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Kevin Love is spreading the love as the Ambassador of the Rookie Relief for St. Jude auction that runs through November 20. You can place your bid today for a chance to own one of these jerseys on eBay and all proceeds benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Some of the autographed jersey’s available are Derrick Rose, O.J. Mayo, Michael Beasley, Nicholas Batum, Tracy McGrady, Chris Bosh, Allen Iverson and Dirk Nowitzki. 

Kevin Love will also match the donation bids up to $12,500.  Ante up for a good cause fellow NBA collectors.

Via Ball Don’t Lie

This week, Pistons forward Jason Maxiell hosted a charity 8-ball tournament for a reason unknown to me but, for a good cause I’m sure. Anyway, let’s just say the charity cleaned up if raising money was based on the amount of times Jarvis Hayes and Jason Maxiell missed.  Count the makes for yourself, trust me you won’t lose track.

Enjoy the Eric Clapton! 

Over the weekend, Chris Paul and fellow NBA stars like LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Rudy Gay and Kevin Durant teamed up with some of the PBA’s best in support of the CP3 Foundation participating in the Chris Paul Charity Bowling Tournament, on ESPN.

Bowling has never looked so fun!

Via Ball Don’t Lie

Kyle Korver is officially the the kickball king! As a follow up to the Kyle Korver post from last week, and his attempt to break the world record for the longest kickball game ever played.  After 24 hours and 15 minutes, 164 full innings,  213 total runs scored, and popped 5 kickballs a new record was set and $10,000 was raised for local kids.  Awesome!!!

Already, overseas kickball teams are now clamoring to sign, the Michael Jordan of kickball and a film is in the works with Ashton Kutcher in the lead role.

Via Our Sports Central

Who better than Dwight Howard aka Superman to promote the goodness of Milk . Howard recently became the latest celebrity to joined the Body By Milk campaign and sport the milk mustache. Since he’s built like a Peterbuilt truck, this was an excellent choice.  Along with his spread, Dwight Howard is kicking off the Refuel Your School tour, according to AKA Media “which will reward 25 high school athletic teams across the country that chose chocolate milk to help them refuel and rehydrate after intense play. The winning teams will score a Refuel Rally at their school, a $1,000 new equipment grant, gear and more”.  

Hopefully “more”, includes Ana Ivanovic as a supply teacher for a week, yowza! Here are some behind the scences footage of the Dwight Howard Body By Milk campaign.

Via a tip submitted by Hooped Up reader  Brent

The Boston Celtics visited the White House and got their presidential props from George Bush aka Kendrick Perkins. This clip is awesome because it’s the last time that this will ever happen…and I don’t mean for the Celtics if you get my drift.

Yes we Can…have a real baller for president!

“The team’s players, owners and coaches presented the president with a green Celtics jersey emblazoned with “43,” a nod to Bush’s standing as the 43rd president, and an autographed basketball. The team also said it would send a $100,000 check to the Red Cross to help victims of Hurricane Ike.”

Associated Press

Today, the Facebook profile for Kyle Korver will read “Kyle Korver is playing kick ball”, and his Myspace mood will be kicky. That’s because Kyle Korver and his friends will be playing a whole lotta kick ball over the next 25 hours for charity, with the goal of raising $10,000 for the Helping Hand Rescue Mission in North Philadelphia.  

If you live in Philly, you can go down to show your support for this kick @ss cause.

“Jazz forward Kyle Korver will be shooting for — or, more accurately, kicking for — a Guinness World Record today. In an effort to raise money for one of his favorite charities, Korver will be part of a group hoping to play the longest kickball game in history. To kick the current record to the curb, Korver and friends will have to play longer than 24 hours.”

Desert News

The Houston Rockets chipped in to help aid people effected by Hurricane Ike today.  If you would like to help out, please click here to donate to the Feed the Children Hurricane Ike relief effort and make a difference. 

“The Houston Rockets purchased four tractor-trailers full of food, water and toiletries for victims of Hurricane Ike and players unloaded them at a distribution center Thursday.

The four trucks carried 80,000 pounds of supplies, said team spokeswoman Tracey Hughes.

Forwards Mike Harris and Chuck Hayes and guards Rafer Alston, Aaron Brooks and Luther Head carried boxes of food and orange juice. They greeted motorists who waited in long lines to get supplies in the parking lot next to the University of Houston’s football stadium.

Rockets chief executive officer Tad Brown said the team tapped its relationship with Feed the Children, an international charity, to bring the trucks to Houston from Oklahoma City.”

ESPN

When people band together for positive, worlds can change!

“Freddie Mac’s Hoops for the Homeless basketball tournament — headlined by basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson — raised $600,000 for six local homeless nonprofits over the weekend.

The day-long tournament, held at the Verizon Center on Sept. 13, was coached by Washington Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas, former Washington Redskins players Tyronne Drakeford, Reggie Evans and Brig Owens and former Washington Senator Chuck Hinton.

“Given the economic times, families are even more stressed this year, making Hoops for the Homeless even more important. With the funds we’ve raised and the support of nonprofits throughout our region, we will continue to help more families move out of shelters and into homes,” said Ralph Boyd, executive vice president, community relations, Freddie Mac.

Nearly 12,000 individuals are homeless in the D.C. area, and close to half of those are families.

Last year, Freddie Mac Foundation – which is separate from the corporation — gave $25.2 million in local contributions. Freddie Mac has been giving $348 million since 1991.”

In todays double shot of WAG’s. Savannah Brinson girlfriend of LeBron “King” James was also at The Lebron James Family Foundation cocktail party looking all 10’s.  Does this make her the Queen by default?