
September 15, 1945 · 80 years old
Ron Shelton (September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California) is a U.S. film director and screenwriter, most notable for making movies about sports. Shelton is an alumnus of Santa Barbara High School and of the University of Arizona and Westmont College. He is the oldest of four brothers, and grew up in…

Miami narcotics cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett investigate the flow of Ecstasy into Florida from a Cuban drug cartel.

Two basketball hustlers, black Sidney Deane and white Billy Hoyle, join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts as well as in a tournament.

A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.

A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.

Two best friends and former middleweight contenders travel to Las Vegas to fight each other for the first time.

The boxing champ's promoter thinks change is needed. He finds the one man who's beaten his champ, a white man now in a rock band. Like Rocky, he trains heavily whereas the champ slacks.

An ex-F.B.I. Agent (Tommy Lee Jones) and an ex-mob lawyer in the Witness Protection Program (Morgan Freeman) have to put aside their petty rivalry on the golf course to fend off a mob hit.

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.