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As the first turbaned Sikh American to play basketball for an NCAA program, I knew I needed tovoice my opinion when I learned Sikh players on India's team were told by FIBA they must removetheir dastars before playing at the Japan-India game.

Darsh Preet Singh

Pioneer in Sikh-American athletics; portfolio manager for Satori Alpha

LeBron's masterful handling of his return to Cleveland offers a case study in public relations farbeyond sports. The lesson is simple: humility is powerful. For successful business leaders, beinghumble doesn't always come naturally. And it isn't a quality that you can easily fake, and those whotry and fail get punished even more.

The truth of the matter was this: I did not go out of my way to "invent" penalties on Eric Lindros -- orany player -- but I wasn't going to give that guy a break on anything borderline that I might have letslide with a player who had gained acceptability with me.

Paul Stewart

Retired NHL Player and NHL Referee, ECAC Director of Hockey Officiating, Chairman KHLOfficiating Evaluation and Discipline Committees

Although Kyrgious was pushed out by Raonic with a respectable 6-7, 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 in the quarterfinalson July 2, his second Wimbeldon showing proves that he is a young force to be reckoned with.

Ishan Puri

Stanford University graduate, Author, Founder of Synocate

When I first heard in March that Michael Sam was going to be awarded the Arthur Ashe CourageAward at the ESPYs, I didn't understand the power of that decision.

So much in American life these days doesn't work. But soccer does work -- magnificently. I am notlooking forward to returning to dysfunction and snafu.

Dan Karpuc

Director of Content at Tradesports.com, Editor of TradesportsInsider.com

On May 14, 2014, Kelley was the first woman allowed in the Shohadaye Haftom-Tir Sports Hall since1979. She arrived separate from the team. Upon approaching the arena, four Iranian police vehiclessurrounded her car.

Bri Seeley

Fashion designer dedicated to helping women embrace what it means to be a woman - not just looklike one!

Why is pay equality good in some settings but bad in others?

Adam Grant

Wharton professor and author, 'Give and Take'

Don't look now, but baseball's hottest team is the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who entered theAll-Star break with a 57-37 record, 1 1/2 games behind the first place Oakland Athletics in theAmerican League West.

Unlike most countries around the globe, sport policy development and implementation in the UnitedStates is almost solely the responsibility of the country's sports power brokers. And these powerbrokers have a personal vested interest -- too often ego-based and/or greed-based in nature.

Ken Reed

Sports Policy Director, League of Fans

Tonight, at the All Star Game, Major League Baseball will honor a great, brave man -- an athlete whohad to hide behind fear and shame while still trying to live up to his God given potential as a ballplayer.

The massacre by the Germans wasn't just a loss but the slow and painful withering of the nationalphallus right before our eyes. This defeat, which heralded the death of soccer as the go-to guarantorof the Brazilian heteromasculinity needed for the nation to make sense of itself, was particularlyperverse.

Diego Semerene

Filmmaker, queer theorist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California

Baseball is halfway through the season and the All-Star Break is upon us. This lull in the normalgame routine gives me my own hiatus to reflect upon what I love about baseball.

Rachel Verlik

Learning and Development Manager, Gardener, baseball watcher and music lover

In an ideal world, Australia's famed swimming star Ian Thorpe should be known for one thing:dominating the sport of swimming. But of course, we don't live in an ideal world, and ever since

Thorpe entered the limelight more than 15 years ago, rumors about his sexuality have swirled in themedia and in the public forum.

Steve Siebold

Author and expert in the field of critical thinking andmental toughness training

He consistently got on base and was a canny baserunner. He was the teammate to be counted on.Plagued by nagging injuries, he showed up and playedno matter how he felt. Although he was an All-Star, hedid the little things day after day and challenged his teammates to do the same.

Baseball did indeed break my heart in 1989, the year that Giamatti, a Renaissance scholar andformer president of Yale, died of a heart attack just days after banning Pete Rose from the nationalpastime.

This past weekend was as good as it gets for volleyball fans here in Hawai'i. The Women's BrazilianNational Team wore green and gold, reflecting their finishes in the last two Olympics. Team USAwas on a mission: to beat the team that has singlehandedly extinguished their dreams of gold

Kevin K. Wong

US Olympian; founder & coach, Spike and Serve Volleyball