Video producers Sandy Freeman and Rob Shoaf are organizing a regional film commission to get more movie-TV business in the Triangle. (See www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/31/656030/agency-wants-to-put-the-triangle.html).

Hometown boy and Hollywood mogul Thom Mount is one of their boosters, and the sequel to his 1988 hit "Bull Durham" may be one of the projects helped along by Freeman and Shoaf's Triangle Regional Film Commission.

"It's coming along very nicely," Mount said Monday about plans for "Bull Durham II" ("Calf of Bull Durham"?). "It looks like we're going to start coordinating [prospective cast and crew] schedules in the spring."

Of course, things are rarely for certain in the movie biz, and Mount said there have several prospects the Triangle might land before the return of Bull Durham: one being a remake of 1977's Burt Reynolds-Jackie Gleason "Smokey and the Bandit."

10-4 good buddy.

Video producers Sandy Freeman and Rob Shoaf are organizing a regional film commission to get more movie-TV business in the Triangle. (See www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/31/656030/agency-wants-to-put-the-triangle.html).

Hometown boy and Hollywood mogul Thom Mount is one of their boosters, and the sequel to his 1988 hit "Bull Durham" may be one of the projects helped along by Freeman and Shoaf's Triangle Regional Film Commission.

"It's coming along very nicely," Mount said Monday about plans for "Bull Durham II" ("Calf of Bull Durham"?). "It looks like we're going to start coordinating [prospective cast and crew] schedules in the spring."

Of course, things are rarely for certain in the movie biz, and Mount said there have several prospects the Triangle might land before the return of Bull Durham: one being a remake of 1977's Burt Reynolds-Jackie Gleason "Smokey and the Bandit."

10-4 good buddy.

It almost seems like a fever dream now, but 17 years ago Michael Jordan quit the Chicago Bulls after three championships and embarked on a career in baseball.

On Tuesday night at 8 on ESPN, "Bull Durham" director Ron Shelton explores that time in the fine documentary "Jordan Rides the Bus," as part of ESPN's stellar "30 for 30" series. (To celebrate the network's 30th anniversary, well-known filmmakers have made documentaries examining key moments in the last 30 years of sports.)

There's been some mystery around Jordan's decision, mostly of the swarmy kind. What's true is that Jordan made the decision after his father's murder in Robeson County (a crime now caught up in the SBI lab scandal); Jordan said then that playing baseball was a dream he and his father shared.

Could it be? Is a Bull Durham sequel in the works? Are we really looking at the grand return of Annie, Nuke and Crash? Is Annie still a hopeless, um, romantic? Does Nuke still love Motley Crue? Do candlesticks still make a nice gift?

Apparently, maybe, according to several entertainment news sources, including the New York Post's always-reliable 'spy.' Click here, here and here for more.

As we here in the Bull City celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bull Durham, the mind wanders...what might have become of Crash, Nuke and Annie?

Austin Murphy of Sports Illustrated, has some entertaining thoughts on the issue.

And don't forget, Crash Davis himself is coming back to Durham in July.