Jan. 22 – Jan. 28, 2017 Welcome to week two hundred and forty-seven of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: How Two Young Kenyans Used Soccer…

Jan. 8 – Jan. 14, 2017 Welcome to week two hundred and forty-five of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: Coming Home: How Soccer Without Borders…

Part of the motivation of creating Sports Doing Good was to create a spot positioned away from or in contrast to stories that are negative in nature, or worse, absolutely…

No surprise, but when it comes to sports competitions, or any competition for that matter, people want to win. Yes, there is great value in participating – we have highlighted…

We came across the story of Patrice Millet, who has had to fight off cancer not once, but twice. A gentleman who lives in one of the poorest countries in…

Take one word that is not so fun, “debt”, another that is somewhat innocuous, “ceiling”, put them together and you have the most annoying phrase of 2011. (C’mon Congress, get…

For good or bad, mostly good I would say, athletes are often looked at his heroes, as role models. They exploits on the field motivate thousands to try harder, to…

From our friends at the Peres Center for Peace. For the first time, the Peres Center in partnership with the Al Quds Association for Democracy and Dialogue, held a Mini…

I just had my last soccer game this season – alas, we tied and fell 1 point short of a playoff birth – but this first season back on a…

We are big fans of Street Soccer USA (SSUSA), and of course, the Homeless World Cup, and want to make you aware of two great events coming up involving SSUSA….