CNN Heroes is a terrific initiative to highlight the positive works of everyday individuals around the country and around the world. Right now voting is taking place to pick the…

Several players from the NBA’s New Jersey Nets have purchased several hundred full-season ticket packages, from which tickets to the games will be distributed to literally dozens of youth groups…

One of the strongest points of the program highlighted below is the peer education component. Information shared and lessons taught to one group must not stay only with them, but…

Has to be, if the “I” is the team. We highlight a story about a wonderful student-athlete who went out and performed at such a high-level in multiple events at…

(You can sing that blog title to the tune of the Subway $5 footlong jingle). This falls under the “where-are-they-now” category and is a good one. I remember watching Eric…

The tagline for this blog is The Bright Side of the World of Sports. Concussions don’t really belong on that “side” but the study and treatment of concussions and their…

First Larry Fitzgerald and now these guys. It is the day of the receiver doing good. The Make a Play Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that is truly built on…

NFL Star Battles Cancer With Ice Cream Shared via AddThis This is a short video from GMA of superstar wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals and his partnership…

Richard Hoffer from Sports Illustrated has a new book out, “Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.” In a recent issue, SI excerpted…

You can find the full release at http://media-newswire.com/release_1100079.html, with an excerpt below. (Excerpt) (Media-Newswire.com) – A University of Bath student is aiming to become the greenest ever Ironman when he…