March 24, 2024
| Welcome to week four hundred and thirty-six of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. The Refugee Who Could Be Rookie of the Month (The Word/Religion of Sports) 2. Toronto tall tales of Zach Edey: On the ice, the diamond … and ‘What’s a Purdue?’ (The Athletic) 3. Formula E And Borussia Dortmund Are Most Sustainable Sports Entities, According To GSBS Report (Forbes) 4. Ken Griffey Jr. surprises top MLB prospects at baseball card photoshoot (Yahoo! Sports) 5. Hoop Dreams at 30: Arthur Agee, William Gates and the ties that bind (The Guardian) 6. Ray Davis grew up homeless, now he seeks to be a ‘name you’ll remember forever’ (The Athletic) 7. How basketball brought female empowerment to rural Rwanda (ESPN) 8. Bayan Sadagah Believes Saudi Women’s Soccer Is ‘Just Getting Started’ (Forbes) 9. Basketball Africa League documentary the next project of filmmaker Akin Omotoso (Andscape) 10. Being Vermont Green: Saving the Planet & Building a Mini Soccer Superpower One Game at a Time (US Soccer) 10+ Moving sport and development beyond the perennial defensive mode (Sport and Dev) https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/moving-sport-and-development-beyond-perennial-defensive-mode “A priceless resource in our communities” – Lampard hails awards winners (Sport for Development Coalition) https://www.sportfordevelopmentcoalition.org/article/priceless-resource-our-communities-lampard-hails-awards-winners Sustainability Beyond the Games (Medium) https://medium.com/change-maker/sustainability-beyond-the-games-d9f593550d73 Coaches can boost athletes’ mental health by being ‘authentic leaders’ (University of Birmingham) https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-boost-athletes-mental-health-authentic.html From London to Mexico Girls United FA Cares Out Spaces for Girls (Beyond Sport) https://beyondsport.org/articles/from-london-to-mexico-girls-united-fa-carves-out-spaces-for-girls/ 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! The Beautiful Game Official Trailer | A Netflix film inspired by the Homeless World Cup https://youtu.be/dOmxh-EdAwo?si=c3Ty7FoBYHtOq_9O Aspen Words: Winter Words with Sasha DiGiulian (Aspen Public Radio) https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/ideas-speakers-lectures/2024-03-15/aspen-words-winter-words-with-sasha-digiulian |
| www.loveequals.net Introduction: We are seeing a welcome avalanche of attention to women’s sports these days. Could be an example of a 30-year effort finding success “overnight.” Either way, the athletes and the sports themselves are being elevated in terms of our awareness (and financially), and that is what matters. Of course, the importance of everyone, including girls and women, playing sports has roots in the development of societies overall. Impact girls and women, especially, and the whole community benefits. That was the foundation of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus’s effort with Grameen Bank, whose pioneering efforts in the area of microcredit and microfinance changed countless lives and communities. (Today, more than 95% of the bank’s members are women.) Fighting poverty and lifting up families was found to happen more often when women received the loans. There are many wonderful non-profits also who are working to “lift up” communities, often through the introduction of sport and concepts of healthy living. One of the stories we present this week speaks to that. In “How basketball brought female empowerment to rural Rwanda,” written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and William Weinbaum for ESPN, we are introduced to women in rural Rwanda and their experience with Boston-based nonprofit Shooting Touch. In the article, “the women say their status has slowly shifted in the 12 years since Shooting Touch poured the cement on its first basketball court in Rwanda.” (I strongly encourage you to watch the compelling 8-minute video that comes with the article.) As someone who is married to a global health physician and policy maker, I see and hear on a daily basis the enormous effort that takes place to effectuate change in communities who often have limited access to basic resources. They also sometimes are also slow to move when it comes to the equal treatment of girls and women. (Yes, I know, that is still the case in parts of our country.) Sports can and do help. Turning upside down the “Shut-up and dribble,” idea, it seems great non-profits understand the true power of sport, that of an engine or vehicle for change in which not only does someone benefit greatly from playing sports, but they also improve the lot of their family and community as well. It is a long journey, but certainly one worth taking and one that hopefully results in another “overnight success.” 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 The Refugee Who Could Be Rookie of the Month (The Word/Religion of Sports) For full story, please click here. Toronto tall tales of Zach Edey: On the ice, the diamond … and ‘What’s a Purdue?’ (The Athletic) For full story, please click here. Formula E And Borussia Dortmund Are Most Sustainable Sports Entities, According To GSBS Report (Forbes) For full story, please click here. Ken Griffey Jr. surprises top MLB prospects at baseball card photoshoot (Yahoo! Sports) For full story, please click here. Hoop Dreams at 30: Arthur Agee, William Gates and the ties that bind (The Guardian) For full story, please click here. Ray Davis grew up homeless, now he seeks to be a ‘name you’ll remember forever’ (The Athletic) For full story, please click here. How basketball brought female empowerment to rural Rwanda (ESPN) For full story, please click here. Bayan Sadagah Believes Saudi Women’s Soccer Is ‘Just Getting Started’ (Forbes) For full story, please click here. Basketball Africa League documentary the next project of filmmaker Akin Omotoso (Andscape) For full story, please click here. Being Vermont Green: Saving the Planet & Building a Mini Soccer Superpower One Game at a Time (US Soccer) For full story, please click here. ? |
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