"Things just went south really, really fast," Retton's oldest daughter, Shayla Schrepfer, recounts in a new sit-down withNBC'sTODAY.Their conversation was filmed at the retired gymnast's home in Boerne, Texas. Retton's decline began suddenly, after she and Shayla met for a manicure date ...
How Is Mary Lou Retton Doing Now? Although doctors determined that what the former Team USA was battling was a rare form of pneumonia, they're not sure entirely sure that's what it was or how she got it. Retton says she has scarring in her lungs which will affect her for the rest ...
Gene Watson is a prolific recording artist with hit songs in “Love in the Hot Afternoon” and “Fourteen Carat Mind.” The Texas native and recent Grand Ole Opry inductee’s (2020) influence is just now getting some recognition. When asked,Joe Nicholspointed to Watson as one singer he fel...
She’s no bigger now at 26, the smile hasn’t dimmed a single watt and her popularity hasn’t waned. She married former Texas football player Shannon Kelley in 1990 and hopes to have a houseful of children someday. The rounded, baby-fat features of her teen-age years have yielded to ...
Mary Lou Retton, gymnast who was the first American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. At the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she achieved perfect scores in her final two events to win a dramatic victory in the all-aro