Nov. 9 – Nov. 22, 2025
Welcome to issue four hundred and seventy-eight of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. How a Broncos star and diehard Chiefs fan joined forces to help kids (The Athletic)
2. Georgia Tech’s first football star has a heckuva story to tell (ESPN)
3. Boxer and model Ramla Ali returned to Kenya to give refugees hope (CNN)
4. This Scrappy Soccer Team Has a Chance at Making the World Cup (New York Times)
5. The Sixers, Ghost and the most remarkable 16th man in the NBA (ESPN)
6. Curaçao, the smallest nation in World Cup history, just shocked the soccer world (Yahoo Sports)
7. Yankees GM Brian Cashman Jokes He’s a Meme In ‘Sleep Out’ Charity Viral Video (Bleacher Report)
8. The Basketball Star Who Accidentally Became a Country Music Heartthrob (New York Times)
9. Katie Hill worked for a President. Now she uplifts voices at the NFL. (Outsports)
10. Fernando Mendoza Wasn’t Supposed to Take Indiana Football This Far (SI)


10+
Egan Bernal named “Champion for Peace of the Year 2025” (Peace and Sport)
https://www.peace-sport.org/news/egan-bernal-named-champion-for-peace-of-the-year-2025/
New Balance Spain Steps Up to Support Sport Together Fund (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/2025/11/17/new-balance-spain-steps-up-to-support-sport-together-fund/
European Evening of Sport reinforces partnership between EU and Olympic movement (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/european-evening-sport-reinforces-partnership-between-eu-and-olympic-movement
None of This Was Supposed to Happen (by Jordan Love) (The Players’ Tribune)
https://signature.theplayerstribune.com/jordan-love-nfl-football-green-bay-packers/p/1
Pro Sport & Social Impact Leaders Gather in NYC for Beyond Sport United 2025 (Beyond Sport)
https://beyondsport.org/2025/11/17/pro-sport-social-impact-leaders-gather-in-nyc-for-beyond-sport-united-2025/


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!

Scotland Fans Go Completely Crazy As They Qualify For Their First World Cup Since 1998 (Sommit Sports)
https://youtu.be/xzWFfC1v-ng?si=XPklujIk54mvGPF-
Sleep coach to top athletes shares secrets for getting the best rest before a big day (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/health/video/sleep-coach-sports-soccer-digvid-wellness
From 100 projects to Every Child’ (love.futbol)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRNxS5Rj121/?hl=en
Kelsie Whitmore recalls “amazing” moment hearing she’s top pick of Women’s Pro Baseball League (MSN)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/kelsie-whitmore-recalls-amazing-moment-hearing-she-s-top-pick-of-women-s-pro-baseball-league/vi-AA1QTNzZ
Irish football fans explode after World Cup qualifying goal (news.com.au)
https://youtube.com/shorts/NJhlWjkJ0wk?si=G0S7kdLxGfQfjAqr

Introduction
The next eight years or so are going to be ripe with mega sports events in the United States. Starting with what is likely to be the biggest and most well-attended World Cup ever, in 2026 (hosting along with Canada and Mexico), we will have the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028, along with the Women’s World Cup in 2031, Men’s Rugby World Cup in 2031 and the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2033, and then the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2034. So yes, we will have multiple opportunities to join together as the human race to watch and celebrate the world’s best athletes. It should be fun.

Interestingly, it is not only the actual tournaments that are/will be compelling, it is also the process teams from all over the world, the biggest and the smallest, go through to qualify for the tournaments. This week we got a taste of how amazingly powerful such opportunities are and how people come together to celebrate not only the destination, but the journey. There are two articles and two videos that help tell such a story. “This Scrappy Soccer Team Has a Chance at Making the World Cup,” in the New York Times, “Curaçao, the smallest nation in World Cup history, just shocked the soccer world,” at Yahoo Sports, along with two entries in the video section above (Ireland and Scotland).

Let’s be clear, none of these four teams actually have a good chance to win the World Cup next year (I’d love to be wrong.). But they were all fighting for the chance to get there. THAT, is victory in and of itself. Football is the world’s sport and if you seemingly share nothing with another person, there is a good chance you are both “footy” fans and can appreciate and smile when a team takes one step closer to being a World Cup entrant. That is definitely sports doing good in action.

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How a Broncos star and diehard Chiefs fan joined forces to help kids (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6801393/2025/11/13/garett-bolles-broncos-childhood-apraxia-of-speech/

Georgia Tech’s first football star has a heckuva story to tell (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46852321/college-football-georgia-tech-leonard-wood-teddy-roosevelt

Boxer and model Ramla Ali returned to Kenya to give refugees hope (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/sport/ramla-ali-kenya-refugees-spc

This Scrappy Soccer Team Has a Chance at Making the World Cup (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/europe/this-scrappy-soccer-team-has-a-cinderella-chance-at-making-the-world-cup.html

The Sixers, Ghost and the most remarkable 16th man in the NBA (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46917311/the-philadelphia-76ers-dj-ghost-most-remarkable-16th-man-nba

Curaçao, the smallest nation in World Cup history, just shocked the soccer world (Yahoo Sports)
https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/article/curacao-the-smallest-nation-in-world-cup-history-just-shocked-the-soccer-world-053328466.html

Yankees GM Brian Cashman Jokes He’s a Meme In ‘Sleep Out’ Charity Viral Video (Bleacher Report)
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25301290-yankees-gm-brian-cashman-jokes-hes-meme-sleep-out-charity-viral-video

The Basketball Star Who Accidentally Became a Country Music Heartthrob (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/nyregion/adrien-nunez-low-road-songs-basketball.html

Katie Hill worked for a President. Now she uplifts voices at the NFL. (Outsports)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/katie-hill-worked-for-a-president-now-she-uplifts-voices-at-the-nfl/ar-AA1QUfvd

Fernando Mendoza Wasn’t Supposed to Take Indiana Football This Far (SI)
https://www.si.com/college-football/fernando-mendoza-indiana-hoosiers-football-heisman-underdog

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