Mohamad Bsat — a volunteer coach of an under 14 recreational basketball team with the Steel Town Athletic Club — requested 15 copies of the book Do Hard Things by Steve Magness, and assigned them to the members of his basketball team as part of their off-court development. (Submitted by Mohamad Bsat - image credit)When Sandra Pellegrini's 12-year-old son, Jackson, came home with a book from his basketball coach, she knew right away that "it was a great idea." Pellegrini didn't know it, but earlier in January, his son's basketball coach Mohamad Bsat took to Twitter with an unconventional request for donations to the team. "It talks about what it is to be tough, different types of toughness — like old school versus now — [and] perseverance. It sounds like a pretty good book for them to be reading," Jackson's mother told CBC Hamilton on Sunday.

Source: CBC News January 25, 2023 16:45 UTC