June 2 – June 15, 2024
Welcome to issue four hundred and forty-two of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:
1. Dallas dreams of cricket (ESPN Cricinfo)
2. Unrivaled basketball league set to feature serious salaries and has the backing of some major names (Yahoo! Sports)
3. As MLB changes its records, Josh Gibson, not Ty Cobb, is all-time batting leader (New York Times)
4. Deaf fans to feel part of match with vibrating kit (BBC)
5. Barbie releases 9 new dolls of trailblazing women athletes — who made the team? (Good Good Good)
6. Bears chairman George McCaskey’s amazing side gig (ESPN)
7. Larry Bird in Terre Haute for opening of his museum, a superstar still shy and introverted (IndyStar)
8. Robert MacIntyre wins first PGA Tour event with father as caddie (CNN)
9. After She Escaped Her Strict Religious Community, There Was No Turning Back (Runner’s World)
10. Jets CB Qwan’tez Stiggers went from washing trucks to becoming the most unique pick of NFL Draft (Yahoo! Sports)


10+
Study reveals how sports programmes for young children can combat future youth violence (Loughborough University)
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2024/march/sport-can-combat-future-youth-violence/

Strengthening health and well-being through sport events (WHO)
https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB154/B154_CONF9-en.pdf

2023 Annual Report: A New Era for Sport and Human Rights (Sport and Rights Alliance)
https://sportandrightsalliance.org/2023-annual-report-a-new-era-for-sport-and-human-rights/

Laureus and Goal Click Team Up to Capture Sporting Stories in Photo Exhibition (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/laureus-and-goal-click-team-capture-sporting-stories-photo-exhibition

Why the fusion of diaspora diplomacy and sports diplomacy could be a golden opportunity for fostering more dynamic international relations (Gavin Price/LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-fusion-diaspora-diplomacy-sports-could-golden-fostering-price-br6ie/


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!
Larry Kwong’s incredible journey to the NHL in 1948 (NHL)
https://youtu.be/90RLZ2tD2TU?si=_0HNJsdXmLlXkvMd

14-Year-Old Arisa Trew Becomes 1st Female Skateboarder to Land 900 (Bleacher Report)
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10123068-video-14-year-old-arisa-trew-becomes-1st-female-skateboarder-to-land-900

375: Todd Ehrlich Talks New Book and the Art of Storytelling (The CUSP Show)
https://podcasts.apple.com/id/podcast/375-todd-ehrlich-talks-new-book-and-the-art-of-storytelling/id1073489617?i=10006
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Introduction
I had a funny interaction with a friend last week regarding cricket. He was planning to go to a game out on Long Island as part of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. He asked me to give him a primer on T20 cricket. Made sense, I am South Asian, I must know the rules. (that was my thought, not necessarily his.) I laughed and said, “Give me 20 minutes, I will figure it out.”

I know of cricket, both the traditional format and the newer T20, but more in the context of sports business than the rules and playing history. But the 20 minutes helped, especially reading some articles detailing the results of some of the T20 matches (including the USA’s upset of Pakistan in the first round). It all came together.

The T20 is getting a lot of attention, especially in New York, one of the 3 sites for the World Cup, and the home to hundreds of thousands of cricket fans, many of them immigrants from the well-known cricket countries. That large group, often referred to as the “diaspora,” is a source of incredible fandom, heretofore, underestimated fandom. As we are seeing with other international sports, e.g., F1, rugby, something called soccer, ?, non-native sports in the U.S. can have major success.

The first article this week in the newsletter, “Dallas dreams of cricket,” from ESPN Cricinfo gives us some exposure to the sport, and the potential of Dallas as being one of the hubs for the sport, not just in the U.S., but globally as well. Cricket definitely has a future here.

My only regret regarding the World Cup is that my dad and uncle are not here to see it. I would have LOVED to bring them to a match on Long Island, where we lived. Both men came to the U.S. more than 50 years ago from India, to create a new life not just for themselves, but for their families. There was no real discussion in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s regarding cricket in the U.S., other than to point out the small pockets of players in the New York-area competing in a pick-up game. The presence of the T20 today is evidence of the evolution of our American society, one that entails more similarities than differences among its populace. Sports fandom and participation give us that. Nice to see cricket part of that mix.

Happy Father’s Day to my dad, uncle, and all of the dads (and uncles) out there.

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Top Stories of the Week

Dallas dreams of cricket (ESPN Cricinfo)
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Unrivaled basketball league set to feature serious salaries and has the backing of some major names (Yahoo! Sports)
For full story, please click here.

As MLB changes its records, Josh Gibson, not Ty Cobb, is all-time batting leader (New York Times)
For full story, please click here.

Deaf fans to feel part of match with vibrating kit (BBC) For full story, please click here.

Barbie releases 9 new dolls of trailblazing women athletes — who made the team? (Good Good Good)
For full story, please click here.

Bears chairman George McCaskey’s amazing side gig (ESPN) For full story, please click here.

Larry Bird in Terre Haute for opening of his museum, a superstar still shy and introverted (IndyStar)
For full story, please click here.

Robert MacIntyre wins first PGA Tour event with father as caddie (CNN)
For full story, please click here.

After She Escaped Her Strict Religious Community, There Was No Turning Back (Runner’s World)
For full story, please click here.

Jets CB Qwan’tez Stiggers went from washing trucks to becoming the most unique pick of NFL Draft (Yahoo! Sports)
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