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Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An...

Ron Lyle A look back at Ron Lyle, a convicted murderer who upon his release from prison, was able to rebuild his life and become one of the top...

For two decades, Monday Night Football has brought color, candor, controversy and non-stop action to 20 million homes every week. Monday Night...

A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair. The special was a pilot for a weekly series.

ABC's Wide World of Sports host Jim McKay sets out to travel to the various locations.

ABC's Wide World of Sports hosts Jim McKay and Howard Cossell take a look back on the decade in this wrap-up of the top sports stories of the 1970s.

In the national limelight Bobby Riggs taunted all female tennis players, prompting Billie Jean King to accept a lucrative financial offer to play...

Down-on-his-luck baseball player Casey Frank (Elliott Gould) follows his dreams to become the biggest star in the game.

In October of 1980 Muhammad Ali was preparing to fight for an unprecedented fourth heavyweight title against his friend and former sparring partner...

Chuck Wepner is a liquor salesman from Bayonne, N.J., who drives a Cadillac with “Champ” vanity plates. A former New Jersey State...

Charged with the electricity of a heavyweight prizefight, " The Main Event " was filmed live at Madison Square Garden, a venue usually reserved for...

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

Larry Holmes defends his WBC heavyweight crown for the 13th time from challenger Randall 'Tex' Cobb on November 26th, 1982 at Houston's Astrodome....

Larry Holmes defends his WBC heavyweight crown for the 10th time from challenger Leon Spinks on June 12th, 1981 at Joe Louis Arena, Detroit,...

Larry Holmes defends his WBC heavyweight crown for the 11th time from challenger Renaldo Snipes on November 6th, 1981 at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh,...

Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the...

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest...

Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.

The famed baseball player and manager gets the gagged filled joke treatment.

An independently produced sports documentary on the career of O.J. Simpson, (#32) the upcoming running back for the Buffalo Bills football team.

An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.

Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the...

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one...

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter...

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

Legendary "bad boy of tennis" John McEnroe finally tells his side of his storied career and famously hot-tempered performances on the court in this...