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 [...]
Ethan Whitney, 16, thought he was filming a promotional video for his internship at his father's robotics company. Little did he know it was actually a crew from ESPN because, in conjunction with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the network was surprising him with a visit from his favorite basketball player, Minnesota Timberwolves guard Jimmy Butler, as part of their annual "My [...]
Drake Grillo may be little, but he has a booming voice and the big-time confidence to go with it. That's part of the reason why the Auburn Doubledays asked the 3-year-old if he would sing the National Anthem prior to their July 11 game against the Lowell Spinners. Drake, who had his mother kneeling beside him to help him remember [...]
Marc Gasol is using his NBA off season wisely. The Memphis Grizzlies' center has been volunteering with Proactiva Open Arms, a non-profit organization that recuses refugees who are lost at sea in their attempt to flee Africa or the Middle East for Europe in order to escape war, persecution and/or poverty. No one really knew Gasol had been volunteering until [...]
There aren't many 10-year-olds who can quickly garner international attention. Then again, there aren't many kids who are skateboarding like Sky Brown, a girl who is already beating grown men in competitions. Sky, who's from Miyazaki, Japan, started skateboarding (much to her parents' dismay) at two years old. “I didn’t want her to get on a skateboard,” her father, Stu [...]
When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, Jake Wood traded in his football pads for combat gear. He was a freshman offensive lineman at the University of Wisconsin, but when tragedy shook the nation, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps., dove head-first into a life of service and never looked back. That's part of the reason why Wood [...]