Being a professional female football player, Jen Welter has been through a lot to get to where she is today. Playing 13 years of women’s pro football, 10 of those with the Dallas Diamonds of the Women’s Football Alliance, the Boston College grad has worked very hard to become a professional football player and her hard work has not gone unnoticed. She represented USA at......
Originally known for his speed on the ice, four-time Olympic gold medalist Johann Olav Koss is a former speed skater from Norway and is considered to be one of the best in the history of the......
Calen Carr of the Houston Dynamo was lucky enough to grow up around positive role models. His mother, a professor at the University of California, Berkley, was always able to lead him in the right......
Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues has gone through a lot to get to where he is today. Standing at 5-foot-3, the Baltimore, Maryland native spent 14 seasons in the NBA, playing in nearly 900 regular season......
You sometimes hear about professional athletes who held different jobs before making it to the big stage, but you never hear of any who were models before their career. Milka Duno of Venturini......
When you grow up with great role models, you turn into one yourself. Will Allen of the Pittsburgh Steelers grew up watching his parents give back to the community however they could. His father would......
The NBA Cares All-Star Community Caravan is set to tip off on Wednesday, February 13, with a visit to pediatric patients at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital led by NBA and WNBA players and......
Israel Idonije’s path to the NFL was nothing like the ones you hear about year after year. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Idonije lived there for four years before his parents moved to Brandon, Manitoba.......
During the course of the season players are busy focusing on their game and improving anything that needs to be fixed. Many would think that many players, superstar status or not, are too busy......
In the week leading up to their 4th Major League Soccer Championship, the LA Galaxy announced that AEG and the LA Galaxy Foundation have partnered with MLS W.O.R.K.S., Major League Soccer’s......
