{"id":1372,"date":"2019-03-27T04:18:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:18:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:18:49","slug":"worthy-cause-countdown-this-staten-island-football-team-needs-838-for-tackling-dummies-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Worthy Cause Countdown: This Staten Island Football Team Needs $838 For Tackling Dummies [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! \u00a0BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE\u00a0HERE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school athletic programs in need of funding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The varsity football team at Port Richmond High School in Staten Island, New York, went 2-7 this season\u2014not that coach Lou Vesce minds. His players, most of whom grew up in one of the city\u2019s\u00a0toughest neighborhoods, suit up for more than athletic accolades.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Port Richmond serves around 1,800 students,\u00a064 percent of which live in low-income households.\u00a0There are 60 ninth through twelfth graders on the varsity and junior varsity football teams, which practice separately. This holiday season\u00a0Vesce is <strong>reaching out to the internet<\/strong> for help rebuilding\u00a0the program\u2019s\u00a0stock of equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The teams needs $2,318 for new blocking shields, tackling dummies, sideline markers, and weight training\u00a0tools\u2014and they\u2019re <strong>only $838 from the goal<\/strong>. There are 16\u00a0days left. Please <strong>consider donating here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Editor&rsquo;s note: Some projects listed on DonorsChoose.org have donations matched by Dick&rsquo;s Sporting Goods, which is a noneditorial presenting partner of GOOD Sports.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! \u00a0BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE\u00a0HERE. From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school athletic programs in need of funding. The varsity football team at Port Richmond High School in Staten Island, New York, went 2-7 this season\u2014not that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}