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Sports Doing Good Newsletter #436

March 24, 2024 Welcome to week four hundred and thirty-six of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:1. The Refugee Who Could Be Rookie of the Month (The Word/Religion of Sports)2. Toronto…

Sports Doing Good Newsletter, #340

June 7 – June 20, 2020Welcome to issue three hundred and forty of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. How a ‘rogue’ employee forced NFL,…

A Sacred Amendment? How about the right to play?

We ended 2012 with a tragedy that befell 20 members of a group we hold especially close to our hearts, i.e. children. What happened at Sandy Hook rocked our collective…

Is this our brain on sports? Who is protecting our most valuable asset?

The New York Times recently published an excellent, and very disturbing, 3-part series on the life and death of Derek Boogaard, a National Hockey League (NHL) player. Boogaard, who was known as…

Sound body and Mind – supporting the mental health of athletes

The balance that we need to be successful in life is not only about the type dealing with having so many work/life obligations that we lose a sense of perspective…