sports stories

Dash the Flash grew nearly a foot last year, and now, taller than everyone else, he is out-jumping defenders and sinking big shots, but his teammates are getting frustrated with Dash putting on a one man show. Dash has some work to do to prove he's not all Flash and no substance.

Hank "Thunder" Wilde and Jonas "Lightning" Fine may be total opposites, but the tight ends both want to be team captain and their competition is putting their football team's chance at the state championship at risk.

Tony Jay knows he will win the Silver Falls snowboarding tournament, but when he discovers that his chief competition, Jack Hewitt, cannot even afford to enter, Tony agrees to a one-on-one freestyle contest in the Silver Falls Mountains. But just when the competition begins to get good, an avalanche turns the friendly challenge into a dangerous situation.

Ko and the misfit Portables take on the varsity players, and, if they lose, they will be kicked off the baseball team.

Ko and the Seishu baseball team are up against Ryuou Gakuin and their batter Keitaro Mishima, and there is doubt if Seishu will be able to move to the next round. Then, a soba noodle shop opens up next to Kitamura Sports and the owners have a daughter who strongly resembles Wakaba, Ko's deceased sister.

As Ko enters his second year of high school and Aoba her first, the regionals for Summer Koshien are heating up. In the third round, Seishu faces the favored team, Ryuou Gakuin, which has them wondering if they will advance any further. Meanwhile, Aoba's cousin shows up and shakes things up on a different front.

Since his accident, Billy Cruz has lost some of his confidence and has been holding back when doing his BMX tricks. Now, it is time for the BMX Breakthrough competition again and Billy must overcome his fears and sort out his feelings for the super-competitive Penny Allen if he wants to win.

A copy of a book from the library at Hogwart's, the school where Harry Potter and other young wizards receive their training, providing information about history and conduct of Quidditch, a sport played by competing teams on flying brooms.

After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.

Little Critter tries his hand at a variety of sports, including baseball, basketball, and soccer, while his dog Blue does his best to keep up. Includes activities.