Joanne Marszal was born four months premature and suffers from cerebral palsy. She’s been confined to a wheelchair for all of her 23 years.

A deaf University of Kentucky football season ticket holder is suing the school, seeking to force the Wildcats to put closed-captioning on the scoreboards at Commonwealth Stadium.

Eight years ago, the University at Buffalo agreed to make this campus accessible to the roughly 500 disabled students who attend every year. Today, almost a decade later, UB has failed to follow through on that promise.

A woman smacked Steve Stokes in the head with her purse, knocking him out of his wheelchair. She told him he shouldn’t be out in public, that he belonged in a nursing home.
Stokes was a college student in the late 1960s, a time when disabled people often were treated as outcasts. Accessibility on college campuses virtually was nonexistent.

All of his life, Tony Jackson loved sports. He liked the idea that two people, or two teams, would face each other and do their best. One would win, and one would lose. The drama appealed to him.

Arizona State senior Anthony Robles clinched the NCAA wrestling championship in his weight class.

He received the e-mail only a few weeks ago, but already Christopher Caulfield has big plans for the missive.

Tina Brooks can’t sit or stand for more than half an hour before the pain in her lower back becomes intolerable. She suffers severe headaches and memory loss, and she has lost most of the vision in her left eye. Five doctors and a judge from the Social Security Administration have all determined that she is fully disabled and unable to work.

He’s 6 feet 5 inches tall and nearly 300 pounds, but that’s not what makes Justin Hansen such an impressive recruit for the CSU Rams’ football team.