Editor's Note: Nine Days in Cape Cod is a two-part series detailing the Brewster Whitecaps’ 2017 championship season in which manager Jamie Shevchik assembled a ragtag bunch of overlooked and underrated college baseball players to face the Cape Cod League’s most elite MLB prospects. Part II of the series will be published on on Aug. 8. Part 1: “We were [...]
Phil Jackson is a big believer that a little salt in the air and sand in the hair can do a body good. That's why in 2014, the 38-year-old from Garden City, South Carolina founded the Surf Dreams Foundation, an organization that "provides children with the proper knowledge, lessons, equipment and ocean safety to enjoy surfing." Surf Dreams goes beyond [...]
It's common courtesy to make room for a mother who's pushing three kids in a stroller. But, Cynthia Arnold is a mother who leaves you with no other choice. That's because she's a force of nature. The 34-year-old from Polson, Montana broke the world-record for the fastest half-marathon run with a three-child stroller. She ran the 13.1-mile course at the [...]
There are the kind of friends who take you to a baseball game, and then there are the kind of friends who surprise you with the opportunity to throw the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park. The latter was true for Dave Turcotte, a 52-year-old Boston Red Sox fan from Lewiston, Maine who has multiple sclerosis. His good friend, Dan [...]
Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber put on an absolute show at the 2018 Home Run Derby by blasting 55 home runs to take second-place in the annual contest. But, even bigger than that was the "home run" he hit by surprising fans at the Adult Down Syndrome Center in Park Ridge, Ill. on Tuesday. Schwarber dished high-fives, posed for pictures [...]
And the winner of the Tour de France is.......Peter Thompson! Okay, not quite, but the British man did cross the finish line first after covering 2,082 miles through the Alps and Pyrenees mountain ranges. However, he didn't do it on two thin wheels. He did it on foot. Thompson began his 68-day run, that included 45,000 meters of climbing, on [...]
For Andrzej Bargiel, there wasn't anything lazy about his Sunday on July 22, 2018. The 30-year-old Polish mountaineer became the first person to reach the summit of K2 and ski all the way down to its first base camp. He attempted the feat a year ago, but had to abandon his expedition due to safety concerns. "I’m very happy that [...]
There's going back to school, and then there's running back to it. Bego Lopez has chosen the latter approach. The 50-year-old from DeLand, Florida won't only be taking classes at Daytona State College, but she'll be running cross-country for the school as well, according to the West Volusia Beacon. By lacing up her shoes, Lopez will become one of the [...]
Most of the time, when a baseball player makes his major league debut, it's not a leading headline. Then again, most Triple-A ballplayers don't endure brain surgery 14 months prior to their big-time moment like Daniel Poncedeleon did. The 26-year-old pitcher was struck in the right temple by a line drive in May of 2017, and needed immediate life-saving surgery [...]
New York Yankees public address announcer Paul Olden has witnessed all kinds of baseball streaks. But, did you know he's in the middle of one all his own? According to Runner's World, the 64-year-old has been running at least one mile a day for more than 600 consecutive days. And, it's a streak he won't be breaking as long as [...]