Sentences with phrase «wrestling coach john»

Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum star in Foxcatcher, a dramatic account of the 1996 murder of Olympic gold medalist Dave Schultz by millionaire wrestling coach John du Pont.

Steve Carell is nearly unrecognizable as the creepy, ultra-rich wrestling coach John du Pont in the new teaser for «Foxcatcher,» which debuted Monday.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, pelinks4u.org, an Internet newsletter specializing in physical education topics, told a story about maturity and selflessness in youth sports in rural Washington state: Michael Denny, the wrestling coach at Housel Middle School in Prosser, Wash., asked his counterpart at Morgan Middle School in Ellensburg, John Graf, if he knew of a Morgan wrestler who would agree to an exhibition match against a Housel wrestler with cognitive and physical disabilities.

Now, this advice actually came from the mouth of wrestling champ Dan Gable, but was relayed to us strength coaches by Dan John in THIS TNation article back in 2006.

In advance of its premiere at Cannes, today, Sony Pictures Classics has released a teaser trailer for Foxcatcher — the true story of Olympic champion wrestling brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave (Mark Ruffalo) Schultz and their eccentric coach, John DuPont (Steve Carell), heir to the DuPont fortune, and how that relationship led to murder.

The triumvirate is completed by the incredibly odd billionaire John duPont (Steve Carell), who proclaims himself a wrestling coach after building a state of the art training facility on his family estate.

Scrounging in the afterglow of Olympic glory, he is approached by multi-millionaire John du Pont (Carrell) to coach a privately funded wrestling team on the grounds of his luxuriant Pennsylvania estate.

Enter Steve Carell as John E. du Pont heir to the du Pont chemical fortune who envisions his estate as the home and new training center for the US Olympic wrestling team headed to the 1988 Games in Seoul — with himself as head coach.