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Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

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Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

In Syracuse Nation, we are all still reeling from an early exit from the NCAA tournament.  Although I’d like to forget about basketball for awhile longer, this edition of Feel Good Friday brings a heartwarming story a high school basketball team and friendship.  I should note: this is a story lowers your spirits (cancer), before raising them.

Here is a description of this Steve Hartman story from the CBS website:

Steve Hartman meets a high school basketball team in North Carolina that decided to play one game for someone other than themselves … and when the game came down to the wire, something remarkable happened.

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Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

/ Matthew Clemente / Leave a comment

Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

In Syracuse Nation, we are all still reeling from an early exit from the NCAA tournament.  Although I’d like to forget about basketball for awhile longer, this edition of Feel Good Friday brings a heartwarming story a high school basketball team and friendship.  I should note: this is a story lowers your spirits (cancer), before raising them. 

Here is a description of this Steve Hartman story from the CBS website: 

Steve Hartman meets a high school basketball team in North Carolina that decided to play one game for someone other than themselves … and when the game came down to the wire, something remarkable happened.

 

Sunday Funday: “Shawshank” Star Tim Robbins Teaches Acting in Prison

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Sunday Funday: “Shawshank” Star Tim Robbins Teaches Acting in Prison

Several weeks ago, CBS News Sunday Morning ran a story about a prison acting program run by actor Tim Robbins, best known for his role as a prisoner in The Shawshank Redemption. 

Here is an excerpt from the story:

The inmates at this medium security prison in Norco, Calif., are serving time for crimes ranging from possession of marijuana to murder.

One of their coaches is Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins.

“It creates this place, particularly important in prison, where people can step outside of what’s expected of them and try to explore new emotions, create new realities, create new truths for themselves,” Robbins said.

The project, now in its seventh year, is funded by The Actors’ Gang, which Robbins and some acting friends founded in 1981.

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