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Chris Connelly tells the story of 7-year-old Jack Hoffman, who is battling brain cancer, scoring a touchdown in Nebraska's spring game. Courtesy: John S. Peterson/Hail Varsity Magazine

In 2009, Roger Goodell attended the Congressional Hearings on concussions where he declined to say whether there was a connection between playing football and cognitive erosion.

Wake Forest assistant football coach Tom Elrod lost his infant son, Byron, to an inoperable brain tumor just eight days after he was born, but experienced a magical moment through it all.

The NFL retirement board determined in 1999 that repeated blows to the head had left Mike Webster, who spent most of his 17-year career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, "totally and permanently" disabled.

For years while the NFL's top medical experts denied any link between football and long-term brain damage, the league retirement board awarded disability payments to at least three former players after concluding that football caused their brain inju

College GameDay tells the inspirational story of Zachary Lederer who flexed his muscles after coming out of surgery to show he was going to win his battle with brain cancer and be okay.

For Illinois sophomore Jennifer Beltran, volleyball has provided a way out of one life and into another, thanks in no small part to the mentor she affectionately calls Dad.

The photographer behind the scenes of Art of Flight gives his perspective on the production

"The Art of Flight" star Travis Rice tells us the highlights from behind the scenes of the most anticipated snowboard film of the year

One of the future big names in snowboarding, winter X Slopestyle silver medalist Mark McMorris talks triple corks and growing up in the flatlands of Canada.

MMA fighter Rad Martinez aspires to make it to the UFC  a challenge complicated by his almost round-the-clock dedication to taking care of his brain-damaged father

Boxer Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez told his wife, Sonia, that he wanted to be a hero. But that dream seemed shattered after Rodriguez slipped into a coma and was declared brain dead after losing a title fight in Philadelphia. Through organ donation, hi

Charlie Wilks plays high school football in Emporia, Kansas. Charlie went blind when he was 5 years old, as a result of a brain tumor, and three operations.