Check out these new videos from the New England Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend & Gold Medal Ceremonies

New England Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend Activities

The New England Basketball Hall of Fame held a series of activities over the weekend of August 7 and 8, 2015 in Worcester, MA. Nearly 1,800 people attended the dinner and induction ceremony at the DCU Center on August 8. On the previous day, the NEBHOF hosted the first annual Boston versus Worcester High School Scholar-Athlete Games at the iconic St. Mary's High Gymnasium, home court of the 1964 New England Champions. Check out the highlight reel of the Scholar-Athlete game, the wonderful senior women's game, and a halftime ceremony featuring Dee Rowe.

Activities also included 45-minute presentations by Hall of Famers Dave Cowens and David Thompson, former Boston College star Jim Sweeney, who addressed for the first time in a public forum the 1979 scandal at Boston College. Red Sox legend Bill Lee also presented, as part of his role in helping announce the expansion of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame to other sports, including baseball.

The four presentations will be posted to YouTube beginning in January and announced on my Facebook page and the New England Basketball Hall of Fame website.


Gold Medal Ceremonies

On November 17, 2015, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh hosted the first of what will be eight New England Basketball Hall of Fame Gold Medal Ceremonies. The ceremonies are being held to present NEBHOF gold medals to the 2015 honorees. Watch the highlights of the Mayor's reception.

My Latest Post on Medium, Never Too Late!

Check out my latest post on Medium - Never Too Late!

"Stay Relevant" CD off to a GREAT START! Here is more information.

Stay Relevant, a CD by Dan Doyle 

(Three years in the making!)

Marie O'Regan Doyle always wanted her middle child to sing.  In autumn 2012, Dan Doyle acted on the long ago wish of his late mother. Facing overwhelming pressure from a State of Rhode Island investigation of his work at his beloved Institute for International Sport, which he founded in 1986, (an investigation now correctly seen by innumerable people as a horrific witch hunt), Doyle made an appointment at Tape Works in Hartford, where he recorded several Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra songs. 

Encouraging feedback from the music community resulted in Doyle deciding to take the next step. That step, and the many others that followed, has resulted in Doyle's CD, Stay Relevant, being released worldwide today on CD Baby, iTunes, other electronic means, and in the form of a special autographed version on hard disc. 

The CD contains 11 original songs that Doyle wrote, composed and recorded. DanDoyleMusic.com provides details of the songs, including snippets of each song, as well as the role that Dan's rage played in moving the project to fruition. Stay Relevant is one of several new assets Doyle has created to keep the Institute for International Sport operational until his case is adjudicated.

Great Reception from the Entertainment Industry

Acclaimed musician, platinum engineer and producer Gordon Bahary, who has his “right touch” on over 35 million albums sold, including those of Stevie Wonder, states:

“Dan Doyle’s album is a work of a visionary and true artist. A beautiful collection of songs.  Dan bares his soul for all of us.  His strong messages are badly needed today.  A blessed piece of work -- brilliant.”

Acclaimed actor Marc Carver, who recently played the role of Dick Lehr in the movie Black Mass, states: 

“After listening to a pre-cut of the CD, I wanted to give my girlfriend an idea of what Dan’s amazing songs were like. I played one of the songs, ‘A Parent’s Message’ for her. The original song is about selflessness and steadfast love. When the song ended, we sat smiling silently with tears on our cheeks. Dan’s voice is a one-of-a-kind narrative-style in theater and music.”  

Acclaimed Entertainer Rob Gottfried, “Rob the Drummer” states:  

"An incredible triumph at so many levels. Dan is a Titan with warmth and the CD is a statement about who he really is. INSPIRING!"

Acclaimed recording artist Dianne Mower states:  

“The powerful messages in each song remind us of our purpose in life, and that all of us, regardless of age, still have lots of work to do. Anyone seeking ideas to enhance their lives, and the lives of others, can start with this CD.”

A Great Christmas Gift!

