Weighing just two-and-a-half pounds at birth, Mitch Pollock, 8, has demonstrated tenacity his entire life. He has shown such determination that the men's lacrosse team at York College in Pennsylvania just had to add him to their roster. Pollack has endured countless medical procedures in his short life, including a kidney transplant. For two years, he was attached to a [...]
Before there's Super Bowl Sunday, there's Snazzy Suit Saturday. A group of Atlanta area pigskin lovers and three-piece suit connoisseurs will gather on February 6 to play tackle football not in helmets and shoulder pads, but in well thought out colorful attire. The charity tournament, called Three Piece Suit Football (TPSF), pits overdressed men and women between the ages of [...]
Photo: Rev. Michael Alello/Facebook By Kim Constantinesco Nerves ride high in the minutes, hours, and even weeks leading up to running a marathon. Have I trained enough? Did I get enough sleep? How will my lower back hold up 22 miles in? Those are just some of the swirling questions that pick up pace as race [...]
Tim Tebow has had many shining nights on the football field, but now the former quarterback has flipped the script, and is giving others a Night to Shine. Photo: Tim Tebow Foundation Last year, the Tim Tebow Foundation sponsored 44 proms in 26 states during Valentine's Day weekend for people with special needs. Those who attended wore tuxedos [...]
Photo: JeremyPoincenot.com By Kim Constantinesco It's routinely said that golf is the hardest sport to master. Anyone who has picked up a club would be hard pressed to find a more challenging way to strike a small ball and hope it soars hundreds of yards toward a hole the size of an orange. Now imagine playing the [...]
It turns out that not all of life's important lessons are learned in Kindergarten. A group of first-graders in Minnesota got a lesson in empathy all thanks a heads up exercise concocted by their teacher in response Blair Walsh's 27-yard missed field goal that would have sent the Vikings on in the playoffs. As Vikings fans were outraged and spewing [...]
The last time the U.S. Men's Weightlifting team won an Olympic medal was in 1984. Their last gold medal? Fifty-six years ago. This summer in Rio, their hopes ride high all because of 15-year-old lifting prodigy C.J. Cummings. At 5'4" and 150 pounds, the sophomore from Beaufort, S.C. looks more like a spectator than a competitor. Don't let his size [...]
Mike Campbell will turn 90 on Friday, and he's still as active as ever. The Canadian and father of 12 laces up his skates three times per week and plays hockey with guys who are more than half his age. "I just love the competition. I love the exercise and I never have to force myself to go," Campbell said. [...]
Charlie Wilson plays for an elite hockey team in Dallas, and has a heart of gold. Wilson met Libby Serber in first grade and when he learned she had a rare form of kidney cancer, he started growing his hair out to make a donation to Locks of Love in her honor. Wilson grew his hair out for two [...]
Photo courtesy of Eric McElvenny By Alison Ryan As children, we inherently know and disregard that while learning to run, we may fall. Yet as we age, many of us begin to fear failure, and as a result, we avoid the challenges which offer the opportunity for growth. Some of the challenges in our lives are not optional, [...]