Category Archives: Charitable Work

Haiti Update #3 – Peace and Sport (part 1)

“Peace and Sport puts sport and its structuring values at the heart of development projects led within communities in crisis around the world. With interventions in areas of post-conflict, extreme…

Haiti Update #1: Seth Stammler and Sporting Chance Foundation

Seth Stammler, Defender, New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer; Founder of Sporting Chance Foundation. It meant a lot to hear from Seth Stammler regarding his efforts in Haiti…

Haiti Updates – April 12-16

Anniversaries are a time to reflect. Hopefully it is recognition of a happy time but certainly there are instances when the occasion is much more somber. In either case, it…

Literally fighting for Haiti

The earthquake in Haiti was a tragic event that unfortunately ended the lives of thousands, injured many others, and left countless homeless and struggling to find their way to any…

BATting a thousand

Major League Baseball (MLB) can be proud of itself as all 30 of its teams contributed to this year’s fundraising tour for the Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.). Over the past…

A4 Delivers for Haiti

In March, it’s so easy to forget that there is more going on in the world than just 64 college basketball teams battling it out on the hardwood.  And while…

A Good BUZZKILL

I thought our college basketball series was over but we are happy to see it is not. The following comes from Davidson University and its men’s basketball team. The team…

Coach K and a very special pin

In the second part of our 2-part college basketball arc, we highlight a story from Andy Katz at ESPN.com. This one involves Mike Krzyzewski, “Coach K”, from Duke University. A…

Wilson Sporting Goods and the Ultimate Assist in the Fight Against Cancer

Wilson Sporting Goods Co. is teaming up with NCAA to develop its own March Madness cancer fighting effort.  While there might not be Pizza involved (see yesterday’s posting), the program…

Eating Pizza Cures Cancer?

No, sadly we are not talking about the latest and greatest medical breakthrough in cancer research.  Instead though, we are talking about March, when everything gets a little mad.  March…