction flick "Oblivion" was the only new movie to hit theaters this weekend and...

April 21 (Reuters) - Tom Cruise's post-apocalyptic thriller "Oblivion" wiped out the box office competition, racking up $38.2 million over the weekend in its U.S. and Canadian debut. The debut of "Oblivion" knocked baseball movie "42" into second place,...

21 abr (Reuters) - La película post apocalíptica de Tom Cruise "Oblivion" arrasó con su competencia en la taquilla de Estados Unidos y Canadá, recaudando más de 38,2 millones durante el fin de semana. El estreno de "Oblivion" desplazó a la pelí...

It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.' Jackie Robinson biographical drama "42" — first made his name on the gridiron. But that's precisely why Graf was...

(Actualiza con detalles, citas) Por Lisa Richwine y Andrea Burzynski 21 abr (Reuters) - La película post apocalíptica de Tom Cruise "Oblivion" arrasó con su competencia en la taquilla de Estados Unidos y Canadá, recaudando más de 38,2 millones...

I promised another column on baseball, our “national pastime,” and the Baseball Hall of Fame; so, while it’s still spring here goes: Two weeks ago on Ruth Anne’s and my radio show, Ed Lough talked baseball. Ed is known locally for...

Apr 20 (TheWrap.com) - The Tom Cruise sci-fi epic "Oblivion" took in $13.2 million Friday and will easily capture the weekend box office crown. Universal's futuristic adventure, directed by Joseph Kosinski ("Tron Legacy") and co-starring Morgan Freeman,...

Opinions and arguments as to whom the best athlete to come out of the Pasadena area can be found around town from barbershops to basketball courts. Recently, the CIF Southern Section entered the debate, at least on the high school level, when the...

Catcher Matt Wieters doesn’t show much emotion on the field. He’s Baltimore’s Matty Ice. So it was interesting to see him show some not just once, but twice, in the late innings on Thursday night. The first was fairly understated. He...

It feels as if we've hit a major movie slump. So much this year has disappointed. I wasn't entranced with Danny Boyle's crime thriller "Trance." "42," Brian Helgeland's new drama based on baseball great Jackie Robinson's historic defiance of racial...

The evils of racism are expressed in the words we speak and the mores we establish. And both emerge from the illusion of superiority.   Jackie Robinson, as a black American in the 1940s and 1950s, was thrown into the fire of both when he entered major...