June 2 – June 15, 2025
Welcome to issue four hundred and sixty-seven of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. Dan Rolfes was Given the 1% Shot and Buried it (USA Basketball)
2. 2025: The Year of the Female Athlete on Social Media? (SIG)
3. FEVO Sport Industry Awards 2025 – Integrity & Impact Award – Mel Young MBE (Sport Industry Group)
4. New MLB-backed pro softball league eager to capitalize on sport’s surging popularity (The Athletic)
5. Derek Carr Didn’t Want to ‘Just Take the Saints Money’ (Front Office Sports)
6. How Sony seeks to broaden the NHL’s reach in new global tech partnership (SportsBusiness Journal)
7. After L.A. fires, a local run club helps pick up the pieces (ESPN)
8. Miracle League fosters development of baseball fields where people with disabilities can enjoy the game (Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal)
9. The wrestler in lipstick: Why Olympian Amit Elor prioritizes pre-match glam (and romance novels) (Yahoo!)
10. Indiana Is the Center of the Basketball Universe—Thanks to Both Pro Teams (Front Office Sports)


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Olympism365 Summit: IOC and partners announce new tools and programmes to strengthen safety and well-being in and through sport (IOC)
https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/olympism365-summit-ioc-and-partners-announce-new-tools-and-programmes-to-strengthen-safety-and-well-being-in-and-through-sport
Pride Month Special: Tomorrow Women in Sports Foundation is Reclaiming the Field (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/2025/06/03/pride-month-special-tomorrow-women-in-sports-foundation-reclaiming-the-field/
Old and young can practice sport together (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/old-and-young-can-practice-sport-together
‘I want to team up with Laureus to make sure every girl has access to sport’ – Stanway sets her goal at ICON conference (Laureus)
https://www.laureus.com/news/i-want-to-team-up-with-laureus-to-make-sure-every-girl-has-access-to-sport-stanway-sets-her-goal-at-icon-conference
Didier Drogba, Peace and Sport Vice-President commits to the planet through his foundation (Peace and Sport)
https://www.peace-sport.org/news/didier-drogba-peace-and-sport-vice-president-commits-to-the-planet-through-his-foundation/


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!

How twin sister triathletes doubled down on sports success to raise health-startup millions from investors (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/twin-sister-triathletes-turned-sports-success-into-startup-millions.html
Cosmico! The Inside Story of the New York Cosmos’ Trip to Cuba (The Football Heritage Podcast)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4fTZFpd5eevdTPvkLoy7NX?si=_cKgWQxFQhWs2eOApC65Gg&nd=1&dlsi=9cba5b5a18004793
Coach Across America (Up2Us Sports)
https://youtu.be/zU-XuyTjUYM?si=kNmfcqeDsoYYRy3d


Introduction
I am proud to announce that I have been invited to join the inaugural Board of Directors for South Asians in Sports (SAIS), an organization for which I have been a proud member the past 7 years. A career journey for anyone hopefully includes support from those who understand to some degree the challenges you are facing but also are privy to the exciting opportunities that exist for you as well. That is SAIS in a nutshell. And this announcement is hopefully not seen as relevant only for other South Asians. The announcement is for everyone else involved in sports business who want to achieve success in sports and can learn about opportunities working with South Asians, as well as opportunities targeting the growing South Asian population in the U.S. (and Canada) and the surging Indian sports market as well. (you may have seen the recent news about Nike’s design collaboration kicking off in the country.)

Even after almost 15 years doing the Sports Doing Good newsletter, I do come across initiatives that are surprising, whether for their creativity and/or the magnitude of the success of the effort. A perfect example of that comes in this week’s issue with the story, “Miracle League fosters development of baseball fields where people with disabilities can enjoy the game,” published by the SportsBusiness Journal. The Miracle League is a “nationwide organization (that) has been making magic happen by providing an opportunity for people with disabilities, about 70% of whom are children, to come together, make friends and oh yes, play a little baseball,” for the past 25 years. This is amazing. While I have seen stories about an isolated effort to better include those with disabilities in sports, I was not aware of the huge effort by Miracle League that has “spread out across all 50 states as well as Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Puerto Rico, that serve 450,000 people per year,” and has attracted participation from all 30 MLB teams. Congratulations to a definite game changer, Diane Alford, and her amazing team. I look forward to finding ways to support the organization and broader effort.

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So, enjoy. And have a good week.

Dan Rolfes was Given the 1% Shot and Buried it (USA Basketball)
https://www.usab.com/news/2025/04/dan-rolfes-was-given-the-1-shot-and-buried-it

2025: The Year of the Female Athlete on Social Media? (SIG)
https://www.sportindustry.biz/news-categories/features/2025-the-year-of-the-female-athlete-on-social-media/

FEVO Sport Industry Awards 2025 – Integrity & Impact Award – Mel Young MBE (Sport Industry Group)
https://youtu.be/HOTginng-WQ?si=jM9TTowQShu9EkOf

New MLB-backed pro softball league eager to capitalize on sport’s surging popularity (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6387741/2025/05/29/mlb-pro-softball-league-athletes-unlimited/

Derek Carr Didn’t Want to ‘Just Take the Saints Money’ (Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/derek-carr-didnt-want-to-just-take-the-saints-money/

How Sony seeks to broaden the NHL’s reach in new global tech partnership (SportsBusiness Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/06/04/how-sony-seeks-to-broaden-the-nhls-reach-in-new-global-tech-partnership/

After L.A. fires, a local run club helps pick up the pieces (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45437646/after-la-fires-local-run-club-helps-pick-pieces

Miracle League fosters development of baseball fields where people with disabilities can enjoy the game (Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/06/02/making-magic-happen/

The wrestler in lipstick: Why Olympian Amit Elor prioritizes pre-match glam (and romance novels) (Yahoo!)
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/the-wrestler-in-lipstick-why-olympian-amit-elor-prioritizes-pre-match-glam-and-romance-novels-090037573.html

Indiana Is the Center of the Basketball Universe—Thanks to Both Pro Teams (Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/indiana-is-the-center-of-the-basketball-universe-thanks-to-both-pro-teams/

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