Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is more commonly known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Grey’s Anatomy alum Eric Dane announced on Thursday, April 9, that he had been diagnosed with the nervous ...

Gehrig died less than two years later at the age of 37. In fact, it was on this day in 1941. (Tom Scott hosts the Scott Slant segment during the football season on KTVB’s Sunday Sports Extra.