Aug. 24 – Sept. 13, 2025
Welcome to issue four hundred and seventy-three of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. Our favorite college football game-day traditions (ESPN)
2. Julieta Pareja: Meet the 16-year-old American wild card at this year’s US Open (CNN)
3. Althea Gibson’s legacy visible at 2025 US Open, 75 years after breaking color barrier (USA Today)
4. Why Ken Griffey Jr. and His Dad, Ken Griffey Sr., Want You—Yes, You—to Get Tested for Prostate Cancer (GQ Sports)
5. How the Brewers have built a $115 million MLB powerhouse (ESPN)
6. Marques Colston Wants You to Invest in Sports Assets With Him (Front Office Sports)
7. How Italy created a ‘tennis machine’ and became home to some of the world’s best players (CNN)
8. Gary Payton II gets into the action game as skateboard league founder (ESPN)
9. Heritage Werks turning authentic assets into preserved history to fuel future storytelling (SBJ)
10. How Frances Tiafoe is paying it forward, inspiring others (Andscape)


10+
Discipline, Respect and Community: The Values Trained at Barracas Boxing Club (Laureus)
https://www.laureus.com/news/discipline-respect-and-community-the-values-trained-at-barracas-boxing-club
Sport for Refugees Coalition announces the collaborative action grant winners (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/sport-refugees-coalition-announces-collaborative-action-grant-winners
UEFA Foundation Expands Humanitarian Efforts for Children in Conflict Zones (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/2025/08/21/uefa-foundation-expands-humanitarian-efforts-for-children-in-conflict-zones/
Sport and Resilience: A lever for peace, inclusion and sustainable development in Ituri (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/sport-and-resilience-lever-peace-inclusion-and-sustainable-development-ituri
Youth Sports Playbook – Get every kid in the game (Project Play)
https://projectplay.org/youth-sports/playbook


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!

Carmelo Anthony is entering the Hall of Fame with something special, a message from his son, Kiyan. (The Players’ Tribune)
https://youtu.be/a_p_lwwTaaU?si=ABj_k1U-43_aLDpg
NIGHT TO SHINE 2025 (Tim Tebow Foundation)
https://youtu.be/RRJ70Lh–r0?si=CGKw8pj81HGlTJqj


Introduction
Years ago, I taught a Business Management class and would include some content from CNBC. They had a series of 1-hour shows that looked at some of the best companies in the market. Two of the companies were Coca-Cola and Levi’s, legendary institutions in the business world, who also had cultural cache. One item that was featured in both of the profiles was the history of each company. In fact, both companies had an archivist, someone on staff who helped manage items that spoke to each company’s amazing story.

I always thought that sports teams, leagues, and events would benefit from such a commitment to preserving the most important moments from their past. Much of what connects us to sports are the memories of our experiences, whether in person or even watching at home or in a sports bar. Probably all of us have some mementos from great, even not-so-great, sports events.

I was fortunate to come across an article in SportsBusiness Journal which introduces us to a leader in the “nostalgia” space. In “Heritage Werks turning authentic assets into preserved history to fuel future storytelling,” we learn about the incredible business of memories, with sports entities one of the most interesting market segments around.

The article is a compelling reminder that while we are so focused on the present, and definitely the future, our history provides context for basically everything we experience in sports. That is terrific and certainly example of sports doing good.

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Our favorite college football game-day traditions (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46015760/our-favorite-college-football-game-day-traditions

Julieta Pareja: Meet the 16-year-old American wild card at this year’s US Open (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/sport/tennis-us-open-julieta-pareja-intl

Althea Gibson’s legacy visible at 2025 US Open, 75 years after breaking color barrier (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/open/2025/09/06/us-open-75th-anniversary-althea-gibson-breaking-color-barrier/85858545007/

Why Ken Griffey Jr. and His Dad, Ken Griffey Sr., Want You—Yes, You—to Get Tested for Prostate Cancer (GQ Sports)
https://www.gq.com/story/ken-griffey-jr-ken-griffey-sr-prostate-cancer

How the Brewers have built a $115 million MLB powerhouse (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46070566/mlb-2025-milwaukee-brewers-national-league-best-team-100-wins-low-payroll-powerhouse

Marques Colston Wants You to Invest in Sports Assets With Him (Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/marques-colston-wants-you-to-invest-in-sports-assets-with-him/

How Italy created a ‘tennis machine’ and became home to some of the world’s best players (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/sport/tennis-us-open-italy-jannik-sinner-intl

Gary Payton II gets into the action game as skateboard league founder (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/46119924/nba-free-agent-gary-payton-ii-founds-skateboard-league

Heritage Werks turning authentic assets into preserved history to fuel future storytelling (SBJ)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/09/05/heritage-werks-turning-authentic-assets-into-preserved-history-to-fuel-future-storytelling/

How Frances Tiafoe is paying it forward, inspiring others (Andscape)
https://andscape.com/features/how-frances-tiafoe-is-paying-it-forward-inspiring-others/


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