The story goes that 3-year old Peyton Manning was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he answered without hesitation, “A quarterback,” quickly adding, “like my daddy.”
A noted Michigan Man from Ohio who first made his name in Oklahoma and now toils in Kansas is about to be inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
The temperature was somewhere around frying-pan hot on this August afternoon, the second of Louisiana Tech’s two-a-day football practices, the season still a couple of torturous weeks away, a promised break if you could make it through all the monotony and the steam and the chaos.
Charles Young watched his daughter, Danielle Scott, grow up to become an indoor volleyball legend who played in an unprecedented five Olympic Games.
There is toughness, and then there is rodeo cowboy toughness.
Roger Cador stood before a group of students at Istrouma High School a few weeks ago and started doing what he does best.
LSU sophomore Max Fugler stood silently under the Tiger Stadium goal post, head down and hands on hips on that hot, humid night of September 21, 1957.
Early in his career, Charles Smith was not sure if he would get to 100 wins.
When Otis Washington graduated from Xavier University in New Orleans in 1961, he was your typical college graduate. He had no idea what he would do next.
When Marie Gagnard showed up at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City to officiate her first U.S. Open in 1984, she was feeling lucky to be there.
