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1) Touchback
Pub. Date
c2012
Summary
Former high school football star turned farmer and family man, Scott Murphy finds himself with a unique opportunity to revisit his glory days during the Ohio state championship game where he permanently injured his knee in a game-winning play. Given a second shot at his destiny, Scott seeks counsel from Coach Hand, Scott's longtime mentor on and off the field, to help him decide whether to let his fate unfold, or follow a path that will change his...
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Summary
Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
4) Radio
Pub. Date
?2003.
Summary
For anyone who ever had a dream and everyone with the courage to stand up for what they believe, comes the real life story of Robert 'Radio' Kennedy. Experience Radio's journey from a man no one understood to the coach no one could live without. Together with Head coach Harold Jones, Radio inspired a football team to become champions and a town to open their hearts.
The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring...
6) Coach Carter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
Inspired by a true story, this 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.
7) King Richard
Summary
Based on the true story that will inspire the world, follow the journey of Richard Williams, an undeterred father instrumental in raising two of the most extraordinarily gifted athletes of all time, who will end up changing the sport of tennis forever.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
Coach Courtney Smith-Donnelly takes her coaching wisdom to the track and works with a female athlete at a small Christian college who tries to overcome long odds and win a national title in the 800-meter run. Coach Donnelly's training methods and teachings about life both line up with the concept that to win, they first have to lose. Originally releases in select theaters.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Hayden Fox is the head coach of a university football team, and eats, sleeps and lives football. His wife is not passionate about sports, which tends to frequently causes friction in their relationship. While Hayden often fits the stereotype of dumb jock (as do his co-workers Luther and Dauber), he sincerely cares about his friends and family, and tries his best to make things work out.
12) Reversal
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Summary
Leo Leone is a high school wrestler and the son of the wrestling coach. Leo's father pushes him to compete for a wrestling scholarship, but inevitably the son is sidetracked by experimenting with drugs and sex. Meanwhile, his ultimate adversary has arrived in town in the form of wrestling champion Thurman Ellis Jr., who is also coached by his wrestling-mad father.
13) Woodlawn
Summary
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James and teammate emmet Sunday ignite a player's strike declaring they won't compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes could not be higher. Now, with only hours until kickoff, the head coach and various power brokers must race against the clock to protect or destroy the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
"Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first time the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program-the Nike Oregon Project. In May 2017, journalist Matt Hart received a USB drive containing a single file-a 4.7-megabyte PDF named "Tic Toc, Tic Toc. . . ." He quickly realized he was in possession of a stolen report prepared a year earlier by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for...
Pub. Date
Ã2013
Summary
Blue Mountain State follows the on and off-field antics of college football powerhouse, Blue Mountain State. In season 3, Coach Daniels will have his authority challenged when the boosters force him to hire a hotshot offensive coordinator/head coach-in-waiting. While Alex will have to step up from being a fun-loving second-string to the starting QB.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Summary
Ernie Davis was born in New York and raised in poverty. He overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. With the guidance of coach Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie would develop from an impressive high school athlete into a college legend. Ernie would become the first black to win the Heisman Trophy. Refusing to play by the unspoken racist rules of the day, Ernie broke through one barrier after...
19) Greater
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
Brandon Burlsworth is perhaps the greatest walk-on in the history of college football. Brandon had always dreamed of playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks, but was considered too short and too fat to play Division I. However, Brandon took a risk and walked on in 1994. Written off by fellow teammates and coaches, Brandon displayed dogged determination in the face of staggering odds, and proved every one who had ever doubted him wrong.
Pub. Date
2013
Summary
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team as a way to get his life together. His attempts to become an adult are met with challenges from the attractive soccer moms who pursue him at every turn. Special features: Deleted scenes ; making-of ; the cast.