S. African trip a vivid example of how sports makes a difference

Date of Release: September 14, 2009 (SportsBusiness Journal)
by Richard Lapchick
I recently returned from Johannesburg, South Africa, as part of the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders program. It was the sixth time I visited South Africa, a country I came to love while helping lead the sports boycott of its apartheid-era government during the 1970s, ’80s and until Nelson Mandela was inaugurated president in 1994. More…