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Slowly but surely, we are nearing the return of live sports.

The English Premier League, for example, is due to kick off again on June 17, and as long as the players’ safety remains a priority, that cannot come soon enough.

With a lack of live sport, docuseries such as The Last Dance have filled the void, and ESPN’s 30 for 30 series have also proven very popular.

ESPN is also behind the Lance Armstrong two-parter, simply titled Lance, but more on that later.

Having premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Be Water airs in the US this Sunday, reports Movieweb:

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland, Hong Kong. Over the next two years, he’d complete four iconic films that would define his legacy, a legacy cut short when he died, stunningly, in the summer of 1973. He was 32 years old.

Be Water is a gripping, fascinating, intimate look at not just those final, defining years of Lee’s life, but the complex, often difficult, and seismic journey that led to Lee’s ultimate emergence as a singular icon in the histories of film, martial arts, and even the connection between the eastern and western worlds…

Be Water is told entirely by the family, friends, and collaborators who knew Bruce Lee best, with an extraordinary trove of archive film providing an evocative, immersive visual tapestry that captures Lee’s charisma, his passion, his philosophy, and the eternal beauty and wonder of his art.

Given the quality content that ESPN has been airing of late, you’d back this one to be another great watch:

Be lekker, be water.

We touched on Lance Armstrong earlier, and his two-part ESPN docuseries. That’s well worth watching, by most accounts, but there is one pretty cringe-inducing scene we’ll touch on.

Towards the end of Lance, his son Luke is featured playing football at Rice University. He says he tries to keep a low profile to avoid the stigma around his father, before Lance delivers a speech to the team.

This from NewsAU:

“This idea of work and process, honestly that was my favourite part of the game. Whether it’s diet, sleep, strength work, tactics, morale, all of this minutiae — the small things — truly, truly matter,” Armstrong says.

“I’m proud of all you guys. I’m obviously proud of number 48 (pointing to his son).”

The camera captures the moment Luke hears the wrong number being called. He takes a short breath before looking off to the side.

After the speech is wrapped up the two stand in the room and Luke tells his father what jersey number he actually wears.

“And I’m 35,” Luke says.

“Not 48?” Armstrong responds as Luke shakes his head.

Not your best work, Lance.

[sources:movieweb&newsau]