On the night of April 12, 2011, a 24-year-old national volleyball player lay bleeding on a railway track between Lucknow and Delhi. She had been thrown from a moving train by robbers after refusing to hand over her gold chain. She had fallen onto the tracks. Seconds later, a train coming from the opposite direction…
In 1978, a 15-year-old boy at Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina, walked up to a notice board after basketball tryouts and scanned the list for his name. It wasn’t there. What stung even more: the name of his close friend — fellow sophomore Leroy Smith, 6’7″ — was on the varsity list. Smith…
What would you do if the thing you loved most was being taken away — not because of lack of talent, but because of something happening inside your own body that you couldn’t control? At 11 years old, Lionel Messi sat in a doctor’s office in Rosario, Argentina, and received a diagnosis that could have…