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Top athlete performances in movies

WASHINGTON — We all remember the greatest fictional athletes, from Roy Hobbs to Happy Gilmore. But more and more professional athletes are appearing as themselves in films recently, like LeBron James, who stars in the new movie “Trainwreck.”

So which actual athletes have delivered the best performances on the big screen? We omitted professional wrestlers (The Rock, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant) to pare this list down a bit, but included 10 favorites from around the American pro sports landscape. Flip through the slides to take a look at our list and let us know if we missed any.

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