Loved ‘Running Point’? Stream these sports comedies next
Loved ‘Running Point’? Stream these sports comedies next
Kate Hudson’s basketball comedy is back on Netflix, and these four shows keep the sports chaos going.
“Running Point” is basically engineered in a lab for me. I’m a sucker for anything Mindy Kaling touches, and putting Kate Hudson in the middle of a pro basketball power struggle? I’m in. Isla Gordon is underestimated, outnumbered, and suddenly stuck running a team full of giant egos, family drama, and people waiting for her to fail.
That’s what makes the show so fun, especially now that Season 2 just dropped all episodes on Netflix. It’s got the snappy dialogue, power plays, messy family stuff, and workplace chaos you want from a Kaling comedy, with the basketball setting giving it extra juice. You don’t need to be a sports fan either — my wife isn’t, and she loved it too. If you finished Season 2 and want more funny, heartfelt sports chaos, these are the shows I’d check out next.
Running Point
A reformed party girl must prove herself as a businesswoman when she’s unexpectedly put in charge of her family’s pro basketball team.
Loved ‘Running Point’? Watch: ‘Ted Lasso’
“Ted Lasso” is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the easiest next watch if what you loved about “Running Point” was the fish-out-of-water story. Jason Sudeikis plays Ted, an American football coach hired to coach an English soccer team, even though he knows almost nothing about the sport. He walks into AFC Richmond as a joke, then slowly changes the culture by treating people like they matter.
That’s where it lines up with “Running Point.” Isla and Ted are both dropped into sports worlds where everyone assumes they don’t belong. “Ted Lasso” is warmer and more emotional, while “Running Point” has more workplace bite and family-business chaos, but both shows understand that leadership isn’t just about knowing the game. It’s about reading people, building trust, and getting everyone to care about the same thing. If Isla’s fight to be taken seriously hooked you, Ted’s whole journey will floor you. Oh, and get excited for the reboot, where Ted is coaching a women’s soccer team. You can watch the new teaser here.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
Check out: ‘Stick’
Before I watched “Stick,” I worried it might be a “Ted Lasso” knockoff. But after watching all of Season 1 with Tara, it’s much more than that. Owen Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, a washed-up former golf pro whose career and personal life have collapsed. Then he meets Santi, a teenage golf prodigy with talent and baggage, and sees a chance to do something useful with his life again.
That’s why “Stick” works so well after “Running Point.” Both shows are about people who are better at the job than anyone expects. Isla doesn’t look like the obvious person to run a pro basketball franchise, and Pryce doesn’t exactly look like someone you’d trust with a kid’s future. But both have instincts, heart, and a strange ability to see what other people need. “Stick” is gentler and more focused on regret, grief, and second chances, but the emotional core is similar. You don’t need to care about golf to get pulled in, either. My wife doesn’t, and she loved it.
Stick
Pryce Cahill was headed for golf greatness when an on-course meltdown derailed his career. Now struggling to stay afloat, he goes all in to mentor Santi—a teenage phenom with immense potential—and maybe save himself.
Watch next: ‘Brockmire’
“Brockmire” is the pick if you want your sports comedy darker, louder, and much more self-destructive. Hank Azaria stars as Jim Brockmire, a famous baseball announcer who melts down on the air after finding out his wife has been cheating on him. Years later, he resurfaces calling games for a minor-league team in Pennsylvania and trying, very badly, to rebuild his career and his life.
It’s a very different animal from “Running Point,” but the sports-world connection is real. Both shows are about public identities crashing into private mess. Isla has to overcome the way people see her: the party girl, the family screwup, the person nobody expected to lead. Brockmire has to crawl out from under a much uglier reputation, one he earned very publicly. “Running Point” is sharp and breezy, while “Brockmire” is filthy and bruised, but both understand how ridiculous sports can get when ego, money, fame, and failure all collide.
Brockmire
A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife’s serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.
Wildcard pick: ‘Rooster’
“Rooster” is my wildcard because it’s not technically a sports comedy, though Steve Carell does coach some hockey in it. It’s similar enough in vibe to “Running Point” to make sense, and it’s just a great show. Carell plays Greg Russo, a successful genre-fiction author who shows up at the college where his estranged daughter, Katie, teaches. From there, the show becomes a funny, awkward story about family, ego, and trying to reconnect way too late.
So no, you’re not getting a full-on sports show here. But you are getting a character comedy about someone trying to navigate a world where they don’t totally fit. Isla is dealing with brothers, executives, players, and the baggage of being underestimated inside her own family. Greg is dealing with his daughter, a campus full of weird personalities, and the uncomfortable realization that success doesn’t make you good at relationships. The tone is more cringe-forward and offbeat than “Running Point,” but there’s a ton of heart underneath it, which is what you’d expect from creators Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses. It may not be the perfect follow-up, but I guarantee it’s worth watching.
Rooster
On a college campus, an author navigates a complicated relationship with his daughter.
More to watch after finishing ‘Running Point’:
‘Chad Powers’ | Hulu
Chad Powers
Eight years after an unforgivable mistake nukes his promising college football career, hotshot quarterback Russ Holliday tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers - a talented oddball who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish.
‘Blue Mountain State’ | Prime Video
Blue Mountain State
Three incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle football, girls, class and nonstop hazing.
