Bio: Before becoming a respected broadcaster, able to report on sports and hard news with equal skill, Robin Roberts balanced a hugely successful collegiate basketball career while doing well enough in classes to graduate cum laude from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1983. Out of college, she began working at television stations in her native Louisiana, > Read More
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LPGA’S KERR FIGHTS CANCER WITH TOURNEY
by Nancy Caravetta | Monday, August 17th, 2009
Since founding Birdies for Breast Cancer with her husband, Erik Stevens, in 2003, Kerr’s birdies have been fetching $50 a pop, with eagles getting $100, all going towards breast cancer research.
Today at Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City, Kerr will be hosting the fifth annual celebrity outing for her foundation, all of the proceeds > Read More
Mickelson Family Cancer Raising Needed Awareness
by Nancy Caravetta | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
It’s not a double bogey on Phil Mickelson’s scorecard that has our attention this week.
It’s the double whammy he’s facing in his personal life.
His mother, Mary, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. And it happened less than two months after his wife, Amy, was also diagnosed with the disease.
Phil’s sister, Tina, said she wanted > Read More
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