March 10, 2024
| Welcome to week four hundred and thirty-five of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. Go Eutectics! College basketball’s most prolific scorer plays for a school (with a strange mascot) you’ve never heard of (Yahoo! Sports) 2. Man on a mission: NFL great Alan Page’s quest for justice in football and beyond (The Athletic) 3. Rutgers gymnastics coach Umme Salim-Beasley advocates for change, inspired by her activist grandfather (Andscape) 4. Parity for female athletes: In this case it’s a liaison for sponsorship dollars (LA Times) 5. Why Buddy Teevens’ legacy is so important to NFL, Mannings (ESPN) 6. Saints’ Jimmy Graham Will Row Across Arctic Ocean as Part of 2025 Arctic Challenge (Bleacher Report) 7. Lionel Messi fan creates ‘What The Messi’ sneakers, and meets MLS star: ‘He’s a good soul’ (USA Today) 8. Warriors make bold move into music with Golden State Entertainment led by David Kelly (USA Today) 9. ESPN and Athletes Unlimited Sign Multi-Year Rights Agreement (Athletes Unlimited) 10. Granny style: Can an 84-year-old make the WNBA? She’s got their attention (The Athletic) 10+ Bucs Champion Girls Flag Football, With Eyes on Olympics (Beyond Sport) https://beyondsport.org/articles/bucs-girls-flag-football-tournament-and-olympics/ SCGA Junior Golf Foundation Finishes Training Series With Great Success (Up2Us Sports) https://www.up2us.org/blog/2024/2/21/scga-junior-golf-foundation-finishes-training-series-with-great-success Black History Month Grantee Spotlight (Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation) (Beyond Sport) https://beyondsport.org/articles/black-history-month-grantee-spotlight-ladf/ Spirit of Sport looks ahead to Paris 2024 (Laureus) https://www.laureus.com/news/spirit-of-sport-looks-ahead-to-paris-2024 Co-creation in sport for development: The Living Lab approach (Sport and Dev) https://www.sportanddev.org/research-learning/guiding-toolkits/co-creation-sport-development-living-lab-approach 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! Behind the Scenes with David Beckham and Thierry Henry | No Lay’s, No Game (Lay’s Football) https://youtu.be/KGA5ZTnKrS8?si=S88s0rQvr9cnu3xm French Riviera Lemon Festival Celebrates 2024 Olympics by Turning 140 Metric Tons of Fruit Into Floats (Nice News) https://nicenews.com/culture/french-lemon-festival-celebrates-2024-olympics/ |
| www.loveequals.net Introduction: Sorry for the late delivery today of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. Blame Caitlin Clark!! Another great game between Iowa and Nebraska in the conference championship. Had to watch it all the way through overtime. The article I want to highlight this week is a profile by Dan Pompei in The Athletic of NFL Hall of Famer and Minnesota Supreme Court justice, Mr. Alan Page. I have always really admired elite scholar athletes, partly because I always felt that we as individuals were obligated to do well in school; sports, while great, were optional. For someone to spend much of their time becoming great learners and great athletes just resonates with me. Page was not only a terrific NFL player, but he was also a leader amongst the players when they were fighting for their rights to become free agents. For younger people, free agency feels like a birthright. For decades, however, players were restricted in how much money they could make and where they could play. Page was part of the group that fought against that. According to Page, “We were still in the middle of the civil rights struggle. We were talking about freedom as football players. The spirit of the message was fitting.” One of the things that really impresses me about Page and the few that are like him, is his steadfastness to principles and doing the right thing, while being flexible in his ways upon reflection that maybe a change in approach would be the right way to go. Many of his teammates and fellow NFL players saw that in action over the years. At age 78, Page is still active in mind, body and spirit. The article starts with him visiting one of the two middle schools named in his honor – now that’s saying something – and standing in front of young people who, like him, have goals and dreams and may need some encouragement. Loathe to give autographs in the past, he does so willingly now as he sees the wonderful reaction of the kids. Principled and professional to this day. Kudos to Mr. Page. 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 Go Eutectics! College basketball’s most prolific scorer plays for a school (with a strange mascot) you’ve never heard of (Yahoo! Sports) For full story, please click here. Man on a mission: NFL great Alan Page’s quest for justice in football and beyond (The Athletic) For full story, please click here. Rutgers gymnastics coach Umme Salim-Beasley advocates for change, inspired by her activist grandfather (Andscape) For full story, please click here. Parity for female athletes: In this case it’s a liaison for sponsorship dollars (LA Times) For full story, please click here. Why Buddy Teevens’ legacy is so important to NFL, Mannings (ESPN) For full story, please click here. Saints’ Jimmy Graham Will Row Across Arctic Ocean as Part of 2025 Arctic Challenge (Bleacher Report) For full story, please click here. Lionel Messi fan creates ‘What The Messi’ sneakers, and meets MLS star: ‘He’s a good soul’ (USA Today) For full story, please click here. Warriors make bold move into music with Golden State Entertainment led by David Kelly (USA Today) For full story, please click here. ESPN and Athletes Unlimited Sign Multi-Year Rights Agreement (Athletes Unlimited) For full story, please click here. Granny style: Can an 84-year-old make the WNBA? She’s got their attention (The Athletic) For full story, please click here. ? |
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