By Anne Cacherell Seth McBride is an American wheelchair rugby player and five-time gold medalist from Seattle, Washington. After he graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School in 2001, he got into a skiing accident which left him paralyzed. This video, The Long Road South, produced by Seth himself and his fiancé, Kelly Schwan, marks the beginning…
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Born With Both Legs Missing, This Man Didn’t Choose to Believe that He Would Never Walk
By Anne Cacherell Blake Leeper, also known as The American Blade Runner, was born with both legs missing on August 31, 1989 in Kingsport Tennessee. His doctor said he could never walk, but he didn’t choose to believe it. He has worn prosthetic’s since he was 9 months old and still played baseball and basketball…
People May Say Soccer Sucks, But at Least It’s Helping World Peace
By Charlie DeWitts Didier Drogba is a soccer player who never had trouble helping his team win games. But he wanted more than that. Didier comes from a small country called the Ivory Coast in Africa, and they were a little war-torn. At a World Cup game however, Didier urged the respective parties to come…
Broken Back or Marriage Proposal: Which is Worse
By Richard K. Noots A Utah state athlete was filming a snowboarding video when he got the hilarious idea to make his proposal a bit of a shocker. He called his girlfriend and informed her that there was an accident on his film shoot. He didn’t land right, and broke his back. She, being the…
Think Basketball is Easy? Let Kobe Bryant Change Your Mind
By Richard K. Noots Sports like Football and Hockey kind of steal the show sometimes when the public talks about athlete-related injuries. What should be known is that anything physical can become extremely damaging, even if you’re well-trained. Sportsmen and women alike succeed only when they push their bodies to the brink of their limits…
4 Easy Ways To Boost Your Metabolism
Image by: Chris Hunkeler By Jake Bradshaw We all want a fast metabolism. Watching our friends eat two whole pizzas without gaining an inch in their waistline is torturous enough, but to know that they’ve been genetically blessed can be even worse. But the secret is it doesn’t all have to do with genetics. We…
