Category Archives: The Do’ers
On a day now often associated with eating, football, more eating, and more football, there is an understandable tendency to forget what Thanksgiving is all about. However, most people remember…
Chess is one of those activities that many of us played or at least tried to play when younger but then eventually abandoned for more “established” sports. Not established in…
November 11, 2011
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Grassroots, Individuals, Organizations, Policy, Social Responsibility, Sports and Social Responsibility
- Tagged: injury, service, sports, support, Veteran's Day -
We have written before about recognition of certain causes, e.g. Breat Cancer Awareness, that entail a dedicated period of heightened attention (in that case, October). We have applauded those efforts…
November 4, 2011
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Individuals, Organizations, Performances, Sports and Social Responsibility
- Tagged: cure, cycling, discrimination, HIV, opportunity, Race Across America, Team4HIVHope -
In my Sports Law class at Farmingdale State College we just spent a few days talking about discrimination (gender, age, disability, etc.) One of the overriding policy points that came…
Try running with your eyes closed. Scary, right? Now try doing it with others around you. Even scarier. Despite that, Sami Stoner has found a way to keep on running…
We read the following short piece from Sports Illustrated on student-athlete Eddie Delaney, who plays football at the University of Albany. It was enough to want to highlight him. We…
Many of the stories that we have presented here involve young people (kids, children, boys, girls, etc.) Makes sense considering how many organizations are geared toward providing opportunities, guidance, and…
There will be literally hundreds of thousands of stories from thousands of sources about Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple who passed away last night. (here is one…
October 1, 2011
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Grassroots, Individuals, Media, Organizations, Sports and Social Responsibility
- Tagged: development, documentary, International, Kickstarter, rugby, SCRUM, youth -
I was watching some Australian Rules Football late last night – hey, I needed something to watch! – and was taken with the event taking place. I think it was…
We want kids playing sports, engaged in physical activity. The reasons are plentiful, most of them covered here at Sports Doing Good multiple times. Unfortunately, each year we are seeing…
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