Ballers Against Genocide

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The title is the name I would have gone with, but Aid Still Required works — and getting names like Kobe Bryant and Grant Hill behind PSAs, photo shoots, and other work to bring attention to the genocide in Darfur is a Good Thing, particularly when athletes are not viewed as socially and politically active people. The Darfur campaign (they also have pages for Katrina relief and ... [link]

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Aid Still Required
Published 3/4/2008 by Hardwood Paroxysm at Hardwood Paroxysm
Gigantic hat tip to Signal To Noise. Here's the site, Aid Still Required. Help. Pass it on.

Create The Caption #179
Published 3/5/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... shoppers, we have a cripple fight on Aisle 2, cripple fight, aisle 2"- The Great Bambi _______________________________________ Are you funny enough to create a caption for this photo of K-State Guard Clent Stewart proposing to his girlfriend last night? Daily Links: Yahoo Pulls Their Denver Spying Story (SI.com) Going Deeper Inside The Mortensen-Favre Conversation (KSK) Ballers Against Genocide (Signal to Noise) Cubs Already Setting TV Records, In Spring Training (Out of ...

NBA Players Notice Rest Of The World [Blogdome]
Published 3/5/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
• Basketball players taking a stand on something? Now we've seen everything. [Signal To Noise] • One particularly noteworthy In-N-Out burger joint. [Walk Off Walk] • That great Kyle Korver picture that was in the comments yesterday. [Lion In Oil] • Is Kevin Durant having a better rookie year than LeBron James did? [40 Acre Sports] • A very cool autograph story. [Bruins Nation] • The NFL Network was pretty far behind on the Brett Favre story. [The Meaningful Collateral] • So, ...

The 10-man rotation, starring The Birdman (Ka'caw!)
Published 3/5/2008 at Ball Don't Lie
A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out. C: Hornets247. It's official: Chris Andersen is a Hornet. (But does he still possess 'special' powers?) PF: Signal to Noise. Kobe, Grant Hill and others are bringing attention to the genocide in Darfur. SF: D.C. Sports Bog. Oleksiy Pecherov -- aka ...

All The Negativity In This Town Sucks!
Published 3/7/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... The second item I spotted was some new television spots being done by NBA players such as Kobe and Grant Hill, which are aimed at increasing awareness of the ongoing genocide in Darfur. This has been an issue that hasn’t received nearly enough attention in the United States, so these efforts by Kobe and Company are certainly commendable — here’s hoping their celebrity status can help bring increased attention to the atrocities occurring in Darfur. ...

Abraham Linking:
Published 3/7/2008 by Stop Mike Lupica at Stop Mike Lupica
... And finally, we want to give some love to this "Ballers Against Genocide" post by Signal 2 Noise, since it definitely falls into the category of "Athletes doing good" that we love to showcase here at SML.

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