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Here’s some real advice for guys who are dreaming of making it in this business: football isn’t everything.

Most people don’t call me Chris. They call me 7-Eleven. And no, it’s not because I only drink Slurpees or eat three-day-old taquitos.

I don’t want anybody to feel sorry for me or think that I’m playing with a handicap. When I’m out there on the ice, I’ll be 100 percent.

E pra ser sincero, aos cinco anos de idade, eu já via a minha vida em torno do futebol. Eu não sei como posso explicar isso, mas eu simplesmente me conectei com

And honestly, by the time I was five years old, I already saw my life around football. I don’t know how to explain it, but I just connected with the sport right

People ask me how I could ever get in the ring again after the damage I took that night. How I could subject myself to another beating. How I could put my body

Apparently the headline was: Josh Smith went to the Clippers press conference and said he didn’t make enough money? Even the idea of it is kind of ridiculous. L

I’ve put a great deal of thought into it, and I have decided that I am going to officially join the LPGA Tour at the start of the 2016 season.

Everyone eventually finds their own path. Mine has taken me to places that I never thought possible. And now, 15 years later, it’s...

When you’re your authentic self every single day, without shame — life sort of falls into place.

I had always been aware my aorta was a little bit bigger than usual. I was 6’5” by the time I was 13 years old. For a long time, everything was fine. But then i

People have told me all sorts of things about the last play of Super Bowl XLVIII. I wouldn’t know. Whenever it comes on, I turn away.

Would I give it all back — the Hall, the All-Star appearances, the Gold Gloves, the Silver Sluggers — to have won that World Series ring? Heck yeah.

Lance Stephenson expresses his excitement and hopes for the future as the newest member of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Jerry Maguire represents one of the wildest misconceptions in the sports world: that athletes need agents.

My name has helped me because people knew my name from the very beginning. But I’m the one who gets up in the ring.

There will be inevitable lows. Don't let those become what you're known for.

I don’t consider myself a good hockey player. I don’t even consider myself a good fighter. But if I want to keep playing hockey, that’s what I’ve got to do.