Ali and I went shopping yesterday to look at some uniform possibilities for the new RISSE (refugee and immigrant support center in Albany) girl’s basketball team, not taking on players. The league games won’t begin for a month or so, practice will start sooner.

Ali liked this black and red uniform shown above, Todd Van Epps of Wicked Smart Sports Apparel, the owner of the company, which sells sports apparel all over the country,  will send him some page proofs and he can show the uniform to the girls. Todd is giving us huge discounts (thanks, Todd) and we expect teach uniform will cost about $25, a radical discount.

If you would like to support the RISSE girl’s basketball team, also to be named the Bedlam Farm Warriors, and also over my objection), you can contribute by sending donations to me at my post office box, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816, or via Paypal, [email protected].

If you care to thank Todd for his generosity and support of the Refugee Children at RISSE, you can e-mail him at [email protected]. He is a very good human being.

Sports is essential at  helping these children acclimate to America, and form and strengthen their own community. There is only one girl on the RISSE soccer team, that is Maya, expected to be the next team captain. Most of the girls at RISSE do not care to play soccer with boys, they are fired up about basketball.