March 23 – April 5, 2025
Welcome to issue four hundred and sixty-two of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. How Dove is championing body confidence to stop girls dropping out of sport (SportsPro)
2. After her breast cancer diagnosis, Gaby Dabrowski found unexpected ‘joy’ – and success – on the tennis court (CNN)
3. Geovany Quenda is going places. Fast. ‘I see similarities with Lamine Yamal’ (The Athletic)
4. Aaliyah Chavez’s unlikely route to top girls basketball prospect (ESPN)
5. Sport Industry Socials: Storytelling In Sport (SIG)
6. Alysa Liu takes surprise lead at figure skating world championships, capping her sensational return to the sport (CNN)
7. ‘Every Day Is a Gift’ (The Daily Coach/Favorito)
8. Tears of joy, giant Howe banner, kids on phone boxes: Newcastle’s League Cup celebration (The Athletic)
9. NASCAR Pit Crew Member Brehanna Daniels Didn’t Know She’d Be a Trailblazer (Front Office Sports)
10. Winning With Inclusion – The business case for engaging disabled sports fans (Dawna Callahan/SportsBusiness Journal)


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Annual Activity Report 2024 (Centre for Sport and Human Rights)
https://www.sporthumanrights.org/library/annual-activity-report-2024/
Saltwater Sistas Connects Indigenous Girls to Surfing in Australia (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/2025/02/28/saltwater-sistas-connecting-indigenous-girls-to-surfing-culture/
Behind the Scenes: Black College Invitational Championship (The Players’ Tribune)
https://projects.theplayerstribune.com/black-college-invitational-championship-photography/p/1
Harlem Lacrosse-Los Angeles: Helping Students ‘Aim High’ Through Education & Lacrosse (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/2025/02/28/harlem-lacrosse-los-angeles-helping-students-aim-high-through-education-lacrosse/
FIFA: Recognize, support Afghan women’s football team in exile (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/fifa-recognize-support-afghan-womens-football-team-exile


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!

Jake Dickert’s Journey: From Math Teacher to Power 4 Head Coach (Front Office Sports)
https://youtu.be/G3Audo6GcUw?si=bOP8zH6UKSQEM1nc
GBGB & Joe Marler launch the ‘Adopt a Sporting Legend’ campaign busting common myths about the breed (Greyhound Board of Great Britain)
https://youtu.be/RQMZngTZ4Co?si=omX1uYYCo_kyOWI_
How Yankees Assistant GM Jean Afterman Changed Baseball for Japanese Players (The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-yankees-assistant-gm-jean-afterman-changed-baseball/id1732117270?i=1000700084313
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Introduction
A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Glenn Gerstner, a colleague at Farmingdale State College introduced me via LinkedIn to Olivier Jarosz, a professor and practitioner, he knows in Geneva, Switzerland, where I am currently based. I connected with Olivier and had lunch with him a few days ago. We had a very enlightening discussion where I became more informed about multiple subjects, including the issues of both accessibility to sports venues and enjoyment of the event once there for those who may be differently abled. (Olivier is the founder of AccessiBall, an advisory firm.) As I teach sports law and sports facility management every semester, such issues have been front and center in my classes for some time.

While this was taking place, my go-to-resource, Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal (SBJ), published several articles that spoke about accessibility to sporting events and enjoyment once there. (You might be seeing a pattern here.) I am a huge fan of SBJ and have read hundreds of great pieces by them, but these articles, taken together, may be the best. Part of that has to do with an idea I believe in strongly, i.e., accessibility, whether it has to do with finances, equipment, fields, coaching, etc. While I don’t really mind reading SBJ and the host of other sports business newsletters I get, about the billions of private equity dollars moving into sports, it is fatiguing, and not why I teach the subject matter. While important in their own way, those articles don’t move me.

Lastly, in addition to meeting Olivier and reading the SBJ articles, I came across the staging of a major event April 2 – 3 in Berlin, Germany, and that was the 2025 Global Disability Summit. I did not know of the Summit, and I was taken with the various panels and speakers and the information and insights that were being shared. As Olivier pointed out to me during lunch, more than 1.3 BILLION individuals around the world suffer from some disability. That means it is likely that you, or someone you know, have a disability of some sort. That says a lot.

Well, what does this all have to do with Sports Doing Good? Well, if you have been a subscriber even for a little while, you know that such topics have always had a home in the newsletter. This week, though, is when it all came together for me and highlighting the subject in the newsletter was quite easy. The tenth article this week, which was published in SBJ, is by Dawna Callahan, “Winning With Inclusion – The business case for engaging disabled sports fans.” Dawna is an athlete and activist and I know you will be as taken as I was with her thoughts and advice in this space.

So, thanks go to Glenn, Olivier, SBJ, and Dawna for helping me bring all of this together in one of the most meaningful weeks over the past 13 years with Sports Doing Good. I would like to dedicate this issue to them, and to a great friend we lost way too early and who was a trailblazer and champion in this space, Mr. Eli Wolff.

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How Dove is championing body confidence to stop girls dropping out of sport (SportsPro)
https://www.sportspro.com/insights/analysis/dove-body-confident-sport-campaign-nike-venus-williams-laureus/

After her breast cancer diagnosis, Gaby Dabrowski found unexpected ‘joy’ – and success – on the tennis court (CNN)
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/sport/gaby-dabrowski-breast-cancer-tennis-spt-intl/index.html

Geovany Quenda is going places. Fast. ‘I see similarities with Lamine Yamal’ (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6235533/2025/03/28/geovany-quenda-chelsea-signing-sporting-lisbon-profile/

Aaliyah Chavez’s unlikely route to top girls basketball prospect (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/recruiting/story/_/id/44347083/top-prospect-girls-basketball-2025-aaliyah-chavez-ncaa-decision

Sport Industry Socials: Storytelling In Sport (SIG)
https://www.sportindustry.biz/sport-industry-group/sport-industry-socials/sport-industry-socials-storytelling-in-sport/

Alysa Liu takes surprise lead at figure skating world championships, capping her sensational return to the sport (CNN)
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/sport/alysa-liu-figure-skating-world-championships-spt-intl/index.html

‘Every Day Is a Gift’ (The Daily Coach/Favorito)
https://www.thedaily.coach/p/every-day-is-a-gift

Tears of joy, giant Howe banner, kids on phone boxes: Newcastle’s League Cup celebration (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6240126/2025/03/30/newcastle-league-cup-celebration-bus-parade/

NASCAR Pit Crew Member Brehanna Daniels Didn’t Know She’d Be a Trailblazer (Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/nascar-pit-crew-member-brehanna-daniels-didnt-know-shed-be-a-trailblazer/

Winning With Inclusion – The business case for engaging disabled sports fans (Dawna Callahan/SportsBusiness Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/03/31/winning-with-inclusion/


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