The majority of the sports landscape worldwide has been wiped out. Over here in North America, we are still getting football news, and the UFC is buying private islands to keep their sport going.

But for the most part everything else has been shut down. While that's unfortunate for all of the sports fans in us, we can still keep up to date reading the latest articles and catching the latest headlines, wherever we consume our sports news. However, we realize that outside of the previously mentioned options, sports and the entertainment surrounding it are slim pickings right now. That's why we made a list of the 20 best sports movies of all times, so you can pass the time missing sports, catching up or re-watching some of the best sports flicks that have ever been produced.

Starting off the list could be one of Adam Sandler's best movies if we're not counting his most recent Uncut Gems which was stellar. Happy Gilmore has to be one of the best sports movies that would fall under the golf category. One of Sandler's first feature film's is an all-time fan favourite of a hockey player turned golf pro. With cameo's from Bob Barker, Kevin Nealon, and golf play by play announcer Verne Lundquist, Happy Gilmore should be on any "best sports movie's" list out there.

The first football entry on the list, Denzel Washington, Will Patton, and Wood Harris star in this heartbreaking, motivating, and enthralling film. Washington plays as a new Head Coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia. In times where racial tension was through the roof in this part of the world, Remember The Titans sucks you in from the beginning to the end, and you might need the tissue box.

"Again!!! Again!!!"

If you've seen the movie you'd understand. If not, it's one of the best lines in the movie from Team USA's Head Coach Herb Brooks (played by Kurt Russel). Based on a true story of the "Miracle In Lake Placid" where a massive underdog team USA ended up winning the Gold Medal in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. Fun fact: yours truly also won a Gold Medal on the same ice surface, just of much smaller magnitude.

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"Dodge... Duck... Dip... Dive... and Dodge." The 5 D's of dodgeball. The wise words of Patches O'Houlihan played by both Hank Azaria and Rip Torn at different points of the movie, the title of the movie explains this underdog dodgeball team and their quest to win the World Dodgeball Championships. Vince Vaughan, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor and Justin Long also star in this gut-buster.

Margaret Whitton plays the new Owner of the Cleveland Indians and is purposely trying to lose games. When Ricky Vaughan (Charlie Sheen) Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes) and company find out her plan they start to get on a hot streak in spite of her and to prove her wrong. The first baseball movie on this list but hardly the last.

Based on a true story of Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane redefining how the game of baseball was and now is measured in statistics and advanced statistics. Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane and Jonah Hill plays Peter Brand, who was Beane's right hand man in the developing of the term "sabremetrics" in baseball. Chris Pratt and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman also star in this baseball love affair.

Pick any of the three Mighty Ducks films and I won't argue with you which one is the best. You want the kid version? Pick the original. You want to see the Ducks in their prime? D2 does the trick. You like the Eden Hall Junior Varisty Warriors in the culmination of the trilogy? So do I. Emilio Estevez, Joshua Jackson, and Jussie Smollet are all featured across the three films and they are all pure hockey gold.

It's a hot topic of debate which Rocky movie is the best. I'm going to shy away from my personal opinion but Rocky I and the stair running scene may be one of the most iconic scenes in any sort of film period. Sylvester Stallone, the star and writer of the films, wouldn't sell the film to producers for $325,000 because he wouldn't take the deal if he couldn't star in the film. He eventually took $35,000 to star in his own film.

A cult classic for anyone from the ages of 25-35, if you fit this age range, the Sandlot is probably an all-time favorite for you. Kids playing baseball in the summer months in their free time, smacking home runs over neighbors fences, the legendary PF Flyers. What's not to like about that? We all wish we could do it.

Going back to the hockey world. Hank Azaria returns to the list as Charles Danner and Russel Crowe leads as John Biebe. The hockey team from Mystery, Alaska manages to get the New York Rangers to come to town to play them in an exhibition game outside. Mike Meyers even makes a couple of quick cameos in this one. A must watch for sports fans or those who aren't so sports inclined.

One for the racing fans and a relatively more recent film on the list. Based on a true story, Matt Damon and Christian Bale star as Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles respectively. They are representatives of Ford in the racing world and constantly chasing excellence while trying to top the vaunted Ferrari team. This high speed movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and if you're like me, it might make you want to go get your favourite racing game for XBOX/PS4.

The first of the next and last four baseball films on the list. Kevin Costner makes two of them. My Mom would approve. Field of Dreams brings you back to a different era. Costner as Ray Kinsella, and Iowa Corn Farmer, hears voices in his head throughout the film. "If you build it, they will come." He builds a baseball field in his corn field, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come to play on his field.

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Keanu Reeves finds his way back onto the list as a coach of an inner city youth baseball team. Outside of his job with the kids, Connor O'Neill (Reeves) is a gambling, alchohol, and ticket scalping addict. But the way he is with his kids on the field and in their lives has the viewer battling emotionally between what is right and wrong, and another film on the list of which you may need the tissue box for. This was also one of Michael B. Jordan's first feature films he was in.

Kevin Costner reappears on this list as the notorious Crash Davis, Susan Sarandon stars as Annie Savoy, Tim Robbins most famously known for his role in The Shawshank Redemption, stars as Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh. The trio makes for one hell of a love triangle full of drama and has the viewers belly's shaking. Don't forget to add this one to your list.

Tom Hanks and Geena Davis lead the film as Manager Jimmy Dugan and Catcher Dottie Hinson. Dottie's sister Kit Keller (Lori Petty) and her join a female baseball league while America's men are at War. The two end up splitting up and are pitted against each other in a heated rivalry. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell also star in this film. For all the ladies out there who want to show men that you can swing the bat too, this one is for you.

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A little bit more of the hockey flavour on the list. If you've seen "Goon" from recent years, you would love Slapshot. A failing hockey team is going under and could be shut down. A whole bunch of violence and hockey debauchery follow as the team attempts to stay afloat. The movie that glorified hockey violence is a must for any fan of the game played on ice.

Gene Hackman returns to the list in Hoosiers. The tale of a high school basketball team led by a coach with a questionable track record to become a contender for a state championship. Coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman). Indiana has always been a hotbed for basketball from the high school to college to professional levels and Hoosiers does a great job of exemplifying that culture throughout the film.

Based on a true story, a very young Sean Astin (Rudy) and an equally young Jon Favreau (D-Bob) star in this football classic. Rudy has been told his entire life that he's too small to play college football. But his determination and stick to it attitude puts him line to potentially live out his dream to play college football at Notre Dame.

A heartbreaking film based on a true story of the Marshall football team and thedeadliest tragedy affecting any sports team in U.S. history. After Marshall lost to the East Carolina Pirates they were returning home on Souther Airways Flight 932. 37 players and 8 members of the coaching staff as well as 30 other people died when their plane crashed. Matthew McConaughey stars as Head Coach Jack Lengyel tasked with piecing back together the Marshall football team.

Director and Producer Martin Scorsese has never been a big fan of sports. He's been quoted saying "anything with a ball, no good" or "I always thought boxing was boring." That makes it even more surprising that he teamed up with Robert De Niro to make this all-time great film. Raging Bull was the movie that won De Niro his first and only Best Actor award at the Oscar's. The film itself also won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and was nominated for 6 others, including best picture. Raging Bull is a must watch film for those who love sports and those who don't and it definitely makes our list.

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