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Oscar winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger match wits in "Leatherheads", a rapid-fire romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's pro-football league in 1925. Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a swaggering, aging football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention.

Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski), America's prodigal son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. But if Dodge thinks this new champ is too good to be true, then Lexie Littleton (Zellweger) can prove that's the case.

A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who sniffs holes in Carter's war story. While she digs, however, the two teammates become off-field rivals for her affections. As the love triangle grows, Dodge fights to get the girl while he tries to keep his guys together. And if Connolly is certain of one thing...it's that you always keep one final play from the defense.

A troubled American girl (Amy Johnston) is recruited to fight in a vicious, all-female and underground Japanese martial arts tournament known as "The Kumite."

In the 1970s, a group of teenage surfers from a tough neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in Venice, California pioneered a revolutionary new style of skateboarding. Riding the waves at the Pacific Ocean Park pier, the Z-Boyz, known for their aggressive style and hard street attitude, combined the death-defying moves of surfing with the art of skateboarding and became overnight sensations and local legends. With empty pools as their canvas, the Z-boyz paved the way to what is now referred to as "extreme sports," and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to beomce a worldwide counterculture phenomenon. But all of this fame would take its toll on the friendships that they thought would last a lifetime as the sport that started out as an afternoon hobby turned into big business.

Follows the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of a fictional British tennis star of the '80s.

Bow Wow plays an orphan boy named Calvin who lives out his dream of playing in the NBA—with a little help from a magical pair of sneakers! Soon after he laces up the mysterious high-tops, Calvin's amazing basketball skills land him a spot on the Los Angeles Knights team. In addition to hitting 25-foot jumpers and throwing down rim-rattling slam dunks, the small superstar sets his sights on another dream...having a family. But first he and his pals must defeat Bittleman, the orphanage headmaster trying to sabotage Calvin's career and dash his hopes of ever being adopted.

Kevin Laue journeys from Pleasanton, CA to the basketball court of Manhattan College in New York, where he joins the team in 2009. Laue becomes the first player missing a limb to play NCAA Division I basketball.

Eric a football fanatic postman whose life is descending in to crisis receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.

The documentary shows how golf caddies often act as advisors, counselors, and confidants on the course.

Mike Webster, the longtime center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, is one of the toughest guys to ever play the game but he struggles mightily after his career. Angry and confused for reasons he cannot explain, Webster’s mood swings and fits of rage cost him his marriage and he dies a young man. After his death, Webster's brain is examined and it is found to have a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that is the result of what doctors say is the equivalent of Webster suffering the head trauma equivalent of being in 25,000 car accidents over his high school, college and 17 years in the NFL.

Despite 5000-to-1 odds, Leicester City soccer club wins the English Premiere League in 2016 overcoming perennial monied powerhouses like Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool.

Lenny McLean goes from humble beginnings in Hoxton, East London to become a boxer, bouncer, bare-knuckle fighter, actor, accused murderer and family man. McLean dies in 1998 at the age of 49.

During the week leading up to the 1967 NFL championship game, Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lmbardi prepares his team to play against the Dallas Cowboys. The game becomes known as the "Ice Bowl" due to the extreme weather.

Chronicles the day-to-day struggles of a teenage boy coming to terms with his need for his deceased father's approval by pursuing his seemingly impossible dream of becoming the first one-armed player in the history of college basketball.

Kansas City Royal's baseball announcer Jim Brockmire loses it on the air when he discovers his wife is cheating on him, instigating his public downfall. But all is not lost, as he tries to reinvent himself as the announcer for a very minor league team.

Centers around a pro basketball superstar who must pay up on a deal he made with the devil, transforming into the most athletic killer.

The story concerns a one-legged homeless man who finds a special, cleated, wooden leg that enables him to become the new star kicker for the San Francisco 49ers.