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, [...]

With all the negatives that so frequently grab the headlines in sports (most recently, A-Roid), it’s always great when one stumbles across something inspirational.  If you haven’t read this piece on Yahoo! Sports about UT Martin senior guard Lester Hudson, do so.  Beyond the excitement of competition and the thrill of victory, this is the [...]

Jason King of Yahoo! Sports wrote a wonderful piece on University of Connecticut 7′3″ center Hasheem Thabeet today.
The article hit home for me in several ways. I spent two years as a young boy in Tanzania, Thabeet’s home country. An experience such as that which I had not only stays with you for the rest [...]