What The Blind Side is blind to
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posted by Sports, Media & Society Marie Hardin, associate director of the Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State University, takes a look at the interaction of sports coverage and U.S. culture. |
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The film The Blind Side is the most recent sports-themed movie to hit the box office. The film tells the “true” story of Michael Oher, an overweight, black teenager with a tragic background who is taken in by a white, middle-class family, the Touhys, and makes it out of the projects and into the NFL. The Blind Side’s reviews were mostly favorable. Rotten Tomatoes, a reputable movie review
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