The Underdog Newsletter
The best sports stories you've never heard & powerful lessons from underdogs beating the odds.
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Division III schools have produced some pretty incredible MLB talent.
8 teams sent him home – including the one that eventually signed him. Here's how it happened.
“I don’t see him as a one-armed basketball player. In fact, it seems like he has four arms.”
After beating cancer, Aaron Rouselle is doing the unthinkable and inspiring teammates half his age.
This former junior college walk-on ignored the doubters and “bugged” his way into pro baseball.
After two unthinkable tragedies, he made it farther than anyone ever imagined.
He went from pumping gas at 19 years old to becoming a Hockey Hall of Famer.
He went from fetching cheeseburgers at 2 AM to building an NFL dynasty.
People laughed at him in high school. Now he's gearing up for football's biggest stage.
Caron Butler was arrested 15 times before he was 15. Here's how he turned his life around to become an NBA champion.
How a small-school QB whisperer ended up with three Super Bowl rings.
He went from driving 16 hours to wrestle in bingo halls for a couple of bucks to fighting in the main event at WrestleMania.