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What can you do with your lungs? Kelcey Harrison will use hers to run across the width of America for a charity close to her heart. On July 29, Kelcey set off from Times Square in New York City on a 3,500-mile trip to San Francisco. She will be running on average 30 miles a day in memory of her close childhood friend Jill Costello, who lost her battle with lung cancer almost two years ago. Jill—a 21-year-old student-athlete and non-smoker—was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer in June 2009. Despite the cancer and the months of treatment that followed, ...

Do you remember the famous line from the 1989 film Field of Dreams: "Build it and he will come"?Well, Pepsi Max took this sentiment to heart when they turned an old warehouse into a cornfield for a new series of soft drink commercials that spoofed the classic baseball flick.While Shoeless Joe Jackson doesn't appear in any of the three short television spots, the résumés of those who did are long enough to satisfy even the most enthusiastic baseball fanatic.From the past to the present, the talent on hand is enough to give the Ghost of Moonlight Graham goosebumps.The combined talent ...

Martina Navratilova is a remarkable athlete and an even better person. There is quite literally nothing she cannot accomplish when she sets her mind to it.She has won 59 Grand Slam tennis titles and defeated breast cancer, and just 25 days before she sets off to climb the highest freestanding mountain in the world she climbed up 55 flights of stairs in the second tallest building in New York without even breaking a sweat.I should know...I was about a dozen steps behind her, chugging my bottled water and looking up in awe, trying not to think about the fact that ...

While many baseball fans will get wrapped up in the allure of Evan Longoria playing next to Derek Jeter on the left side of the infield or Hanley Ramirez swinging for the fences in the Home Run Derby, it is former Major Leaguer and longtime Angels broadcaster Rex Hudler who is really going beyond baseball at the 2010 All-Star game by highlighting a cause close to his own heart. The allure of home field advantage, dream lineups, and majestic blasts over the terraced bullpens in the outfield may help craft this week's headlines, but Hudler is in Los Angeles promoting volunteerism ...

Today I had the privilege of speaking with iconic American gold medalist Shaun White. He spoke about everything from his next big trick to upstage the show-stopping Double McTwist and his experiences in Vancouver, to his love of music and the moment his friend almost squirted ketchup on his medal at dinner. I hope you enjoy this insight into the life of a champion. *** Two-time Olympic gold medallist Shaun White put the rest of the snowboard world on notice today when he said the one thing his fellow halfpipe competitors didn’t want to hear: He still has room to improve. In an exclusive interview ...