College football star Mark Herzlich was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in his left leg in 2009. But, the 2008 ACC Defensive Player of the Year beat the disease, and now, that the Giants have officially hired him to join the team, he is the feel-good story of the summer.
Lance Armstrong became the second U.S. cyclist ever to win the Tour de France and wear the coveted yellow jersey to victory on the Champs Elysees.Armstrong, an accomplished cyclist, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996, and the disease spread to his brain and lungs.
Three years ago, a Chinese farmer packed his worldly possessions into a rusty rickshaw, and, after pedaling 37,500 miles (60,000 km) through 16 countries and more than 1,700 cities, arrived in London. Chen Guanming, a 58-year-old from Jiangsu Province in eastern China, is a huge fan of all things Olympics, so he decided to pedal his rickshaw all the way from China to promote the Olympic spirit and see the London 2012 opening ceremony. But, he is not done pedaling yet.
A light-hearted, spoof video filmed by the team during the run-up to the London Olympic games has gone viral on the internet with more than three million viewers clicking to watch top names such as Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin dancing and lip-syncing to hit Call me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen.
When you think of Olympic heroes, you think of those gold-medal winning performances. That record-setting swim race. The lightning-fast relay. The winning gymnastic routine. But a new video ad from Procter & Gamble puts the spotlight on an entirely different hero: The Olympic mom. The ones who got up earlier than everyone else to feed and drive their little athletes to pre-dawn practices for all those years.
All the great old baseball parks in America are gone, except Fenway Park. Today marks 100 years since the Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway, tangling with the Green Monster in left field and testing their skills against historic rival the New York Yankees.
In the beautiful valley of Savoie, France, Simon Beck creates patterned snow art to decorate the large expanse of frozen lakes and delight the local skiers -- until the next snowfall.
Dallas Seavey won his first Iditarod Championship as thousands of fans lined the street in Nome, Alaska to greet the youngest person to ever win the grueling thousand-mile sled dog contest. Dallas Seavey won his first Iditarod Championship as thousands of fans lined the street in Nome, Alaska to greet the youngest person to ever win the grueling thousand-mile sled dog contest.
Just by getting into the boxing ring at the London Olympics, Sadaf Rahimi will be throwing a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women. Rahimi, a determined 17-year-old student, wants to become the new face of Afghan women, gaining honor and dignity for herself and other women in her war-torn country and improving their image worldwide.
17 year-old swimmer Missy Franklin is being called the new Michael Phelps, after winning four gold medals and a bronze in London and competing in almost every different stroke. While training overseas, she heard about the tragic shooting at a Batman movie premiere in her hometown of Aurora, Colorado. She vowed to do all she could to inspire her neighbors and friends back home, and her performance last week proves she delivered.
Michael and Margaret Snell of Salsbury, England came to British Columbia for a fishing adventure and, boy, did they find one. On their first day out, their first catch of the day, Michael hooked a Great White Sturgeon weighing 1,100 pounds (500 kilos). Their Canadian guide, Dean Werk from Great River Fishing Adventures, says the 12 feet 4 inch long catch, is likely the largest freshwater fish ever landed in North America.
Rising from the ruins of war to challenge the world's cricketing establishment, Afghanistan's rag-tag team hope to inspire the conflict-ravaged nation with a strong showing at the World Cup in Sri Lanka.
Natasha Tse was born prematurely at 29 weeks with congenital cerebral palsy but starting at age five she used therapeutic riding to re-invent herself as an athlete. She earned Hong Kong a place in the London Paralympics equestrian dressage competition in London this week.
I was lifting weights at my New York City community gym when a 77-year-old man who was boxing caught my attention. His laugh was infectious. It made me feel good just being around his energy. So I took his picture and I put it on my fridge
It took twenty-three hours of constant paddling over sometimes rough waves for a youthful trio to make it across Lake Michigan from Wisconsin to Michigan. The two brothers and female friend, ages 19-23 took turns paddling through the night, with the other two riding in the 40-foot support boat that tailed them for the 80-mile journey.
From the lawns of Wimbledon to the lochs of Scotland, all of Britain can celebrate. Andy Murray made it possible Sunday, winning his country's hallowed tennis tournament to become the first British man in 77 years to win Wimbledon.
14 Year old Will Thomas is not just shooting hoops. He's using his jump shot, and Operation Hawkeye, to honor and raise money for fallen special operation troops and their families.
An Arab-Jewish hockey team has become an unlikely icebreaker in this remote corner of northern Israel, overcoming barriers of language, culture and conflict.
The 2013 Boston Marathon champion, Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia, gave his championship medal to the City of Boston Sunday on behalf of all the runners and to honor the victims of the bombing that day in April. Lelisa's return to Boston marked yet another admirable gesture witnessed by the city in the weeks following the marathon.
For a breathtaking 23 minutes, famed tightrope artist Nik Wallenda walked on a two-inch steel cable crossing the Grand Canyon, 1500 feet above the ground without a net or tether.
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