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Blind Athletes: Pros and Cons Of Mainstreaming and Sanctioned Competitions for Blind/Sight Impaired Athletetes
Dialogue Magazine Spring 2000 issue Sports – Mainstreamed or Special Events? by David Block Ardmore, Pennsylvania One obvious goal for people with visual disabilities is to be mainstreamed into everyday society. Mainstreaming visually impaired athletes into...
Pros and Cons of Blind Athletes Competing in Main Streamed Events
Dialogue Magazine Spring 2000 issue Sports – Mainstreamed or Special Events? by David Block Ardmore, Pennsylvania One obvious goal for people with visual disabilities is to be mainstreamed into everyday society. Mainstreaming visually impaired athletes into...
Goalball: A Sport for Good Listeners (1992)
LATEST BLOGSGoalball: A Sport for Good Listeners (1992)Goalball: A Sport for Good Listeners is about the blind team sport called goalball. Developed after World War II to rehabilitate soldiers who lost their vision in combat, it is now played world-wide at the...
Gift Horses (2016)
How Sweet the Sound (2023)
LATEST BLOGSHow Sweet the Sound (2023)This work shows how John Sutton, a blind African American sang at Suburban Station in Philadelphia from the 1980s until COVID. Although John Sutton sometimes struggled financially, he was in many respects a wealthy man. He had a...
Hi-Lighting Benefits of USA Blind Athletes and The Achilles Track Club
Dialogue Magazine Spring 2000 issue Sports - Mainstreamed or Special Events? by David Block Ardmore, Pennsylvania One obvious goal for people with visual disabilities is to be mainstreamed into everyday society. Mainstreaming visually impaired athletes into...
My First Interview with Kobe Bryant
Main Line Times interview ~ Kobe Bryant By: David Block, Sportswriter August 17, 2000 Former Ace says he still misses Lower Merion, Main Line (Editor's note: The following is a verbatim account of Main Line Times sportswriter David Block's interview with...
My First Interview with Kobe Bryant
Main Line Times interview ~ Kobe Bryant By: David Block, Sportswriter August 17, 2000 Former Ace says he still misses Lower Merion, Main Line (Editor's note: The following is a verbatim account of Main Line...
Kobe reflects on his Lower Merion days
By: David Block, Sportswriter August 17, 2000 "There's a lot of things I miss about the (Lower Merion) area...(On the Main Line) I could ride around peacefully, go out to eat peacefully." - Kobe Bryant...
My Article about LM High Retiring Kobe’s Number
Main Line Times Thursday 31 January 2002 Lower Merion retires Kobe Bryant's No. 33 By: Bruce Adams and David Block Kobe Bryant, who went directly from Lower Merion High School to NBA stardom, had his LM jersey number 33...