Please help support Dan and his work by purchasing the CD as a perfect holiday gift for family, friends, or yourself!

DanDoyleMusic.com provides purchase details via electronic means (CD Baby and iTunes) and for a special autographed version of the CD!

Press Release: Dan’s Stay Relevant CD is *On Sale*

November 24, 2015              

For Immediate Release

Doyle’s Stay Relevant CD Released to Music Industry Acclaim

(www.dandoylemusic.com)

Dan Doyle's Stay Relevant CD, two and a-half years in the making, was released today.  A special holiday autographed CD is now available for purchase.  The electronic version may be purchased through CD Baby beginning on December 8th.

The CD features 11 original songs written, composed and recorded by Dan, as well as three songs that will be performed in Dan's Shoeless Joe play, which will premiere in 2016.  The website also features an eight-minute stage reading of the Shoeless Joe play. 

High Praise from the Music Industry

The Stay Relevant CD has drawn high praise from a wide span of individuals in the music industry.  Acclaimed musician, platinum engineer and producer Gordon Bahary, whose credits include mixing and mastering over 35 million albums sold, including those of Stevie Wonder, calls Doyle’s  Stay Relevant CD "Brilliant. "  Mr. Bahary’s entire statement can be viewed on the website under Testimonials.

Issues Addressed

The Stay Relevant website (www.dandoylemusic.com)  addresses a number of issues, including the rage which spurred Mr. Doyle to create the entire CD, rage based on the State of Rhode Island indicting Mr. Doyle over his running of the Institute for International Sport.  A CD feature is the song, The Gran’ Ole Jury, which reflects Mr. Doyle’s outrage with the Grand Jury system.  The song will lead to Mr. Doyle's production of a documentary on the Grand Jury system.

Institute for International Sport Assets

The website addresses a remarkable number of new assets that Mr. Doyle has created to keep his beloved Institute for International Sport afloat until he is exonerated for what he defiantly terms bogus charges filed by the State of Rhode Island.  The assets include the Shoeless Joe Play and Mr. Doyle’s creation of the African Scholar-Athlete Games.  Proceeds from the Stay Relevant CD will benefit Institute projects.

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For further information, contact info@internationalsport.org.

Interview requests must be emailed.

James Michener, Coach Gary and The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting

On Saturday, I made the first of what will be approximately 50 bi-weekly postings on Medium, each featuring a "list" from The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting.  The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting contains over 100 lists.

Medium is a wonderful publishing platform founded by Ev Williams, who previously co-founded Twitter.  For people who love to read and write, it is free and well worth your time!

Check out my first post on Medium!

Listen to Snippets of Dan Doyle’s Forthcoming Album, Stay Relevant

“A blessed piece of work – brilliant.”

- Renowned Platinum Engineer Gordon Bahary

The Dan Doyle Music Team has released on YouTube snippets of the 11 original songs that Dan has written, composed and recorded, as well as three of the songs that will appear in his “Shoeless Joe Play” (Take Me Out to the Ball Game, You Are My Sunshine and Dixie).

You can listen to all the snippets here.

The Song Snippets

 • The Gran’ Ole Jury
 • A Parent’s Message
 • Stay Relevant
 • Single Moms
 • What Are You Still Willing To Take A Risk For?
 • Thank you Mr. Eliot
 • Icons and Stray Bullets
 • Most Demanding Form of Love
 • Thank You Mr. Auden
 • Puttin’ Up A Fight
 • Boomer Rap
 • Medley of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, You Are My    Sunshine and Dixie (Shoeless Joe Play)

Next Steps

A “Support Dan” website will be launched in the very near future.  The website will include the song snippets, and the formal announcement of the release date of the full Stay Relevant album.   Along with the electronic release, there will be a limited edition of CDs available for holiday purchase, the details of which will be explained on the website.

