Dante Agnes, a teen with Down syndrome, believes in blood, sweat and tears. The 19-year-old from North Dakota put in years of hard work and dedication, and it all finally paid off his senior year, when he made his high school varsity basketball team. Agnes played for May-Port CG's junior varsity team his first few seasons, rarely missing a practice [...]
There's no doubt runners move fast, but that goes beyond the roads, too. Take, for example, the community of runners in Nebraska who organized the Nebraska Strong Run in less than a week, and raised more than $163,000 for flood relief in the state. After a "bomb cyclone" devastated the Midwest and caused more than $1 billion of flood damage [...]
Imagine entering your first game as a college basketball player and draining a three-pointer the first time the ball hits your hands. That's precisely what happened to Rachel Grace, the team manager for East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania who happens to have Down syndrome. Not only did the 22-year-old connect on her first shot on Senior Night, but she drilled [...]
Denver Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay became the first undrafted rookie to ever be elected to the Pro Bowl, but that accomplishment meant something much bigger for a complete stranger. Because Lindsay didn't ink a big time deal with the Broncos out of college, fans set up a GoFundMe page to show their appreciation and send him to the Pro [...]
Twenty months after having his left leg amputated, ultra-runner Dave Mackey did what others deemed impossible: He ran the Leadville 100 -- a grueling trail race at 10,000+ feet above sea level -- in 24 hours, 55 minutes, 15 seconds. Not only that, but by finishing that race, he completed the entire Leadville Race Series, meaning in three months, he [...]
Kalin Bennett is a true trailblazer. In November, he became the first person with autism to sign a national letter of intent to play a team sport at the Division I level. Bennett, a 6’10”, 300-pound big man from Little Rock, Arkansas will play basketball at Kent State University next year, a truly remarkably accomplishment considering he didn't say his [...]
Thousands celebrated the New England Patriots' Super Bowl victory in mid-February, but a handful of players wanted to put the focus on Mindy Butts, a single mother of six whose contributions to the community outshine the Vince Lombardi Trophy. According to Patriots.com, Devin McCourty, Duron Harmon, Kyle Van Noy and Derek Rivers surprised Butts by dipping into their social justice [...]
In 2017, Kayleigh Williamson made history by becoming the first person with Down syndrome to finish the Austin half-marathon. Now she's a seasoned pro. The 28-year-old didn't only run her third straight Austin Marathon. She crushed it. After finishing the 13.1-mile course in 6 hours, 22 minutes and 57 seconds the first year and 4 hours and 36 minutes the [...]
When CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson covered her first Super Bowl from the sidelines - Super Bowl 50 in San Francisco between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers - she knew she was going to have to ask Peyton Manning in some way whether this would be his last game. “I knew I was going to have to ask it; he [...]
Holocaust survivor Nat Shaffir, 81, didn't start running until he was 65, but when he did, he discovered something magical: The sport gives him the endurance to share his life story. Shaffir gives tours of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., and tells visitors about his life, which started in Romania, but suddenly took a major turn. "One of our [...]
