There’s a magnetism to spring training. Fans of all ages from all corners of the world are drawn to the sun soaked ballparks of Florida and Arizona to watch Major League Baseball’s preseason.
It’s been two years since Meredith Bissette’s last softball game in a University of South Florida Bulls uniform, but her presence with the team hasn’t faded.
Bissette was diagnosed with chordoma cancer in 2016. The disease can present anywhere along the spine and although the tumors are normally slow to progress they are relentless and can recur after treatment.
The great ones don’t have to be seen to be felt.
After sending the Valspar PGA Championship into a frenzy over his announcement that he would be competing, Tiger Woods reminded the sporting world that, despite everything, he is on the short list of athletes who have reached that level of greatness.
Sometimes big stages in athletics lend themselves to dramatic outcomes that remind us anything is possible and miracles do happen, especially when mere fractions of seconds separate podium positions.
The University of Guelph Gryphons refused to let this be one of those times.