June 30 – July 27, 2024
Welcome to issue four hundred and forty-four of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. ‘Inside Out 2’ Could Be a ‘Mighty Ducks’ Moment for Women’s Hockey (Front Office Sports)
2. Why St. Louis City SC’s Gateway To Growth Puts Community First (Forbes)
3. Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay becomes the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage (Yahoo! Sports)
4. Yankees and HOPE WEEK Dance Themselves To 15 Years Of Service (Joe Favorito)
5. Inside EA Sports FC Futures, the grassroots programme bringing a soccer video game into the real world (SportsPro Media)
6. How Snoop Dogg’s youth football league shaped C.J. Stroud (ESPN)
7. From sticks to Steph Curry: How Pat Spencer swapped lacrosse for the NBA (CNN)
8. The $1 Billion Opportunity: Kara Nortman’s Bet On Women’s Sports (Forbes)
9. Luol Deng has turned South Sudan basketball into a challenging Olympic team (ESPN)
10. Simone Biles’ pursuit of balance: How it made her a better person, gymnast (USA Today)


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UPS & Tennis Legend Coco Gauff Inspire Gen Z-led Small Businesses (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/articles/ups-and-tennis-legend-coco-gauff-inspire-gen-z-small-businesses/
The Transformative Power of Cricket: A Lifelong Journey. (LinkedIn/Adam Hall)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/transformative-power-cricket-lifelong-journey-adam-hall-mba-lmofe/
Sanctuary Runners Plan Global Solidarity Run (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/articles/sanctuary-runners-launch-global-solidarity-run-for-displaced-peoples/
Americans, Psychiatrists Agree: Sports Can Be Good for Mental Health (APA)
https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/News-Releases/Americans-Psychiatrists-Agree-Sports-Can-Be-Good-f
Khel Mela: An opportunity for each child to play (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/khel-mela-opportunity-each-child-play


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!

The young stars ready to take the Olympics by storm | Names of the Games (ESPN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmwhQU41-SE
Billie Jean King on the Rise of Women’s Sports (Front Office Sports podcast)
https://frontofficesports.com/podcast/billie-jean-king-on-the-rise-of-womens-sports/
Love & Grease: The story behind Gloucester’s greasy pole competition (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/video/love-grease-the-story-behind-gloucesters-greasy-pole-competition-1/


Introduction
I am starting with a job posting from our good friends at Up2Us Sports. It sounds like a great opportunity with that great organization. https://up2ussports.bamboohr.com/careers/213

In the last issue of the Sports Doing Good newsletter, I referenced the sourcing of great content ideas that come from doing the newsletter. I highlighted “My Beautiful Sisters: A Story of Courage, Hope and the Afghan Women’s Football Team,” by Khalida Popal (https://www.amazon.com/My-Beautiful-Sisters-Courage-Football-ebook/dp/B0CVLC2FZ6) as an example of such great content. Well, I ordered the book and read it in the past few weeks. Verdict? I loved it and hope that you get a chance to read it as well.

The book is not purely a sports story so it can be a book you too, can recommend to just about anyone. This is a story about equality, about fighting for something beyond yourself. Warning, it is also a damning story of mistreatment of a large group (women in Afghanistan) and individuals, e.g., Khalida, her family and friends/teammates. You can’t help but get at least a little upset at the injustices faced by the protagonists in the book.

The only slight critique I have is that I wish the book was longer. I guess that isn’t so much a critique but rather a request to Khalida and others similarly situated to continue to live your life and tell your story. You are being heard, and while progress can be frustratingly slow, progress will come, and the results will take place on both a micro and macro scale.

I will finish by highlighting some more compelling content. In this case, it is the documentary “26.2 to Life: Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon,” directed by Christine Yoo and produced by Film H?lau, Fifth Man Productions, and Stoopball, LLC in partnership with ESPN Films. I loved the film and, again, strongly recommend it.

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So, enjoy. And have a good week.

‘Inside Out 2’ Could Be a ‘Mighty Ducks’ Moment for Women’s Hockey (Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/inside-out-2-pwhl-womens-hockey-growth/

Why St. Louis City SC’s Gateway To Growth Puts Community First (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leeigel/2024/06/24/why-st-louis-city-scs-gateway-to-growth-puts-community-first/

Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay becomes the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage (Yahoo! Sports)
https://sports.yahoo.com/eritreas-girmay-sprints-win-3rd-151603640.html

Yankees and HOPE WEEK Dance Themselves To 15 Years Of Service (Joe Favorito)
https://joefavorito.com/2024/06/22/yankees-and-hope-week-dance-themselves-to-15-years-of-service/

Inside EA Sports FC Futures, the grassroots programme bringing a soccer video game into the real world (SportsPro Media)
https://www.sportspromedia.com/insights/analysis/ea-sports-fc-futures-video-game-ian-wright-uefa-grassroots-football/

How Snoop Dogg’s youth football league shaped C.J. Stroud (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40474030/how-snoop-dogg-youth-football-league-helped-shape-cj-stroud

From sticks to Steph Curry: How Pat Spencer swapped lacrosse for the NBA (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/sport/pat-spencer-nba-lacrosse-warriors-spt-intl/index.html

The $1 Billion Opportunity: Kara Nortman’s Bet On Women’s Sports (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiraforbes/2024/06/26/the-1-billion-opportunity-kara-nortmans-bet-on-womens-sports/

Luol Deng has turned South Sudan basketball into a challenging Olympic team (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/40614498/luol-deng-turned-south-sudan-basketball-challenging-olympic-team

Simone Biles’ pursuit of balance: How it made her a better person, gymnast (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/07/22/simone-biles-comeback-paris-olympics/74314926007/


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