Sports movies With the Super Bowl in mind — that time when Americans gather, overeat and enjoy the outpourings of our greatest advertising agencies — it is fitting to reflect upon the core myth that animates our nation. No, I don’t mean the western, which is so 19th century. I mean the sports movie, the epic that defines contemporary America. Over the past several years, theaters have been inundated by a series of films that all have the same plot. Whether it is “Hoosiers,” “Glory Road,” “Coach Carter,” “Remember the Titans,” “Miracle,” “The Replacements” or a hundred others, the core...