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Unless I'm missing something, the latest Ron Shelton picture, "Dark Blue," appears to have absolutely nothing to do with sports. What's going on here? This is the gentleman who is best known for "Bull Durham," "White Men Can't Jump," "Cobb," and "Tin Cup," which challenged the global audience with a daring combination of Kevin Costner and golf. That still leaves many sports that have yet to get the Shelton treatment, and I was looking forward to a tale of limpid love from the dewy world of the N.F.L., or, at the other extreme, a brutish expose of the hell that is interstate croquet. Instead, we get "Dark Blue," which starts with footage of the Rodney King assault in ...

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