The WORST episodes of 30 for 30
Every episode of 30 for 30 ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of 30 for 30!
Inspired by ESPN's anniversary, ESPN Films is launching 30 FOR 30, an unprecedented documentary series featuring 30 of today's finest storytellers telling thirty remarkable stories from the ESPN era. On their own, each of the films will be an intimate look at a specific story, relevant to larger themes from the modern era. Collectively, these films will be a diverse mosaic of what sports has meant to American and World culture in the last thirty years. Each storyteller will bring their passion and personal point of view to their film detailing the issues, trends, athletes, teams, rivalries, games and events that transformed the sports landscape from 1979 to 2009.
#1 - Lance (Part 1)
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/24/2020
From acclaimed director Marina Zenovich, LANCE is a fascinating, revealing, comprehensive, chronicle of one of the most inspirational – and then infamous – athletes of all time. Based around extensive interviews and conversations with Lance Armstrong, the two-part, four-hour film tells the story of the cyclist’s rise out of Texas as a young superstar cyclist; his harrowing battle with testicular cancer; his recovery and emergence as a global icon with his seven consecutive Tour de France titles; and then his massive fall after he was exposed in one of the largest doping scandals in history. Armstrong, along with a collection of family, teammates, friends, rivals, and journalists, all reflect on his story, creating a fascinating character study, capturing a unique chapter of sports history, and insisting the audience make its own interpretations about the many different sides of a complex saga.
#2 - Deion's Double Play
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 1/31/2019
A look at Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, focusing especially on a 24-hour span in 1992 when he sandwiched an NFL game between a pair of Major League Baseball postseason games in cities separated by 1,000 miles.
#3 - The Dominican Dream
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/30/2019
"The Dominican Dream" is a portrait of the Dominican immigrants of New York in the '80s and '90s, seen through a loving family whose youngest son, Felipe Lopez, became the top ranked high school basketball player in the nation and was hailed as "The Dominican Michael Jordan'. Embraced as an immigrant hero, then cast aside as an American failure, Felipe Lopez would eventually find happiness not as a basketball player, but as the man he was always meant to be.
#5 - The Good, The Bad, The Hungry
Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 7/2/2019
A look at one of the biggest rivalries in sports, that of competitive eaters Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut.
#6 - Rodman: For Better or Worse
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2019
The unfettered and definitive look at the life and career of Dennis Rodman.
#8 - Vick (1)
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2020
A comprehensive look back at each chapter of Michael Vick's saga: the incredible rise, shocking fall, and polarizing return.
#9 - Vick (2)
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2020
A comprehensive look back at each chapter of Michael Vick's saga: the incredible rise, shocking fall, and polarizing return.
#11 - Lance (Part 2)
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/2020
From acclaimed director Marina Zenovich, LANCE is a fascinating, revealing, comprehensive, chronicle of one of the most inspirational – and then infamous – athletes of all time. Based around extensive interviews and conversations with Lance Armstrong, the two-part, four-hour film tells the story of the cyclist’s rise out of Texas as a young superstar cyclist; his harrowing battle with testicular cancer; his recovery and emergence as a global icon with his seven consecutive Tour de France titles; and then his massive fall after he was exposed in one of the largest doping scandals in history. Armstrong, along with a collection of family, teammates, friends, rivals, and journalists, all reflect on his story, creating a fascinating character study, capturing a unique chapter of sports history, and insisting the audience make its own interpretations about the many different sides of a complex saga.
#12 - Be Water
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/7/2020
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland, Hong Kong. Over the next two years, he’d complete four iconic films that would define his legacy, a legacy cut short when he died, stunningly, in the summer of 1973. He was 32 years old. “Be Water” is a gripping, fascinating, intimate look at not just those final, defining years of Lee’s life, but the complex, often difficult, and seismic journey that led to Lee’s ultimate emergence as a singular icon in the histories of film, martial arts, and even the connection between the eastern and western worlds.
#13 - Long Gone Summer
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/14/2020
It was one of the most memorable and significant seasons in the history of baseball. In the summer of 1998, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Mark McGwire and the Chicago Cubs’ Sammy Sosa embarked on a chase of one of the game’s most hallowed records, igniting the passion and imagination of fans and non-fans everywhere. The drama, excitement, and results would be remembered for generations. If we only knew then just how complex our feelings about it all would eventually become.
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Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/27/2020
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the Blade Runner, is a sports star and a role model for millions, until he shoots his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
#15 - Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius (Part 2)
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/27/2020
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the Blade Runner, is a sports star and a role model for millions, until he shoots his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
#16 - Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius (Part 3)
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/27/2020
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the Blade Runner, is a sports star and a role model for millions, until he shoots his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
#17 - Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius (Part 4)
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/27/2020
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the Blade Runner, is a sports star and a role model for millions, until he shoots his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
#18 - The Infinite Race
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/2020
"The Infinite Race" explores the story of the Tarahumara, an indigenous community in Mexico, famed for their legendary running ability, and their preference for running barefoot, who inspired an ultrarunning craze across the world, and what’s happened as their homes and communities were ravaged by drug cartels and violence.
#19 - Mike and the Mad Dog
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/13/2017
Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, and their "Mike and the Mad Dog" show ruled afternoon sports talk for 19 years. When all was said and done, they changed sports radio forever.
#20 - Phi Slama Jama
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/18/2016
A profile of the iconic Houston Cougars men's basketball teams of the 1980s, fronted by Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler, whose explosive play and highlight-making slam dunks earned the team the nickname Phi Slama Jama.
#21 - Hit It Hard
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/1/2016
A look at John Daly's rise from obscurity to two major championship wins and fall back to mediocrity.
#22 - Catholics vs. Convicts
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/2016
A look at the notorious 1988 Notre Dame–Miami football game and its personal and cultural impact.
#23 - This Was the XFL
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/2017
A bold challenge, a fearless experiment and ultimately, a spectacular failure. In 2001, sports entertainment titans Dick Ebersol and Vince McMahon used the marketing behemoths of their respective companies -- NBC and WWE -- and launched the XFL.
#25 - Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies (2)
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/13/2017
Part 2 of 3. The Celtics-Lakers rivalry ramps up in the 1984 Finals as a cast of characters--led by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson--who changed the NBA finally went head-to-head for a title.