College football has a new hero, and he's a 4'2" wide receiver. Ricardo Benitez was born without femurs, but the North Texas 18-year-old is now set to walk on to the Baylor football team. After playing for Plano West, Baylor head coach Matt Rhule took notice and offered Benitez a non-scholarship spot on his team. By the way, Nick Saban [...]
Former New York Giants defensive end and current host of ABC's Good Morning America Michael Strahan is a busy man, but his schedule isn't so full that he can't make a difference in the lives of combat veterans. Strahan announced that for every set of 25 push-ups completed, he will donate a piece of his signature gear to Merging Vets [...]
As the Oakland A's best hitter, Khris Davis is used to crushing home runs. But, the one he blasted on Monday night in the A's 9-0 win over the Texas Rangers was a bigger deal than most. That's because the team hosted 12 children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and players met with the kids before the game to help take [...]
Pro soccer player Ashlyn Harris is busy this week spreading a very important message: Keep fighting because "tomorrow needs you." And, because 800,000 people worldwide take their life each year (that's one person every 40 seconds), it's a proclamation worth listening to. The Orlando Pride goalkeeper and longtime mental health advocate started a fundraising page ahead of World Suicide Prevention [...]
Young girls want to be the next Steph Curry just as much as young boys do. So, realizing the power of his platform, Curry and the Golden State Warriors hosted an all-girls basketball camp on Monday and Tuesday at The Ultimate Fieldhouse in Walnut Creek, Calif. As a father of two daughters himself, Curry approached Warriors' camp director Jeff Addiego [...]
If 13-year-old Brayden Gero, a Little League player who has Down Syndrome, looks familiar maybe it's because you saw him posing with former U.S. President Barack Obama during a ceremony to honor the 2014 National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) TOP COPS. Or, maybe it's because you saw him riding on the duck boat with Tom Brady as the New [...]
Ball State head football coach Mike Neu thought why surprise one of his walk-on players with a full-ride scholarship himself when he could bring in FS1 host Jason Whitlock to do it for him. Whitlock, who was an offensive lineman for Ball State from 1985 to 1989 before he became a sports journalist, Facetimed into a team meeting so he [...]
We don't usually see PGA TOUR pro Justin Thomas on television on Wednesday nights, but the ahead of THE NORTHERN TRUST in New Jersey next week, he made a pit-stop in midtown Manhattan to visit Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show stage. Thomas wasn't just there to talk about Tiger Woods, however. He was there to compete. Thomas grabbed an iron [...]
Never mind that Ashley Horner has never done a full Ironman triathlon before. Now, she's tackling 52 of them across the U.S and Haiti in 52 days in what she's calling the #WomanOfIron challenge. The 34-year-old fitness trainer from Virginia is taking on the 7,030-mile challenge to raise money for the Maison Fortuné orphanage in Hinche, Haiti. She first visited [...]
Barnsley FC chief executive Gauthier Ganaye is someone who really cares about the fans of his soccer club, and not just when they're in the stands either. Want proof? Look no further than what he did for Barnsley fan, Chris Ryder. Ryder took to Twitter to express his struggles with "anxiety, stress and depression" on Aug. 8, but said watching [...]