After beginning his time at the University, a young man immediately finds that he is dissatisfied with the mundanity of his school life until his peers discover his skill at snooker.

An elderly, childless, former soccer player watches a team of young girls play against a team that appears much older and stronger. He allows himself to be invested in the game, rooting for the underdogs, as he yearns for his past All-American title and for a child.

In a small town in South Carolina, a middle-aged man is dragged into being the referee for a $1000 grudge match between his eccentric friend and a town outsider.

After losing a fight, a professional wrestler navigates loss, guilt, and self-worth and explores his love-hate relationship with fighting.

A teenage boy unexpectedly discovers a love for chess and sets out to make a name for himself, only to hit the ceiling between passion and genius.

A senior girl on her high school team for a deadly sport clashes with her rival on the drive to the state championships over the treatment of another teammate.

In a Seattle of the near future, a businessman attempts to convince a young basketball player to sign a sponsorship deal that will require him to implant a controversial device into his body forever.

A dissatisfied boxer struggles to find fulfillment away from the sport that has consumed every facet of his life. As the pressure to win competes with the pressure to marry his long-time girlfriend, the boxer must make a critical choice.

A bartender laments that the professional wrestlers in Charlotte are moving to Atlanta, feeling that all excitement is draining from the North Carolina town. At the end of the final match, all possibilities of love and hope drain from his life.

A father and son play an especially strategic and emotionally intense game of tennis that ends in both their losses, in one way or another.