Super Bowl XL Champion Steelers Update. (Hines Ward Is A Hero Division.)

Hines Ward (R) of the Pittsburgh Steelers and his mother, Kim Young-hee, pose after a news conference in Seoul April 11, 2006.


Once again, sport proves to be more than just fun and games. If taught properly, sport builds character in young men, changing them from barbarians into gentlemen.


Super Bowl star Hines Ward meets mixed race Korean children
phillyburbs.com - Beaming Kim Gwan-woo couldn't hide his excitement at getting to meet Super Bowl star Hines Ward, a hero that the 7-year-old Korean boy wants to emulate.


Football star Ward ends tearful trip to S.Korea
Reuters - Korean-American football star Hines Ward wound up a trip to South Korea that saw him play catch with the president and shed tears in public by saying on Tuesday he wants to help mixed-race children in the country.


Finder: Hines Ward scores big for social change
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Imagine that: Hines Ward as Martin Luther King Jr. Little did the Steelers Nation know, the man is more than mirth and grit, more than smiles and miles of receptions, more than big plays and big blocks.


Steelers Notebook: Ward to help judge Miss USA pageant
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Apr 10 9:04 PMHines Ward , crowned MVP of the Super Bowl, will help pick the belle of the ball as one of nine judges on the celebrity panel for the Miss USA pageant April 21 in Baltimore.


Ward spins biracial roots into blessing
USA Today - "I was a lost child," Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward says. "I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black." He blamed his Korean mother for the teasing he got on the playground in suburban Atlanta.


'Uncle' Hines Ward popular with Korean children
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh Steelers star Hines Ward and seven-year-old Kim Gwan-woo have the same parental background: Their mothers are Korean and their fathers African-Americans once stationed in South Korea as U.S. service members.


Ward a South Korean inspiration
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Chang Ye Eu, a sinewy 19-year old, doesn't know the difference between a field goal and first down. But when she heard that Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and Super Bowl most valuable player Hines Ward was returning this week to the nation of his birth, she could not fight back tears of joy.


Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward meets Korean doctor who delivered him
Slam! Sports - (AP) - Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward met the doctor Thursday who delivered him in South Korea 30 years ago. Born to a Korean mother and an African-American soldier, Ward and his family left South Korea when he was a baby.