David Brown hears the ball. As it rolls across the soccer pitch, it contains rattles that make the crunching sound of soldiers marching through a sand pit. He moves toward the ball and responds with ...
SAN DIEGO — Soccer is known as the beautiful game. It is a sport David Brown plays without seeing, because he’s blind. “When I tell them that I play soccer they’re like ‘Oh wow, how does that work?’ ...
The members of the first U.S. Blind Soccer Men’s National Team, formed after tryouts in Chula Vista. Photo credit: Screen shot, usaba.org Ten athletes have made the first USA Blind Soccer Men’s ...
Throughout the summer, in a series called Hometown Hopefuls, NBC is spotlighting the stories of Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls from all fifty states, as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, as ...
David Brown is known as the world's fastest completely blind runner. He was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease at 15 months old, which led him to completely lose his sight by age 13. Brown says was ...