Working with both Westhead and Kimble, Oscar-winning director Bill Couturié will tell a fast-paced and emotionally moving story of innovation, triumph and tragedy. Determined to play, Gathers returned three games later, but less than three months later, he tragically died on the court. But then, early in the 1989-90 season, Gathers collapsed during a game and was diagnosed with an abnormal heartbeat. With Gathers and Kimble leading a record scoring charge, Westhead’s system suddenly dazzled the world of college basketball and turned conventional thinking on its head. His shoot-first offense appeared doomed to fail until Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble, two talented players from Westhead’s hometown of Philadelphia, arrived gift-wrapped at his doorstep. In the same city where he had won an NBA championship with Magic and Kareem, Westhead was determined to perfect his non-stop run-and-gun offensive system at Loyola Marymount.
The best offer he could find came from an obscure small college with little history of basketball. Summary: By the mid-1980s Paul Westhead had worn out his welcome in the NBA. The two may have been denied their Hollywood ending, but their story of redemption lives o Together, they became the biggest long shots in 59 years to win the Kentucky Derby, and then followed that up with another underdog win at the Preakness. As for Antley, he was considered a washed-up, anorexic, former drug addict who should have stayed retired from racing. The racing community had such a low opinion of Charismatic that he had been entered into claiming races just months prior to the Triple Crown races. Into this void stepped Charismatic and Antley, both thought to be lost causes. Thoroughbred racing was desperate for this story of deliverance-track attendance was in steep decline, stars like Seattle Slew and Secretariat were distant memories, drug abuse and bulimia were becoming issues in the jockey colony, and America’s love affair with the Sport of Kings was waning. Summary: In June of 1999 an unlikely chestnut colt named Charismatic, with jockey Chris Antley aboard, headed down the stretch at the Belmont Stakes, just seconds away from becoming the first Triple Crown winner in nearly 21 years.
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