Tag Archives: Feel-Good Story
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Jack Hoffman Rookie Card Sold for $6,100 for Charity, But the Winning Bidder Won’t Pay Up
Remember the story of Jack Hoffman, the brave little seven-year-old battling brain cancer who got to play in the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ spring game and score a touchdown? Yeah, that was a pretty awesome story, and for a while it was getting even better. You see, Upper Deck produced a small batch of special edition rookie [...]
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Matt Kemp Gives His Gear to a Dodgers Fan “Fighting a Tough Battle” (Video)
There are certain individuals that you’d always like to have on your side, both in sports, and in life. Matt Kemp is one of them. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ outfielder showed why he is a great guy to have on your team in sports when he stood up for teammate Zack Greinke during a bench-clearing [...]
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Portland Timbers and Make-A-Wish Foundation Team Up to Give 8-Year-Old Cancer Patient and His Soccer Team the Thrill of a Lifetime (Videos)
By the end of this post, the Portland Timbers are going to be your new favorite Major League Soccer team. But let me start at the beginning. Last year, a soccer-loving Portland kid named Atticus Lane-Dupree discovered he had a cancerous tumor on his kidney. Doctors removed the kidney and the cancer, but afterward he [...]
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Feel-Good Story: Reds’ Todd Frazier Hits a Home Run For Bat Boy With Down Syndrome (Video)
With all of the talks about bombings, shootouts and manhunts dominating the day’s news, I bet many of you sure could use a heart-warming, feel-good story right about now. Well here it is. It comes to us courtesy of the Cincinnati Reds and one of their biggest fans, Ted Kremer. You see, Teddy, 29, has Down [...]
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Jack Hoffman, 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient, Scores 69-Yard Touchdown at Nebraska Cornhuskers Spring Game (Video)
For the last couple of days, it seems like we’ve brought you almost nothing but stories about parents brawling, fans streaking, dudes punching women, or drunk idiots puking all over the place. So if you’re a regular reader, you might be kind of disgusted with humanity by now. Well, we’re sorry about that. So to [...]
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Inspirational Video: Youth Hockey Player Helps Teammate with Special Needs Score a Goal (Video)
If you’re in need of a feel-good story to boost your spirits, this one is for you. Every year, hockey teams from all over Canada, the Eastern United States, and even the U.K. converge in Kitchener, Ontario, for the Special Hockey International. This isn’t a competitive tournament, as you probably guessed by the name. It’s [...]
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Great Story: High School Football Team Picks Up Teammate Mourning The Loss Of His Father (Video)
You’re going to want to get a couple of tissues and keep them handy while you read this story. It’s good enough to bring a tear to the eye of even the most cynical sports fan. What’s it about? Oh, just a high school football team doing whatever it takes to raise the spirits of [...]
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9 Inspirational Sports Stories
The last couple of weeks, it seems like the sports page has been dominated by one depressing story after another. First, football legend Joe Paterno became embroiled in a tragic child abuse scandal. Then we heard that one of the greatest boxers of all time, Joe Frazier, passed away. And now, just this past Thursday, [...]
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Special Needs Student Has Special Night For HS Basketball Team
I think we are all getting sick of hearing stories about heads being cracked open. It’s about time we had a feel-good story around here, and not the kind of feel-good story where some slightly underdog team full of millionaire professional athletes wins a big game. This is a real deal one. David “Chubbs” Stillman [...]
