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Mark Kerr is born in Toledo, Ohio. From early childhood, he dreams of being in the World Wrestling Federation and holds mock fights with his younger siblings in the back yard. He comes a high school state champion wrestling for Toledo Waite. Later Kerr becomes known as The Smashing Machine, The Titan and The Specimen — and is a two-time UFC heavyweight champ, and is widely regarded as the best fighter in the world during his MMA career.

After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, a young teen joins the Navy and is sent on a secret mission to guard German POWs during which time he teaches the enemy soldiers how to play baseball.

During World War II, a soccer game takes place between an occupied Ukrainian soccer team and their Nazi captors, a German "super team." Nikolai Trusevich, an all-star goalie, serves as a cornerstone and leader for his Ukrainian team, and ultimately inspires the entire battered city of Kiev, Ukraine.

This film tells the story of John Madden, a legendary NFL coach. Madden's dream was to become a head coach, and he achieved great success. However, the pressures of the job eventually took a toll on him, leading him to step away. The film focuses on his friendship with Al Davis, the owner of the Oakland Raiders, and how Madden found a new path that made him even more famous.

A feud exists between two families over an annual Thanksgiving touch football game that has existed for 50 years.

Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American player to be selected to the U.S. Davis Cup team and to win three Grand Slam titles.

Moe Norman is injured in a sledding accident that turns him into a loner whose repetitive phrases and nervous laughter is off-putting. The repetitive behavior proves to be an asset when he develops an unorthodox short golf swing that enables him to place the ball with uncanny accuracy. Tiger Woods would later say that Norman and Ben Hogan were the two who truly "owned" their golf swings.

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.

Ronda Rousey faces challenges in and outside the Octagon from the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old to the intensity of her judo training, battles with love, and her meteoric rise to fame to become the "toughest woman on Earth."

A Texas football team from the Gainesville State School is made up of kids convicted of crimes involving drugs, violence and robbery.

A biopic of Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife, Audrey Mestre, two world record setters in the sport of "freediving"—diving as deep as possible on one breath and without any scuba equipment. Mestre died in 2002 while trying to break her record of 557.7 feet.

A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.

The story of Malcolm Butler's journey — from running the fryolator at Popeyes to becoming New England Patriots's star cornerback.

The true story is based on the lives of Frank and Isaac Gildea, the only father-son duo to ever play basketball together on a college team.

Dartanyon Crockett, legally blind yet the best wrestler on a high school team, carries Leroy Sutton, who had lost both his legs in a train accident when he was 11, to practices and meets. Sutton graduated from college and Crockett won a bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games.

Inspired by a true story in Sports Illustrated about a blind sports writer known for his work with the New York Yankees.