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A booster club is an organization that is formed to support (e.g. coordinate events, contribute money, etc.) an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level. The clubs are generally run and organized by the parents of the students in the supported organization in high schools, and by athletic supporters and fans at colleges. It is not a social club. Its main function is to develop support for the student program.

For example, fundraisers are often held to raise money for supplies or equipment that the students may need or for trips that the students may need to take. The main principle of funding by a U.S. IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit is that the booster club may not discriminate in making grants to youth or college students on the basis of their family's membership in or funding to the club, or the family's fund-raising or time put into club activities.

A popular way for booster clubs to raise money is with raffles held at sporting events for some item that would be donated by a local business, clothing such as t-shirts with the school's name and mascot on it, or the sale of popcorn, hot dogs, and other food items to the fans who attend the game/tournament/etc. Membership fees are also a key fundraising element, especially at the college level.

At the high school level school administrators cannot be involved in the booster club organization except approving activities held at the high school.

At the collegiate level, the NCAA closely regulates the activities of booster clubs and strictly defines what actions would cause a person to be considered an official booster of an athletic program. Many scandals have resulted from prohibited activities by boosters, particularly those providing monetary or in-kind incentives for prospective athletes to sign with a particular university.

Rashad McCants

McCants playing with the Minnesota Timberwolves
Powerade Tigers - No. 32
Shooting guard
Personal information
Born	(1984-09-25) September 25, 1984 (age 27) Asheville, North Carolina
Nationality	American
High school	Erwin (Asheville), New Hampton School (New Hampton)
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
College	North Carolina
NBA Draft	2005 / Round 1: 14th overall
Selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves
Pro career	2005–present
League	Philippine Basketball Association
Career history
2005–2009	Minnesota Timberwolves
2009	Sacramento Kings
2010-2011	Texas Legends
2012	Caciques de Humacao
2012-present	Powerade Tigers

Rashad Dion McCants (born September 25, 1984) is an American professional basketball player.

High school career[link]

McCants began his high school career at Erwin High School in Asheville, but finished at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire. He led New Hampton to the 2002 New England Prep School Class A championship and was named MVP of the title game. McCants played alongside future college teammate Wes Miller during his senior season.

McCants was an honor roll student at New Hampton.^[1] He also won the New Hampshire Player of the Year Award in 2001 and 2002. And, as a senior, he was also named to the Parade All-American and McDonald's All-American Teams. He played in the McDonald's All-American Game with future Tar Heel teammates Raymond Felton and Sean May.

Collegiate career[link]

Alongside Sean May, Raymond Felton, and David Noel, McCants joined a stellar recruiting class at UNC for the 2002–2003 season, coached by Matt Doherty. In his freshman year, McCants led the Tar Heels in scoring with 17.5 points per game, and led them to a third round loss to Georgetown in the National Invitational Tournament. He was voted to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) rookie team.

In the 2003–2004 season, McCants led the ACC in scoring with 20 points per game. With that effort, McCants helped lead UNC back into the NCAA Tournament with a sixth ranking, where they would lose in the second round to number three ranked Texas. He was the leading vote-getter on the All-ACC First Team as a sophomore, and was named a Second Team All-American.

With freshman Marvin Williams joining the squad for the 2004–2005, the junior class led by preseason Wooden Award candidates in McCants, May, and Felton gave UNC a high ranking in all preseason polls and the team was seen as one of the favorites to win the NCAA Tournament. After going 33–4 and winning the ACC regular season, McCants' 16.4 points per game helped secure UNC one of the four number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament. UNC cruised to the championship game, where McCants helped the Tar Heels defeat the Illinois Fighting Illini 75–70.

McCants' three years at Chapel Hill were not without controversy. In an interview for a local television station, McCants compared UNC to a prison, stating, "You're not allowed to say certain things, but once you get out of jail, you're free. (I'm) in my sentence, and I'm doing my time".^[2]

McCants scored 1721 points in his career at North Carolina and made 221 career three-point field goals.

NBA career[link]

After winning the championship, McCants declared his eligibility for the 2005 NBA Draft, and was selected 14th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves. His college teammates, Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, and Sean May were also selected in the draft. During his first two years as a pro, McCants was bothered by injuries and did not play up to the expectations of fans. He had a lot of expectations going into the 2007–08 season, and on a young Timberwolves squad, he started the season as a rotation regular, and broke into the starting lineup halfway through the season.

