Six months before he was supposed to walk his daughter down the aisle, Chris Womack received the kind of news that stops a man in his tracks: liver cancer, with…
Below the clouds in Afghanistan, an United States Air Force pilot with the call sign Johnny Bravo dove his A-10 Warthog through zero visibility, popped out less than 1,000 feet…
An 11-year-old boy stood on a San Diego dock, $12 short of a half-day fishing trip. So he made the captain a deal: Let me scrub your boat for free, and…
He was a freshman basketball player at Linfield University, a small forward with big dreams — until a new coach arrived who didn’t see the same potential in him that…
.0233 seconds separated first place from second in the tightest finish in the Indy 500’s 115-year history — and Team Penske was on the wrong side of it. For most…
Mike Dorrell grew up in Griffith, Australia — a farming town in New South Wales where kids played rugby league in the winter and cricket in the summer, and where…
He’s never blown a whistle in practice or made a substitution on the field, but Josh Isner, President of the public safety company Axon, is part of Bill Belichick’s coaching…
Long before he was the CEO of Deloitte US, Jason Girzadas was on the pitcher’s mound at his high school baseball game in Chicago. His team was up by one…
At mile 120 of a grueling 207-mile single-day bicycle ride, Mike Perry was sick, exhausted, and had 80 miles left to go. He had two choices: quit or find a…
One stroke. That’s the margin by which Todd Penegor’s high school golf team lost the Upper Peninsula State Championship. On the final hole, the last player on the scorecard hit…
