Eckrich Donates $125K to Teachers at the College Football Playoff National Championship

Kirk Herbstreit attempts football throw to win donation to Extra Yard for Teachers

New Orleans, La. – (Jan., 2020) –

Kirk Herbstreit, ABC/ESPN College Football Analyst, Emmy-award winner and longtime Eckrich partner, attempted two football throws resulting in a $125K donation from

Eckrich

Extra Yard for Teachers

, the primary cause of the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation.

Ahead of the College Football Playoff National Championship between LSU and Clemson, crowds and teachers gathered at the Eckrich activation in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter to watch Herbstreit and Marty Smith attempt to win $1 million. Despite missing two throw attempts, Eckrich was honored to donate $100K to Extra Yard for Teachers. In addition to Herbstreit’s throw, teachers of the year from across the country made their own throw attempts resulting in an additional $25K donation from Eckrich to Extra Yard for Teachers for a total of $125K.

“I’m thrilled to be able to support such a great cause,” Herbstreit said. “It feels great to be able to give back to the teachers who do so much in all of our communities. Eckrich is such a generous partner and I\’m proud to continue partnering and working with them.”

Eckrich has partnered with Extra Yard for Teachers since 2018, and, with this throw, has now donated $1.1 million to the organization dedicated to elevating the teaching profession by inspiring and empowering teachers in four focus areas: resources, recognition, recruitment and professional development.

“We’re really happy and proud to be able to donate $125K to Extra Yard for Teachers,” said Elizabeth Di John, senior marketing director at Smithfield Foods. “Teachers are so instrumental and impactful in all of our communities, so to be able to support them in this way is extremely special to the Eckrich brand.”

\”It has meant so much to us to work with a partner like Eckrich who believes in what the College Football Playoff Foundation is doing to uplift the teaching profession,” said Britton Banowsky, Executive Director of the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation. “With their support, we have been able to make a greater impact and have been able to give so many different teachers all across the country the recognition they deserve.\”

Eckrich is completing its fourth year as the official smoked sausage and deli meat sponsor of the College Football Playoff. As part of the partnership, the brand also launched the fourth year of its Road to the National Championship $1 Million Challenge sweepstakes in the summer of 2019, where 23 lucky fans won the opportunity to throw for $1 million at some of the biggest college football games of the year.

For more information, please visit

www.Eckrich.com

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Gloucester City Middle School Basketball

Gloucester City Middle School 5/6 boys defeated Audubon today in Camden County Basketball League action, 47-36.

Gloucester\’s Keegan Cohan had 15 points

Photo\’s Courtesy Bruce Darrow

Pictured Tristan Garcia

Pictured Dennis Havers

Pictured Byrant Lin

Pictured Drew Hannold

Pictured Keegan Cohan

Rutgers-Camden women win third straight game, 63-57

CAMDEN, N.J

(

Jan.

, 2020

) –

The

Rutgers University-Camden women’s

basketball team opened its game here Saturday with a seven-point run and went on to post a

63-57

victory over Rutgers University-Newark in a New Jersey Athletic Conference contest.

The win was the third straight for the Scarlet Raptors, all coming in a six-day span during the week. They raised their record to 8-5 overall and 2-5 in the NJAC. Rutgers-Newark fell to 1-12 overall and 0-7 in the NJAC with its 11th straight loss.

Newark now leads the all-time series, 39-31.

Freshman guard/forward

Jalissa Pitts

scored the first five points of the game for the Scarlet Raptors and senior guard

Fatimah Williams

added the next field goal as Rutgers-Camden took a 7-0 lead. The Raptors led, 15-6, after on

e quarter and 30-18 at halftime, with Pitts notching all nine of her points during

the first 20 minutes and sophomore forward

Breanna Ettrick

scoring all seven of her points for the game.

The second-half production was carried by Williams, who notched 19 points to finish with a game-high 25, while junior guard

Shane Holmes

scored seven of her 10 points after the break. Holmes also finished with a game-high five assists, while sophomore forward

Tamara Johnson

added four assists.

