May 5 – May 18, 2024
Welcome to issue four hundred and forty of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. The improbable mission of a 5-foot-6, 160-pound college football walk-on (The Athletic)
2. Ipswich Town celebrate remarkable promotion to Premier League (ESPN)
3. Larry Demeritte Is The First Caribbean Trainer In Kentucky Derby History (First and Pen)
4. Sachin Tendulkar, a New Hero For a New India (The Juggernaut)
5. Retiring WNBA legend Candace Parker is the new president of Adidas women’s basketball (exclusive) (Fast Company)
6. After some progress, Baltimore to host The Aspen Institute’s national youth sports conference: ‘People are trying’ (Baltimore Sun)
7. Women’s Sports-Focused NewFront Changes the Media Buying Game (Adweek)
8. Ehrenberg Seeks Reward Going Big in Early-Stage Sports VC (Sportico)
9. World Series Champ Dexter Fowler Is A College Grad Thanks To Tuition Clause In MLB Contract (First and Pen)
10. AC Milan Takes to the Pitch with His Mother’s Surname for the Right to Personal Identity (AC Milan)


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Global Photography Content Celebrates Women & Girls in Sport (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/articles/global-women-in-sports-photography-competition-accepting-entries/
CalHOPE Courage Award winners Nelsen, Amey overcome mental health struggles to shine in their sports (AP)
https://apnews.com/article/calhope-courage-award-nelsen-amey-9390c3865c89b1c85ee9d4859c27c7c8
Laureus Sport for Good USA Announces 2024 Grant Award Recipients (Laureus)
https://laureususa.com/news/laureus-sport-for-good-usa-announces-2024-grant-award-recipients/
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
PEACE AND SPORT INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2024 (A universal platform for peace! (Peace and Sport)
https://forum2024.peace-sport.org/


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. And now we add podcasts!

Broncos hold news conference on girls flag football becoming a high school sport in Colorado
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/video/broncos-hold-news-conference-on-girls-flag-football-becoming-a-high-school-sport-in-colorado/
Career-ending leg break to managing community programs – David Busst’s incredible story | ITV Sport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoRFh99HuEQ
Utah State’s Blake Anderson finds his purpose after tragedy (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=40081140
Tramont Miles Thrived In Secret As South Carolina Mascot “Cocky” (First and Pen)
https://firstandpen.com/tramont-miles-south-carolina-mascot-cocky/


Introduction
The business of sport is a globally relevant enterprise. Teams around the world in a variety of sports are bringing their respective fans immense joy (sometimes bringing immense heartache for sure) and new stories about great players and great plays are being etched. One such story is included in this week’s newsletter, “Ipswich Town celebrate remarkable promotion to Premier League.”

For those not familiar with the idea of promotion and relegation, it is hard to truly appreciate the feeling that fans from a promoted team (or the opposite) will have. Imagine that promotion happened twice in two years, taking their fans on a journey that only seemed possible in a dream. Ipswich Town is a story of a team with some wonderful history, but also some too-familiar heartache. But it seemed that their fans, including one Mr. Ed Sheeran, held hope for better days. Well, those days are here.

There are familiar points made when folks talk about the phenomena of promotion/relegation and its potential in the U.S. For the most part, no one thinks it will happen here, at least not in any of the major leagues. The uncertainty of a team’s position in a league is too much of a risk for a team to bear, especially if they spent millions/billions to become a brand-new team in the league. For our teams’ owners and their fans, no matter how bad the season, they will stay in the top league. There is some comfort in that, even if that comfort comes at the expense of the bewildering excitement and joy for a team’s downtrodden fan base who just was promoted. Either way, achieving long-held goals and wishes is a special moment for all involved, especially the fans. (just ask the Minnesota Timberwolves!)

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The improbable mission of a 5-foot-6, 160-pound college football walk-on (The Athletic)
https://theathletic.com/5457913/2024/05/02/sam-salz-texas-am-football-shabbat/

Ipswich Town celebrate remarkable promotion to Premier League (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40081360/ipswich-town-celebrate-remarkable-promotion-premier-league

Larry Demeritte Is The First Caribbean Trainer In Kentucky Derby History (First and Pen)
https://firstandpen.com/larry-demeritte-caribbean-black-trainer-2024-kentucky-derby/

Sachin Tendulkar, a New Hero For a New India (The Juggernaut)
https://www.thejuggernaut.com/sachin-tendulkar-india-cricket-history

Retiring WNBA legend Candace Parker is the new president of Adidas women’s basketball (exclusive) (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91117560/candace-parker-wnba-president-adidas-womens-basketball

After some progress, Baltimore to host The Aspen Institute’s national youth sports conference: ‘People are trying’ (Baltimore Sun)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/05/13/baltimore-aspen-institute-youth-sports-conference/

Women’s Sports-Focused NewFront Changes the Media Buying Game (Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/sports-innovation-lab-womens-sports-club-newfront-media-buying/#

Ehrenberg Seeks Reward Going Big in Early-Stage Sports VC (Sportico)
https://www.sportico.com/business/finance/2024/eberg-capital-has-quickly-bcome-a-force-1234778264/

World Series Champ Dexter Fowler Is A College Grad Thanks To Tuition Clause In MLB Contract (First and Pen)
https://firstandpen.com/dexter-fowler-mlb-penn-state-graduation/

AC Milan Takes to the Pitch with His Mother’s Surname for the Right to Personal Identity (AC Milan)
https://www.acmilan.com/it/news/articoli/club/2024-05-10/ac-milan-scende-in-campo-con-il-cognome-materno-per-il-diritto-all-identita-personale


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