As of January 2008, Rashad had posted career-highs through his third season, with 34 points against the Denver Nuggets on January 4, 2008,^[3] 8 rebounds against the Miami Heat on January 8,^[4] 4 steals against the Seattle SuperSonics on December 29, 2007,^[4] and getting 6 assists five times.^[4] On December 26, 2008, he hit a career-high 7 three-pointers in a Wolves win over the New York Knicks.^[5]

On February 19, 2009, McCants was sent to the Sacramento Kings along with Calvin Booth for Shelden Williams and Bobby Brown.^[6] McCants then signed with the Houston Rockets in September 2009,^[7] but had his contract retracted on the second day of the training camp. The Rockets General Manager said McCants presented with an abdomen problem and would not be able to participate in the camp, though he also said he would still consider McCants down the track once healthy.^{[citation needed]}

In the summer of 2010, he was scheduled to join the Cleveland Cavaliers' NBA Summer League team. However, he did not report to the team for personal reasons.^[8]

In October 2010 the Dallas Mavericks signed McCants to their training camp roster. However, he was released only after a few days. He was then signed by the Mavericks' NBA Development League associate, the Texas Legends.

In 2012, the Powerade Tigers of the Philippine Basketball Association acquired him as their import for the Governors Cup.

Personal life[link]

McCants' sister, Rashanda McCants of the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, played for the University of North Carolina women's basketball team that went to the Final Four in 2006 hosted in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Rashanda used the same number, 32, as Rashad used at UNC. She also followed her brother's footsteps as a professional basketball player when she became a WNBA player on April 9 of 2009. Coincidentally, she was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx and started her professional career in the same city where her brother did.

Rashad is also the cousin of San Diego Padres outfielder Cameron Maybin and third cousin of Canadian Football League running back John Avery.^[9]

Awards[link]

• All-ACC First Team: 2003–04^[10]
• All-ACC Third Team: 2004–05
• All-ACC Rookie Team: 2002–03^[11]
• Parade All-American: 2001–02
• McDonald's All-American: 2001–02
• New Hampshire Player of the Year: 2000, 2001^[1]

NBA career statistics[link]

Regular season[link]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Rashad McCants at NBA.com
• Rashad McCants at Basketball-Reference.com
• Rashad McCants in Inked Magazine

Theodore William "Ted" Lange (born January 5, 1948) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the 1970s TV series The Love Boat. Lange and Gavin MacLeod, who played his captain in the series, have remained close friends.^[1]

Early life and acting career[link]

Born in Oakland, California, Lange attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.^[2] Lange was a cast member of the musical Hair. His first screen appearance was in the documentary film Wattstax in 1973. After appearing in the film Black Belt Jones in 1974, he portrayed Junior on the series That's My Mama before landing the role of the ship's bartender, Isaac on The Love Boat in 1977, opposite favorite idol Gavin MacLeod. After the series ended in 1986, Lange appeared in various films and guest roles on 227, "The Cleveland Show" Glitch!, Evening Shade, Scrubs, Drake & Josh, The King of Queens, and Psych.

In addition to his film and television work, Lange has also done extensive theater work. He made his Broadway debut in 1968 in the musical Hair.^[2] He also performed in a one-man show, Behind the Mask: An Evening with Paul Laurence Dunbar.^[3]

Directing and screenwriting[link]

During the run of The Love Boat, Lange also served as director and screenwriter on various episodes of the series. In 1977, he wrote the screenplay for the 1977 drama Passing Through, starring Cora Lee Day and Marla Gibbs. In 1999, Lange directed two episodes of The Love Boat: The Next Wave, the UPN series based on The Love Boat. He also directed episodes of Moesha, Dharma & Greg, and Eve. In 2008, he directed the drama For Love of Amy.

Lange has also done extensive theater work as playwright and stage director. He has penned seventeen plays including George Washington's Boy, a historical drama about the relationship between the first president and his favorite slave, along with the comedy Lemon Meringue Facade.^[3][4]

"Ask Isaac"[link]

Before the American edition of FHM folded in 2006, Lange wrote a sex and advice column entitled "Ask Isaac" with adult film actress Jenna Jameson.^[5]

[edit] Celebrity Fit Club

In 2006, Lange appeared in the fourth season of the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club.^[6] He lost 28 pounds during the show's run.^[7]

Personal life[link]

Lange has been married to wife Sheryl Thompson since 1978. The couple have two children, Ted IV and Turner Wallace Lange.^[8] His mother is Geraldine Lange, who was a personal secretary to a San Francisco mayor and was public affairs director of KBHK-TV in San Francisco in the early 1970s. She also hosted television programs on KBHK-TV.

Awards[link]

For his work theater directing, Lange received the NAACP's Renaissance Man Theatre Award, the Heroes and Legends HAL Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dramalogue Award. Lange has also been the recipient of the James Cagney Directing Fellow Scholarship Award from the American Film Institute along with the Paul Robeson Award from Oakland's Ensemble Theatre.^[4]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ted Lange at the Internet Movie Database
• Ted Lange at the Internet Broadway Database

Frank William Thomas 'Scranno' Jenkins (11 August 1918 – 23 May 1987) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Fremantle in the WANFL. He is a member of the Fremantle Team of Legends.

