“Hope for the Best, But…”

 

The truly Great prepare for all the possibilities before they step on the field.

This weekend, Sam “Bam” Cunningham was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. In honor of that well-deserved honor and his Great career, we want to share a Moment of Greatness that helped define both Sam’s career and change college football.

On the evening of September 12, 1970, a watershed game was played in the Deep South. The University of Alabama, an all-white football team, hosted the University of Southern California, the only college team with an all-black starting backfield and the first fully-integrated team to come into Alabama and play Bear Bryant’s Crimson Tide.

Thirty years after a dream eluded her, swimmer Diana Nyad is out to show the world what commitment looks like.

More than 90 miles of open ocean lies between Cuba and South Florida. For Diana Nyad, that stretch of shark-infested water equates to about 65 continuous hours of solitude, if all goes well—no rest, no physical contact with another person, no sound or movement except for the rhythmic kick-stroke-breathe, kick-stroke-breathe. Nyad, 61, is swimming every inch of this journey without assistance… or a shark cage.