Surfing legend Kelly Slater does it all including saving the life of a mother and her child this week after they were slammed by a wave in Hawaii. Sarah White was pushing her 22-month son, Van, in a stroller when an unexpected wave knocked them from the footpath they were on, and into the ocean. "The only thing I was [...]
Jack Barney, 13, appropriately got a police escort to his hockey game on Saturday. Though it made the teen smile, it wasn't the most joyous ride to the ice. His father, Doug Barney, of the Unified Police Department in Salt Lake City, Utah was shot and killed in the line of duty six days earlier. Doug left behind his wife [...]
Undefeated high school wrestling champion Deven Schuko suffered his first loss when he took on Andy Howland, but it wasn't just any defeat. Schuko, a senior from Norton High School in Massachusetts, was 27-0 and then he let one of his dreams die all so could fulfill the wish of Howland, a wrestling enthusiast from Dighton-Rehoboth High School with special [...]
As far as fairytale stories go, anything is possible. Dan Boyle, and his daughter, Courtney have raced more than 100 miles together with Dan pushing his daughter in her wheelchair. When the Seven Hills, Ohio father-daughter team heard about Disney's Glass Slipper Challenge, they were all set to catch a plane to Florida. However, upon reading the fine print [...]
Imagine spending 257 days rowing across the Pacific Ocean, only stopping twice (in Hawaii and Samoa) between the United States and Australia to restock supplies. That's what the Coxless Crew did between April and January 25, becoming the first all-female team (and the first four-person team) to row across the Pacific. The British crew traveled the 8,446 miles from the [...]
A young woman named Hillary, 22, may be in her fourth bout with cancer, but she has always been one to keep her feet moving. In 2013, Hillary lapped the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital 286 times becoming the first patient to cover 26.2 miles while receiving in-patient care. Rather than wearing a numbered bid, [...]
Dr. Dan (left) posing with Dr. Umar. Photo: Bairo Pite Clinic/Facebook By Kim Constantinesco When Dr. Dan Murphy was 54 years old and thinking about retiring from his family medicine practice in Iowa, buying a second home in a warmer climate where he could kick his feet around in the sand didn't have any appeal. In fact, [...]
As the 28 non-playoff NFL teams make all kinds of coaching changes, the Buffalo Bills made a history making move on Wednesday when they hired Kathryn Smith as their special teams quality control coach. With the hire, Smith becomes the league's first female full-time coach (the Arizona Cardinals brought in Jen Welter as their inside linebackers coach last summer, but [...]
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was mid-match during the Australian Open when he saw that an injured ballgirl needed assistance. The teen had been inadvertently struck by Omar Jasika's serve, and looked shaken up. That's when Tsonga, a perfect gentleman, grabbed her by the arm, and escorted her off the court. After the match, he told reporters, “It’s just normal. She was really [...]
Photo courtesy of Jeff Goodwin By Patti Putnicki Noah Goodwin came out of the birth canal with more focus and competitive spirit than most of us muster up in a lifetime. He was born with a hormone deficiency, so he was smaller than the other kids. But, what Noah lacked in stature, he made up for in [...]