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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Player-to-player learning at Cleveland's Continental Cups

The Continental Cup, a set of youth sport tournaments sponsored by professional sport teams and managed by the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, concludes today. Here's a great story from the basketball tournament:

BEREA, Ohio — The Continental Cup, which ends tonight with the championship baseball game at Progressive field, is about sportsmanship, camaraderie and lessons learned for a lifetime.

The girls from John Hay High School understand that.

Not only have they made friends from around the world and played the game with class, but the gesture of humanity they offered -- what many call paying it forward -- is something that shows what Cleveland is made of.

Following their game against Brookhouse Prep, a school in Kenya, the team gave those girls basketball shoes, many of them never worn.

Keep reading HERE.

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