It's never too late to set a world record. Yes, even if you're a centenarian. They weren't the fastest athletes at the 2018 USA Track and Field Masters Indoor Championships, but Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins, 102, and Orville Rogers, 100, certainly stole the show. Hawkins, who didn't take up running until she was 100, set a pending world record in the [...]
Watch out, LeBron. James Meiergerd, 18, is on your heels. The senior at West Point-Beemer High School in Nebraska gave the crowd a thrill by making a backward half-court trick shot during a timeout in early January. More than two months have passed since the ball sailed through the net, yet the shot lives on. That's because Meiergerd has Down [...]
Loyola University-Chicago may have entered the NCAA tournament as the No. 11 seed, but with 98-year-old chaplain, Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, on their side, consider them the most feared team in the tournament. “I ask God to be especially good to Loyola so that, at the end of the game, the scoreboard indicates a big ‘W’ for us,” she told the New [...]
These days, it's not unheard of for people to raise a substantial sum of money for charity by running across an entire country. However, what Australian ultra-marathon athlete and former politician Pat Farmer did is completely astounding. In 2012, the then 50-year-old ran 13,000 miles from the North Pole to the South Pole in less than a year. That means [...]
High school baseball player Dylan Jones needed his own bat for the upcoming season, so he went down to the storage shed near the batting cages at his school and found something he could use that wasn't hundreds of dollars. However, it was an old worn out bat that was "dead," meaning it had no pop. The Carolina Forest [South [...]
Most people take up low impact sports like swimming or cycling as they age. Not Lena Salmi, a 64-year-old woman from Finland who started skateboarding at 61. Not afraid to take a spill, the Helsinki native began longboarding at the age of 57, according to Hypebae. At first, it was more a matter of logic. She used to cycle to [...]
Andrew Kurka made history in Pyeongchang on Saturday by becoming the first person from Alaska to win a gold medal at the Winter Paralympics. The 26-year-old downhill skier blazed down the course in 1 minute, 24.11 seconds. "I have never won a downhill by 1.6 seconds, that is a huge margin in our sport, usually it's tenths or hundredths," Kurka he [...]
When doctors discovered a malignant tumor in Rusty Moore's brain on Feb. 10, an entire community rallied around the Mullen High School (Nebraska) head basketball coach. Moore, who has led the team for the last eight years and guided them to a state championship in 2017, handed the clipboard over to his younger brother and assistant coach, Justin Moore, while [...]
At the time of this writing, it’s just 68 days until the AT&T Byron Nelson tees off at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, Texas. It’s the first year that this popular PGA TOUR event will be held at the new venue, making the move after a 35-year run at the TPC Four Seasons Resort. But, despite the monumental task [...]
Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey made his fair share of big plays during his rookie season in the NFL, but none of them will be as meaningful as what he did on Saturday. McCaffrey was hiking in Castle Rock, Colo. with his brothers, Dylan and Max, as well as friends, Michael Mann and Brooke Pettet, when the group caught [...]