Category Archives: Sports and Social Responsibility

Art of football has the world as its gallery

This is a very interesting story from Matthwe Syed in The Times of London. While in Tanzania last week doing work for the paper’s yearly charity appeal, he stumbled upon…

Randy Moss Comes Full Circle

Last week, Randy Moss, star receiver for the NFL’s New England Patriots returned to Eastern Kanawha County, West Virginia where he got his start on the gridiron. While he was…

A reason to watch the Cleveland Browns

Seriously, there is a reason. You can find the full article from Yahoo! Sports at http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Josh-Cribbs-walks-with-late-coach-s-son-on-his-s?urn=nfl,202608, with an excerpt below. Josh Cribbs walks with late coach’s son on his senior…

The Athlete Perspective – Good Now, Even Better for the Future

A lot of rules in sports, whether at the grassroots or professional level, are made and certainly interpreted by those not currently playing the sport, and sometimes by those who…

The Peace and Sport Awards 2009: Nominees and Members of the Jury unveiled

The 2009 Peace and Sport International Forum will be taking place in 2 weeks in Monaco. Part of the forum is an awards program. Peace and Sport just announced the…

From the top to the bottom, bottom to the top

(I swear that is from some rap song back in the day.) In recognition of the 20th anniversary of The Convention on the Rights of the Child, various perspectives were…

Call for Papers – Making the Difference

“SportBusiness event Making The Difference – The Sport and Social Responsibility Summit – is seeking submissions of papers showcasing novel ideas, approaches and campaigns in sport and social responsibility ahead…

Spirit in Motion

We want to congratulate the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for having its online video ‘Spirit in Motion’, which was produced by brandstage.tv for ParalympicSport.TV, awarded a Best in Show award…

Myron, meet Byron

Thanks to Steffi Decker from Duke Univ. who passed along this article. You will be seeing Steffi’s contributions more often in the next few weeks. FSU standout football player, Myron…

Bringing history to life

While it may not be Field of Dreams, it gets very close. Several very industrious individuals took on the very difficult task of building a statistical archive of Negro League…