February 25, 2024
| Welcome to week four hundred and thirty-four of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. 49ers QB Brock Purdy can trace his NFL success to his flag-football roots (SF Chronicle) 2. Nike Commits $3.2 Million to Get Native American and Indigenous Youth Playing Football — and NFL Teams Are Helping (Footwear News) 3. ‘How did I get here?’ To Princeton from Tibet, one tennis player’s remarkable road (The Athletic) 4. Northwestern’s Izzy Scane is approaching an NCAA lacrosse record. This is news to Scane (Newsday) 5. Watford FC’s charity plans will ‘enrich’ the lives of residents (Watford Observer) 6. Celtics star Jayson Tatum gets $1 million gift from SoFi to help people buy homes in St. Louis (AP) 7. Injuries, open tryouts, renewed hoop dreams: Inside TCU’s season (ESPN) 8. Caitlin Clark is a threat from anywhere, against anyone. Here are the numbers to prove it (The Athletic) 9. How a Chicago Block Party Could Represent NASCAR’s Future (Front Office Sports) 10. At Georgetown, Tasha Butts lives on (Andscape) 10+ Annual Activity Report 2023 (Centre for Sport & Human Rights) https://www.sporthumanrights.org/library/annual-activity-report-2023/ [Op-Ed] The best team in the NFL isn’t on the field this Sunday night — Up2UsSports | Playing Sports For Serious Change (Up2Us Sports) https://www.up2us.org/blog/the-best-team-in-the-nfl-isnt-on-the-field-this-sunday-night Sport for Development Coalition launches weekly drop-in webinar series (Sport and Dev) https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/sport-development-coalition-launches-weekly-drop-webinar-series German Restart Program Shows Promising Results for Club Sports (Sport and Dev) https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/german-restart-program-shows-promising-results-club-sports Chris Nikic announced as new Laureus Ambassador (Laureus) https://www.laureus.com/news/chris-nikic-announced-as-new-laureus-ambassador 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! John Cena makes Savannah Bananas debut with short at-bat (ESPN) https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/39499851/john-cena-savannah-bananas 359: Ken Shropshire Talks DEI and Collegiate Athletics (The CUSP Show) https://loom.ly/zxZiito The Good Side: Adaptive Sports Help Kids Soar (1011 Now) https://www.1011now.com/video/2024/01/24/good-side-adaptive-sports-help-kids-soar/ 2023 FundPlay Summit Video (LeagueApps) https://youtu.be/arN07UGbgR0?feature=shared |
| www.loveequals.net Introduction: This week I want to highlight not one, but two stories from this collection of, you guessed it, “good” stories. Each story involves a young, star athlete, who is doing great things early in their career. One athlete you surely know, Caitlin Clark; the other, Fnu Nidunjianzan, you don’t, unless you go to Princeton University and/or are REALLY into tennis. We’ll start with Clark. The University of Iowa superstar broke the college record for points scored by a woman last week. (Except she didn’t, since Lynette Woodard, set the real record of 3,649. Clark will eventually eclipse that as well, but let’s make sure to give Woodard her flowers.) Clark is sensational. From the first time I saw her three years ago, she became “must see TV.” Yes, a woman in sports can hold such acclaim and many are (Coco Gauff, Sydney McLaughlin, Katie Ledecky). But to me, Clark is special. Why? Well, I love basketball. And I love athletes who make/keep sports fun. Clark is giving us spectacle to wonder at, whether hitting “logo 3’s” or dishing the rock for a sweet dime. (sorry if that was too much jargon!) We have a couple of months more of seeing Clark at the collegiate level as she is sure to go pro and infuse an already trending WNBA another superstar to follow. Fnu Nidunjianzan, aka Top, is from Tibet. Yes, Tibet. (That is a first for Sports Doing Good). And his name is not Fnu – “First Name Unknown” – which, according to the great piece by Dana O’Neil in The Athletic, is “how Tibetans, who don’t follow traditional first name/surname structure, identify themselves in order to fill out pesky documents, such as U.S. visas.” (Reminds me of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s character in “In the Heights,” whose name Usnavy was given to him by his father after seeing it written on the side of a ship.”) Top’s story is pretty remarkable for several reasons, and I hope you take the time to read about him and maybe even check out one of his matches at Princeton or on the pro tour. Top and Clark remind me of the power of sport to not just change one athlete’s life, but also that of family, friends, community and society. We are just getting started with these two athletes and am sure I will have occasion to feature them again in Sports Doing Good. 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 49ers QB Brock Purdy can trace his NFL success to his flag-football roots (SF Chronicle) For full story, please click here. Nike Commits $3.2 Million to Get Native American and Indigenous Youth Playing Football — and NFL Teams Are Helping (Footwear News) For full story, please click here. ‘How did I get here?’ To Princeton from Tibet, one tennis player’s remarkable road (The Athletic) For full story, please click here. Northwestern’s Izzy Scane is approaching an NCAA lacrosse record. This is news to Scane (Newsday) For full story, please click here. Watford FC’s charity plans will ‘enrich’ the lives of residents (Watford Observer) For full story, please click here. Celtics star Jayson Tatum gets $1 million gift from SoFi to help people buy homes in St. Louis (AP) For full story, please click here. Injuries, open tryouts, renewed hoop dreams: Inside TCU’s season (ESPN) For full story, please click here. Caitlin Clark is a threat from anywhere, against anyone. Here are the numbers to prove it (The Athletic) For full story, please click here. How a Chicago Block Party Could Represent NASCAR’s Future (Front Office Sports) For full story, please click here. At Georgetown, Tasha Butts lives on (Andscape) For full story, please click here.? |
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