Updated: Friday, 22 May 2009, 8:26 AM CDT
Published : Thursday, 21 May 2009, 6:20 PM CDT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - John Calipari may have left town with everything but the kitchen
sink, but he didn't get the teams Graduate Manager, Scott Robinson.
And in 2 weeks Robinson is hosting the 2nd Annual It's All Good
Basketball Weekend, featuring former Tigers like DeAngelo Williams,
Penny Hardaway, and many more. FOX13's Marcus Hunter looks at how
this all got started.
D2DY's: "It's All Good Memphis Weekend"
presented by Tiger Gift Shop
Friday, June 5th7 pm Celebrity of Memphis Game (Mark
Goodfellow, Kevin Kane, Doug Browne, DeAngelo Williams, Ashley
Shields, Paris Leonard, DJ Bougaloo, Jimmy Barron, Dan Wolken, Alan
Graf, George Klein)
More to come.....
830 pm The Memphis Game (Featuring former Memphis State and
University of Memphis players such as Penny Hardaway, Elliott
Perry, Bobby Parks, Andre Turner, Earl Barron, Jeremy Hunt, Chris
Massie, Arthur Barclay, Dujuan Wagner, Dwight Boyd, Leon Mitchell,
Rodney Newsom, Dexter Reed) CDR, DRose, and Joey Dorsey are
supposed to be in attendance!
** Elma Roane Fieldhouse - Doors open at 6 **
** $20 for Adults / $10 for Students / 5 & under free**
*** Part of the proceeds will benefit the Larry Finch
Scholarship Fund ***June 6th - 7th2nd Annual "It's All Good Memphis
Showdown" - Adult Men's double elimination basketball tournament.
Penny Hardaway teamed with Thaddeus Young of the Philadelphia
76ers to take home the championship last year for Team Penny.
*** Saturday - First game at 9am - Last game is at 5:45 pm
** Sunday - First game at 9 am; Championship is at 3:15pm on
Sunday
*$10/for both days
Dream 2 Discover You is the prime beneficiary of the event,
which was created due to my my mom suffering from
Primary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS). D2DY will provide life
skill seminars at the basketball events we will put on throughout
the United States along with donating money to the MS society. For
more info go to: www.d2dy.org
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