The News Review:
- What defines a sport? Like a ping-pong match, the debate goes back…
- Fifty years later, O’Ree still teaching through sports
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- Packers’ boss says adults, kids must be good sports
What defines a sport? Like a ping-pong match, the debate goes back…
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 17, 2008
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What defines a sport? Like a ping-pong match, the debate goes back and forth
By. It takes skill and agility. But is it a sport?
Stacking supporters think so.
Fifty years later, O’Ree still teaching through sports
ESPN – Jan 17, 2008
comWillie O’Ree made hockey history on Jan. 18, 1958, by becoming the first black player to suit up for an NHL game. His NHL résumé is a modest 45 games, including four goals and 10 assists, but O’Ree’s legacy runs much deeper and his story is much greater. This week the league celebrates the 50th anniversary of his historic debut, and in this week’s Facing Off we go one-on-one with the hockey legend. O’Ree, 72, discusses the incredible secret he kept to ensure his NHL dream continued, explains how he survived years of physical and verbal abuse on the ice and why his love for the game lives on with thousands of kids across North America.
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 17, 2008
He said he had no concerns regarding his participation in Sunday's AFC Championship Game. com > San Diego Chargers — LT expects to be ‘close to 100 percent’ Sunday.
Packers’ boss says adults, kids must be good sports
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Jan 17, 2008
“I know that’s probably sacrilegious, working now for an organization that Vince Lombardi came from,” Mark Murphy told a breakfast audience at the Milwaukee Club, 706 N. The gathering kicked off local efforts of the Positive Coaching Alliance, an organization that aims to develop character as well as athletic ability among kids who are involved in sports. Murphy isn’t opposed to hard effort, excellence or coming out on top in a competition – especially not Sunday, when the Packers play the New York Giants for the chance to go to the Super Bowl. But he is highly critical of trends in youth sports that are making the world of many kids a win-or-else place in which the love of sports withers and opportunities for character development are missed.
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