July 27 – Aug. 9, 2025
Welcome to issue four hundred and seventy-one of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:

1. Fauja Singh, world’s oldest marathon runner, showed us how to persevere with joy (Religion News)
2. Football Architects: How Croatia became world football’s great overperformers (The Athletic)
3. Gold Medal Gymnast Aly Raisman Partners with International OCD Foundation to Raise Awareness and Combat Stigma (IOCDF)
4. How Ultimate Frisbee Helps Reclaim the Joy of Youth Sports (Psychology Today)
5. Football Welcomes at Amnesty International (Women in Football)
6. “Why Not Hockey?”: A Father’s Legacy and the Rise of a Quiet Revolution (LinkedIn)
7. Why record-breaking athlete Abdelrahman Elaraby is about more than just swimming (CNN)
8. Collegiate Cricket League launches in USA with encouragement from USA Cricket and global icons (cricexec)
9. New York City FC And Partners Turn Concrete Into Community With ‘26 For 26’ (Forbes)
10. What makes Ichiro a Hall of Famer, from teammates, opponents (ESPN)


10+
A summer of Olympic milestones, medals and momentum (IOC)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/summer-olympic-milestones-medals-momentum-1male/
Mapping Rights and Duties at the Intersection of Sport, Human Rights and the Climate Crisis (Centre for Sport & Human Rights)
https://www.sporthumanrights.org/library/mapping-rights-and-duties-at-the-intersection-of-sport-human-rights-and-the-climate-crisis
Her Excellency Ms. Isabelle Picco: Everything is beneficial when it comes to sport (Peace and Sport)
https://www.peace-sport.org/watch-en/her-excellency-ms-isabelle-picco-everything-is-beneficial-when-it-comes-to-sport/
Reimagining sport for development in Côte d’Ivoire (Sport and Dev)
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/reimagining-sport-development-c%C3%B4te-divoire
Through rugby and golf, Associação Hurra fosters educational pathways for young people in Brazil (Laureus)
https://www.laureus.com/news/through-rugby-and-golf-associa-o-hurra-fosters-educational-pathways-for-young-people-in-brazil


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!

SC Featured: Rams help community heal at Maui minicamp (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/45833284
Steph Curry discusses access to youth sports, motivation to win and more (ESPN)
https://youtu.be/dBAR3st90Uk?si=nFWj0D_Sy-cTkXrF
Devarao Chaudhari’s SECRET to Becoming India’s Fastest Ultramarathoner (The Bridge)
https://youtu.be/byI7G0fKG38?si=PxFAAqEtiJH5Xw49
All-Girls Baseball Team competes at Cooperstown All Star Village (Ripken Baseball)
https://youtu.be/6W0zpQuPva4?si=jf1dqTrAqxNKppFW


Introduction
In the last issue of Sports Doing Good, I referred to the ideas of legacy and impact. As I had mentioned, these ideas have had a presence in every one of the 471 newsletters. Instead of burnout or boredom, I am repeatedly encouraged and energized by each story I come across. That reality is one of the main reasons I started to do the newsletter more than 13 years ago. It was selfish in a way; that is, I wanted to find stories that made me feel good, about myself, about my neighbors, and about the larger communities in the U.S. and around the world.

When I look back on previous newsletters, I have at least a tiny recollection of most of the 6,000+ stories. There are also stories that stand out from the crowd. Such a story exists this week. It is not a new story, as the gentleman highlighted was featured a couple of times before in Sports Doing Good. Fauja Singh (no relation), was the rarest of the rare athletes in the world. His age, while not official, made him one of the oldest athletes ever. Many people have said that you are never too old to try something new and I believe that. But taking up running in your 80’s, is somewhat hard to believe. But Fauja Singh did it. He completed multiple marathons over the next 25 years, along with countless other runs. He attracted hundreds who ultimately ran with him and drafted off his incredible energy and resilience.

This past week Fauja Singh was killed in a hit-and-run accident while running. Though the sadness is real, the celebration is more pronounced. As made clear in the first story this week, “Fauja Singh, world’s oldest marathon runner, showed us how to persevere with joy, in Religion News, Fauja Singh clearly understood about legacy and was committed to touching the lives of others, especially young people. Simran Jeet Singh (no relation), who wrote this article was also the author of a children’s book based on this extraordinary gentleman, “Fauja Singh Keeps Going.” Despite the tragic accident last week, I am confident that, indeed, Fauja Singh will keep going, and we all will be better for it.

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Fauja Singh, world’s oldest marathon runner, showed us how to persevere with joy (Religion News)
https://religionnews.com/2025/07/15/fauja-singh-the-oldest-known-marathon-runner-showed-us-how-to-overcome/

Football Architects: How Croatia became world football’s great overperformers (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6445372/2025/07/17/football-architects-croatia-football-overperformers/

Gold Medal Gymnast Aly Raisman Partners with International OCD Foundation to Raise Awareness and Combat Stigma (IOCDF)
https://iocdf.org/blog/2025/07/15/raisman_iocdf_partnership/

How Ultimate Frisbee Helps Reclaim the Joy of Youth Sports (Psychology Today)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lets-talk/202506/how-ultimate-frisbee-helps-reclaim-the-joy-of-youth-sports

Football Welcomes at Amnesty International (Women in Football)
https://www.womeninfootball.co.uk/news/2024/04/16/guest-feature-football-welcomes-at-amnesty-international-uk/

“Why Not Hockey?”: A Father’s Legacy and the Rise of a Quiet Revolution (LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-hockey-fathers-legacy-rise-quiet-revolution-singh-wkjic/

Why record-breaking athlete Abdelrahman Elaraby is about more than just swimming (CNN)
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/24/sport/abdelrahman-elaraby-world-aquatics-championships-intl

Collegiate Cricket League launches in USA with encouragement from USA Cricket and global icons (cricexec)
https://www.cricexec.com/collegiate-cricket-league-launches-in-usa-with-encouragement-from-usa-cricket-and-global-icons/78842/#:~:text=The%20Collegiate%20Cricket%20League%20(CCL,level%20in%20the%20United%20States

New York City FC And Partners Turn Concrete Into Community With ‘26 For 26’ (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leeigel/2025/07/23/new-york-city-fc-and-partners-turn-concrete-into-community-with-26-for-26/

What makes Ichiro a Hall of Famer, from teammates, opponents (ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43414814/mlb-baseball-hall-fame-2025-ichiro-suzuki-stories-mariners-yankees-marlins


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