Look To The Stars News: Kerri Walsh

Mia Hamm To Hold Third Celebrity Charity Soccer Challenge

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Soccer star Mia Hamm and her husband, former Dodger Nomar Garciaparra, will host their third annual ‘Celebrity Soccer Challenge’ on January 16 at the Home Depot Center in Carson California to raise money and awareness about bone marrow disease.

Last years event raised nearly $200,000 for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Mia Hamm Foundation while encouraging the thousands of fans in attendance to register for the National Marrow Donor Program Registry.

It is a cause close to Hamm’s heart, because she lost her brother Garrett to aplastic anemia, a bone marrow disease, in 1997.

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.

Olympic Athletes Sign Computers For Auction

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

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.