Football
413 days passed between his final college game and his first pro football game. But eight weeks later, the league folded.
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Baseball
Meet the ultimate baseball underdog: a quiet kid with wire-framed glasses who never let any setback throw him off course, and willed himself to...
Baseball
"Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse."
Baseball
“I flunked out, my girlfriend broke up with me, I ran away from home, I started hitchhiking..."
Basketball
He was discovered while playing soccer at his family’s chicken stand, wearing flip flops that were clearly too small for him.
Baseball
"How do you explain .178 before I go into the service, don’t play for two years, survive Vietnam, come back here, [and in] a...
Basketball
"Every other player on the floor was on scholarship except me. No problem, I told myself. I would wait for my turn."
Stories
“My mom raised me with my head in the clouds, so I believed I could do anything I set my mind to.”
Baseball
"My physique, obviously, I wanted to be taller. I wanted to have better tools. But this is what God gave me. I never was...
Basketball
"Whenever I walk into a place with all my teammates that are 6’5”, 6’6”, I look like the ball boy. But my goal is,...
Stories
How a self-taught rebel who broke all the rules became a pro golf legend. "I hit the ball as hard as I can. If...
Football
Meet the undrafted "freak of nature" who wasn’t invited to the NFL Combine and didn't play receiver until college.
Football
When NFL stars walked out in 1987, a ragtag group of misfits walked in – and shocked the world.