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A man in charge of the instructors who teach English is proud of his college's football team. However, when one of the football players can't play because of a failing grade in an English class, the man tries to convince the professor to change the footballer's grade.

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.

An Olympic swimmer-turned-writer and a New York heiress fall in love as Spanish flu ravages the world. However, when the stressors of class, an unexpected pregnancy, and a global pandemic arise, the two lovers must decide if their love can withstand the times.

When a star player on his professional basketball team falls during the big game, a fellow player reflects on the history of Black people in the United States that brought them to that moment.

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.

Hoping to win the faith of the girl he wants to marry, the best diver in the world prepares to dive from a platform one hundred feet above the ground, but doubt and fear creep in before he jumps.

A family begins a new life in a college town where the father will coach the college's JV football team.

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

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.

Hog Hammond, head football coach at Mississippi Southern University, mulls feverishly over his life’s work and family history as he becomes more and more convinced his heart is giving out. Legacy football player and Mississippi Southern University head coach Hog Hammond starts feeling all-consuming pain swell in and out of body, his heart swilling and thrashing in waves of blood. Convinced he’s going to die; he speaks freely to his wife and family, asking the questions he’s always had for them.