Holmes added a career-high seven rebounds to lead the Scarlet Raptors, while Johnson, Williams and Pitts notched six apiece.

Rutgers-Newark received a big game from sophomore guard/forward Dorian Capurso, who notched a double-double with 11 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Sophomore guard Syncere Lambert added nine points and senior center Comfort Akinbo added eight. Freshman forward Ebony Odom Barnes grabbed eight rebounds, helping the Scarlet Raiders hold a 42-38 edge off the boards.

Rutgers-Camden shot 21-for-56 from the floor (37.5 percent) and 18-for-29 (62.1) from the foul line. Rutgers-Newark was 19-for-50 (38.0) from the floor and 13-for-28 (46.4) from the line.

Newark made 21 turnovers and Camden had 15.

The Scarlet Raptors have another three-game week next week, beginning with a non-conference 7 p.m. game

Monday

at the University of Valley Forge.

Stingy Newark defense shuts down Camden men

CAMDEN, N.J

. (

Jan.

, 2020

) –

The

Rutgers University-Newark men’s basketball team entered Saturday’s New Jersey Athletic Conference contest coming off a

program-record defensive effort and the Scarlet Raiders didn’t hurt their nationally-ranked defensive ratings against Rutgers-Camden.

Newark held the Scarlet Raptors to 38 points as it defeated Rutgers-Camden, 59-38, to raise its record to 10-4 overall and 6-1 in the NJAC. The victory came only three days after the Scarlet Raiders shut down NJAC foe Montclair State University, 58-29, to set a program record for fewest points allowed.

Rutgers-Camden fell to 4-9 overall and 1-6 in the NJAC with its fourth straight loss.

Rutgers-Newark

, which entered the contest with the 10th-ranked defense in Division III,

has won

seven

of its last

eight

games against Rutgers-Camden, although the two teams split last season’s two-game series. Rutgers-Newark leads the all-time series, 5

-36.

The Scarlet Raptors held the lead only early in the game, scoring the first field goal on a layup by junior guard

Arian Azemi,

falling behind on a

trey by Newark senior guard Chase Barneys and then scoring the next four points to take a 6-3 lead. Newark countered with the next six points, taking the lead for good at 9-6 on a three-pointer by sophomore forward Jamir Patterson with seven minutes gone in the game. By halftime, the Scarlet Raiders held a 33-19 lead and they led by as many as 31 points (58-27) in the second half.

Barneys finished with a game-high 20 points, while Patterson canned 10 and added six rebounds for the Scarlet Raiders. Junior guard David Logan had a game-high four assists

and

added a team-high seven rebounds as Newark held a 41-27 advantage off the boards.

Azemi finished with 17 points for the Scarlet Raptors, including 13 in the second half. Sophomore guard

Keysean Simmon

led the Raptors in scoring during the first half, notching six of his eight points. Senior forward

Isaac Destin

collected game highs of eight rebounds and three blocked shots

Rutgers-Newark shot 21-for-53 from the floor (39.6 percent) and 8-for-15 (53.3) from the foul line, but the Scarlet Raiders also had nine treys (in 19 attempts), including four by Barneys.

Rutgers-Camden shot 14-for-43 (32.6) from the floor, including only 1-for-10 from three-point range. The Raptors went 9

–

for-13 (69.2) from the foul line.

Rutgers-Camden

plays another NJAC

Globetrotter makes crazy catwalk trick shot at Chase Center

(San Francisco – Jan. 2020) Prior to their debut at Chase Center with two games this Saturday, Harlem Globetrotters star Zeus McClurkin made the new arena’s first ever trick shot from the catwalk early this morning. Following the made basket from the rafters, Zeus challenged Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, stating “Alright Steph, your shot! I’m pretty sure that’s an H.” – referring to the popular basketball game of H-O-R-S-E. The video was posted minutes ago and is approved for media (courtesy Harlem Globetrotters).

