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Jun. 13.

Seth Greenberg: Closing Out and Defending Special Situations (DVD)

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Seth Greenberg: Closing Out and Defending Special Situations (DVD)

with Seth Greenberg,,br /.Virginia Tech Head Coach,
2008 ACC Coach of the Year

If your team can’t close out effectively, you can’t play defensively. Greenberg takes you through everything you need to know about closing out. He starts off with proper technique, and demonstrates drills you can use to practice this critical element of the game. Greenberg then moves on to defending special situations. Greenberg shows you ways to defend curls, rover situations, triangle offenses, out of bounds plays and more. He also emphasizes the small elements that will strengthen your success by taking away cuts, extending screens and reading the dribble. Closing out and special situations are important at every level of play. If you can steal shots by defending special situations, you can steal the game.

76 minutes. 2009.

Produced at the Fall 2008 Cleveland Clinic.

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Jun. 13.

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (DVD, Signed) [Unbound]

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Jun. 13.

Tommy Boy (Holy Schnike Edition) (1995)

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Tommy Boy (Holy Schnike Edition)

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The late Chris Farley teams up with his Saturday Night Live pal David Spade for this road comedy about a perpetual screwup, Tommy Callahan Jr. (Farley), who tries to save the auto-parts store owned by his late father (Brian Dennehy). The latter’s dry-witted number cruncher (Spade) reluctantly joins the loud, awkward, but well-meaning Tommy in the mission, which is threatened behind the scenes by his dad’s widow (Bo Derek). The film is sporadically funny, but as with most movies starring TV comics, some vital energy in the stars seems unnaturally suppressed. Still, the film is worth a visit if you want to turn off your brain awhile. –Tom Keogh

THE BOYS ARE BACK & THEY’RE BIGGER THAN EVER IN THE GUT-BUSTING ALL-NEW HOLY SCHNIKE EDITION! TWO NE’ER-DO-WELL TRAVELING SALESMEN HIT THE ROAD IN ORDER TO SAVE THE FAMILY BUSINESS.

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Jun. 13.

Nobel Son (2007)

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Nobel Son

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Flashy visuals, an incessant techno soundtrack, and a plot full of twists that depend on everything going just a certain way…if this is your idea of a good time, Nobel Son will prove a useful diversion. For the rest of us, this comedy-thriller wears out its welcome fairly early on, despite the glorious promise of a deliciously wicked Alan Rickman performance. In the kind of role perfected by George Sanders once upon a time, Rickman plays a womanizing egotist whose self-regard is swelled to the breaking point when he wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry. But when he and his wife (Mary Steenburgen) jet to Sweden to claim the award, their son (Bryan Greenberg) is kidnapped by a brute (Shawn Hatosy) claiming to be the scientist’s illegitimate offspring, with a hefty grudge against Dad. If Rickman weren’t off screen for so much of this keep-’em-guessing storyline, the movie might be more bearable, and it would help if sexpot poet Eliza Dushku had more face time too. (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 [VHS] (1975)

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Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 [VHS]

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Dog Day Afternoon. Annie Hall. Taxi Driver. In the pantheon of classic New York films, these three take pride of place. But there are, of course, others, some of which have fallen through the cracks over the years, criminally overlooked and unjustly relegated to commercial-riddled Saturday-afternoon TV broadcasts. Joseph Sargent’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is just such a picture. This taut 1974 thriller about four armed men who highjack a New York City subway train and hold it and its passengers for ransom may be hopelessly dated (it’s loaded with ethnic stereotypes, impossibly wide neckties, and bad hairdos–and there are no explosions!), but that’s part of the fun. A gruffly sardonic Walter Matthau heads a fine cast that includes Jerry Stiller, Hector Elizondo, Martin Balsam, and a perfectly villainous pre-Jaws Robert Shaw. Think you’ll find a better film that depicts a nearly broke city led by an inept mayor forced to deal with arm (more…)

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Jun. 13.

The Good Guy (2009)

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The Good Guy

Ambitious young New Yorker Beth (Alexis Bledel) wants it all: a good job, good friends and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is trickiest of all, as Beth discovers when she falls hard for Tommy (Scott Porter), a handsome, young Wall Street hotshot. Just as everything seems to be falling into place, Beth meets Tommy’s shy, clumsy co-worker Daniel (Bryan Greenberg) – and soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street – high risk, high reward…and everybody has an angle

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Jun. 13.

Seth Greenberg: Multi-Entry Ramsey Offense (DVD)

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Seth Greenberg: Multi-Entry Ramsey Offense (DVD)

with Seth Greenberg,
Virginia Tech Head Coach,
2008 ACC Coach of the Year

Coach Greenberg presents a creative approach to half court offensive basketball. Posting guards, running clock, spacing, cutting and back cutting are all components of his Ramsey Offense. This age-old gem comes from George Blaney’s early years at Holy Cross and has been a Greenberg favorite for many years. Greenberg favors this continuity offense because of its simplicity and endless list of scoring opportunities. Greenberg covers the 11 elements that make up the Ramsey offense half court attack, including the brush block, slips, weak side cutting and the curl cuts. Built into this offense is a weapon to counteract pressure defenses, based on moving and driving the defense. To disguise the offense, Greenberg shares sets that flow into the Ramsey movements. The Ramsey offense benefits any coach because of its easy implementation, simplicity and ball sharing features.

70 minutes. 2008.

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Jun. 13.

Caveman (1981)

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Caveman

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Yes, that’s a former Beatle in caveman costume for this more-dumb-than-funny 1981 comedy about a prehistoric misfit (Ringo Starr) who recruits other misfits to start a new tribe. The jokes about flatulence and sex are banal, but the cast of then-unfamiliar faces is fun to watch from the perspective of history. The best thing going are some dinosaur special effects, though Ringo might argue meeting his future wife (Barbara Bach) was a good deal. –Tom Keogh

Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Bach and Shelley Long band together in a hilarious love story for the ages’the stone ages! With an all-star cast and fun special effects, this cult comedyclassic is a “cheery, playful” (The New York Times) romp through BC that “aims for belly laughs and gets them” (Variety)! Prehistoric life is tough for poor, lovesick Atouk (Starr). As the smallest and weakest caveman of his tribe, he is unable to win the heart of the beautiful Lana (Ba (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas-The Teaching Company(DVD)Three Part Set (The Great Courses) [Paperback]

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Beethoven's Piano Sonatas-The Teaching Company(DVD)Three Part Set (The Great Courses)

Includes 6 DVDs and 3 paperback course guidebooks.

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Jun. 13.

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999)

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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

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Aviva Kempner’s Peabody Award-winning documentary is about baseball like Field of Dreams is about cornfields. Kempner efficiently covers all the bases of Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg’s magnificent career with archival footage and talking heads, including family members, former teammates and baseball legends, broadcasters and sportswriters, and such unabashed fans as Alan Dershowitz and Walter Matthau. If this biography’s style is not remarkable, its subject certainly was. Greenberg, the son of immigrant parents, was a beacon of hope to Jews. As one observer notes, baseball was a way of “showing we were as American as everybody else.” To see one of their own succeed in the national pastime at a time of virulent anti-Semitism was a source of pride and inspiration. One lifelong fan, a rabbi, states, “He was the baseball Moses.” Winner of several critics association awards for Best Documentary, this is a stirring film for all seasons. (more…)

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