The Underdog Newsletter
The best sports stories you've never heard & powerful lessons from underdogs beating the odds.
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"I’m never gonna forget where I came from." This zero-star recruit worked at Burger King & Dollar General on his road to the NFL.
"He came from nothing. He knew nothing." Here's how his 6,000-mile journey landed him in the league.
752 schools. 1 winner. The real story behind a popular sports movie. How much of it was true?
From giving up the sport in high school, to being rejected as a walk-on at Arkansas, he carved out a remarkable path to the 2024 World Series.
"Trying to figure out if my dream was really a dream or was me being delusional, I had to find that balance..."
How an undersized 3rd-stringer made the leap from D3 to the NFL.
It all started with a lie spoken into a payphone on a beach in San Diego.
"I thought it was over. I’m not in college. I wasn’t a qualifier. What am I going to do?"
"If I had to, I'd go back down that same road to get to where I am today."
After a drunk driver ended his MLB career, this man dedicated his life to helping athletes with disabilities.
He used to slice gabagool at a deli. Now he’s a Pro Bowler who hopes no one knows his name.
Instead of rushing out a half-baked story, I wanted to highlight a few crowd-pleasers.
