Celebrities To Play In Charity Soccer Match

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0000

Former US soccer player/World Cup champion Mia Hamm and husband Nomar Garciaparra are once again set to host their annual charity soccer match benefiting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Mia Hamm Foundation.

The event will be held on Saturday, January 17, at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Proceeds from the event benefit bone marrow transplant patients and their families.

Celebrities expected to participate in the match include skateboarding legends Tony Hawk and Ryan Sheckler, U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Kerri Walsh, NFL great Marcus Allen, actors Zachary Levi and Jimmy Jean Louis, Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo, Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden, Anthony Lapaglia, Andrea Bowen, Chris Richardson, Josh Hutchenson, Misty May-Treanor, current and former members of the U.S. men’s and women’s national soccer team, and many more.

Last year’s event raised more than $150,000 for charity, and the organizers are hoping to top that this year.

“Raising money is wonderful,” said Garciaparra. “But to give somebody a chance to save a life, you can’t put a price on that. It was huge. And it speaks volumes about what we can do. We have a booth set up where people can be typed for bone marrow match, and we had 200 people register last year and we actually found an unrelated match.”

General admission tickets for the Celebrity Soccer Challenge are $20 and are on sale through Ticketmaster or directly through the Home Depot Center Box Office.

Olympic Athletes Sign Computers For Auction

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:52:51 -0000

Written by Tim Saunders

Yesterday, March 24, saw the Olympic torch lit in a ceremony in front of the Temple of Hera on the historic grounds of Olympia in Athens, Greece, and an exclusive new charity auction has been launched to celebrate the relay of worldwide harmony.

Personal computer innovators Lenovo are offering a series of limited edition Lenovo 3000 V200 notebook PCs autographed by some of the world’s best and brightest athletes. The red and silver laptops were inspired by the Lenovo-designed Olympic torch currently on its way to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and all proceeds from the auction will go to the Lenovo Hope Fund.

The auction will run on eBay until August 8, the date set for the torch’s triumphant arrival at the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, just in time for the opening ceremony, after crossing five continents and stopping in 21 cities around the world.

The first wave of the auction is running now, with computers signed by USA beach vollyball team members Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, and French sailing star Xavier Rohart. These will be followed by laptops autographed by Australian swim team members Lisbeth Lenton and Eamon Sullivan in April. The second wave begins in May.

The Lenovo Hope Fund was established by Lenovo to support the creation and growth of new businesses in struggling communities, as well as the non-profit organizations that serve them.

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