January 28, 2024
| Welcome to week four hundred and thirty-two of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. “Flag Football has no Ceiling”: Ashlea Klam opens up about her journey to the Women’s U.S. National Team (NBC Sports) 2. DAZN Calls for a “New Deal” for Women’s Football. (Football Business Journal) 3. Nick Saban’s final Alabama football team shares what he meant to them (AL.com) 4. Medicine For Mind, Body, Soul: Why the NLL’s Native American Heritage Nights Matter (Inside Lacrosse/Favorito) 5. You Saw Jason Kelce. This Guy Saw ‘The Feast of Bacchus.’ (New York Times) 6. French Revolution: Victor Wembanyama, the 2024 Olympics and the ‘huge boom’ that could be coming (CBS Sports) 7. NFL hires 4 coaches of color in one cycle for first time ever. And ‘it’s a big deal’ (USA Today) 8. Mamba mission: How Kobe Bryant’s immense legacy still influences today’s superstars (Yahoo Sports) 9. Ebden hits out at ageist attitudes in tennis after doubles glory with Bopanna (The Guardian) 10. The Marching Ravens Helped Make Baltimore a Football Town Again (SI) 10+ The contribution of sports to the European Green Deal (Sport and Dev) https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/contribution-sports-european-green-deal Decolonizing Sport for Development Through Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Pedagogy (Journal of Sport for Development) https://jsfd.org/2024/01/20/decolonizing-sport-for-development-through-integration-of-indigenous-knowledge-and-pedagogy/ National Alliance for Accessible Golf Launches Education Hub (The Golf Wire) https://thegolfwire.com/national-alliance-accessible-golf-education-hub/ Spirit of Sport looks ahead to Paris 2024 (Laureus) https://www.laureus.com/news/spirit-of-sport-looks-ahead-to-paris-2024 Mapping Sport’s Role in Reducing Racial Inequality in the U.S. (Beyond Sport) https://beyondsport.org/media/9032/mapping-sports-role-racial-inequality_bys_pef-2021.pdf We present 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. And now we add podcasts! From a Basement in Pennsylvania to the European Stages – A Chat with Pulisic (Serie A/YouTube) https://youtu.be/lLNxH96RaiU?si=eUXpys_W-BNm934x ‘This is a huge opportunity’ – Nikki Doucet on women’s football breaking away from the FA (Sky News) https://youtu.be/JZQuZbgoVHE?feature=shared Reaching the heights of professional cliff diving (CBS Sunday Morning) https://youtu.be/8GSvQRfsNh4?feature=shared |
| www.loveequals.net Introduction: Despite the moniker, Sports Doing Good, I have featured stories that are not 100% about sports, which makes sense. Sports can be transcendent, touching upon areas of life that we don’t necessarily associate with games. Music, movies, politics, diplomacy, medicine, law, dance, ballet, etc. Sports are everywhere. Sometimes we just need someone to point it out. Turns out, there is such a person. A great article from the New York Times, “You Saw Jason Kelce. This Guy Saw ‘The Feast of Bacchus,’” that I feature this week involves LJ Rader, a sports business professional who has achieved legendary status, at least in my eyes, when it comes to melding two separate worlds, in this case, sports and art. The article is enlightening, and so are his efforts. I wouldn’t think to associate the two worlds, other than of course, my reaction to a bevy of misplays and losses by my favorite sports teams being captured by The Scream, the work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. (you may have felt the same about your teams.) I found so much joy in reading the article about LJ, as we are given multiple examples of the collision of these two wonderful areas of life. I will surely start following LJ on social media and will surely start imagining if I can ever point out my favorite athletes and games presented by the art masters, past and present. Please continue to send along your stories. You’re both our audience and best source of stories. Our Twitter handle is @sportsdoinggood, and you can find us at www.facebook.com/sportsdoinggood and on Instagram. Finally, if you think others would like to receive the newsletter, please feel free to forward it on or have them contact us directly at sab@sportsdoinggood.com. (If you do not want to receive the newsletter anymore you can use the Unsubscribe button at the end of the email) So enjoy. And have a good week. |
| Top Stories of the Week “Flag Football has no Ceiling”: Ashlea Klam opens up about her journey to the Women’s U.S. National Team (NBC Sports) For full story, please click here. DAZN Calls for a “New Deal” for Women’s Football. (Football Business Journal) For full story, please click here. Nick Saban’s final Alabama football team shares what he meant to them (AL.com) For full story, please click here. Medicine For Mind, Body, Soul: Why the NLL’s Native American Heritage Nights Matter(Inside Lacrosse/Favorito) For full story, please click here. You Saw Jason Kelce. This Guy Saw ‘The Feast of Bacchus.’ (New York Times) For full story, please click here. French Revolution: Victor Wembanyama, the 2024 Olympics and the ‘huge boom’ that could be coming (CBS Sports) For full story, please click here. NFL hires 4 coaches of color in one cycle for first time ever. And ‘it’s a big deal’ (USA Today) For full story, please click here. Mamba mission: How Kobe Bryant’s immense legacy still influences today’s superstars (Yahoo Sports) For full story, please click here. Ebden hits out at ageist attitudes in tennis after doubles glory with Bopanna (The Guardian) For full story, please click here. The Marching Ravens Helped Make Baltimore a Football Town Again (SI) For full story, please click here. |
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