Via

YouTube

(extended version)

Via

Facebook

(short version)

Earlier this season, Zeus also proved Curry’s new tunnel shot is makeable, as the trick shot artist made a no-look rainbow shot backwards (

video

The Globetrotters will make their Chase Center debut when their new “Pushing the Limits” World Tour comes to San Francisco this Saturday, Jan. 11 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., as part of seven games in the Bay Area. The world-famous team will also return to Oakland Arena (formerly Oracle Arena) on Saturday, Jan. 18 for games at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., in addition to SAP Center at San Jose on Friday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. and Monday, Jan. 20 for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee at 1 p.m.

A trip to the Bay Area has extra meaning for the Globetrotters in recent years, as the comparison between the Globetrotters and the Golden State Warriors is commonplace for media, fans and players. The Globetrotters have collaborated with the Warriors on several occasions, including a visit with Stephen Curry in 2018 (

video

) and an introduction of the Globetrotters’ 4-point shot with Klay Thompson in 2017 (

video

Ramapo men outlast Raptors in double-overtime thriller

CAMDEN, N.J

. (

Jan.

, 2020

) –

The Rutgers University-Camden and Ramapo College gave fans plenty of basketball for their money here Wednesday night in a New Jersey Athletic Conference marathon. After

lead changes, four ties and two overtime periods, however, the Roadrunners edged the Scarlet Raptors, 77-74.

In a game that fell one overtime shy of tying the Rutgers-Camden program record for the longest game, which h

as h

appened three times, the Raptors dropped to 4-8 overall and 1-5 in the NJAC with their third straight loss. Two of them have come this week, against traditionally strong teams in Ramapo and Gwynedd Mercy, by a combined margin of eight points.

Ramapo

improves to 6-7 overall and 2-4 in the NJAC with its second straight win. The Roadrunners have won their last nine games

against Rutgers-Camden and lead

the all-time series, 52

-15.

Both teams appeared to have the game in hand at various points, as the Roadrunners surged t

an early 11-point lead (26-15) before the Scarlet Raptors stormed back to build a 37-31 lead right before halftime. Rutgers-Camden led at the break, 37-33.

Rutgers-Camden led by six points, 49-43, before Ramapo went on an eight-point ran to take a 51-49 advantage and start a sequence where the teams swapped the lead on eight consecutive possessions. The Scarlet Raptors led by five points, 69-64, with 2:31 remaining in the game after senior forward

Isaac Destin

made a pair of foul shots. Ramapo, however, came back to tie the game on a trey by sophomore guard Jason Battle and a jumper by senior guard Rob McWilliams, sending the game into overtime tied at 69-69.

In an overtime period where each team scored only one field goal, the Raptors took a 71-69 lead on a jumper by junior guard

Arian Azemi

midway through the five-minute period. Ramapo tied the game at 71-71 on a layup by McWilliams with 23 seconds remaining, pushing matters into the second overtime session.

The Roadrunners took the lead for good on a layup by senior forward Jordan Zagadou with 2:24 left in the second overtime period and padded their margin to four points, 75-71, on a jumper by McWilliams. A trey by Azemi cut the gap to 75-74 down the stretch before Battle closed out the Ramapo win with a pair of foul shots. The Raptors missed a last-moment attempt at a game-tying trey.

McWilliams notched 25 points to pace the Roadrunners and tie for game-high honors, while Battle canned 12, junior guard Marquise Kindel netted 11 and senior guard Connor Romano added nine.

Senior forward Jordan Zagadou had a team-leading eight rebounds, helping the Roadrunners hold a 39-34 edge off the boards.

Destin, who notched his 1,000th career point Monday night at Gwynedd Mercy, had a huge game for the Scarlet Raptors, scoring 25 points and completing a double-double with 13 rebounds. Azemi notched 19 points, sophomore forward

Jake Petrik

netted 12 and sophomore guard

Keysean Simmons

added 10.

