This section of the website will provide examples of significant programs that have marked the work of the Institute for International Sport. The section will be updated periodically with overviews of other landmark projects that have been administered by the Institute over the last two decades.

• Project Burundi. It started with a letter from U.S. Ambassador Cynthia Shepard Perry to Dan Doyle. It became a program that provided much needed assistance to this land-locked country in Africa, including equipment and an historical trip to America by the Burundi National Men’s Basketball Team. Click here for detailed information on Project Burundi.
  
  
• Three Early Symposia, all of Which Sparked National (and International Coverage). At the early stages of the Institute, a key Institute activity was the administration of high-level symposia. Click here to read about three early symposia, all of which resulted in widespread media coverage, including a “firestorm” set off by Charles “Lefty” Driesell.
  
  
• Bill Bradley’s Prediction. At a Washington, DC press conference to announce the creation of the World Scholar-Athlete Games, Senator Bill Bradley, who served as chair of the inaugural Games, made some predictions. Click here to read portions of Senator Bradley’s prescient speech at the historic announcement, and a World Scholar-Athlete Games op-ed piece he wrote for the New York Times.
  
  
• Bud Collins Writes a Splendid Column about the First World Scholar-Athlete Games. In March 1993, Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun hosted a press conference at the Rhode Island State House to announce details of the first World Scholar-Athlete Games. Special guests included basketball legend Bill Walton and famed Boston Globe columnist and internationally known tennis analyst Bud Collins. Bud was so impressed with the concept of the Scholar-Athlete Games, that he wrote a fine column which appeared in the Globe only two weeks before opening ceremonies of the 1993 event. Click here to read Bud’s column.
  
  
• Clinton Jog. Two weeks prior to the opening ceremonies of the 1993 World Scholar-Athlete Games, the Institute received a call from the White House indicating that “President Clinton would like to jog with some of the participants in DC.” The Institute sent a group of scholar-athletes and scholar-artists to Washington for a morning jog with President Clinton. Click here for more information on the jog, including two photos.
  
  
• Opening Night in Newport, June 21, 1993. The opening ceremony of the inaugural World Scholar-Athlete Games was hailed by the media as an extraordinary celebration of international goodwill. Over the course of the two and one-half hour ceremony, which featured the likes of Dionne Warwick and The Drifters, it rained everywhere in Rhode Island, except a one mile radius over Fort Adams in Newport, site of the historic opening ceremonies! Click here to read a magnificent editorial which appeared in the Newport Daily News.
  
  
• First Flight of an African Dream Team. In 1994, Dan Doyle traveled to South Africa as the guest of the South African Basketball Federation. The objective of Dan’s trip was to help “jumpstart” interest in basketball. The result was an on-going relationship between the Institute and South Africa which has seen large South African delegations attend each Scholar-Athlete Games. Another result was an historical 1995 trip to America by the South African Men’s National Basketball Team, captured beautifully by New York Times columnist William Rhoden. Click here to read Mr. Rhoden’s column entitled “First Flight of an African Dream Team”.
  
  
• The Institute Sends a Coaching Legend to Northern Ireland. The Institute’s acclaimed “Belfast United” program was administered over a ten-year span. The program sent many coaches to Northern Ireland, including the legendary former Providence College men’s basketball coach, Joe Mullaney. Click here to read a brief overview of the extraordinary success of Belfast United, and a Sports Illustrated piece on Joe Mullaney’s experience in Northern Ireland on behalf of the Institute.
  
  
• Sir Roger Bannister’s Famous Visit to the Institute. In 2000, Sir Roger Bannister and his wife Moyra paid a visit to the Institute for induction into the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame. Click here for information regarding Sir Roger’s much heralded visit.
  
  

Dan Doyle, Mark Newlan, former University of Virginia basketball star and Scholar-Athlete Games coach, and the late Skip Prosser, head men’s basketball coach at Wake Forest University, meet at Trinity College in Dublin during the 1999 Ireland Scholar-Athlete Games. Coach Prosser was a much admired figure at the Institute.

• The 2005 Intercollegiate Renaissance Games. From June 9-12, 2005, the Institute hosted an event that would touch the lives of the 150 participants. The Intercollegiate Renaissance Games featured scholar-athletes from Bates College, Lynchburg College, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Hampden-Sydney College, Bridgewater College, The University of Rhode Island and Queensland University of Australia. Click here to read more about this fascinating and unique event.