Mike Rolih was just a limo driver with an idea. One day, he picked up a passenger who changed his life. An All-State quarterback from Chicago, Rolih was visiting a friend who coached junior college football in Rochester, Minn. — a town just south of the Twin Cities. He was shocked that in the age […]
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated becoming the first athlete to hit 100 million Instagram followers by going live on the app. In his seven minute, 39 second live stream, Ronaldo strips down to his underwear, sends his shoutouts to a litany of countries from which his fans reside and addresses his haters, of which there are […]
In what is claimed to be a world’s first, a blind athlete, Oscar Widegren, has ran unassisted thanks to an experiment using only sound. The sound technology underpinning this experiment is called hyper directional sound and was delivered by two speakers, which were placed over 160 feet away from Widegren’s starting position. In effect, the […]
Former Indy Racing League driver Sam Schmidt hasn’t let an accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down 17 years ago keep him from competing on the track. On Saturday, Schmidt is scheduled at 12:35 p.m. ET before the IndyCar Grand Prix in Indiana to go head-to-head against another former Indy driver Mario Andretti, […]
The unveiling of teams for the fifth edition of the 2017 Audi Cup, a two-day pre-season football tournament, had an interesting wrinkle — the press conference was conducted with hologram technology integration. Host FC Bayern Munich had coach Carlo Ancelotti present in physical form at Säbener Straße to discuss the Cup, which will be at […]
