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Joey Jordan loves gymnastics: the thrill of performing a backflip on the beam, the cheers of the audience when she sticks a landing. But even with all her talent and style, she's never quite made it to that gold medal stand. Now big changes shake up Joey's life in and out of the gym. Joey wants to break out some daring new beam and floor routines, but she'll have to defy her strict coach to do it.

Running back Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking into the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport. It requires power, grace, speed, quickness, and knowledge of the game. It takes luck, too. One crazy bounce can turn a likely victory into sudden defeat. What elite athlete wouldn't look for an edge? A way to make him bigger, stronger, faster?

Eleven-year-old cousins Liam McCarthy, a catcher, and Carter Jones, a pitcher, grew up playing baseball together and have become closer than brothers. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number-one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face on their road to the championships.

Little League players Liam and Carter are still adjusting to all the recent changes after Liam's family moved across the country to California. Liam is faced with having to prove himself all over again to his new teammates. Carter, on the other hand, is having his best season ever. His pitches are unstoppable and it looks like his team might just sweep the competition. That is, until a new pitcher hits the scene. Rachel joins the all-boy team and proves she's a force to be reckoned with.

When fourteen-year-old Matt Collier, a die-hard New York Yankee fan, gets a chance to time travel to any baseball game in history, he becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series.

When Dean Evers sits down to watch the ball game on TV, he's surprised and unnerved to see a man who should be dead sitting behind home plate.

The title, the terrorist and the punch-drunk pugilist... Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, who has somehow managed to become the champion of Ireland. His devious manager has set up a St Patrick's Day fight in New York against Mike Tyson, and he wants journalist Dan Starkey to write about it. Once in New York, however, McMaster's wife is kidnapped, the Champ is chased all over town by gunmen, and there's the Big Fight to consider too...

While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

A long-forgotten scrapbook stirs Billy Bryan's memories of a distant past and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Billy Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country. Then one fateful night Bryan witnessed a young student radical named Fidel unleash an amazing curveball.

In a school where the football team rules, footballer Kurt and gymnast Danny form an unlikely friendship. When one of the gym team is viciously assaulted by the quarterback and his cronies, Kurt defends him, challenging the stereotypes of high school sports.