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Publisher
Questar Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Unfolds over 60 years and 18 holes of golf per year. John, Ben, Hank and Charlie are the four Musketeers. After sneaking into the elite Sunset ridge Country Club, the childhood friends make a pact to meet each year to play a round of golf. As the years pass, their lives take different paths and dramatic turns. Through it all, the golf games continue, testing and strengthening their cherished friendships.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Santiago Munez, an immigrant from Los Angeles, is given the chance to go to England to pursue his dream of becoming a professional soccer player. This underdog must prove he has the talent, passion, and determination to triumph against all odds.
4) Raging bull
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A biographical film about psychologically destructive, violent middleweight champion Jake La Motta.
5) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Superstar quarterback Joe Kingman has an ego bigger than a football field. Joe is getting ready for a run at the big championship game when the eight-year-old daughter he never knew existed shows up at his not-so-family-friendly bachelor pad. As the big game gets closer, he begins to realize the most meaningful win he can achieve is the heart of the one little fan who counts the most.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
8) The ringer
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Description
Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve resorts to an unthinkable scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged in order to rig the upcoming Special Olympics, to dethrone the reigning champion and bringing home the gold.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Ricky and Cal for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky must face...
10) Believe in me
Publisher
GT Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Coach Clay Driscoll is a small town basketball coach who seems to have everything going against him. A team he doesn't want. A town that doesn't support girl's sports and small town politics that threaten to undermine any chance he has of winning. But his pride and his "girls" refuse to let him quit. Both the young women and their hard-headed coach fight for equality and a share of the dream, taking on the town prejudice and their own self-doubt....
11) The benchwarmers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Three guys spent their youth bearing the wrath of schoolyard bullies. They weren't tall, cool, and athletic, so they often got picked on by those who were. But when Gus convinces his two friends Richie and Clark to take some batting practice on a nearby Little League baseball field for old times sake, the three end up challenging a team of eleven-year-olds for the right to play on the field. Gus, often picked on because he was short, is nonetheless...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Burt Munro, a Kiwi from far south New Zealand has been building and rebuilding his motorcycle for the last 40 years, dreaming of the day when he and the bike can go to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats and see what they can really do. When Burt's heart goes bad on him, his dreaming is threatened to come to an end. Luckily, Burt is not ready to stop dreaming. He decides to mortgage his house and bring his dream to life. He and the motorcycle head for America...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Odessa is an oil town in the western part of Texas that is home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record. The city's economy is in a tailspin, but football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines lead the team to victory. And in Odessa, a football victory is prized above all else....
14) Semi-pro
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up with bizarre marketing stunts to draw in an audience. His...
15) Gridiron gang
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story....
16) Cinderella man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
17) Leatherheads
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero. He 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 team. Dodge hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention. Added to the team is Carter Rutherford, America's favorite son. Carter has dashing good...
18) We are Marshall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Based on a true story.
The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home from a hard-fought game in North...
19) Never back down
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
At his new high school Jake Tyler, a rebellious teen, is lured into an ultimate underground fighting club in a Backyard Fight. Jake finds a mentor at the club, a mixed martial arts veteran. When Jake begins to receive threats regarding the safety of his friends and family he seeks help from the veteran fighter in order to train his mind and body for one final no-holds-barred elimination fight with his unrelenting personal nemesis and local martial...
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