Body image. Maybe those words make you squirm. Maybe they embody power. Whatever the case, our bodies allow us to experience the world first-hand. That's why in conjunction with the Women's Sports Foundation and Collegiate Women's Sports Award, the CBS Sports Network's show "We Need to Talk" is putting the microscope on female athletes and how they perceive their bodies. [...]
October proved that age is irrelevant when it comes to taking on athletic feats at a high level. Look no further than Tom Hairabedian, who is competitive diving at 93 years old, and Max Downham, who completed his first marathon at the age of 81. Here's a look at those guys and others who made Purpose2Play's top stories from last [...]
Before Alex Wood took the mound for the L.A. Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series, a 7-year-old girl named Hailey Dawson stared down catcher Jose Altuve with a baseball in her hand. But it wasn't just any hand. It was 3-D printed limb. Hailey hit the headlines in September when she declared she wanted to throw out the [...]
Before the Houston Astros beat the L.A. Dodgers 7-6 in 11 innings to bring the 2017 World Series to a thrilling 1-1 tie, a special ceremony took place honoring six Vietnam veterans, who all happen to be California natives. Among the six was former L.A. Dodger pinch-runner, 1.000 batter and 1963 World Series winner, Roy Gleason. Gleason played eight games [...]
What if we all realized that we share common ground under the American flag? That's the message The Adaptive Training Foundation (ATF) and Klutch: A Creative Company are highlighting in their powerful newly released video called #DearFlag. ATF is a 501(c)3 Dallas-based gym for people who have suffered life-altering injuries or illnesses. They don't go there to rehab. They go there [...]
Lifelong L.A. Dodgers fan Teresa Sanchez was down and out on Opening Day. That's because she was sick and in the hospital, so her family had to sell their game day tickets. However, the end of the season is proving to be a much happier time for Sanchez, not only because her team is up 1-0 in the World Series, [...]
Tim Ervin had played the national anthem on his trumpet countless times. However, Monday night was the first time he played it with someone else's lungs in front of 20,000 people. The 59-year-old church music leader from Mt. Pleasant, Texas received a double-lung transplant in 2014 after his own lungs began to fail him in 2009 due to pulmonary fibrosis. [...]
Running 100 miles sounds like pure hell for most people. Not for Brian Boyle. That's because traveling that far on foot means his heart is pumping and his lungs are working -- functions we so easily take for granted. If you remember back to when we first covered the 31-year-old from Washington D.C., he told us about his life-altering car [...]
In the north end zone at Sun Devil Stadium, the words ring out at the foot of the new Pat Tillman statue. “Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of who we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.” The quote comes from the late Army Ranger and [...]
It's been a big week for high school senior Claire Jeffress. First, she was named homecoming queen, then she nailed a 30-yard game-winning field goal for Dawson High School in Pearland, Texas. The game was tied 35-35 with 1:08 remaining when Jeffress drilled the big kick to lift her team to a 4-2 record on the season. Not only that, [...]