Way to go Coach Stallings. Vanderbilt stands out again for the right reasons, even though in this case basketball coach Kevin Stallings was hoping to keep this act of generosity…

The Minnesota Vikings, the lastest stop on the Brett Favre “I don’t know what to do when I am retired so I will play for every team in the NFL”…

Sports is often cited as a way to escape from the drudgery often encountered in every day life. Sometimes, it does more than help us escape. It actually can contribute…

This guy seems to do it all. (His commercials are awesome). The PeyBack Bowl “partners local and national celebrities with corporate sponsors for an evening of bowling featuring great prizes…

NB3 Challenge – Notah Begay, Tiger Woods, Mike Weir, and Camilo Villegas. The corresponding press release can be found at http://www.notah.com/content.aspx?id=783. Congratulations to all involved on a great event. [vodpod…

From Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily’s Closing Bell, Aug. 28, 2009. Kudos to ESPN for highlighting this very special day and for providing another forum for Jeremy Schaap’s reporting. ESPN…

A quick scanning of the bios showed a couple of sports-targeted, at least in part, philanthropists.  Outside of super-entrepreneur Ted Turner at #14, the most sports-centric is Dietmar Hopp. Hopp,…

The Los Angeles Dodgers held their second “RadioTeleWebethon” to raise money for ThinkCure!, its official charity, on Friday, Aug. 21st.  ThinkCure! is a community-based nonprofit that raises funds to accelerate…

(From SportsBusiness Daily, 8/21/09.)  The WNBA will host a series of events beginning Sunday to generate awareness about breast cancer and raise funds to help fight the disease. Efforts will…

Giving back, whether through time, money, and/or expertise is often a very personal matter. We naturally feel for those people and places with which we have some connection.  For sports…