Category Archives: Media

A simply stated mission: Water for People (Blog Action Day 2010)

We covered PlayPumps International (PPI) last year. We loved the concept and its initial implementation. Its great works continues and we wanted to cover again the organization in light of…

Blog Action Day 2010, powered by change.org

The good folks at Change.org have once again organized a collective effort, Blog Action Day 2010. The topic this year is Water. We also will be participating on October 15th….

Reminder – Sport and Development YouTube channel

The online Platform is a website entirely dedicated to the thematic field of Sport & Development. sportanddev has organized the videos on this channel, however additional content about this topic…

Sports media – Making it your own game

In reading about the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) we came across coverage of its World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, held this year in Birmingham, England. Looked like a great event….

Boys of Summer – Baseball, and Curacao’s, heart on display

Saw a great film on Wednesday. The Boys of Summer, as you can imagine, is about youngsters playing baseball. But as we know, and as the movie shows, sports, while…

Sports slogans – Flat out, we are taking it to the next level!

Back up against the wall. Taking it to the next level. If we do what we need to do, we will get where we want to be. We are going…

Right to Play event – images of the game we love

On July 7th, Right to Play is partnering with the Nuru Project to put on a special photography exhibition/auction. They will be exhibiting images of people from around the world…

Colbert Doing Good

We love comedy. And that love is based often on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. While they don’t do a lot of sports-related faux news, when…

Football, Film, Fun, and Focus

I wanted to post a final note about this past week’s Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival held June 1-5 in New York City. Kudos goes to the founders of…

Kicking & Screening. Movies, soccer, oh my

Take two pastimes, soccer/futbol and the movies and you get the Kicking & Screening Film Festival. We have been fortunate to support the efforts of founders Rachel Markus and Greg…