Archives: January 2006

Full Court Pressure

Luke O'Brien,

  Pity the college basketball coach. He toils endlessly to explain the vagaries of offensive sets and defensive zones. He frets over lineups, injuries, and scouting reports. His job is never safe — one losing season, and it’s back to teaching bounce passes to the JV girls at St. Elizabeth’s. Few videogames capture the coach’s life like College Hoops 2K6….

Digging in the Dirt

Robert Wilonsky,

  Broken Flowers (Universal Home Entertainment) Bill Murray, who long ago swapped manic kineticism for melancholy deadpan, is once more mired in a middle-aged funk; what else is new? As Don Johnston, an aging lothario whose latest young girlfriend is walking out as the audience is just settling in, Murray’s on a reluctant quest to find the ex-girlfriend whose penned-on-pink-paper…