A 51-year-old man was cleaning out the contents of an old house that belonged to his grandfather and found a soot-covered box that had been tucked away in the attic for a hundred years. Inside he found hundreds of new baseball cards bundled with twine, including 16 mint-condition 'Ty Cobbs'. They remained untouched for a century, making them perhaps the most significant sports card find in history.
A major league baseball player hit in the head the very first time he came to bat, who never got a chance to take a pitch, will get a second chance thanks to the very team whose pitcher decked him.
A seasoned skydiver in Northern California was attempting a complex stunt after jumping from about 8,000 feet when both of his parachutes failed and he went into a three-minute spin, hitting the ground but surviving with minor injuries.
Eight-year-old Nebraska football fan Jack Hoffman learned this week that his pediatric brain cancer is in remission. The boy captured hearts around the world after he ran a 69-yard touchdown during a spring college game that went viral.
In October 2013, Louis Munoz donated one of his kidneys to William Lynch. The organ match would not have occurred without a bit of serendipity and a big love of football: Munoz and Lynch hadn't seen each other in years – then they found themselves randomly seated next to each other with season tickets for San Diego Chargers games.
Jona Rechnitz, who won $50,000 on the 2012 Superbowl just did it again ... by placing the same exact bet. Both times the NYC real estate mogul donated the winnings to charity -- $75,000 in total.
Detroit-based Quicken Loans, America's fourth largest mortgage lender, has joined forces with Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway to pay a billion dollars to anyone who completes a perfect bracket, predicting the winner of every game in the March 2014 men's college basketball championship tournament. Any U.S. citizen over 21 years of age who correctly enters the contest and predicts the winner in all 63 tournament games will win or share the total $1 billion prize.
A baseball player in the Houston Astros minor league, Conrad Gregor, hit his first Midwest League home run on Saturday night and the ball was caught over the right field wall by a familiar face -- his own father.
A tattered vintage sweater from West Point bought at a Goodwill outlet store for fifty-eight cents could fetch more than $20,000 at auction. The sweater belonged to legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, who had served as an assistant coach at the school just before landing his role with the champion Green Bay Packers.
Sports Illustrated has named Conner and Cayden Long the 2012 SportsKids of the Year for their inspiring triathlon performances. Seven-year-old Cayden is unable to walk or talk on his own, but his nine-year-old brother Conner had an idea that would allow the two to participate in sports together. Conner pulls his brother with amazing determination letting him ride in a raft or cart, as the experience bringing them closer together with every race.
Mats Zuccarello of the New York Rangers is a fantastic player – and a fantastic wingman.
A photo posted by an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia has been spread far beyond Canada's borders, thanks to a Twitter post with thousands of retweets.
Since a heart attack left pitcher Matt LaChappa disabled with brain damage, the San Diego Padres have renewed his contract each year to give him health insurance.
Two social psychologists from UC-Berkeley, both avid basketball players themselves, recently analyzed 90 hours of televised pro basketball play. They looked at every team and every player in the league and concluded the teams that touch the most win the most -- and the individual players who touch the most perform the best.
Watch shelter dogs from Sao Paolo's slums prance around as "ball boys" on center court during a tennis match at the Brazil Open.
Kathryn Smith is named the first full time woman coach in the NFL, becoming the Buffalo Bills' quality control and special teams coach.
Veterans who have enrolled as students will be the guests of honor with their families at a Texas university baseball game.
After a surprise Christmas gift, when a man took him to a football match, a homeless guy scored new goals in the game of life.
In an act of sportsmanship following his competitor's disqualification, a New Jersey high school swimmer gave his first-place medal to "its rightful owner."
When team manager Robert Lewis hit a game-ending 3-point basket for his school on Senior Night, fans from both sides went wild.
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