Article: Tired `Sixth Man' unlikely to grab even sports fans

THE SIXTH MAN (STAR) 1/2 Kenny Tyler Marlon Wayans Antoine Tyler Kadeem Hardison Coach Pederson David Paymer R. C. St. John Michael Michele Mikulski Kevin Dunn Directed by Randall Miller. Written by Christopher Reed and Cynthia Carle. Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (for brief language and some innuendos). Opening today at local theaters. `The Sixth Man" is another paintby-the-numbers sports movie, this one about a college basketball team that makes it to the NCAA finals with the help of the ghost of one of its dead stars. Let's not talk about how predictable it is. Let's talk about how dumb it is.

The film starts with the childhood hoop dreams of a couple of brothers, ...

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