Emerging NBA star Andre Drummond honored the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting as his Detroit Pistons hosted the Portland Trail Blazers Sunday in Auburn Hills, Mich. Twenty children and six adults died in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, and just over a year after the massacre, the Pistons big man took the […]
On Tuesday, Mark Trumbo was acquired by the Arizona Diamondbacks in a three-team deal that sent Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago to the Los Angeles Angels and Adam Eaton to the Chicago White Sox. But apparently switching teams was just a minor detail for Trumbo, who still showed up at an Angels’ charity event Wednesday […]
Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph did not let a bad game for his team get in the way of him being a good guy. Late in 116-100 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder Wednesday night, Randolph left his team’s bench to have a chat with a young fan. The fan pointed to Randolph’s shirt, so […]
Houston Texans star receiver Andre Johnson seems to really embrace the spirit of the holiday season. Tuesday morning, Johnson treated 12 kids from children’s protective services — as well as some of their siblings — to a holiday shopping spree at his expense. USA Today reports this is the seventh straight year the 32-year-old receiver […]
Sometimes a coach “gets it.” Todd Monken, the head football coach at Southern Miss, is one such person. Though his team went 1-11 this year — only winning their final game of the season to end a 23-game losing streak — the first-year coach wanted to reward his seniors for working hard. So, he sent […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — Jay Feely is a good kicker, having made 22-of-24 field goal attempts this season, while also converting on each of his 27 extra point opportunities. He’s also a good person. Wednesday, it was announced that Feely was the Arizona Cardinals’ Walter Payton Man of the Year, an award that is given to […]
The past two seasons, Will Edwards has made a name for himself as a standout tailback and wide receiver on the Phoenix (Ariz.) Brophy Prep football team. As a junior, he rushed for 433 yards and nine touchdowns. In 2013, he captained the Broncos to a berth in the Division I quarterfinals and amassed 777 […]
When you’re about to celebrate one of life’s biggest milestones, you want everybody to see, right? Even your favorite celebrity or sports hero? Well, according to Fansided, one Reddit user’s sister sent a wedding invitation to Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. The invite asked for the response to be returned by Oct. 23. Perhaps the […]
A band of suited “Badgers” rallied behind their football team’s waterboy after the quarterback heard the six-year-old was getting picked on, Boston’s WCVB-TV reported. Mitchell Elementary School kindergartner Danny Keefe survived a serious brain hemorrhage just after he was born, leading the young boy to struggle with verbal apraxia, a speech disorder that makes it […]
A backup linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs intervened when he heard several hundred turkeys were stolen from a homeless shelter near his hometown. Fox Sports Kansas City reports Chiefs reserve James-Michael Johnson has agreed to donate at least 300 turkeys to replace the ones that were stolen from Mission Solano in Fairfield, Calif. The […]
It’s been a rough season for the football team at North Carolina State. The Wolfpack are 3-7, are winless in ACC play and are riding a six-game losing streak heading into Saturday’s game against East Carolina. But a couple of players have given those on campus a reason to be proud. A picture surfaced on […]
Arizona Cardinals linebacker Sam Acho isn’t making a difference on the football field. Back in September, Acho injured his ankle during a loss to the New Orleans Saints and was placed on season-ending injured reserve. But the third-year player is still making a difference in the world. December 9, Acho, in conjunction with Living Hope […]
After losing both of his eyes due to cancer, one when he was a baby and the other at age 12, Jake Olson still dreamed of playing football and running out to a crowd full of screaming fans. With his heart set on playing the game, Olson learned how to play the one position sight […]
Bill Snyder is not Jace Amaro’s head coach. Snyder runs the Kansas State football program, whereas Amaro is a tight end for Texas Tech. In fact, when they faced off Nov. 9, Amaro tallied 67 yards on nine receptions against Snyder’s team. Kansas State won the game by a score of 49-26, but Amaro left […]
I bet a sentimental moment involving embattled Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria wasn’t something you expected to see today. But that’s exactly what you get in this video of Marlins star rookie pitcher Jose Fernandez being reunited with his grandmother, who he hadn’t seen since defecting from Cuba more than five years ago. The Marlins […]
Keith Orr is a special needs student at Olivet Middle School in Michigan who has grown very important to the members of the Olivet Eagles football team. The team wanted to show how important Orr was to them, so they designed a play — without the coaching staff’s knowledge — to let Keith feel the […]
As the Boston Red Sox celebrated their recent World Series win over the St. Louis Cardinals, the team brought its newly issued Commissioner’s Trophy to the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the site of a terrorist attack earlier this year. It was a touching moment of solidarity Saturday with the city that saw three […]
With his team holding a huge lead over UTEP on Saturday, a small running back for Rice University got a chance to fulfill a dream. Jayson Carter, a 4-foot-9, 135-pound walk-on, got a handoff for his first Division I carry with about six minutes left in the game. He gained one yard off right tackle. […]
Sometimes you find a video that just makes you smile and, perhaps, shed a tear or two. This is one such video. Little Chute is a high school in Wisconsin and their football team’s water boy, Noah Van Vooren, is a senior with Down Syndrome. With the team up 60 in its final home game, […]
It’s never bad to see hard work and perseverance pay off. James Montgomery III, who is a senior at Northwestern University, has been a walk-on with the school’s basketball team the last two seasons. He’s played a total of 124 minutes for the school, scoring just 17 points while grabbing 14 rebounds and dishing out […]
There is no way any single act will be able to make up for the loss suffered by TV sportscaster Dom Tiberi, but what the Ohio State football team did Saturday likely had an unimaginable impact on his life. Tiberi, who has been with WBNS since 1981, lost his 21-year-old daughter in an automobile accident […]
This story is courtesy of Deseret News. The original version can be found on on Deseretnews.com. Roosevelt, Utah — Matt Labrum believes football helps create great men. And it is that belief and his passion for the game that led the Union High School head football coach and his staff to suspend all 80 players […]
One of the best sport moments of the last year came when the Nebraska football team let 7-year-old Jack Hoffman, who’s battling brain cancer, run for a 69-yard touchdown during their Spring Game. According to Stu Whitney, the sports editor of the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, Hoffman’s parents are graduates of South Dakota State. […]
Some things are just too precious not to share. Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguer Marcus Stroman is having a solid season in Double-A, posting an 9-5 record to go along with a 3.30 ERA, but that’s likely not what he’ll take away from this year. The 22-year-old Stroman surprised his mother by paying off the […]
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