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Willie Cager (Damaine Radcliff) struggles with his desire to play basketball despite having hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that threatens his life. Nevil Shed (Al Shearer) learns gradually how to overcome his own self doubt and play with strength in both life and his post.
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Glory Road on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... ... Factual errors: The movie makes it seem like Willie Cager misses almost the entire second half of the season with his heart condition. In reality Cager played in 27 out of 29 total games for the Miners that season.
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Damain Radcliffe is also good Willie Cager, a player who was temporarily sidelined with a heart condition, and Sam Jones III (Smallville s Pete) is good for some comic relief as diminutive point guard Willie Worsley.
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In reel life: Midway through the season, Willie "Scoops" Cager (Damaine Radcliff) has severe chest pains while shooting around. ... In real life: If this had truly been the diagnosis back then, Scoops was lucky. Often, the first sign of this disease is death. In fact, Cager had earlier been diagnosed with a heart murmur.
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© 2001 Robin & Laura Clifford ... Damaine Radcliff is the heart of the team as Willie "Scoops" Cager, held on the bench by a medical condition until a climatic crunch. Schin A.S. Kerr's Big Daddy D is the tough giant who contrasts with small and scrappy Willie Worsley (Samuel Jones III, TV's "ER").
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(Actually, she sits behind him in one of his classes, volunteering him for every question the teacher asks -- and he gets every answer right.) In another scene, a forward recruited from New York City, Willie "Scoops" Cager (Damaine Radcliff), ... It turns out he has a dangerous heart condition, and Haskins has to take him off...
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At least once before, the school had let back onto the court a player diagnosed with a heart condition. In 1966, Willie Cager was sidelined because of a heart murmur.
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Willie Cager (Damiane Radcliff) is the one almost forced out of the game by a heart condition. The rest are virtually interchangeable, the postscript explaining what happened to them in real life holding zero value because the viewer has never gotten to know them.
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Willie "Scoops" Cager (Damaine Radcliffe), a forward whose heart condition forces him to stay on the bench, and Lattin (Schin A.S. Kerr), the quietly powerful center from Houston.
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