Jenkins played 150 games for South Fremantle, often at centre half back, and had his career interrupted by the Second World War. He played his best football before the war, winning the Sandover Medal in his debut season in 1937 with a record high 34 votes, which remained a record for 44 years until Stephen Michael polled 37 votes in 1981.^[2] He came close to winning back to back Sandover Medals when he finished runner up to Haydn Bunton in 1938 and also won three consecutive best and fairest awards for South Fremantle between 1937 and 1939. After the war South Fremantle became a force and although injuries restricted him, he was named captain in 1946 and played in South's 1947 and 1948 premiership sides.^[3] He played in seven interstate matched for Western Australia and won the Simpson Medal in 1947, playing for a combined Western Australian side against Essendon.^[4]

He was born in South Fremantle and attended the Fremantle Boys' School. Following his Sandover Medal win, he was approached by three Victorian clubs, St Kilda,^[5] Footscray and Geelong to move to the Victorian Football League, but he rejected their offers to remain in Western Australia.^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fullpointsfooty profile

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The Casuals were a British pop group from Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. They are best known for their 1968 #2 UK hit, "Jesamine".^[1]

Career[link]

Originally formed by John Tebb (piano and vocals) and Howard Newcombe (guitar), they added Don Fortune (drums) and Zenon Kawolski (bass), and became The Casuals in 1961. Upon turning professional in 1962 Fortune and Kawolski left, to be replaced by Mick Brey and Ian Good.^[2]

In 1965 they won the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks three times, leading to a recording contract with Fontana Records who issued their debut single "If You Walk Out", which was unsuccessful. In 1966 Alan "Plug" Taylor (bass) joined, and the band moved to Italy, where they signed with CBS in Milan to record Italian language covers of British hit singles.^[3] These included a #1 Italian single covering the Bee Gees' "Massachusetts".^[2] Good left in mid 1967, and was not replaced, but when Brey left later that year, Bob O'Brien joined on drums.

In 1968, whilst still in Italy, The Casuals switched to Decca Records, who released the single "Jesamine" which charted, so the band came back from Italy to promote the record, which reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart late in 1968.^[3] "Jesamine" was a cover version of The Bystanders' "When Jesamine Goes" issued in February 1968, and was co-written by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (the Bystanders' manager, not the famous jazz musician), under the pseudonym Frere Manston and Jack Gellar.^[2] The follow-up single, "Toy" (written by Chris Andrews) also made the Top 40, peaking at #30.^[1] They were also successful in Germany, where "Jesamine" hit #9, and "Toy" went to #27, but their first and only album, Hour World, was issued too late to capitalise on these successful singles. Chris Evans stood in for Newcombe when he was ill, and when Taylor and O'Brien left in 1970, Evans became a permanent member, along with Lloyd Courtney. None of the following four singles managed to chart, and the group was dropped by Decca in 1971.^[3]

They signed to Parlophone in 1972 and released "Tara Tiger Girl", but the single went nowhere, nor did a single "American Jam" for which the band was renamed 'American Jam Band', although, as both singles had the same B-side, the link was obvious. They left Parlophone for Dawn Records in 1974, but after their final single, "Good Times", flopped, they disbanded in 1976.^[2]

Key members[link]

• Howard Newcombe - guitar, trumpet, vocals - (born 25 November 1945, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England)
• Alan Taylor - bass - (born 2 February 1947, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England - died 27 November 2011)
• Johnny Tebb - keyboards - (born John Roy Tebb, 1 October 1945, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England)
• Bob O'Brien - drums - (born Robert O'Brien, 26 September 1944, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland)

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

• "If You Walk Out" / "Please Don't Hide" - Fontana 1965
• "Adios Amour" / "Don't Dream of Yesterday" - Decca 1968
• "Jesamine" / "I've Got Something Too" - Decca 1968 - #2 UK
• "Toy" / "Touched" - Decca 1968 - #30 UK
• "Fools Paradise" / " Seven Times Seven" - Decca 1969
• "Sunflower Eyes" / "Never My Love" - Decca 1969
• "Caroline" / "Naughty Boy" - Decca 1969
• "My Name is Love" / "I Can't Say" - Decca 1970
• "Tara Tiger Girl" / "Nature's Girl" - Parlophone 1972
• "Good Times" / "Witch" - Dawn 1974

As 'American Jam Band'

• "American Jam" / "Nature's Girl" - Parlophone 1972^[1][2]

Albums[link]

• Hour World - LP (1969) Decca (LK-R5001(mono), SLK-R5001 (stereo)

Track Listing : Side One : Jesamine, Toyland, Never My Love Fools Paradise, Picnic, Now You Can Be, Daddy's Song Side Two : Hello It's Me, Love ME Tonight, Someday Man, Touched, See, Sunflower Eyes, Hey-Hey-Hey, Weather Vane.)

• The Very Best of The Casuals - CD (1998) Commercial Marketing^[4]

Compilations[link]

The Casuals version of "Jesamine" appears on a number of compilation albums^[5] including:-

• Sixties Power Ballads
• Under the Influence

See also[link]

• List of artists under the Decca Records label

References[link]

Track listing for Hour World by Mervyn Hallam

External links[link]

• The Casuals discography at Discogs