This story is about the little zebra (Muniz) who believed he is a racehorse. He had been found on the road after the traveling circus lost such a precious cargo. He was discovered by Nolan Walsh, a horse trainer and was taken to his farm to live with him and his young daughter Channing. The zebra whom Channing called Stripes, meets the farm inhabitants such as a cranky Shetland pony named Tucker and Franny, a wise old goat; also with Goose, a deranged big-city pelican. The farm borders with the Racetrack, so when Stripes for a first time seen the racing horses he was hooked and decided to win the race first, last and all the time. He devotes himself to training...
In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world's most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.
Trainer Marty Goldberg has been stuck working on the fringes of the professional circuit far too long. Searching for a way out, he discovers Tommy, a young man with raw talent to burn. Outside the ring however, Tommy displays a self-destructive streak that could end his career before it begins. Marty works with Tommy to tame that streak.
Professional quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), a former NFL player, and former college champion and coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) are doing time in the same prison. Tough warden Hazen (James Cromwell) decides to organize a soccer match between the guards and the inmates and forces Paul to assemble his team. Yet, he tries to persuade Crewe to lose the game in exchange of his early release. The convicts willingly unite when they discover that the guards will be their rivals. They see the forthcoming game as a golden opportunity to exact some revenge on the sadistic warders.
The charming dramedy follows the life of legendary New Zealander Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) who spent years improving and modifying his beloved 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. He travelled all over the world on his bike and eventually made his dream come true. During the 1967 famous race held at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, he set a world speed record of 190.07 mph, which has not been broken yet.
Set in California in the 1970s, the compelling drama revolves around a group of energetic and fearless teenage surfers, named the Z-Boys, who revolutionized skateboarding. Performing daredevil stunts in empty swimming pools, they pioneered a new extreme sport which became a new trend in pop culture and a symbol of a whole generation of their young coevals. However, sudden fame took its toll on their friendship, as they transformed their hobby of surfing into a business.
Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville), an office drone, must raise a large sum of money to pay for his gardener’s surgery, while his hapless uncle Gary (Brian Cox) owes $40,000 in gambling debts. Desperate to find the cash, they come up with a nefarious yet effective scheme. Steve and Gary decide to rig the Special Olympics Championship by having the former posing as a mentally challenged athlete so that the latter can bet on him to defeat the six-time medalist Jimmy Washington (Leonard Flowers). Thus they hope to earn enough money to solve both of their financial problems.
Believe in your dreams and someday your dreams will come true! This inspiring story is about Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker), a young Mexican immigrant living in the barrios of Los Angeles, who has always dreamt of being a professional soccer player. Although he works a day job for his father's landscaping service, and a night job as a bus boy in a restaurant, he cherishes his dream of making it big one day and continues to play for a local team. Santiago believes that perseverance and hard work is the keystone to success. One day his untapped potential attracts the attention of pro scout Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane) who immediately offers him a try-out for England's premier soccer club, Newcastle United. Without thinking twice, Santiago leaves his family and job and travels to England where he hopes to prove that he has the talent and determination to make it alongside the best in the world.
Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
A third generation of a NASCAR racing family, Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan) is sure that auto racing is in her blood. But she can't become a NASCAR competitor and realize her dream of racing glory due to the prohibition of her overprotective father Ray (Michael Keaton) who fears to lose his daughter. However, when Maggie graduates from college, her dad takes her to the local junkyard and offers to choose one of beat-up cars as a graduation gift. Maggie sets her choice on a rusty 63' Volkswagen Bug. She soon makes a surprising discovery that Herbie is more than a regular car; her mechanical friend has a romantic soul and a dream of becoming a champion of the world's most prestigious races. Thus Herbie and his new spirited owner are determined to make their dreams come true.
Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg), a bright high school student, has always dreamt of becoming a championship figure skater but she is forced to abandon her dream and head for Harvard to please her domineering professor mother Joan Carlyle (Joan Cusack). Fortunately for Casey, she gets the chance to make her dream come true when she visits a skating club and starts training with champion-in-the-making Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere) and her mother Tina (Kim Cattrall), a former professional skater. The more Casey trains, the more she finds herself attracted to the sport, the more she becomes obsessed with the idea of competing in the championship circuit. Does she have enough courage to ruin her mother's hopes completely in order to achieve her childhood dream?
Phil (Will Ferrell) discovers that his son Sam (Dylan McLaughlin) isn't as good at sport as Phil was in his youth. It was not a problem until Phil's father Buck (Robert Duvall), the leading football team coach, makes Sam leave the team and join the unsuccessful one, the Tigers. Phil wants to prove that neither he nor Sam is a looser and starts coaching the outsiders. Luckily, he gets a neighbor who, unlike Phil, has a great football experience.
In the North American Great Depression, the former successful boxer James Braddock loses all his possessions and savings with the crash of the stock market. His beloved wife Mae Braddock and their three children survive to starvation and lack of heating and the daily difficulties supported by their love. In 1934, when Jim's couch and manager Joe Gould offers to him a chance to return to boxing, he becomes the symbol of hope of hopeless people in a ruined nation.
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback.
In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter's tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor in the games. However, when the overconfident team's behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class, he takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected.
Near the turn of the twentieth century, young Harry Vardon becomes a champion golfer but learns that his amazing skill is no match for the class boundaries that exclude him from "gentlemanly" English society. A dozen years later, a young American, Francis Ouimet, fights against the same prejudice, as well as his own father's disdain, for a chance to participate in the U.S. Open against his idol — Harry Vardon. The struggles of both men for acceptance provides the background for an amazing contest of skills.
A motorcycle saga that chronicles the personal journey of two brothers who overcome emotional and physical obstacles to achieve success in the competitive world of Supercross racing. The brothers' conflicts are magnified by their different life choices and their decision to become competitors and rivals. KC Carlyle is a more cautious rider than his younger brother Trip, who has more natural talent but takes too many risks. When KC gets an all-expenses paid factory—corporate sponsored—ride, a rift forms between the two brothers. Trip is forced to go at it alone, becoming a privateer—a rider without a sponsor. But when a career threatening crash ends Trip's Supercross career, he and KC realize that they must put aside their conflicts, and work together to help KC defeat the world's greatest Supercross champions.
A group of social rejects enters a dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas against an all-star team led by Ben Stiller's character after their neighborhood "Average Joe's" gymnasium is threatened with a corporate takeover. White Goodman (Ben Stiller), a gleaming sports and fitness palace owner sends in attorney Kate Veach (Christine Taylor) to finalize the deal. An underachiever Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) owns that run-down gymnasium which has a clientele to be ashamed of; if he won't pay $50,000 as a mortgage payment, it will be impossible to save the gym. Peter and his friends put themselves into trying to win a high-stakes dodgeball tournament. Meanwhile, unfortunately for the sports tycoon, Peter's charms win his attorney Kate over and she helps him try to beat the odds and save the gym.
Based on true events, Charles S. Dutton's feature-length directorial debut stars Meg Ryan as boxing promoter Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who broke through and found success in the world of boxing attempting to make her mark in this male-dominated sport. She works her way up in the world of boxing by believing in the fighting skills of Luther Shaw (Omar Epps) a light-heavyweight contender from the inner-city. The drama focuses on Jackie's relationship with him in attempt to lead him to the summit. Likewise, Kallen's life and career came into focus due to Shaw and his influence on her growth.
Peter (Bettany) is a typical loser and his private life is slack as well as his tennis career. By some unknown chance, this wannabe staying at the very end of the world tennis rating becomes a participant of the prestige Wimbledon tournament. That's where he meet Lizzy Bradbury (Dunst) who is a star of american tennis, and soon he falls for her. Inbspired by the new-found love and new-found mastership on the grass of the prestigious tennis court, Peter's position at the tournament score goes higher and higher. A little bit more luck and he will... win the Champion goblet! Will his dream incarnate into reality?
