My latest MSN gallery is up, using Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” as an excuse to examine other films that have used sports to lead audiences into a different kind of arena — the arena of the metaphor!

Well, not always. Sometimes a pool cue is just a pool cue, you know?

Sorry. Still tired from last night’s vote count … we really need to change our ballot deadline from midnight to 9 pm one of these years.