The website will contain other features, including information on the documentary that Dan is producing on the Grand Jury System, and the ethics and the media project.  The latter project involves a group of distinguished individuals reading every word written about Dan’s case and formulating a report that will be sent to a school of journalism.  Katherine Gregg, Michael Stanton, Amanda Falcone, and Matthew Kauffman are among the journalists whose reporting is being carefully scrutinized.  The selected school of journalism will be asked to judge the manner in which the media covered Dan’s case.  The website will also address Institute’s “assets” that Dan has created since February 2012, including the African Scholar-Athlete Games, which will lead to the next World Scholar-Athlete Games, and the Shoeless Joe Play.  The website will further include an eight-minute video stage reading of the play.

(Shoeless Joe Play stage reading comment.)

A Press Release from publicist George Dassinger

9/25/15

HOW DOESN'T THE GRAND JURY WORK? ASK DAN DOYLE

DOYLE'S "THE GRAN' OLE JURY" PROTEST SONG SINGS LOUD AND CLEAR

If you want to learn about the grand jury, Google findlaw.com where it states the sole purpose of the grand jury is not to find guilt or punishment of a party. Instead, a prosecutor will “work” with a grand jury to decide whether to bring criminal charges or an indictment against a potential defendant. It is this process that spawned the phrase “a prosecutor can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich”. Ironically, while all states have provisions in their laws that allow for grand juries, roughly half of the states don’t use them.

Rhode Island is a state which does use the grand jury and in February 2012, Gordon Fox, Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, now in prison for bribery, called for an investigation of Dan Doyle.  For more than three-and-half-years, Dan Doyle has vehemently declared his innocence. After reading the grand jury testimony, Doyle’s outrage caused him to write a protest song, “The Gran’ Ole Jury”.

Now for almost four years since Fox’s announcement, Dan Doyle has worked full-time at the Institute for International Sport. During these albatross years, Dan has received no salary and has managed to pay all the Institute’s monthly bills. Over this period of time, he has developed projects such as the African Scholar-Athlete Games and has written a play based on Shoeless Joe Jackson – both projects are new and valuable Institute assets. He could have continued to wallow in outrage. Instead of resentment, Doyle moved forward in a positive direction.

“The Gran’ Ole Jury” protest song (see this link for the lyrics) is a part of an album Dan Doyle has worked on for over two years, an album called “brilliant” by renowned platinum producer Gordon Bahary. The full album, entitled “Stay Relevant”, will be released on iTunes in October, followed by a CD to be distributed via Sony RED. All total there are 11 original songs, written, composed and recorded by Doyle, as well as 3 additional songs that are part of the Shoeless Joe play. Doyle also incorporated an added element on the CD - an eight-minute stage reading of the Shoeless Joe play.

A forthcoming “Support Dan Doyle site” will include detailed information of the wide-spread legal redress that will follow in the coming years – civil suits, civil rights suits, false light suits, and malicious prosecution. Criminal complaints will also be filed against those who Doyle alleges violated the law in the Grand Jury. Doyle is also well into pre-production of a documentary on the Grand Jury system. The documentary, tentatively titled “No Judge, Just A Rope”, will expose a system that, in Doyle’s view, tramples on civil rights; a system that allows public servants who work for the people to operate under the misguided notion that they are somehow inviolable. Doyle feels the documentary will shock an American public since so few citizens have any real knowledge of a deeply flawed process that fosters injustice rather than advancing fairness.

Dan Doyle has found a personalized way to state his case and take a stand. His stance is best echoed by the immortal words of baseball pitching great Satchel Paige, “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” Dan Doyle found another way and soon his words in song and theater (and eventually in a documentary) will rebalance the scales of justice. The vindication and innocence of Dan Doyle is only a matter of time.

On August 8^th, in Worcester, MA DCU Center, Doyle produced a live event – the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. He founded the awards event in 2002 and this year over 1700 people attended. Included in the awards presentation was a 50-minute “Show” that Doyle keenly produced in tandem. Renowned stage actor, Marc Carver, served as host. Seven student ballet student dancers interpreted 11 songs – each song was accompanied by a theme-based pictorial – featuring photos of honorees conveyed to the audience audio-visually on three large screens.

