"A reluctant new coach faces the challenge of leading a team of unhappy youths to a championship. On the way, setbacks are encountered and eventually overcome, and everyone, from the coach to the star to the last guy on the bench, learns something. Wouldn’t it be great if “Crooked Arrows,” a new movie about a Native American lacrosse team that takes on the prep school snobs, upended sports movie convention?

Not going to happen. Joe Logan (Brandon Routh), the son of the chief of the fictional Sunaquat tribe and onetime lacrosse star, manages the casino on the tribe’s land; at his boss’s insistence, Joe wins the tribal council’s approval for an expansion, over the objections of his father, Ben (Gil Birmingham). "

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From Managing a Casino to Coaching Lacrosse (The New York Times 6/1)

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