Sakuragi, ein Neuling in der Oberstufe, wurde von 50 Mädchen aus der Unterstufe versetzt. Er tritt dem Basketballteam seiner Schule bei, um dem Mädchen Haruko näherzukommen. Der Teamkapitän Akagi, Harukos Bruder, möchte, dass Sakuragi Grundübungen trainiert. Doch Sakuragi liebt es vielmehr, »Slam Dunks« zu machen. Auch die Gangster Mitsui und Ryouta treten dem Team bei und verlassen dafür ihre Gang. Kann Sakuragi das Herz von Haruko für sich gewinnen und wie sehr wird ihm Akagi dabei das Leben schwer machen?
Der ehemalige Football-Profi Wood Newton läßt sich mit seiner Frau Ava und den drei Kindern Taylor, Molly und Willy in Evening Shade im Staat Arkansas nieder, wo er das erfolglose Football-Team der örtlichen Highschool trainiert.
After getting ousted from his job in the NCAA for throwing a chair at a referee, a hothead men’s basketball coach Marvyn Korn must take a job at Westbrook School for Girls, a private all-girls high school, in an effort to redeem what's left of his career and reputation.
At a difficult place in his marriage and career, a middle-aged man gets a shot at a do-over when he's transformed back into his 18-year-old body.
Insurance salesman Ed Clemons has just taken on the task of coaching the slumping high school football team of the small, but football-crazy town of Sumpter, Texas. He is given just one season to turn the fumbling teens around, and he throws himself into the job wholeheartedly. Though his methods ruffle the feathers of the quiet little town, he manages to make some real progress with the players. The show was inspired by Buzz Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream.
The Waverly Wonders is a short-lived TV sitcom, starring retired pro football star Joe Namath, that lasted less than a month on NBC in 1978.
Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover their dream of going to the Koshien high school baseball tournament. However, the road to Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.
My MVP Valentine is a 2002 Taiwanese drama based loosely on 2 Japanese manga series: Slam Dunk and MVP wa Yuzurenai!. Starring Chinese Taipei basketball star Johnny Yen, it enjoyed huge success throughout Greater China and Southeast Asia. As a result, it is noted for skyrocketing Angela Chang, Chen Chiao-En and 5566 to fame.
Follow the lives of the Chinle High basketball team in Arizona's Navajo Nation on a quest to win a state championship and bring pride to their isolated community.
A story about a student who starts a judo club for the wrong reasons and has to keep it going when it blows up.