“What Dan produced that night was, in my opinion, a new art form. Being a theater actor, I’ve never seen anything like it. The music was beautiful, heartfelt, poignant and earnest. The student dancers were elegant and they seemed to perform with a love and joy. The tri-screened projected photos of the honorees were deeply personal to the members of the audience – an audience that was riveted from beginning to end. A few days after the event, I wanted to give my girlfriend an idea of what Dan’s amazing songs were like. I played one of the songs, ‘A Parent’s Message’ for her. The original song is about selflessness and steadfast love. When the song ended, we sat smiling silently with tears on our cheeks. Dan’s voice is a one-of-a-kind narrative-style in theater and music,” Marc Carver stated.

Dan Doyle recently agreed to his first public interview since February 2012. Doyle discussed issues such as the future of the Institute, the documentary he is producing on the Grand Jury system and why he wrote, composed and recorded “Stay Relevant”. Jim Thompson, the founder of the Positive Coaching Alliance, commented on the Shoeless Joe play.

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                  Contact:      George Dassinger  gdassinger@yahoo.com    973-890-1008

Lyrics Release: Gran' Ole Jury

Thank you for your interest in my forthcoming album. Here are the lyrics to the Gran' Ole Jury.

Protest Song Lyrics:  For Release on September 24, 2015

  

The Gran’ Ole Jury  

 By

Dan Doyle

It’s not very common

That one has the chance

To stand tall

And save a friend’s life

But that’s just what I did

When a man whom I knew

Was stabbed in the back

With a knife

I couldn’t believe

How others cowered

I watched ‘em runnin’

Jes like rats

Scared off as they were

Of doin’ what’s right

By bullies

Wearin’ stained white hats

So it was then that I knew

This was a man I’d help save

For once in my life I was brave

(Music)

There sure have been times

When I’ve let myself down

‘Stead of goin’ for six

I’d jes punt

But in this situation

It was clear to me

What I was seein’

Was a real witch hunt

One thing that I learned

From this turn of events

Sure helped me to clearly

See the light

Jes by flashing their

Shiny silver badges

Don’t mean that

They’re always in the right

So I became committed

To a man I’d help save

For once in my life

I was brave

(Music)

When appearin’

Before the Gran’ Ole Jury

I thought of a line

from Jimmy J

(Ed Note:  Jimmy J is James Joyce)

Cuz the white hat

Was smilin’ like a Saxon

Dead certain he’d

Surely get his way

I had no idea

This was a set up

Only one side gettin’

To present

A farce of justice

that few understand

And one that should cause

Strong dissent

So I became committed

To a man I’d help save

For once in my life

I was brave

(Music)

As soon as

The questionin’ started

And not at all

To my surprise

I saw a transformation

In that white hat

Now blinded

By the blood in his eyes

Why it took only minutes

For me to surmise

This pep rally

Was an unfair exercise

For by sittin’ in on this

Gran’ Ole Jury

I was helpin’ the white hat

Spin his lies

Leavin’ that sleight of hand investigation

I thought of the man I worked to save

Feelin’ mighty good simply knowin’

For once in my life

I was brave

(Music)

(Mr. Doyle speaks these next two stanzes)

On this matter

And highly apropos

Is what a famous man scrawled

So very long ago

When you see somethin’ wrong

It’s your time to be strong

You must not maintain

Your neutrality

(A group yell)

So thank you, Dante Alighieri!

 (Ed Note:  Neutrality concept taken from Divine Comedy)

Now lookin’ back

I think quite often

Of that man

I stepped up to save

And when I think of him

I’m proud – I surely am proud

For once in my life

I was brave

TAG

Yes, when I think of him

I’m proud – I surely am proud

For once in my life

I was brave

A new video from Dan

In my first public interview since February 2012, I address a number of topics. Have a look!

