Women's basketball coach Kay Yow dies

"Almost everybody is dealing with something," Yow said in a 2006 interview. "We're all faced with a lot of tough issues that we're dealing with.

We know we need to just come to the court and let that be our catharsis in a way. You can't bring it on the court with you, but we can all just think of basketball as an escape for a few hours." - Kay Yow

NC women's basketball coach Kay Yow passed away this morning after battling breast cancer since 1987. She was a tireless fundraiser and continued to coach until recently. She relied on her faith.

Yow won more than 700 games in a career filled with milestones. She coached the U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal in 1988, won four Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championships, earned 20 NCAA tournament bids and reached the Final Four in 1998.

She also was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2002, while the school dedicated "Kay Yow Court" in Reynolds Coliseum in 2007.

Pat Summitt's comments on the death of longtime friend Kay Yow

Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer "deeply saddened" by death of coaching pioneer Kay Yow

What Others Are Saying in Tribute to Yow

[image description: Kay Yow is shown coaching from the sidelines, her right arm up in the air.]

Feeding our brothers and sisters: Food & Friends

The news is full of stories about struggling families and food banks.

Different programs serve different populations. Today I'd like to feature Food & Friends, a program that helps those who are living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life challenging illnesses who lack the resources to buy nutritious food. This program , like so many others, impacts the entire family, assisting the children and elderly parents of those who need help during these times as well.

Take a Walk on the Virtual Side...

to benefit Stage IV breast cancer patients through galtogal.org.

How does it work? For $3, you design an avatar, create her story and then watch her walk across the US during the month of October. The scenery changes each day as the month goes by as you virtually walk side by side with women all over the world who are joining in.

Click above to check it out.

Miles' blog: a teen with cancer shares his journey

A teen named Miles who lives in suburban Detroit has a rare form of cancer that has caused him to leave high school. To keep in touch with his teen friends, he began a blog.

The medical news is not good: doctors agree that he's terminal and at best has a few years left.

However the reports on the blogging front are much better. Miles' blog has touched many readers with his daily thoughts and ponderings. It's been a way for him to stay in touch with peers and meet new friends from all over the world. And it's been a way for others to learn the lessons he's sharing from his experiences. And he's scheduled to graduate from high school in June.

To read a CNN article about Miles, click above.

Former tennis star, now a Dominican nun, helps kids with cancer

For Sister Andrea, being number two in the tennis world as a prodigy is not her most satisfying achievement.

It is the work she does with Little Star, a place for kids with cancer .

After visiting a little girl in the hospital , she says,

"I felt like God was saying to me, 'When you grow up, you're going to help kids stuck in the hospital.' At 15, I thought, 'This tennis thing is great, but it's not what I want to do when I grow up."'

The article continues:

"Jaeger described her evolution into the sisterhood as a process and a calling, not a sudden decision. Becoming a nun meant a change in uniform (she is currently without her veil, because the dogs got hold of it and chewed it up), but didn't alter much in her outlook. She has always had a good relationship with God. She has always worked hard to help others."

Click above to read her story.

Via MSN news