BCA Month

Breast Cancer Awareness month starts in less than one week and we are still looking for more athlete photo submissions. High school athletes send in your photos of you supporting the cause and wearing pink gear and you could be the winner of the contest. Please send all photo submissions to rush4cure@hotmail.com and remember to include your name, high school name, city, and state. Thank you and we look forward to seeing young athletes supporting the cause and raising awareness.

NFL BCA

The NFL is again raising Breast Cancer Awareness this season through the BCA Pink Merchandise. If you are interested in getting some pink merchandise to support your favorite NFL team and to also raise awareness, please go to the following link and look around.

http://www.nflshop.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=3821290&ab=HP_Banner_BCA_092410

VOTE 4 THE CAUSE

We would like to thank everyone who has voted for the Tackle the Cause project via the Pepsi Refresh Project. Please remember that you can vote for the project once a day! We would like to encourage everyone to get their votes in daily, so we can move up to the Top 10 and receive a grant to help this project expand.

If we are awarded a grant we will be able to provide athletes with pink gear, provide imformational brochures to high schools, and create an awareness amongst the youth. To view "Tackle the Cause" on the Pepsi Refresh Project, please visit the following link, http://www.refresheverything.com/tacklethecause

Pepsi Refresh Project

We made it! We are in this month's running to receive a Pepsi Refresh Project grant and we need your help. Vote for the project, spread the word, and together we will help Tackle the Cause.

Check 'Em Out!

Featured artist Sam "Samcee" Cain of Cainhicks Custom Art just finished up a custom order for one of "Tackle the Cause" committed athletes. If you're interested in getting some custom gear by Samcee, send us an email at rush4cure@hotmail.com and we will forward the information to Samcee.

Special thanks to Samcee for all his work and support of the "Tackle the Cause" project.

NEW!!! Logo

The "Tackle the Cause" has now been updated to a more new and improved design courtesy of graphic designer/artist GWScherer. Post your comments and let us know what you think of the new design.

Arkansas Times Two

"Tackle the Cause" has received word from two more high-school athletes to join our team and raise breast cancer awareness. Both athletes are from the Little Rock, AK area and have committed to wearing pink gear this season in order to spread awareness.

Thanks guys! Have a great season and send in your photos of you and your pink gear for the opportunity to win FREE stuff.

Featured Artist

Due to the lack of Breast Cancer Awareness products available to high school athletes, "Tackle the Cause" has begun working and planning with featured artist Sam "Samcee" Cain. Samcee's artistic work has been featured at many levels and his resume includes many professional athletes such as Marshawn Lynch, Marcus Stroud, Fred Jackson, Trent Edwards, Shawn Nelson, Terrence McGee, George Wilson, Jahvid Best, Alex Mack, Zack Follett, Donte Whitner, Robert Royal, Urijah Faber, and Tyreke Evans.
Samcee was born and raised in Oakland, CA. As a young child, it was apparent that he had been blessed with the ability to draw and used his talent to escape the battles and adversities of a child growing up in poverty and with parents that struggled with substance abuse. Samcee used his art abilities to escape the negative aspects of street life in Oakland and began drawing pictures of family and friends. Eventually his capability lead to creating designs for clothing, shoes, and motorcycles. Samcee has never received any formal art training and his talent is strictly God given.
Samcee uses his life experiences to give him inspiration and eneregy to create his works of art. His own personal motto is: "Dreams come true. Go for whatever it is, its what you want in life, believe in it!"
If you are interested in having Samcee create custom apparel for you to help support "Tackle the Cause" please contact us at rush4cure@hotmail.com and we will forward the information to Samcee and his manager, so they can contact you. In addition, Samcee will donate a portion of all proceeds from work generated through "Tackle the Cause" back to our online teams suporting breast cancer awareness.

Store Now Open

Tackle the Cause has launched its online store through cafepress.com. To purchase Tackle the Cause, Rush for the Cure apparel online visit http://www.cafepress.com/rushforthecure. All proceeds from the store will go towards the team pages we have set up.

First Committed Athlete

Tackle the Cause has gotten its first athlete to commit to the project. Our first athlete commitment comes from Southern California and has committed to wearing gloves and cleats with pink on them in order to raise awareness in his community.

Thank you for the support young man and good luck on the upcoming season!

Join Our Team Online

We have set up team page at the Passionately Pink website. To join the team click on the links below to join and begin spreading awareness.

http://www.info-komen.org/site/TR/PassionatelyPink/PassionatelyPink?team_id=127221&pg=team&fr_id=1130

High School Football Players

Tackle the Cause is looking for high school football players to join our team and help raise Breast Cancer Awareness through their play. If you are a high school football player or know an athlete that would like to join our team, please email us at rush4cure@hotmail.com. We would like to have each athlete wearing some form of pink gear for a minimum of 1 game during the month of October this upcoming season, though we do prefer you help spread the awareness by wearing the gear during the entire month.
As a form of motivation, we are talking with professional athletes and athletic outfitters to donate items that will be given out to the Tackle the Cause athletes. To be entered in the drawings, an athlete would only need to submit a photo of theirself wearing the pink gear.