At this point in their lives, it's fair to say Alex and Jamie Schneider tell the world their story with their legs rather than their voices. The 27-year-old identical twins from Great Neck, N.Y. have a form of autism so severe that they're completely non-verbal and require 24-hour-a-day care. However, in running shoes and out on the roads, they're making [...]
Golf, skiing, diving and running. Our top five stories in March certainly covered a wide range of sports. But, it was the athletes and their stories that made them worth reading. Here's a look at our top stories, as measured by pageviews: 5. Meet the combat vet who ran 31 marathons in 31 days on prosthetic legs Rob Jones lost [...]
An accountant led the Chicago Blackhawks to a 6-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets Thursday night. No, really. It's true. Scott Foster, an emergency goalie who crunches numbers by day, dressed for the game and was called upon when backup goalie Collin Delia went down with an injury. So, Foster made his NHL debut at the age of 36. As [...]
If you're still skiing at 100 years old, you're doing something right. Look at George Jedenoff, a celebrity on the slopes thanks to his longevity and never-ending desire for fresh powder. For the past six years, Ski Utah has released a film on Jedenoff. At first, their mission was to encourage older people to stay active and keep skiing. But, [...]
Janis Murray is one of the few people in the world of sports who perfectly captures the big game everyone else tries to put into words. She's not a writer, putting her fingers to the keyboard, though. She's a camera operator, putting her eye to the lens. She's worked some of the biggest sporting events in the last 37 years, [...]
Kiko Matthews made history on March 22 by becoming the fastest woman to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean solo and unsupported. Not only did she crush the previous record by a week, but she did it eight months after having a tumor removed from the base of her brain stem. The 36-year-old former schoolteacher from Herefordshire, England had never rowed [...]
You might be surprised to learn that Amy Purdy, 38, the medal-winning Paralympic snowboarder, motivational speaker and New York Times best-selling author, often forgets that she's missing her legs below the knee. "Looking in the mirror and seeing I have prosthetic legs, it still hits me sometimes," she said. "Going to the gym, sometimes I'll walk around and think, 'why [...]
Tim Tebow is in the headlines this week because it looks like the New York Mets will assign the former Heisman Trophy winner to their Double-A affiliate team, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. With the move, he's another step closer to realizing his MLB dream. However, Tebow, as usual, is also capturing attention for the moves he's making off the field [...]
Rob Jones lost his legs in Afghanistan in 2010 while working as a combat engineer in the Marine Corps. He was clearing out a dangerous area on his second deployment when an IED found him before he could find it. Now a double above-the-knee amputee on prosthetic legs, Jones isn't sitting still. Most recently, he ran 31 marathons in 31 [...]
There's no better way to test-drive a heart than to run a marathon. Anna Borghesani, a 41-year-old scientist and part-time fitness instructor from the United Kingdom ran the 2014 London Marathon just 15 months after open-heart surgery. Immediately upon entering this world, doctors didn't think Borghesani, who was born in Italy, would survive. Because she had pulmonary stenosis, a congenital heart [...]