*Janet *Jones.
Horse Racing:
Seabiscuit
Phar Lap
Let It Ride
The First Saturday In May
Two old classics about relatively uncommon sports:
The Endless Summer - surfing
The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner - marathon running (starring the unique and outstanding Tom Courtenay).
How about skateboarding:
Documentary – Dogtown and Z-Boys (awesome)
Fictionalized drama – Lords of Dogtown (based on same story – not as good but still decent)
Also, same filmmaker (Stacy Peralta) made surfing documentary:
Riding Giants
Gotta add The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. Haven’t seen it since I was a kid but I remember loving it. It had Dr. J and a slamming soundtrack.
As does Summer Rental.
:smack: I knew that, don’t know why I typed Julie.
Vin Scully: And you know Steve you get the feeling that Billy Chapel isn’t pitching against left handers, he isn’t pitching against pinch hitters, he isn’t pitching against the Yankees. He’s pitching against time. He’s pitching against the future, against age, and even when you think about his career, against ending. And tonight I think he might be able to use that aching old arm one more time to push the sun back up in the sky and give us one more day of summer.
-For love of the game
The parts with Kelly Preston were kind of meh, but the parts on the diamond were incredible. And Vin Scully was at his absolute best. I love this movie.
Um, crap- that would be Big WEDNESDAY, wouldn’t it?
:smack:
Big Monday would be the prequel, right … 
Didn’t notice that you had mentioned Riding Giants before me – good flick
How about North Shore … super hokey, but some nice surfing scenes and hit-you-over-the-head moments regarding surf culture.
Where’s the love for the movies about bowling? Kingpin is damn funny. There’s this other one that I like as well.
That is really cool. As soon as I picked up what it was (probably at Billy Chapel) I could hear the rest of it in my head. And I don’t get to listen to Vin Scully, though I have seen the movie twice. Read it to yourself and it sounds like poetry and there is not one flash word in it.
I forgot to mention Personal Best.
That reminds me, there are two good movies about Steve Prefontaine. The better one, IMO, is Without Limits, with Billy Crudup as Pre. The other one, also good, is Prefontaine, with Jared Leto. They both have their strong and weak points.
The Natural
Major League
Slapshot
Miracle
The Sandlot
Oh, I missed the one about curling - Men With Brooms. It has Paul Gross and Lesley Nielsen in it - do you need to know more? 
I was coming in to say this one, so thanks, Equipoise! It really is a beautiful movie, isn’t it?
Unless control-F has let me down, two that haven’t been mentioned are Kid Galahad and Little Giants, which maybe merit inclusion for different reasons. Kid Galahad’s another boxing film, and it’s got Bogart, Bette Davis, and Edward G. Robinson. Little Giants is a pretty solid entry in the Mighty Ducks vein.
Also, I guess I should say that my username here is from Hoosiers. I think there are two kinds of sports movies. Some are just universally great, like Raging Bull, where the violence of boxing is just kind of an appropriate setting for the story, and you don’t need to play or care about the sport to get the point any more than you need to be in the desert or rich or poor or a soldier at war to get other movies. And then some are narrower in scope and really speak to a particular experience such that a lot of the emotional content comes from having played or followed the sport.
Hoosiers is the best example of the second kind for me. It’s cheesy and makes you wince more than a few times, and I wouldn’t really recommend it to anybody very highly just as a great film to watch, but as far as communicating the experience of playing in a small town for a good high school basketball team, and the pitfalls and the relationships that come from that, it’s really incredibly profound. I imagine that the more you’ve cared about any particular team you were a part of during your lifetime, the more a movie like Hoosiers gets at your heart. I had a very similar high school experience considering that it was 50 years later and nowhere near the middle of Indiana, so it’s high on my personal list.
The director of Prefontaine also did a basketball documentary called Hoop Dreams. Although I have not seen it, everyone I know who has seen it, as well the “critics”, consider it an outstanding movie.
Funny at times, but as movies go it was badly written and in need of lots more editing.
It’s probably the best comedy feature film I have ever seen that was about curling. It was also the worst.