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Sports Doing Good Newsletter #434

February 25, 2024 Welcome to week four hundred and thirty-four of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. 49ers QB Brock Purdy can trace his NFL success to his flag-football roots (SF…

Sports Doing Good Newsletter #431

January 14, 2024 Welcome to week four hundred and thirty-one of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. Phil Gordon spent decades helping poor kids become champions in tennis and in life…

Sports Doing Good Newsletter #423

Sept. 10 – Sept. 23, 2023Welcome to issue four hundred and twenty-three of the Sports Doing Good newsletter. This week’s 10 stories include: 1. US Open Winner Coco Gauff Is…

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.