I filmen, som er baseret på virkelige hændelser, tager producentern Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Gone In Sixty Seconds, The Rock) os med tilbage til USA i 70'erne. Samtidig med at landet rammes af raceuroligheder, beslutter skolemyndighederne i Alexandria, Virginia, at byens to race raceadskilte footballhold slås sammen. Det farvede holds træner, Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) ansættes som cheftræner, mens det hvide holds træner, Bill Yoast (will Patton) ansættes som hans assistent. Sammen kæmper disse to mænd, ikke bare mod hinanden, men også mod alle fordommene og for at skabe et footballhold, der kan skrive sportshistorie.

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

Framed against the backdrop of Arsenal’s historic “Invincible” season of 2003-04, the first and only occasion a team has gone an entire Premier League campaign without defeat, the film sees Wenger reflect candidly on his revolutionary era at Arsenal and the emotional and personal turmoil that surrounded his controversial exit after 22 years.

A boy dreams of winning an ice hockey game. Meanwhile, a professional hockey star moves into the neighborhood, offering his services as a goalkeeper--leading two rival teams of Prague schoolboys, The Little Lions and The Devil Street Boys, to fall over themselves in order to gain his favor. The goalie's son, basking in his father's glory, is asked to replace a member of the Lions team, prompting the usual boyish rivalries and battles. Some of the Lions players are so preoccupied with the impending "big game" that their schoolwork suffers, to the chagrin of their teachers and parents.