Born Michael Jay Burton on July 3, 1947, in Des Moines, Iowa, he was severely injured at age 12 when hit by a truck while riding his bike. His injuries forced him to give up the contact sports of ...

After his stroke in rough surf, Graham Russell embarked on an unexpected journey into fear. Three lessons helped him return to the joy of the ocean Looking out over the ocean, I would watch the waves ...

‘I assumed I already knew what fear felt like – I had surfed in rough conditions before, saved lives in the ocean and pursued plenty of adventure in my early years – but this was different’: Graham ...

The Strokes were poised to become the next big American rock band, and although they never quite achieved the heights that many predicted they would, they still maintain an allure that few bands have ...

The effectiveness of your stroke not only relies on strength but also on the sense of grip and the quality of underwater traction. Paddles and gloves alter this sensation by expanding the surface area ...

“I didn’t in a million years think it was a stroke. I didn’t even know children could have strokes,” the boy’s mother, Evangelynne Williams, said Kennedy News and Media A 7-year-old boy suffered a ...

Speedo is taking its first dip in the wearable tech market with the launch of Speedo iQ, a swim-tracking module that clicks into the frame of the company’s best-selling Vanquisher 3.0 goggles and ...

In 2001, The Strokes played their first-ever concert in Seattle to no more than a few hundred people, opening for Doves at what was then the Crocodile Cafe. Twenty-five years later, in a near-sold-out ...

A mum was horrified when her seven-year-old son's 'pins and needles' while swimming turned out to be a stroke she feared could have killed him. Evangelynne Williams said she was concerned when Junior ...