Sept. 1 – Sept. 14, 2019
Welcome to issue three hundred and twenty of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. Need a Hug? Just Ask the Yankees’ Cameron Maybin (New York Times)
2. How Red Panda Became the NBA’s Favorite Halftime Performer (SI.com)
3. How the 1992 Dream Team sparked global NBA fandom (ESPN.com)
4. A Boy Was Bullied for His Homemade T-Shirt. Now the University of Tennessee Is Selling It. (NY Times)
5. This 15-year-old biker took on a men’s world of Motocross and left them in the dust (CNN.com)
6. The U.S. Open Gave Us a Revelation, an Iconic Champion, and a Look at the Future of Tennis (The Ringer)
7. The Tokyo rugby club keeping elderly players healthy (BBC.com)
8. Candace Parker Deserves Your Respect (Complex)
9. How Nneka Ogwumike became Madam President, the face of WNBA players (The Undefeated)
10. WWE And 2K To Donate $2 Per Re-Tweet In New WWE 2K20 Campaign To Benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (WrestlingInc)

10+
What We’re Fighting For (by Alex Rigsby Cavallini) (by The Players Tribune)
http://projects.theplayerstribune.com/alex-rigsby-cavallini-hockey-what-were-fighting-for/p/1
Father Uses Scuba Therapy to Restore His Paralyzed Son’s Motor Function—And Now It’s Doing the Same for Others (Good News Network)
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/father-uses-scuba-therapy-to-restore-his-paralyzed-son-and-others/
TrueSport Expert Series: Noah Hoffman on Fair Play (TrueSport)
https://truesport.org/truevoices/true-experts-video-series/
Home to Something for Everyone (by Kevon Looney and D’Angelo Russell) (The Players Tribune)
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/videos/home-to-something-for-everyone-chase-center
Protecting our planet: Governing bodies and leagues (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/en/article/news/protecting-our-planet-governing-bodies-and-leagues

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.

Sri Lanka’s First All-Female Surf Club (Great Big Story)
https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/catching-a-new-wave

Introduction
The idea of wearing a shirt to express one’s devotion to a player, team, or country is well-established. (Actually, we launched an apparel company last year based on that idea, Love Equals, www.loveequals.net) It is so well-established that sports shirts now are a huge part of the multi-billion dollar licensed goods industry.

Of course, when you wear a shirt expressing devotion to something, there may be those who will counter your allegiance with their own. Hopefully this is done in a friendly way but sometimes that does not happen. This week a story came out of a young boy in Florida who wanted to showcase his loyalty to the University of Tennessee. He was not able to find a suitable shirt, so he created his own. Some schoolmates took that to be an opportunity to bully him about the crude nature of his design. Seeing her student distraught, his teacher reached out to her network, including on Facebook, to see if she could get her student a shirt. The story went viral and UT fans from all over the world were sending notes and swag his way. It got so good that the University itself offered to make his design an official one of the school, with part of the proceeds of the sale of the shirts going to an anti-bullying campaign. Certainly a good story we wanted to feature.

The other stories we are happy to feature this week include: New York Yankee player and super teammate Cameron Maybin; NBA half-time phenom Red Panda; how the Dream Team in 1992 spurred on the global popularity of basketball and the NBA; Tanya Muzinda, a 15-year old motocross rider challenging the male-dominated world of motocross; takeaways from the recently completed compelling U.S. Open tennis championship; a rugby club in Japan that champions a lifelong commitment to sport and health; WNBA superstar, and part-time broadcaster, Candace Parker; another WNBA superstar, and WNBAPA president, Nneka Ogwumike; and an effort between the WWE and 2K and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to raise money to advance blood cancer research and treatment.

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So, enjoy. And have a good week.

Need a Hug? Just Ask the Yankees’ Cameron Maybin (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/sports/baseball/cameron-maybin-yankees-hugs.html

How Red Panda Became the NBA’s Favorite Halftime Performer (SI.com)
https://www.si.com/nba/2019/08/28/red-panda-rong-niu-nba-halftime-china-76ers-warriors

How the 1992 Dream Team sparked global NBA fandom (ESPN.com)
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27521453/how-1992-dream-team-sparked-global-nba-fandom

A Boy Was Bullied for His Homemade T-Shirt. Now the University of Tennessee Is Selling It. (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/bullied-student-university-tennesee-shirt.html

This 15-year-old biker took on a men’s world of Motocross and left them in the dust (CNN.com)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/africa/zimbabwes-15-year-old-motocross-star-intl/index.html

The U.S. Open Gave Us a Revelation, an Iconic Champion, and a Look at the Future of Tennis (The Ringer)
https://www.theringer.com/2019/9/8/20856339/us-open-rafael-nadal-bianca-andreescu-daniil-medvedev-serena

The Tokyo rugby club keeping elderly players healthy (BBC.com)
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-49598887

Candace Parker Deserves Your Respect (Complex)
https://www.complex.com/sports/2019/09/candace-parker-equality-in-wnba

How Nneka Ogwumike became Madam President, the face of WNBA players (The Undefeated)
https://theundefeated.com/features/nneka-oguwmike-los-angeles-sparks-president-of-wnba-players-association/

WWE And 2K To Donate $2 Per Re-Tweet In New WWE 2K20 Campaign To Benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (WrestlingInc)
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2019/09/wwe-and-2k-to-donate-2-per-re-tweet-in-new-wwe-2k20-659465/


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