Tag Archives: inspirational
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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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Junior High Kid with Down Syndrome Sinks Two 3-Pointers, Makes SportsCenter Top Ten (Video)
The power of social media is pretty impressive. In Rochester, Michigan, an 8th grader made a couple of three-pointers in a basketball game. Then his classmates started a Twitter campaign to get him on SportsCenter, and the next thing you know, there he is on SportsCenter. That kid’s name is Owner Groesser. He is an [...]
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Feel-Good Story: 13-Year-Old Wrestler Lets Opponent with Cerebral Palsy Win (Video)
When I grow up I want to be like 13-year-old wrestler Justin Kievit of Nolensville, Tennessee. Why? Well, to answer that I have to tell you about another 13-year-old boy from Tennessee named Jared Stevens. You see, Jared has cerebral palsy, a condition which confines him to a wheel chair. Like most boys his age, [...]
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Chuck Pagano Gives Moving Speech to Colts Following Their Victory on Sunday (Video)
Can you beat cancer through sheer determination alone? Probably not. But being determined certainly helps. And judging by what Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano had to say following his team’s big victory on Sunday, he’s certainly doing his part to kick cancer’s butt. As you may know, Pagano, in just his first year as [...]
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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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The 13 Greatest Paralympians of All Time
If you thought the regular Olympics provided a lot of inspirational stories, wait until the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games get underway tomorrow. The things most of these amazing athletes have had to deal with make the trials and tribulations of regular athletes seem like that time you went to the mall and had to park [...]
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Double Amputee Oscar Pistorius Made History Yesterday By Running In The Men’s 400m Semifinal In London (Video)
Olympic athletes are inspiring enough as it is, what with all the hard work and dedication it took for every last one of them just to make it to the Games. However, even among Olympians, Oscar Pistorius is in a class all by himself. You see, this 25-year-old South African athlete was born with what [...]
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High School Runner Stops to Help Fallen Competitor at State Track Finals (Video)
Maybe it’s time we stop holding pro athletes up as role models and start looking to high school athletes for inspiration. Well, maybe not high school lacrosse players, with their all-out WWE-style brawls. But perhaps high school track athletes will work. Or at least this girl from Ohio’s West Liberty-Salem High School named Meghan Vogel. [...]
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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, [...]
