sports.aol.com - 5/15/2008
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Like many athletes, Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson created a foundation to give back to the community, particularly to kids from single-parent homes. He loves giving away toys to children who have few things. TMZ is reporting that Johnson ordered 750 bikes to purchase for underprivileged children, in exchange for Wal-Mart providing ice and water for the kids' event. There was a ...
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Wal-Mart Withholds Water From WR’s Kids Event
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... for the purchase, Wal-Mart agreed to donate water and ice for the May 3 event. But there was a problem with the order, so Johnson ended up buying fewer bikes than planned. Wal-Mart countered by not giving the water and ice as promised. So, deny poor children water, just because Johnson fell a few Schwinns short of his order? Was Andre requesting Evian or Perrier or something? Of course, we expect nothing different from a company that pays minimum wage & offers no health benefits, yet rakes in over $3 billion in quarterly income . Honestly, how hard is it to give a little H2O ...
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... to Parcells.
• Al Michaels, despite the NFL Network's best efforts, will
not be calling games there on Thursday nights. I'd love to see Rich Eisen
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for play-by-play.
• Glendale found a way to
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• Andre Johnson of the Houston Texans was unfortunately unable
to convince Wal-Mart that underprivileged children deserve water. ...
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Walmart to Andre Johnson: Suck it
nfljuice.com 5/16/2008 —
Andre Johnson has a charity that ordered 750 bikes from Wal-Mart , to be given to underpriviledged kids at an event for his charity. Wal-Mart, in return, agreed to donate water and ice to the event.
Supposedly there was a problem with the ...
