ESPN.com - E-Ticket: Hooping with the Enemy
This is a great story I just read and I figured I'd share since the world needs some positive news right now. With all the Lebanese-Israeli was news right now it seems like everything is going to hell in a handbasket, but it's refreshing to know that people are trying to make a difference... and are succeeding.
The Play for Peace (PFP) program is designed to bring people together through the game of basketball. Successfully implemented in Africa, Ireland, and other conflict hot spots, some folks decided to use the program to bring together Israelis and Palestinians. If you can be good friends and teammates, maybe you wont grow up with the hate and predigous that everyone else holds.
Being a huge basketball fan I think this is great since it spread the popularity of the sport and will eventually increase the talent base for the NBA. Besides that I think sports are a great way to de-emphasize the politically charged times we live in. On a football field or b-ball court, people are just teammates and friends and that's all that matters until the clock runs out and the game is over. In this day and age when entire nations are judged on the political affiliations of their leaders it's nice to see a ray of light that is trying to poke through the clouds.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
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