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Michael Huff Charity Event at Austin Convention Center
What National Football League player, especially if single, would want to miss a sweet April weekend in Austin, especially with the Texas Relays in town? Not the ones invited by Michael Huff to participate in his charity weekend, which included a visit to the Dell Children’s Medical Center — one of the beneficiaries of the event — parties and a basketball game at the Austin Convention Center.
Our host, the gracious Michael Huff and man of good will
Yes, basketball. As Kansas prepared to mash North Carolina and Memphis set the record straight against UCLA — setting up an ideal final NCAA game on Monday — football players, yes, big, sometimes ungainly NFL football players faced off on the court usually reserved for the minor league Austin Toros.
Michael Griffin, serious after goofing around with his fellow players. Michael owns a house out on Lake Austin and has joined Vince Young at a return UT student
Before the game, fans, mostly Longhorn fans, lined up around the center’s lobby — all the way to the New Urbanism conference — to get hats, balls, anything signed by former Horns heroes such as Huff, Roy Williams, Michael Griffin and such. We admit to being starstruck in the company of such football talent, who chatted with sportswriters before the autographing onslaught, but their practice shots were about what you might expect — powerful but not exactly accurate.
Receiver Roy Williams actually could pass for a basketball player
Organizers found no problems drafting volunteers for this star-studded Michael Huff event: Casondra Brown, Toni Martin, Jalesa Bacon, Apryl Martin, Jordan Phillips, Taylor Bowser, Brittney Maxwell
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