Times Newsweekly SPORTS Covering Local High School, Semi-Pro And Youth Programs • Send News To [email protected] NBA Players Help Midville Kids Get FIT PS/IS 87Q, in conjunction with NBA FIT, hosted an NBA FIT Celebration as part of NBA All-Star Weekend last Friday, Feb. 13. Michael Carter Williams, Nerlens Noel and Robert Covington of the Philadelphia 76ers (pictured at right) visited the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students of PS/IS 87Q (pictured above). They worked out with the students in a variety of basketball related drills, and spoke about the importance of eating healthy, being active, and respecting their parents and teachers. Register For St. Pancras Teams NBA Moms Annual Meet And Greet Baseball And Softball Queens Attorney Helps Sponsor Event The room was decorated with red and white balloons to celebrate Valentine’s Day, and love filled the air as mothers of profession basketball players came together for this event. MPBP is a charitable non-profit organization that brings together the mothers of players in the NBA, D-League, WNBA and leagues from overseas. Vice President of MPBP Camillia Ratliff- Eatman said, “this is a great organization, they do great work and they have a great collaboration with the NBA.” Ratliff-Eatman explained that mothers of professional basketball players may face situations and problems that other people may not understand, so having a group of women in the same situation will be a great resource to have for mothers. “This is an organization that brings mothers together for a support group. That’s how we bond,” Ratliff-Eatman said. During the NBAAll-Star weekend each year, the organization holds the meet and greet event to help grow their membership numbers. “We continue to recruit new mothers all the time from all walks of life,” Ratliff-Eatman said. “One of our goals is to continue to make it a point to involve ourselves in the recruiting process so that membership increases each year,” president of MPBP, Lucille O’Neal (Shaquille O’Neal’s mother) said in a statement. Besides being a place for player’s mothers to meet and bond, MPBP does many charitable works within the communities their children work and live. That is precisely the mission of MPBP, “to support the various communities where our sons and daughters live, work and play,” Ratliff-Eatman said, quoting the organization’s mission statement. Since MPBP was founded in 1996, the mothers have worked with charitable organizations such as the United Negro College Fund and most recently St. Jude’s Childrens Hospital. “Over the course of our lives we’ve learned that it is important for us to give back to our local communities and make an investment into the lives of others through our resources and charitable works,” O’Neal said in a statement. Scott Baron, Esq. of the law firm Scott Baron & Associates, P.C., which has an office on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, is one of their sponsors and has been for years. “I have been involved with NBACares for many years and often times what gets overlooked is the praise of the foundation of a lot of these NBA players, their moms,” Baron said. “This organization honors the very foundation of the players’ success, their mothers and/or parents,” he added. TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 • 50 ORTHODONTICS WWW.GLENRIDGEORTHODONTIST.COM Est. 1976 ©Times Newsweekly 2015-GLENRIDGE FREE* Consultation and Exam WWW.GLENRIDGEORTHODONTIST.COM Medicaid Approved Diplomate, American Board of Orthodontics Vincent J. Bilello, D.D.S., ABO Diplomate, Specialists in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics 65-34 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, NY 11385 Most Insurance Accepted As Partial or Full Payment 1-718-381-2965 1-718-386-8728 Vice President of Mothers of Professional Basketball Players, Inc., Camillia Ratliff-Eatman and sponsor Scott Baron, Esq. outside of the Ziegfeld Room during the MPBP meet and greet event last Saturday, Feb. 14. Registration for St. Pancras CYO boys’ baseball and girls’ softball for the 2015 season will take place on Saturday, Feb. 22 from 1-4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26 from 6-9 p.m. and Sunday, Mar. 1 from 1-4 p.m. All registration days will be held in the small cafeteria of St. Pancras School on the corner of 68th Street and Myrtle Avenue. Baseball will have instructional clinic for kindergarten through second grade, and teams for third through eighth grades. Softball will have instructional clinic for kindergarten through second grade, and teams for third grade through high school. To be eligible, players must attend St. Pancras School or School of Religion, or live within St. Pancras Parish. Parents must be present to register players and a copy of a birth certificate is required for players on third grade teams and up. For more information, call Kevin at 1-347-461-1935. by Anthony Giudice With the NBA All-Star Game festivities in full swing last weekend, the Mothers of Professional Basketball Players, Inc. (MPBP) held a meet and greet event in the Ziegfeld Room of the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square last Saturday, Feb. 14.
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