Just after midnight on a weekday last March, Lynnette Wukie got a text from her friend. “It’s 1 a.m. You have 16 hours left. You better be working on your application.” By 5 p.m. March 24, Wukie had written an essay and created her video - the two application requirements for the job. Less than a month later - and [...]
When CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson covered her first Super Bowl from the sidelines - Super Bowl 50 in San Francisco between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers - she knew she was going to have to ask Peyton Manning in some way whether this would be his last game. “I knew I was going to have to ask it; he [...]
It would be fair to say running saved Noah Moore’s life. But if you’re going to say that, then you would really have to say it was his son Peyton who did the saving. “When Peyton was born, I was 270 pounds. When he was 2, I was chasing him around and I couldn’t keep up with him,” Moore says. [...]
Jared Blank probably missed being at Levi’s Stadium Dec. 1 to watch his beloved University of Southern California Trojans win the PAC-12 Championship in a revenge victory over the Stanford Cardinals - but he had other things to do that day. He had to go for a run. But not just any run. A training run for a marathon. And [...]
Stick to sports. Keep politics out of football. Just shut up and play. That’s been the message fans subtly - and sometimes not-so-subtly - like to tell their favorite athletes. After all, fans want to be entertained and sports is a primary outlet away from the drudgery of the work week. It’s also often the one place people of different [...]
Kai Owens is legally blind. Whatevs. Already this summer, the 15-year-old has posted more than 100 Instagrams highlighting his exploits skimboarding “the liners” on Tybee Island, Ga., giving front shuv-it tutorials, doing “sick tricks” on his skateboard, or just mastering the highest flips on his trampoline he possibly can. Oh yeah, and surfing. But more on that one later. Clearly, [...]
If you’ve ever been in the ocean, you inherently know the unbridled power of a wave. It’s both indiscriminate and authoritarian. It’s a wild beast begging to play, practically goading you to tame it. But you don’t because you’ve been punished before for such foolishness. Unless you’re Bianca Valenti. And then it’s just another daily commute, a method of deliverance [...]
Long before Pro Bowl wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders was catching passes from Pro Bowl quarterbacks in the NFL, he was lighting it up on the basketball court with his local Boys and Girls Club in tiny Bellville, Texas. "I remember summer. Summertime, it was like, everyone was out of school, but everybody was still in the community and still at [...]
Photo courtesy of Casey Cochran By Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann Saturdays for Casey Cochran used to be a lot different. The former UConn quarterback would spend a sleepless night in a hotel with his teammates, going over every scenario in his head – from where to look for his receivers to deciphering the protection and alerting his line to [...]
PHOENIX, AZ - MARCH 18: NFL player Larry Fitzgerald attends Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XXIII at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort By Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann A lot of professional athletes have millions of dollars they put toward charities they believe in. But their biggest contributions come when they get involved to the point of interacting regularly with [...]
