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All Stars in the News
Asomugha gets hand for giving others hand up
SFGate.com- Jefferson Award winner Nnamdi Asomugha talks about his passion: helping people. more>>Tyrus Thomas wins the Jefferson Award
WAFB.com- Thomas is honored as the Outstanding Athlete as a Newcomer in Service and Philanthropy. more>>Commitment to Excellence: Nnamdi Asomugha
RealFootball365- Nnamdi's off-the-field efforts. more>>Nnamdi Asomugha on Jim Rome
ESPN- Jefferson Award winner Nnamdi Asomugha talks with Jim Rome of ESPN about the Raiders. more>>Sports stars help traders raise funds for kids
SFGate.com- All Stars athletes participate in BTIG's Commission for Charity. more>>Staley Encourages Literacy for Bay Area Youth
49ers.com- Joe Staley spends a morning at Candlestick park reading and playing with young children at the All Stars Read & Run. more>>Ronnie Lott on KNBR 680/1050
KNBR.com- Ronnie talks about All Stars. more>>NFL's $45 million man helps Skid Row teen's college dream
CNN.com- The high school honor student and the NFL's highest-paid defensive back stroll down the destitute streets of Skid Row. more>>"Dream Team for Public Service" to be Honored at New York Luncheon
DetroitTigers.com- Granderson, Zimmerman Recognized for Community Efforts more>>Washington Times- Zimmerman Honored more>>
World News- Dynamo's Holden Named Finalist for Jefferson Award more>>
Ronnie to be Inducted into San Jose Sports Hall of Fame
San Jose, CA– Four South Bay sports icons who made their mark in professional, college, and Olympic sports make up the 2009 Class of Inductees of the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame: Ronnie Lott, Ron Calcagno, Sheryl Johnson and Bob Murphy.
Tuck's Celebrity Billiards on WWOR
On the ball
July 14, 2009
nygiants.com- Justin Tuck was on the ball for charity Monday night. But it was not a football, as basketball or a golf ball.
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Justin Tuck, NY Giants teammates shoot for literacy at charity billiards tournament
July 14, 2009
Newark Star Ledger- When Justin Tuck began brainstorming for a charity event to benefit his R.U.S.H. for Literacy initiative, he wante dto host something more unique than the standard golf tournament.
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Ronnie Lott's Charity Turns 20
June 2, 2009
San Jose Mercury News-That evening was a smashing success...Lott's charity machine, All-Stars Helping Kids, which has generated more than $20 million in the Bay Area.
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Super Bowl Champion Justin Tuck to Host Celebrity Billiards Tournament
May 29, 2009
Denver Post- The funds raised by Tuck's Celebrity Billiards 2009 will benefit Tuck's R.U.S.H. for Literacy.
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May 28, 2009
Forbes.com- Tuck's Celebrity Billiards 2009 will host 32 teams of two competing in a "win or go home" format until the final "best of three" round to benefit Tuck's R.U.S.H. for Literacy.
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All Stars Read- Along in Partnership with Jumpstart
February 18, 2009
49ers.com- Offensive tackle Joe Staley and FC Gold Pride soccer player Tracy Hamm took part in reading to preschool kids to promote literacy.
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20th Anniversary Press Conference
January 22, 2009
KGO- Ronnie gathered with Harris Barton, Guy McIntyre and Keena Turner to issue a call to service.
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2nd Annual Sports, Business & Philanthropy Luncheon in the News
December 9, 2008
New York Times - The Times does a profile piece on our new partner, Justin Tuck.
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All Stars Fantasy Football in the News
July 18, 2008
ABC7 - Ronnie talks about All Stars and the upcoming Fantasy Football Draft.