‘Eastbound & Down’ | HBO Max
Eastbound & Down
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
“Running Point” is basically engineered in a lab for me. I’m a sucker for anything Mindy Kaling touches, and putting Kate Hudson in the middle of a pro basketball power struggle? I’m in. Isla Gordon is underestimated, outnumbered, and suddenly stuck running a team full of giant egos, family drama, and people waiting for her to fail.
That’s what makes the show so fun, especially now that Season 2 just dropped all episodes on Netflix. It’s got the snappy dialogue, power plays, messy family stuff, and workplace chaos you want from a Kaling comedy, with the basketball setting giving it extra juice. You don’t need to be a sports fan either — my wife isn’t, and she loved it too. If you finished Season 2 and want more funny, heartfelt sports chaos, these are the shows I’d check out next.
Running Point
A reformed party girl must prove herself as a businesswoman when she’s unexpectedly put in charge of her family’s pro basketball team.
Loved ‘Running Point’? Watch: ‘Ted Lasso’
“Ted Lasso” is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the easiest next watch if what you loved about “Running Point” was the fish-out-of-water story. Jason Sudeikis plays Ted, an American football coach hired to coach an English soccer team, even though he knows almost nothing about the sport. He walks into AFC Richmond as a joke, then slowly changes the culture by treating people like they matter.
That’s where it lines up with “Running Point.” Isla and Ted are both dropped into sports worlds where everyone assumes they don’t belong. “Ted Lasso” is warmer and more emotional, while “Running Point” has more workplace bite and family-business chaos, but both shows understand that leadership isn’t just about knowing the game. It’s about reading people, building trust, and getting everyone to care about the same thing. If Isla’s fight to be taken seriously hooked you, Ted’s whole journey will floor you. Oh, and get excited for the reboot, where Ted is coaching a women’s soccer team. You can watch the new teaser here.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
Check out: ‘Stick’
Before I watched “Stick,” I worried it might be a “Ted Lasso” knockoff. But after watching all of Season 1 with Tara, it’s much more than that. Owen Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, a washed-up former golf pro whose career and personal life have collapsed. Then he meets Santi, a teenage golf prodigy with talent and baggage, and sees a chance to do something useful with his life again.
That’s why “Stick” works so well after “Running Point.” Both shows are about people who are better at the job than anyone expects. Isla doesn’t look like the obvious person to run a pro basketball franchise, and Pryce doesn’t exactly look like someone you’d trust with a kid’s future. But both have instincts, heart, and a strange ability to see what other people need. “Stick” is gentler and more focused on regret, grief, and second chances, but the emotional core is similar. You don’t need to care about golf to get pulled in, either. My wife doesn’t, and she loved it.
Stick
Pryce Cahill was headed for golf greatness when an on-course meltdown derailed his career. Now struggling to stay afloat, he goes all in to mentor Santi—a teenage phenom with immense potential—and maybe save himself.
Watch next: ‘Brockmire’
“Brockmire” is the pick if you want your sports comedy darker, louder, and much more self-destructive. Hank Azaria stars as Jim Brockmire, a famous baseball announcer who melts down on the air after finding out his wife has been cheating on him. Years later, he resurfaces calling games for a minor-league team in Pennsylvania and trying, very badly, to rebuild his career and his life.
It’s a very different animal from “Running Point,” but the sports-world connection is real. Both shows are about public identities crashing into private mess. Isla has to overcome the way people see her: the party girl, the family screwup, the person nobody expected to lead. Brockmire has to crawl out from under a much uglier reputation, one he earned very publicly. “Running Point” is sharp and breezy, while “Brockmire” is filthy and bruised, but both understand how ridiculous sports can get when ego, money, fame, and failure all collide.
Brockmire
A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife’s serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.
Wildcard pick: ‘Rooster’
“Rooster” is my wildcard because it’s not technically a sports comedy, though Steve Carell does coach some hockey in it. It’s similar enough in vibe to “Running Point” to make sense, and it’s just a great show. Carell plays Greg Russo, a successful genre-fiction author who shows up at the college where his estranged daughter, Katie, teaches. From there, the show becomes a funny, awkward story about family, ego, and trying to reconnect way too late.
So no, you’re not getting a full-on sports show here. But you are getting a character comedy about someone trying to navigate a world where they don’t totally fit. Isla is dealing with brothers, executives, players, and the baggage of being underestimated inside her own family. Greg is dealing with his daughter, a campus full of weird personalities, and the uncomfortable realization that success doesn’t make you good at relationships. The tone is more cringe-forward and offbeat than “Running Point,” but there’s a ton of heart underneath it, which is what you’d expect from creators Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses. It may not be the perfect follow-up, but I guarantee it’s worth watching.
Rooster
On a college campus, an author navigates a complicated relationship with his daughter.
More to watch after finishing ‘Running Point’:
‘Chad Powers’ | Hulu
Chad Powers
Eight years after an unforgivable mistake nukes his promising college football career, hotshot quarterback Russ Holliday tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers - a talented oddball who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish.
‘Blue Mountain State’ | Prime Video
Blue Mountain State
Three incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle football, girls, class and nonstop hazing.
‘Eastbound & Down’ | HBO Max
Eastbound & Down
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
‘Ballers’ | HBO Max
Ballers
Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the daily grind of the business of football.