Joey Cheek

Two-time Olympian (swimming for Canada) and Team Darfur member Nikki Dryden joined activists, actors and athletes in fasting for Darfur.  Nikki Dryden Darfur Fast for Life from fastdarfur on Vimeo....

 Team Darfur athlete Michael Ditchfield joined the Darfur Fast for Life in May, fasting on “refugee rations” for 7 days.He was on CBS4 Denver on Sunday May 17 announcing his fast and talking about the current situation in Darfur. Watch the video. Tho...

Please take action today to ask Obama to make Darfur a priority. The inauguration is one week away! First, please vote before Thursday at Change.org .Then, sign a postcard to President Obama . Finally, keep taking action - the people of Darfur can't wait! Thanks!   

Team Darfur President Joey Cheek has been nominated for Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year award. Jack McCallum nominated Cheek because:Cheek last made headlines for something that happened off the ice -- the Chinese Embassy revoked his visa shortly before he was set to leave the U.S...

An inspiring profile of Team Darfur athlete Emanuel Neto from the Stony Brook Independent: Growing up in Angola, Emanuel Neto can remember the gruesome images that had him and his family living in fear. A fear that one day a soldier might force you to cook and eat your own child...

Because 9 American Team Darfur athletes were listed as such by the Chinese government in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics...

Team Darfur triathlete and Special Representative to the UN World Tourism Organization ST-EP Foundation attended the Beijing Games as a supporter of the US Team and a high-level panelist...

Dominic Luka is a senior at Norfolk State University where he has excelled in Track and Field. One of the "Lost Boys" Dominic is now the reigning cross-country and 1,500-meter champion in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Dominic has also excelled in the javelin...

Team Darfur swimmer Adrian Turner has a piece in this month's edition of Voices of Tomorrow.My newspaper today is quiet. Sat on the train trundling towards the north of England, I go through the usual inconvenience of a two-minute wrestling match with a broadsheet...

The Olympic flame was lit in my heart as a teenager when I read a book by Gold medal rower Brad Lewis called "Assault on Lake Cassidas." After starting my quest as a rower, I eventually turned to archery...

Although athletes faced significant restrictions to speaking out about human rights at the Olympics, Team Darfur athletes ensured that the Olympic dream reached out to the people of Darfur...

According to the New York Times,Dozens of people were killed and more than 100 were injured Monday in a government assault on a huge camp for displaced people in Darfur, the conflict-riddled region in western Sudan, according to witnesses and leaders at the camp...  Hussein Abu Sharati, a ...

Karl Keranen is a 12 time national champion in paralympic archery. He also came in 2nd two times at nationals. Keranen is the past holder of 11 national records, as well as a 5 time US national team member and 2 world team member in both the Madrid 2003 and Korea 2007 games.

In a story that shows the power of the Olympic spirit to inspire efforts for peace around the world, young people from across South Sudan gathered in Twic County for the annual "Twic Olympics"...