Partake in a charity sport event? This doesn't sound like something the Badman of Philadelphia would do. Barry was never one to give back to his community. He had skipped over multiple bake sales and fundraisers while in high school and college but participating in team charity activities was in his contract and he needed that money to fuel all of his evil plans. Barry decided to help out with this years event (but planned to skim some money off the top, he couldn't be completely kind hearted).
The sport the Liberty decided to participate in this year was kickball. Now Barry had kicked plenty of people in the balls especially during his elementary days but he had never really played the sport of kickball. All those years of kicking people's balls translated perfectly to the game as Barry kicked balls over the fence on almost every chance he had at the plate in this tournament. The best part is the Liberty organization gave $1,000 for every home run kicked by a Liberty player. Barry himself raised over $20,000. In all the excitement he forgot to steal any for his self... but it didn't bother him too much.
Jaycee Higgins has always been known for his amazing on field performance as wide receiver of the San Jose Sabercats, but did you know he is able to perform well in several other sports? At the San Jose Sports for Cancer Event, several sports teams in the San Jose area joined this event to raise money to help charities. The biggest and most common was basketball, which consisted of a 3-pt contest and a pick-up game to 21 of 3 on 3. Jaycee did the 3-pt contest and made 10 of 25 shots, not great but not horrendous either. The pick-up game he ran with Mason Malone and Jaja Ding Dong. Jaja was great in the post and Malone was lethal from outside. The other game played was wiffleball, which for those who don't know what wiffleball is, it's basically just plastic baseball. Jaycee got 2 at bats and went 1-2 with a single and pitched 1 inning and allowed 1 run (a homer to Cedric Wilkins II). A solid charity and it raised several hundred thousand dollars!
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Willie has taken part in the Skyline Chili for Children 2021 Philadelphia Ryan Negs Memorial Celebrity Eczema Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For The Cure. In this monumental event I gathered up my teammates and we all ran 100 miles over the course of 10 days to raise money to cure @negs eczema. Unfortunately, his case was so severe that it could not be cured and he had to retire from football. The way it worked, we ran 10 miles each day for 10 days. Whoever had the slowest lap of each day had to donate 100,000 dollars to Ryan Negs because he was so bad at football that he made zero money from his contracts. Thankfully I was never the slowest, but unfortunately, Ryan Negs decided to compete and ran the slowest lap every day. Since he was effectively just donating money to himself, he came away with 0 dollars which did not help him in his retirement endeavors.
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