Beyond Sport

Healthy Mind, Healthy Building

October 12, 2011 by eastwin5

In professional sport in North America you usually don’t think of the facility driving awareness programs, it is usually more the teams or the athletes. The stadiums and facilities do promote programs specific to the event, “Don’t Drank and Drive” etc., but it is really not incumbent on the building for wide reaching programs for …

Boomerangs Fly For A High Cause…

October 4, 2011 by eastwin5

Most ugly Americans associate Australian Rules Football with the early days of ESPN, the kind of bizarre, out of the way rugged sport that was a throwback to the old days of the NFL tinged with the head banging of rugby. All ruffian, bizarre rules, broken bones, bloodthirsty screams. However like ESPN, AFL has come …

Beyond Sport Unites, Makes An Impact

September 28, 2011 by eastwin5

On Tuesday at Yankee Stadium several hundred professionals, many in community relations from teams from around the world, gathered for the Beyond Sport United “Sports Teams For Social Change” conference. While cynical may say that the event was a chance to have professional sport gather to network and then go back about their business of …