Azemi also collected game highs of six assists and five steals.

Ramapo shot 30-for-59 (50.8 percent) from the floor, while Rutgers-Camden went 28-for-63 (44.4). Both teams made 18 turnovers and the

Roadrunners went 10-for-21 (47.6) from the foul line, while the Scarlet Raptors were 8-for-11 (72.7).

Rutgers-Camden

plays another NJAC home game on Saturday when it faces Rutgers-Newark at 3 p.m.

UPPITY: THE WILLY T. RIBBS STORY (video)

LOS ANGELES, CA (January 8, 2020)

– Chassy Media announced today that

UPPITY: THE WILLY T. RIBBS STORY

, the incredible true story of Willy T. Ribbs, the first Black driver to win a Trans-Am race, test a Formula One car and race in the Indy 500, is now available for purchase at

Chassy.com

. The film is co-directed by podcaster and comedian Adam Carolla and Nate Adams (

THE 24 HOUR WAR and SHELBY AMERICAN: THE CARROLL SHELBY STORY

Willy T. Ribbs was the Jackie Robinson of auto-racing who shattered the color-barrier in the all-white sport. Willy was referred to as \”Uppity\” behind his back by mechanics and other racers. He overcame death-threats, unwarranted suspensions and engine sabotage to go after his dream. Ultimately, Willy beat the haters and became the first Black driver to win a Trans-Am race, test a Formula One car, and race in the Indy 500.

“Willy T. Ribbs is an extraordinary racer who overcame adversity throughout his career. Willy’s determined spirit and desire to prove his naysayers wrong serves as a beacon of light and hope that one should never give up on their dreams and to continue to fight regardless of what others think,” said co-directors Adam Carolla and Nate Adams. “We are thrilled to share his amazing story and are very excited for audiences to learn more about this incredible man!”

UPPITY: THE WILLY T. RIBBS STORY is produced by Adam Carolla, Nate Adams and Mike August and features interviews with Willy T. Ribbs, Paul Newman, Bernie Ecclestone, Dan Gurney, Bobby Unser, Al Unser Jr., Robby Unser, David Hobbs, Caitlyn Jenner, Wally Dallenbach Jr., and Humpy Wheeler.

ABOUT CHASSY MEDIA

Founded in 2014 by Adam Carolla and Nate Adams, Chassy Media is an award winning, one-stop-shop production company that specializes in feature films, premium documentary films, comedy specials, branded content, and much more. Whether it’s the story of the first Black driver to race the Indy 500, the real story of Ford v. Ferrari or a comedy special about the rags to riches tale of Adam Carolla. Chassy creates story-driven, character rich content that connects and resonates with audiences everywhere. Our skilled team of professionals, from producers to editors, works tirelessly with our partners in order to deliver the highest quality content that best suits their brand.

Lady Lions Dedicated 2019-2020 Season

The Gloucester City Lady Lions hosted visiting Clearview in a battle of ladies basketball. But for those in attendance the pre-game ceremonies is what many came to witness. The Lady Lions family exhibited the true Gloucester City Spirit as they displayed a banner dedicating the 2019 – 2020 season to Frank Keith.

Frank Keith, father of Lions center Emily suddenly passed away 2 days before their season opener was a fixture seated in the Lions bleacher as dedicated supporter of GHS. Frank\’s daughter Emily never missed a practice or game while arrangements for her father\’s funeral were being finalized. But Emily\’s friends gathered to support their teammate at the opening game in Salem only two days before the funeral

Tonight the coach\’s and players showed what the true meaning of Family is. In true meaning of Gloucester Spirit these player put the Keith Family ahead of a game to honor Emily\’s dad, that in some way helped everyone understand there is more to life then just a GAME.