Thirty months ago, I began a process of writing, composing and recording a series of songs. Over the course of this project, I have worked with a number of remarkable people, all of whom will be properly thanked upon release of the CD. The following press release was issued yesterday by publicist, George Dassinger.

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DAN DOYLE’S PROTEST SONG “THE GRAN’ OLE JURY” SONG HITS HOME

STAY RELEVANT ALBUM TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Oliver Wendell Holmes is quoted as saying, “When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.”

Holmes’ quote is applicable and aptly descript when it comes to the lyrics of a song. Former basketball coach, Dan Doyle felt compelled to let his lyrics “say what he must” and turn a perceived “negative into a positive.” Doyle’s song, one from his forthcoming Stay Relevant album (release date September 15, 2015) is entitled. “The Gran’ Ole Jury” The idea for the song started when 66 year-old Dan Doyle read through the grand jury testimony, which led to his indictments on a series of charges related to the his involvement with 27 year-old Rhode Island-based Institute for International Sport.

When faced with adversity, often times, it brings out the best in one’s character. This holds particularly true when it comes to former basketball coach, Dan Doyle. Now, three-and-a-half years later, this indictment ordeal has plagued Mr. Doyle, his family and his beloved Institute of International Sport. Mr. Doyle continues to stay resolute in professing his innocence and finding ways to set the record straight. “The Gran’ Ole Jury” is not Mr. Doyle’s only form of protest. He is in pre-production of a hit-home-styled documentary on the grand jury system.

As Mr. Doyle read through the Grand Jury testimonies, he found, what he believes to be an extraordinary level of so-called “witness fabrications” and documented intimidation tactics deployed by the prosecution. At first, he was outraged but as Dan Doyle’s civility took hold, he decided to write, compose and record a protest song, “The Gran’ Ole Jury” as his response.

“The Gran’ Ole Jury” could well be the first American song in history where the accused (under indictment) decided to attempt to plead his stance in lyrical form. Is it a protest song? Yes, it is that and more. For example, one stanza states, “When appearin’ before the Gran Ole Jury, I thought of a line from Jimmy J (James Joyce). Cuz the white hat was smilin’ like a Saxon – dead certain that he’d surely get his way. I had no idea – this was a set up – only one side gettin’ to present – a farce of justice that few understand. And one that should cause strong dissent.”

This protest song is featured on a full-length CD, set to be released on September 15, 2015. The CD, entitled Stay Relevant features eleven original songs from Mr. Doyle. Other songs: “Single Moms”, “Thank You, Mr. Auden” and “Boomer Rap.” Also featured is a “stage reading” from a play Mr. Doyle has written on the life and questionable condemnation of baseball legend/outcast, “Shoeless Joe” Jackson. 

Acclaimed musician, platinum engineer and producer, Gordon Bahary, whose credits includes mixing and mastering for Barbra Streisand and Stevie Wonder, has his “right touch” on over 35 million albums sold. His career has spanned four music-filled decades and continues with his mixing and mastering of Dan Doyle’s forthcoming Stay Relevant album.

“Dan Doyle’s album is a work of a visionary and true artist. In this beautiful collection of songs and vibrant performances, Dan hits home. When you hear the tracks you may well agree with me. I believe Dan is courageous, authentic and bears his soul for us all. Dan’s strong messages are badly needed today - delivered in a gentle, classy manner that matches the charm of his generation.  While the rhythms, melodies and words move along, the listener is moved by a compelling underlying consciousness that is performed in his deeply spiritual, subtle and humble way. A blessed piece of work – brilliant,” Bahary stated.

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Contact:    George Dassinger           gdassinger@yahoo.com       973-890-1008

Springtime is here - and much is happening!

I am pleased to share some springtime updates at the Institute for International Sport. Head over to the Institute's News & Announcements page to read the latest.