Sports Doing Good Newsletter, #300

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Nov. 4 – Nov. 17, 2018

Welcome to issue three hundred of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

  1. Why the NBA community has gotten serious about getting out the vote
  2. Golden Knights Team Lawyer Works To Increase Women In Sports Leadership Roles
  3. Sports Analytics in the Classroom: How One Computer Science Professor is Changing the Game
  4. Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer, the U.S. Finds Fabi
  5. The heroic story and incredible comeback of a football star
  6. ‘Fight Club’ with better jokes: Inside Garry Shandling’s secret pickup game
  7. How the Adaptive Lacrosse Movement Has Increased Access to the Sport
  8. 2018 RWJF Sports Award Winners Announced: Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, The Sanneh Foundation, and Soccer Without Borders
  9. How the Flyers Created Gritty, the Internet’s Most Beloved Mascot
  10. The healing power of pursuing a dream

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2018 Year in Review: Up2Us Training (Up2Us Sports)
https://www.up2us.org/blog/2018/11/6/2018-year-in-review-up2us-training
Premier League to Support LGBTQ Group in Rainbow Laces Campaign (Beyond Sport)
http://beyondsport.org/articles/premier-league-to-support-lgbtq-group-in-rainbow-laces-campaign/
The Art–Impact–Love Plan (by Dante Pettis) (The Players’ Tribune)
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/the-long-game-dante-pettis
100 ways sport and recreation develops communities (Sport and Dev) https://www.sportanddev.org/en/article/news/100-ways-sport-and-recreation-develops-communities
Mexico City Welcomes the World for Homeless World Cup Tournament (Beyond Sport)
http://beyondsport.org/articles/mexico-city-welcomes-the-world-for-homeless-world-cup-tournament/

We present again our “Featured Video” offering(s). With the explosion of video content out there highlighting the good in sport, we want to showcase such content for your enjoyment and learning. This will be an ongoing effort.

She Made History at QB. Then Came the Hard Part. (And Drew Brees on FaceTime)
https://youtu.be/ku79En5Ab_Q

Introduction

Sports as refuge. We have featured that theme before and we are confident we will continue to do so. Actually, we do it this week.
Garry Shandling was one of the funniest guys in the past 50 years. His TV shows and appearances on late night TV made him the envy of other entertainers. And he came across as a very “chill” guy. Some of that low-key vibe came from Shandling’s love of basketball and his long-time role as host of pick-up basketball games. In an article from ESPN, we learn about the array of comedy stars who played or at least attended the weekly basketball game. It might not be a big deal, celebrities and psuedo-celebrities hooping at a rich guy’s house. But Shandling supposedly made it more than that. It was a place for friends to see other friends, and for folks to make friends (and sometimes become collabrators). We featured this story because of the connection many of us have to pick-up sports, “getting away from it all,” and good friends.
We are excited that we have come to our 300th newsletter. Thanks for everyone for being loyal readers and supporting this effort. It is a real “labor of love” and we are grateful for the opportunity to share good news with all of you.
The stories we feature this week include: NBA players and coaches encouraging people to vote; executive Tamara Daniels of the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights; data analytics professor Dr. Felesia Stukes of Johnson C. Smith University; Fabiano Caruana, an Italian-American chess grandmaster; SUNY Cortland student-athlete Kyle Richard stepping up for a person in need; how the adaptive lacrosse movement has increased access to the game; the announcement of the 2018 RWJF Sports Award Winners; how Gritty became a super-popular mascot for the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers; and Olympic gold medalist and Native American Billy Mills.

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Why the NBA community has gotten serious about getting out the vote
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25165907/why-nba-players-rocking-vote-2018-election
(video, https://youtu.be/r7j873iDMv0) Caption: Warriors Team Up With Rock the Vote – CA Reg Deadline 10/22

Golden Knights Team Lawyer Works To Increase Women In Sports Leadership Roles
https://lvsportsbiz.com/2018/11/07/golden-knights-team-lawyer-works-to-increase-women-in-sports-leadership-roles/

Sports Analytics in the Classroom: How One Computer Science Professor is Changing the Game
https://www.sporttechie.com/sports-analytics-in-the-classroom/

Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer, the U.S. Finds Fabi
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/sports/bobby-fischer-chess-caruana.html

Fabiano Caruana, an Italian-American chess grandmaster, stands for a portrait outside the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018.
CreditCreditDaniel Acker for The New York Times

The heroic story and incredible comeback of a football star
http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/25217131/football-star-shot-chasing-alleged-assailant-thriving-field-again

‘Fight Club’ with better jokes: Inside Garry Shandling’s secret pickup game
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25258669/garry-shandling-secret-pickup-game

Friends played a memorial game on Shandling’s home court after the comedian’s death in 2016.
Courtesy Suli McCullough

How the Adaptive Lacrosse Movement Has Increased Access to the Sport
https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/fuel/us-lacrosse/how-the-adaptive-lacrosse-movement-has-increased-access-to-the-sport

2018 RWJF Sports Award Winners Announced: Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, The Sanneh Foundation, and Soccer Without Borders
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2018/10/2018-rwjf-sports-award-winners-announced.html

How the Flyers Created Gritty, the Internet’s Most Beloved Mascot
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/how-the-flyers-created-gritty-the-internets-most-beloved-mascot/

The Flyers marketing team described Gritty in one word: mischievous.
Getty Images

The healing power of pursuing a dream
https://asunow.asu.edu/20181115-arizona-impact-billy-mills-indigenous-identity

Billy Mills, the Sioux Olympic gold medalist who won the 1964 Tokyo 10,000 meters, gives a hug to Rhiannon Worker, a nutrition sophomore, before addressing around 100 people at the “Indigenous Identity and the Athletic Experience” event Thursday in Tempe.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now

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