We all have aspirations; some big, some small. For a young boy who was blind, that aspiration was to play football. According to CBS News, Jasen Bracy completely lost his sight to retinal cancer by the time he was only 7 years old. He liked sports, but had an affinity for football and wanted to […]
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All of us have dreams; especially kids. For Gwen McLoughlin, a lifelong Yankees fan, that dream was to be the team’s batgirl. That dream finally came true. According to Today, when she was 10, Gwen wrote a letter to the Yankees Team asking to be a batgirl and she was turned down saying she would
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For some of us, accomplishing just one world would be amazing, but not for this 14-year-old. According to BuzzFeed, Zaila Avant-Garde currently has 3 Guinness World Records for dribbling multiple basketballs at once while riding a unicycle. And now she can add another achievement to her list: first African-American to win the Scripps National Spelling
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There may not be many roller rinks left, but that hasn’t kept people from getting their roll on in New York. According to the New York Times, with people searching out things to entertain themselves, the trend of roller skating wherever there’s a space to do it thrived last year. Warehouses, playgrounds and basketball courts
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Hand in hand, Vanessa Bryant, wife of the late Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan walk down the aisle to accept Kobe’s induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with the familiar chant “Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!” surrounding them. Vanessa states: “I used to always avoid praising my husband in public because I felt like
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