'Pushing Through Pain' Is Out, 'Prime Confidence' Is In: Life Lessons From Elite Athletes (Exclusive)

It was my dream to play college soccer, but my junior year in high school, I came down hard on my left knee, smashing it against bristly, unforgiving AstroTurf. There were no tears, no “structural damage,” but the bursa — the sac that cushions the knee joint — filled with fluid, and I could barely bend it. Still, I kept playing, ballooning my knee only to have the bursa drained, cloudy liquid pulled into a syringe.

'Resilient' Cat Abandoned in 'Frigid Temperatures' Survives 24 Hours Stuck in Backpack Left Outside

Mr. Satchel of Humane Fort Wayne.Photo:Humane Fort Wayne/Facebook Humane Fort Wayne/Facebook On Thursday, Jan. 23, the Humane Fort Wayne animal shelter in Indiana announced onFacebookandInstagramthat a “resilient” black cat had been left in the cold outside the shelter’s old location. As Humane Fort Wayne noted on social media, the cat — now named Mr. Satchel — was abandoned in winter weather inside a backpack outside the shelter’s former location. The temperature in Fort Wayne, Indiana, iscurrently around 20 degrees.

'Rocky's Home!' 100-Lb. Pet Tortoise Survives L.A. Wildfires and Reunites with His Family

Rocky, a 100-pound tortoise, reuniting with his family.Photo:San Dimas Sheriff’s Station/Instagram San Dimas Sheriff’s Station/Instagram Rocky’s home! The 100-pound tortoise, named Rocky, was found in a hole in the family’s backyard, the sheriff’s office said. The family’s home was destroyed in the Eaton fire,ABC News reported. Rocky is not the first tortoise to reunite with their family after surviving the L.A. fires. A Pasadena family forced to evacuate their home on Jan.

'Sad' Bride Finds Out 4 Days Before Her Wedding That Her Maid of Honor Will Miss Most of Her Nuptials

Sad bride (stock image).Photo:tonefotografia/Getty tonefotografia/Getty A bride is worried that her maid of honor will miss her upcoming wedding because she has clinical rotations on the same day.The bride asked Reddit users for advice on what to do in a recentposton the platform’s “Wedding Planning” forum. On Thursday, she explained that her wedding is only four days away, but her maid of honor “just found out” that her nursing clinicals are the same day as the nuptials.

'Severe Icing' Could Be to Blame for Alaska Plane Crash That Killed 10, Expert Says (Exclusive)

The remains of Bering Air Flight 445 after it crashed in Alaska.Photo:Alaska U.S. Coast Guard/X Alaska U.S. Coast Guard/X Officials are still investigating what caused a small commuter planeto crash out of the sky over Alaska last week, killing all 10 people aboard. But Joel Natwick, a longtime pilot in the state, thinks ice could be to blame. “It would appear that he [the pilot] got into an icing situation that the plane could not handle, or he was low to the ground, not knowing how close he was to it because the visibility was so bad, and just hit the ice,” Natwick tells PEOPLE.