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• Friday Night Lights

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  Takes place in Odessa, a socially and racially divided and economically troubled oil town in the western part of Texas, where high school football is the thing that brings all the people together.

• Rudy

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  Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.

• Miracle

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  The inspiring true story behind one of the greatest moments in American sports history - the 1980 United States ice hockey team's Olympic victory against the Soviet Union

• Remember the Titans

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  After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hoosiers

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  A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.

• We Are Marshall

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  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.

• Love & Basketball

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  Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way Back

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  A former high school basketball phenom, struggling with alcoholism, is offered a coaching job at his alma mater. As the team starts to win, he may have a reason to confront his old demons. But will it be enough to set him on the road to redemption?

• Youngblood

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  Seventeen-year-old Dean Youngblood has out-skated just about everybody since he was six. Now he's set his sights toward hockey fame with the ragtag Hamilton Mustangs, an amateur Canadian team just across the border from his family's farm.

• Coach Carter

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  Inspired by a true story, this is the inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise and staunch criticism for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.

• American Underdog

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  Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.

• The Mighty Ducks

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  Slapped with a community service assignment, a tough trial lawyer must coach a ragtag team of pee wee hockey players who can't skate, can't score and can't win.