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 [...]
James Beard award-winning chef and restaurateur Daniel Humm, 41, is used to working in front of a flame, but glance down at his running shoes as he's cooling off from the kitchen and lapping Central Park, and you just might see sparks. Need proof? How about a 3:12:10 finish at the 2017 New York City Marathon, or a 2:51:14 personal [...]
There were more than 5,400 triathletes who competed in the 2018 USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships last weekend, but you'd be hard pressed to find one as impressive as the 88-year-old "Iron Nun." Otherwise known as Sister Madonna Buder, the Roman Catholic nun of 65 years from Spokane, Washington ran across the finish line while waving to adoring fans [...]
As a World War II and Korean War veteran in the U.S. Air Force, Daniel Bliss fought fear on behalf of others. He's now 95 years old, but he's certainly not done fighting. According to USA Today, Bliss literally dove into action when a boy at the local neighborhood pool was too scared to jump off the diving board. With [...]