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A pro football player with a hearing problem seeks healing from an old doctor, and is suddenly able to hear everyone talking from far distances.

In 2003, Joey Williams, a 44-year-old father of four, plays for the Lambuth University football team alongside his 21-year-old son. He had been recruited out of high school to play football at Tennessee Tech but injured his left knee during his senior season.

Follows the undefeated University of San Francisco 1951 Dons football team that turned down a bid to play in the Orange Bowl in Miami after being told that the team would not be allowed to use its two black players — running back Ollie Matson and linebacker Burl Toler.

It’s about an insecure guy who’s dating a girl who he thinks may be out of his league. When he finds out that her last boyfriend was a Tom Bradylike ex NFL QB, he becomes so obsessed with why they broke up that he buys a week with him in a charity auction to find out what went wrong in their relationship. But over the course of the week, he makes the guy realize he wants his old girlfriend back.

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.

Jim Thorpe is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and his native name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translates as Bright Path. In 1912, he wins two Olympic gold track and field medals, representing the United States while his citizenship goes unrecognized during a period of cultural genocide for Native Americans. Known as one of the most versatile athletes, Thorpe goes on to play Major League Baseball, professional football and eventually founds the organization that becomes the National Football League.

For over a decade, through the cyclist's recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong vehemently denies the allegations of doping. But he eventually falls on his sword and confesses in a January 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Over the course of a week at a Winter Olympics training camp, two lifelong best friends and competitors must juggle pressure from sponsors, romantic temptations, mental health and their own drive to win — possibly at all costs.

A group of multinational POWs in a Nazi prison camp decide to compete against each other in their own version of the Olympics after the 1940 games are canceled due to the escalating war. They risk their lives to stage the games under the noses of the guards.

Biopic about one of the biggest names in wrestling of all time, Hulk "Hollywood" Hogan.

The movie will follow the quarterback's career from Bear Bryant's football program at the University of Alabama to the New York Jets of the NFL to his guarantee that his Jet would defeat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. All this while Broadway Joe battled knee problems so bad that he was actually denied entry into the Vietnam War. Of course, he went on to win the Super Bowl and become a cultural icon.

Story of John Scott, a journeyman hockey player who: was voted into this year’s NHL All-Star Game as a captain through an Internet write-in campaign, got traded and then demoted to the minors by a pissed-off NHL because he wouldn’t withdraw and wound up the game’s MVP before heading back to the minors in Newfoundland.

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.

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.

Set in Granite City, a small steel town in Southern Illinois, a group of poor, immigrant high school boys from the wrong side of the tracks rise above bigotry in 1940s by proving themselves on the basketball court.

Follows a down-on-his-luck route driver for a soda company who's given a second chance in life as a football kicker.