Good News in Sports

Athletes Doing Good and Sports Doing Good

A team of both boy and girl soccer players huddle together, smiling

Youth soccer club forms teams based on skill level – not sex or gender: 'The kids let go of the binary'

Discriminatory laws have led to lower sports participation among young trans athletes. So this independent club is giving them a space to play.

A sports fan uses a haptic feedback device while sitting in the stands of a baseball game.

Blind basketball fans can now watch the game 'through their fingers' — and 3 other ways sports became more accessible in 2025

2025 marked four significant innovations in the sports world, from adaptive Little League baseball diamonds to ASL sports coverage.

On the left, a blue shin guard being put on beneath a sock. On the right, a glass jar full of plastic bottle caps.

This Argentinian teen once turned a plastic bucket into shin guards. Now he’s donated 5,000 pairs to kids in need

As the founder and CEO of Fenikks, Tomás Machuca has helped over 56 communities across Argentina.

A golfer stands by a golf ball with a club at the ready.

This golf tournament is the largest zero-waste sporting event in the world

For 12 years, the “People’s Open” in Phoenix, Arizona has served as the largest zero-waste sporting event in the world.

An aerial view of Olympic housing in Cortina for 2026

2026 Winter Olympic villages debuted: Athletes to live in 'trailer park' village or try out Milan's subsidized housing

Sustainability guided the development of the 2026 Olympic living quarters, featuring temporary mobile home units and apartments that will be turned into subsidized student housing.

A young man takes a bike out of a shipping container and hands it to another person

These teens have refurbished 80,000 bicycles to help people in their community — and abroad

Bikes Not Bombs has been operational since 1984.

An illustration of a person wearing a blindfold under a hockey helmet

Hockey players skate blindfolded to raise funds for blind youth team: 'Understand what it's like for our players'

The event raises enough funds for the kids to learn how to play hockey every year.

A photo collage of the Morgan State University signage, a woman checks the stomach of a man as they stand in the middle of a field, two whales swimming in the ocean, players from the Indianapolis Clowns pose for their team photo, and people seated inside JBJ Soul Kitchen

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Rugby player Ilona Maher holds up a Barbie doll version of herself, smiling

Ilona Maher gets her own Barbie doll, complete with broad shoulders, to inspire young athletes

The new doll will be available on store shelves in 2026.

A pink and white sign for the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer sits in the middle of a pickleball court

More than just bags: Vera Bradley pickleball, golf tournaments raise over $40M for breast cancer research

The brand’s co-founders established the nonprofit in 1998.

A photo collage of a bicycle's basket with a sign that says 'Road Open To' and various traffic icons below it, the first ever solar-powered railway tracks, a kid kayaking in a river, a tall bridge, and a screenshot from the movie 'Sinners' while a woman does Black American Sign Language on the bottom right of the screen

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