Religion of Sports

- Season 1

(2016)

Every Sunday, thousands of fans pour into the speedways of NASCAR, including a US Marine with a unique perspective on man and machine, and a 14-year-old female driver who spends her weekends on dirt tracks.

Devout rodeo disciples convene to compete at the prestigious Calgary Stampede, where believers in the Old West struggle to survive in a fast-changing world.

MMA fighter Cat Zingano prepares for a comeback fight at UFC 200. The intimate and powerful story behind Cat's 15 month layoff following her first professional loss and an extraordinary personal tragedy.

There is a a spiritual dimension to baseball in Brooklyn - embodied by a minor league prospect, a Pakistani-American family, an NYPD detective, a TV analyst and the president emeritus of NYU..

With parallels to the origin of major religion, a new generation of eSports gamers train tirelessly, compete in arenas and earn sponsors, while a female team fights for recognition among male competitors.

Celtic and Rangers FC are two of football's oldest teams. Separated by only 6 miles in Glasgow, they have a rivalry unparalleled in the sporting world, with religious, societal, and historic tensions.