Jonathan Hock – MRQE

30 for 30:: Of Miracles and Men (TVE)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On a Friday evening in Lake Placid, New York, a plucky band of American collegians stunned the vaunted Soviet national team, 4-3 in the medal round of the 1980 Winter Olympic hockey competition. Americans couldn’t help but believe in miracles that night, and when the members of Team USA won the gold medal two days later, they became a team for the ages. This film explores the “Miracle on Ice” through the Soviet lens. While focused on the game itself, the journey of the stunned Soviet team didn’t begin — or end — in Lake Placid.

Dominican Dream

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the early 1990s, the future of basketball belonged to a young Dominican immigrant named Felipe Lopez. Featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated at the age of 17, Lopez’s story is the ultimate profile of the American dream.

Fastball

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.

Off the Rez

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a Native American family in Oregon that leaves the reservation in pursuit of the American dream on behalf of one of their 8 children, a 16 year-old girl who is one of the best high school basketball players in the country. Four generations of strong Native American women from the Umatilla Nation struggle together to preserve their traditions with the unforgiving world of big-time American high school sports.

The Lost Son of Havana

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After 46 years in exile, former major league baseball star Luis Tiant returns to Cuba, where he encounters unexpected demons and receives unexpected gifts from his family.