Davis Phinney (Parkinson’s disease) and John Challis (cancer) are two athletes exhibiting remarkable courage as they battle their respective diseases.
Sports Bright From a Dim Bulb
DIS usually leaves the brighter, inspiring, uplifting, heartfelt, stories to our erstwhile editor-in-chief, Nate Barlow, and his “Sports Bright” posts.
Your humble columnist prefers to ply his craft in the [...]

When undrafted rookie free agent Bill Noethlich signed a contract with Minnesota Vikings, he overcame a string of personal tragedies that would devastate anybody.
Hard Work and Football Paying Off
I really enjoy posting my Sports Bright articles. With so much negative news in the world of sports (Tiger Woods, Ben Roethlisberger)–not to mention in the [...]

Homeless South L.A. student athlete Tyki Nelworth receives a scholarship to West Point.
A True Role Model
I saw this story on the news a couple days ago and thought it was the most touching piece I had seen in quite some time. It’s not a sports story, persay, but since the young man in question, [...]

Sports Bright story about Patriot defensive lineman Ty Warren finishing his degree.
NFL Player Goes Back to School
Defensive lineman Ty Warren is foregoing the first round of the New England Patriots’ voluntary offseason workouts to complete his degree at Texas A&M, according to this Yahoo! Sports story. In doing so, he’s also passing up $250,000 [...]

Sports Bright story about the US-Haiti qualifying match for the CONCACAF U-17 Women’s Championships.
US and Haiti Leave It All on the Field
Read this great story a couple days ago on Yahoo! Sports about sportsmanship in the first qualifying match for the CONCACAF U-17 Women’s Championships in Costa Rica between the United States and Haiti:
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/U-S-U-17-women-beat-Haiti-9-0-then-offer-hugs?urn=sow,227662

Considering that we recently had a discussion on Deep Into Sports about how ridiculous it is to refer to athletes and/or coaches as geniuses or heroes, this story about a Mississippi high school football player, Kaleb Eulls, who really is a hero caught my eye:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/03/mississippi.bus.hero/index.html
In case you’re not familiar, Eulls saved twenty-two children (age 5 [...]

Regardless of what happens in Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, whether it be a great game or a debacle, the naming of knuckleballer Tim Wakefield to his first All-Star team is a great story and an honor well-deserved by a classy player.
At forty-two, Wakefield is the second oldest first-time All-Star, behind only the legendary [...]

Several months ago I commented upon a Yahoo! Sports article on Hasheem Thabeet and his importance to his native Tanzania, an article which really hit home for me having lived in that country two years myself.
It may not have quite the personal connotations for me, but Yahoo! has done it again with Todd Pitman’s piece [...]

I still recall when Jim Abbott threw his no-hitter. Not that it should have been any more impressive than the mere face that Abbott, with only one hand, was pitching in the major leagues at all, but somehow it was. The no-no was the crowning achievement of an already remarkable triumph over adversity.
I [...]

In my ongoing quest to find worthy and inspirational stories in the sporting world amongst all the contract squabbles, drug scandals and criminal corruption, here’s an article I found on Yahoo! Sports in the aftermath of Team USA’s thrilling ninth-inning come from behind victory last night in the World Baseball Classic.  Which, if you missed, [...]