Sports & Grit stories

True stories of underdogs and impossible comebacks, celebrating the grit it takes to win from within.

• Sweet Potatoes Don't Win Races
• Frozen Butter in Running Shoes
• The Captain's Cauliflower Scheme
• Rocket Fuel for Breakfast
• Training with Your Eyes Closed
• The Curse of the Second Half
• Heel, Toe, Stuck
• The Rule of the Holy Balloon
• Watch Out, Goose in Reverse!
• Lava in the Middle of the Living Room
• Stop the Socks!
• The Invisible Leg
• A Marathon on Two Hands
• The Asphalt's Lie
• Giants Aren't Supposed to Shoot Three-Pointers
• Three Defenders and One Turn of the Head
• Basketball in Slow Motion
• Operating Instructions for Gravity
• The Girl Who Wasn't Supposed to Walk
• Peeling a Basketball
• The Last Seat in the Boat
• A Turned-Off Stopwatch
• The Champion Who Raised His Hand
• Sheep Fat, Saltwater, and Two Words
• One. Two. Five Hundred.
• Two Hundred Nights of Concrete
• A Diver at the Halfway Line
• A Closed Book in the Ninetieth Minute
• Soccer at the Bottom of the Sea
• A Diving Mask on the Soccer Field
• Timeout for the Referee
• The Line 12 Tactic
• Don't Be Food
• Submarine Approaching from the Right
• Eight-Zero and Six Legs
• The Line 47 Play
• The Blade Jumper
• Smiling at a Wall of Water
• The Fastest Styrofoam Lid in the World
• The No-Running Game
• The Plow Horse That Flew
• Hitching a Ride to the Gold Medal
• The Rule of the Second Handshake
• A One-Runner Relay Race
• Miss Plus
• A Marathon, a King, and Three Silk Pajamas
• The Empty Alley Championship
• A Wooden Board Against a Wall of Water
• Don't Chase the Ball
• The Hammer Kick