Math Professor Overcomes Long Odds to Appear on 'Jeopardy' (opens in new tab)

Kimberly Ayers is like a lot of people when it comes to phone calls from numbers she doesn’t recognize – she ignores them.But in January, one of those unknown callers left a voicemail.The person said they were calling from the TV game show “Jeopardy.” Ayers had gone through the tryout process for the show, but that had been more than a y...