helll_razor

Preps:Chicago Hoops was probably one of my favorite sports related documentary/series when it aired in 2001. Preps basically primarily chronicled the 2001 HS year for 3 Chi-Town area HS basketball stars. Former Thornwood HS center and current NBA Chicago Bulls player Eddy Curry, former Downers Grove North's guard(also a football and baseball player) and current University of Illinois football player Kyle Kleckner and point guard Sean Dockery then of Percy L. Julian HS(he is going to Duke for college). The first two were going through their senior year while Dockery was one of the top juniors in the nation. The series often branched out to cover the close friends and rivals of the main 3 subjects such as:Najeeb Echols(Eddy Curry's close friend now plays ball at Missouri), Jason Straight(another close friend of Curry, currently playing ball at Wyoming)Luther Head(University of Illinois and Chicago Public League rival of Sean Dockery) and my personal favorite from the show, Will "The Thrill" Bynum currently playing for the Arizona Wildcats.

Preps was a nice series for basketball fans of all levels. It gave people like myself a chance to see some of the top players in another state live HS life and compete. The series actually encouraged me to follow up on the players(including the lesser known players from the series) from that series and pay more attention to HS players in general.

All in all a great series. Hopefully, there will be another series that covers NYC HS public basketball(PSAL). If your Fox Sports affiliate ever shows reruns (probably won't happen its been about a year) from the series its worth watching and taping.

Stop the haterade...I understand that view point now(considering that you are older and chances are you don't watch silly stuff). But back in 94 as a young child or as a devout wrestling/Hulk Hogan fan living in the US...Thunder in Paradise was a pretty cool show to watch. I enjoyed Thunder in Paradise all 22(I think) episodes of it. I'm not going on a limb to proclaim it greatness...but the show gave me and my younger brother some good entertainment. Sure we recognized the fact that the "force field" around Thunder was incredibly poorly done, and that some...okay..many of he lines were very much corny. But dammit we got to see El Gigante aka Giant Gonzales Jorge Gonzales(who oddly made two appearances in the series as what I think are two different characters), we also got to see our guy Sting play the role of Hammerhead, and we got to see what was a pretty cool boat. At the time I kinda wish that there was a toy line fashioned after it. So in conclusion, the show had its faults, but I'm pretty sure that it was targeted to younger children who will readily take in the fantasy world. As I look back on the show...yeah its pretty bad...but at the same time if TNT decided to air reruns...I'd probably watch or tape them as a piece of my childhood memories.