Tag Archives: tennis

Sports Doing Good Newsletter, #261

April 30 – May 6, 2017 Welcome to week two hundred and sixty-one of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: How Sports Illustrated Made The First…

Sports Doing Good Newsletter, #240

Nov. 20 – Dec. 3, 2016 Welcome to week two hundred and forty of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: What I Found in Standing Rock…

Sports Doing Good Newsletter, #219

June 19 – June 25, 2016 Welcome to week two hundred and nineteen of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include:   1.      Soccer league pits man…

Tennis at San Quentin: Playing inside the lines and outside of ourselves

There are constant debates about the merits of locking people up, as well as programs or services to make available to those who are indeed incarcerated. Is it all about…

Playing tennis with a purpose, just like Venus and Serena

There are many casualties of war. Yes, that is an understatement. There are too many losses of life and ways of life. We have seen both with returning soldiers in…

Double effort – Bopanna and Qureshi go for the tennis and diplomacy title

Tonight, at the U.S. Open in New York City, the doubles team of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi will be playing the Bryan twins for the title. Both doubles teams…

Feet, hands, soccer, tennis – Nadal and Djokovic have it all!

Fun stuff from great tennis players and pretty good soccer/futbol players as well. An embarrassment of riches as they say. Click here to watch a fun video.

Tennis legend Navratilova gets back up, way up

From our friends at Laureus: Martina Navratilova joined by Sir Bobby Charlton, Kim Clijsters and a host of stars to launch Kilimanjaro Challenge LONDON, June 26, 2010 – On the…

Indian and Pakistani players join forces to promote peace through Wimbledon

Our friends at Peace and Sport sent us the following press release that we were so impressed with that we are presenting it here in its entirety. We applaud the…