From Mo's blog comes word of Hines Ward, a wide receiver who's doing something about something.

The injured wide receiver, who had knee surgery Monday, is playing host to eight biracial children visiting from South Korea.

"Christmas came early for me this weekend," a smiling Mr. Ward said as he greeted the children, ages 9 to 16, and the local families with whom they are staying during their time in southwestern Pennsylvania.

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The inaugural trips are sponsored by the Hines Ward Helping Hands Korea Foundation. Mr. Ward thanked the Steelers and Pearl S. Buck International, which supports inter-racial adoption and other programs to combat discrimination against children, for their help in arranging the visits.

Mr. Ward launched his foundation with a $1 million personal initial donation after he visited Asia earlier this year. Its goal is to improve the lives of Korean biracial children, who often face discrimination in what is a conservative and racially homogeneous society.

Mr. Ward was born in Korea to a Korean mother and an African-American father. While he grew up in the United States, he has described facing similar experiences.

(Yeah, he's an Asian-American pro football player. They really do exist.)

I'm not a huge football fan, but from what I can tell from Mr. Ward's bio, he's not a guy who's afraid of much. He gets hit, he smiles. In college, he was a running back and a quarterback as well as a receiver. More recently, he's become number two on the Steelers' all-time receiving list and was voted Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XL.

And today, he's giving a little back. Thinking globally.

From April 3 through May 30, 2006, Ward returned to his birthplace of Seoul for the first time since his parents moved to the United States when he was one year old. Ward used his celebrity status to arrange "hope-sharing" meetings with multiracial Korean children and to encourage social and political reform. Ward cried when describing the discrimination he faced. At one hope-sharing meeting, he told a group of children, "If the country can accept me for who I am and accept me for being a Korean, I'm pretty sure that this country can change and accept you for who you are."

Go, Mr. Ward. Go.