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Athletes' Positive Contributions

Posted on: May 23, 2008 6:49 pm

Score: 94

NOTE: First I want to make it clear that I am not endorsing any particular charity, event, activity, or organization, nor am I soliciting funds for such. If a reader wants to research a particular charity, event, activity, or organization, the reader does so independently. If anyone chooses to join or support an athlete's endeavor, it is done independently. I will provide links for individual study for anyone who wants more information, but I am merely reporting on athletes who are giving back to their community and our society instead of reporting on steroids, crime, or the other activities that normally get the headlines.

Props to the good guys! It's about time! Please add any positive report you are aware of.

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keepitreal

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Since: Dec 7, 2006

Posted on: May 23, 2008 7:05 pm

Score: 93

Athletes' Positive Contributions

KICK FOR NICK

Since Memorial Day is approaching, I thought I'd start with a high school soccer player from Connecticut. Nick Madaras entered the Army after graduation. He was assigned to Iraq. He became very attached to the Iraqi children playing soccer with bags of rocks. On his first leave home, he gathered as many soccer balls as he could to take back to Iraq with him. He gave out the soccer balls upon his return. Tragically, on September 3, 2006, Nick was killed in action at the age of 19. A soccer coach in Connecticut heard of this and helped start the "Kick of Nick" program. Soccer balls have been collected nationwide (and will be collected at events this weekend) and each one is marked "PFC Nick Madaras" and sent to Nick's unit in Iraq where they are distributed to the children.

We honor PFC Nick Madaras and all our men and women in uniform this weekend and remember Nick's contribution to help the children in Iraq, and the soldiers in his unit who are still distributing soccer balls with a dedication to Nick written on them. We also thank the Americans at home who collect and inscribe the balls and send them to Nick's unit.

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keepitreal

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Posted on: May 23, 2008 7:17 pm

Score: 93

Athletes' Positive Contributions

BOOZER'S BUDDIES

Utah Jazz power forward Carlos Boozer and his wife had a baby boy, Carmani, born with sickle cell anemia, a previously incurable blood disorder. Carmani was treated with chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. Carlos and his wife CeCe decided to undergo in-vitro fertilization and she gave birth to healthy twins. Carmani was injected with stem cells from one healthy twin's umbilical cord to stimulate the growth of new healthy bone marrow. Now at 22 months old, Carmani has been healthy. It will still be another six months before it is known that Carmani has been cured of this horrible disease.

Carl