Working My Way to the Big Leagues
Kelsie Whitmore on playing baseball: “This has been a real journey. To get to this point. It’s not been smooth sailing, that’s for sure.”
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Kelsie Whitmore on playing baseball: “This has been a real journey. To get to this point. It’s not been smooth sailing, that’s for sure.”
Jessica Andrade is an inspiration to shut down the nay-sayers and the non-believers.
If men’s football can thrill and inspire people, women’s football can, too.
Training to land the triple axel takes both physical and mental toughness. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Mirai Nagasu became the first American wo
Even if how it all came together wasn’t exactly the way I would have liked, I realize now that this is the perfect way for me to finish.
As long as I have world-class basketball left in me, I want to be playing it in the league that inspired me to be a world-class basketball player to begin with.
Getting drafted to play pro soccer was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. But there’s a bit more to the story than just that.
I tell them, “My granny Joanne, she was 5' 10", but with a 6' 2" attitude.”
I wasn't allowed to read my statement in court. This is what I wanted to say.
Fifty-four years ago, I got away with a crime.
I haven’t told many people. I don’t talk about my feelings much — so this is uncomfortable.
I hope this isn't going to be received as another feel-good story about a poor kid who made it out of the hood.