When you think of Afghanistan, skiing certainly isn't the first thing that comes to mind. However, Sajjad Husaini and Alishah Farhang are working to change the perception that their country is exclusively war torn by representing Afghanistan at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang Country, South Korea. It will be the first time the country makes an appearance at the [...]
Without a doubt, Danny Lilya has a big fan in the Minnesota Vikings. What other teenager can say that about an NFL team? Lilya, who was born with a broken back due to a spinal birth defect, is paralyzed from the waist down, yet he's a four-sport athlete and one of the most reliable football specialists at the high school [...]
All Cindy Morais did was root for her team in the upper deck of Gillette Stadium. She didn't deserve for her wheelchair to go missing. But, that's what happened during the divisional round of the 2018 playoffs as the New England Patriots beat the Tennessee Titans. Enter Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Morais was born with cerebral palsy and uses a [...]
His name is etched right into the city in which he lives. Phil, from Philadelphia. He's lived there almost 100 years. Meet Phil Basser, the 99-year-old Philadelphia Eagles superfan who has seen his team win three national titles, but never a Super Bowl (remember, the championship game was renamed the Super Bowl in 1970 and the Eagles' titles came before [...]
On the way to realizing her football dreams, Antoinette "Toni" Harris is making history in the process. The free safety from Detroit was just offered a football scholarship from Bethany College, an NAIA school in Kansas, which makes her the first female non-kicker to receive such an offer. Harris has been playing for East Los Angeles College, a community college [...]
More than four months after Category 4 storm Hurricane Maria leveled Puerto Rico, roughly 40 percent of the island is still without power, and many more are struggling just to have their basic needs met. Knowing how much help those in the area still need, Puerto Rican-born Dallas Mavericks guard JJ Barea, and ofo, the world's largest station-free bicycle-sharing program, have [...]
Cincinnati Bengals fans may not have a team in it right now, but they're certainly making their presence known during the NFL playoffs. That's because they have decided to make donations to the Blake Bortles Foundation. A kind gesture, indeed, but why? After all, Bortles is the quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars. It turns out they're donating to the worthy [...]
The year that Kazuyoshi Miura started his professional soccer career, Larry Bird was the MVP of the NBA Finals, Jack Nicklaus became the oldest Masters winner at age 46 and LeBron James was only 2 years old. Now just shy of his 51st birthday, Miura, a forward for Yokohama FC in Japan, has signed a contract extension, which will allow him [...]
Good sportsmanship is timeless. That's why it's worth looking back at the gesture high school wrestler Matt Strunk offered up to an opponent. Strunk, who was a senior at Chambersburg Area Senior High School in Pennsylvania in 2016, was set to face off against Lucas Ortiz, a 152-pound wrestler and senior from Conestoga Valley. The only problem was Ortiz couldn't [...]
If there's a life worth studying, it's Lou Batori's. At 107 years old, he's still ripping turns down the mountain as a skier. His status of "ski legend" is marked by a "100+ Ski Club" patch on his jacket and his own parking spot at Crystal Mountain in Michigan. He no longer races, but he became the world's oldest NASTAR [...]