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• Rankings: Who are the best sports movie characters of all time?

We've already seen that SportsNation likes Rocky Balboa's chances in a boxing match against Jim Braddock and thinks Rick Vaughn and the Indians would beat up on Roy Hobbs and the New York Knights (we're still a little bitter about Bodhi taking out Ann Marie in the surfing showdown). But how would Hobbs and his magic bat fare in the ring against Balboa?

Wait, we may not have the premise of this quite right.

Doug Gottlieb is whiling away those slow summer days before baseball's pennant races heat up and football season is close enough to smell by sizing up the field of Hollywood's all-time athletic greats. We're not talking exclusively athletic prowess here (see: Spackler, Carl); we're talking about the most iconic characters ever to do something semi-athletic.

Our five most convincing arguments, in no particular order, courtesy of imdb.com:

• Norman Dale: "Strap, God wants you on the floor."
• Rick Vaughn: "No matter how far out of first we are, it's cool. You know, it keeps us from getting shut out at our favorite hotels and restaurant-type places."
• Carl Spackler: "Correct me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key."
• Herman Boone: "Gary, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you 'Who is your daddy?' Who's your daddy, Gary? Who's your daddy?"
• The Dude: "[Censored]"