Photos courtesy of Bruce Darrow

Pictured below Michael, Joan and Emily

Pictured below Family and Friends

Pictured Emily

CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE COACH LOU ABBATTISTA TO BE FEATURED SPEAKER AT CAPE-ATLANTIC DAY

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP NJ–The Albert Carino Boys Basketball Club has announced that the Annual Cape-Atlantic Day will be Wednesday, January 22nd at the Harbor Pines Golf Club, Egg Harbor Township, NJ starting at 11:30 A.M. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED and may be

made by calling Jack Mongulla, (856-461-8800), or Jason Lewer (609) 706-7063 (or emailing the Club at basketballclub@comcast.net. Tickets are $25.00 each.

The Club will honor Taj Thweatt (Wildwood Catholic), Najee Coursey (Cedar Creek), Stephen Byard (Atlantic City), Chris Kalinowski (Holy Spirit), Alanus Urbanos (St. Joseph’s) and Kevin Foreman (St. Augustine)

at the luncheon.

LOU ABBATTISTA (photo)Head Men’s Basketball Coach Camden County College

Coach Lou Abbattista is beginning his 8th year as head coach at CCC. In his 7 year the Cougars have a record of 139 wins & 69 losses. The Cougars have been in the Region 19 playoffs every year Coach Abbattista has been the head coach and in 6 of those years they advanced to the Final 4 of the playoffs. In addition, the program has sent 25 former CCC players on to 4-year colleges or universities to continue their careers.

Before coming to CCC Coach Abbattista was an assistant and head coach from 1982-1999 at Paul the 6th HS in Haddonfield NJ and was a part of 2 NJ State Championship teams. He then moved to St Augustine Prep in Richland NJ from 2000-2005 and was a part of 1 NJ State Championship team.

Coach Abbattista came to CCC in 2006 as the associate head coach and took over as head coach in 2011.

Reservations for this event must be made prior to Thursday, January 16th. Lunch cost is $25.00. Your school will be financially responsible for all reservations made.

Future meetings for the season will be Unsung Heroes Day (Wednesday, February 5th), Senior Day (Wednesday, February 19th).

Rutgers-Camden women post non-conference win at Abington

ABINGTON, Penn. (Jan. 6, 2020) – The Rutgers University-Camden women’s basketball team scored the first nine points of its non-conference game here Monday night and went on to defeat Penn State University-Abington, 66-46.

The victory snaps the Scarlet Raptors’ four-game losing streak and lifts Rutgers-Camden to 6-5. The Nittany Lions fall to 3-6 with their third straight defeat.

Senior guard

Fatimah Williams

and freshman guard/forward

Jalissa Pitts

scored five and four points, respectively, as the Scarlet Raptors jumped off to their quick start. Although Abington closed its deficit to 12-11, the Lions never caught the Scarlet Raptors.

Rutgers-Camden held a 35-27 lead at halftime and opened its margin to 47-37 at the end of the third quarter.

Williams led all players with 20 points, shooting 8-for-19 from the floor (2-for-6 from three-point range) as she raised her career scoring total to 948 points. With 52 more points, she will become the 14th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point milestone.

Pitts notched 15 points and eight rebounds for the Scarlet Raptors, while sophomore guard/forward

Tamara Johnson

added 13 points and a game-high nine rebounds. Junior guard

Shane Holmes

dished off a game-high five assists and tied Williams for game-high honors with three steals.

Sophomore guard Lacy MacLachlin scored 13 points to lead the Nittany Lions, while senior guard Sydney Barrow added 10 points. Junior guards Ashya Gaddy and Iman Richmond both scored nine points, while collecting eight and seven rebounds, respectively.

Rutgers-Camden shot 38.1 percent (24-for-63) from the floor and held a 43-36 advantage off the boards. The Scarlet Raptors also had only 13 turnovers, while forcing 22 by the Nittany Lions.

Penn State-Abington shot only 15-for-49 from the floor (30.6).

The Scarlet Raptors play their first home game of the new year on Wednesday when they host Ramapo College in a 6 p.m. New Jersey Athletic Conference game.