May 9, 2008
San Jose Mercury News - --Ronnie Lott has joined the ranks of Mister Rodgers when he received the Legacy for Children Award from the Children’s Discovery Museum. more>>
Lott still trying to make great plays off the field
January 28, 2008
Sports Business Journal--A punishing defensive back in the 1980s and '90s, Ronnie Lott won four Super Bowl rings with the San Francisco 49ers and earned 10 Pro Bowl appearances during his 14-year NFL career. He was named to the league's 75th anniversary team in 1994 and elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000. more>>
Watch Ronnie on the 49er Playbook
November 4, 2007
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Watch Ronnie on the Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football Live Show
November 4, 2007
Fantasy Football Live: Week 10 Archive
September 28, 2007
Yahoo! Sports-- In the 13 years since his retirement, Ronnie Lott has become a wildly successful businessman, philanthropist and community leader by displaying the same level of dedication and contemplative zest for knowledge he showed on the field. more>>
Executive Suite: Lott helps athletes stay in the game
September 17, 2007
USA Today
Watch Video from the 2007 All Stars Fantasy Football League Draft Party
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Ronnie Lott Interview
Marcus Allen Interview
Joe Montana Interview
Lynn Swann Interview
Michael Irvin Interview
Fantasy Draft: Top RBs
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Fantasy Draft: Top WRs
Downloadable Audio Files with Commentary about the Fantasy Football League
Ronnie Lott on Fox Sports
Ronnie Lott on KLAC
Ronnie Lott on KNBR
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All Stars hosts charitable Fantasy Football League
June 20, 2007
RealGM.com -- Ronnie Lott, Marcus Allen, Michael Irvin, and Tim Brown and others have agreed to serve as draft consultants for a charitable Fantasy Football League to promote a safe, healthy, and rigorous learning environment for disadvantaged youth. more>>
All Stars hosts charitable Fantasy Football League
May 12, 2004
Stanford Report — The dream of creating a Martin Luther King Jr. Research Institute at the university came one step closer to reality with a $1 million challenge grant pledged from NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott and his nonprofit charity group, All Stars Helping Kids. more>>
Ex-49ers Star Lott Pledges $1 million Challenge Grant
May 11, 2004
San Jose Mercury News — National Football League Hall of Fame member Ronnie Lott’s charity pledged a $1 million challenge grant to help establish a Martin Luther King Jr. Research Institute at Stanford University. more>>
March 2004
San Francisco Chronicle — Powerful hoofbeats thundered across the tundra when Megan and Harris Barton, Karen and Ronnie Lott and Jennifer and Joe Montana hosted A Night at the Theatre--An Adventure through the Pride Lands. OK, actually it was a jungle-themed tent in the middle of Civic Center Plaza, but it was filled with numerous greats of sports, technology and philanthropy. The festive family party, before a private performance of "The Lion King", benefited All Stars Helping Kids (founded by the NFL Hall of Famer Lott), Champion Charities, the National Brain Tumor Foundation (Barton’s father died of a brain tumor, his mother now suffers from one) and ABC2, another brain cancer research group, founded by Stacy Case, widow of former Hambrecht & Quist chief executive Dan Case. more>>
Lott's Bond with Franchise, Bay Area Stands Test of Time
November 17, 2003
San Jose Mercury News — The crowd's loudest roar started as the 49ers departed the field at halftime. Because the 49er was arriving. "Ron-nie! Ron-nie! Ron-nie!" Who knew there wee so many cherry red No. 42 jerseys still hanging in closets? more>>
Ronnie Lott Shares the Spotlight with UCSF Children's Hospital
November 10, 2003
UCSF Medical Center News Release — When you see Ronnie Lott hunker down to chat with a hospitalized child, it's immediately clear why he and his wife Karen founded a charity to help children. The 10-time Pro Bowler, 4-time Super Bowl winner is one of the most feared and respected players in the game. His former coach at the San Francisco 49ers, Bill Walsh, called him "the best defensive back who every played." With children, he is simply the best. more>>
Football Hall of Famer to Join County's Annual Awareness Campaign to Stop Family Violence
October 2003
REDWOOD CITY— Former San Francisco 49er and Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott will join Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson, President of the Board of Supervisors, on Thursday, October 16 for San Mateo County's 3rd Annual Walk the Walk - Stop Family Violence Walk. The Walk will take place at County Government Center, Redwood City, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM. more>>
September 17, 2003
Daily News - "We're friends of Ronnie's," said just about everyone who attended the 2003 Music, Art and Heart Benefit at Villa Montalvo Sunday evening. And, Ronnie is NFL great Ronnie Lott who in 1989 founded All Stars Helping Kids, a non-profit organization that is based on the simple idea that a community can help raise a child. more>>
Robin Williams, 49ers Raise Funds for Arts, Kids
September 22, 2002
San Francisco Chronicle — Who says Sunday is a school night? Villa Montalvo found September 15 a perfect evening for a fundraiser, and so did more than 100 guests who went to Los Gatos for the sold-out evening with Ronnie Lott and, as it turned out, a famous comedian who lives in San Francisco. more>>
Ronnie Lott Helps After Schoolyard Arson Fire
June 21, 2001
San Francisco Chronicle — The vandals who set fire to the playground at Hawes Elementary may have done the Redwood City school a favor. When they burned the equipment to the ground June 5, they also ignited a blaze of compassion that spread to NFL Hall-of-Famer Ronnie Lott and translated a flurry of donations. more>>
