Did you know that the first-ever hit single from pioneering Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast, 1993's "Player's Ball", was a Christmas song?

Motivation comes in many different forms. Athletes have a variety of ways of getting their minds right for a big game.

As a boy in Brooklyn, Adrien Nunez dreamed of playing in the N.B.A. He got close, but it turns out he had a gift for singing at the top of his lungs in his car. Credit...Peter Fisher for The New York ...