"Recycle for Sight" Month at the Lion's Club

Being the only Den writer who works in the non-profit sector, I feel compelled to not only promote the betterment of LaSalle basketball, but the betterment of our community.

Two-thirds of the Den wear glasses (gazelles and boars are not known for their eyesight) and May is "Recycle for Sight" month. No organization in history has done more to promote sight and end preventable blindness than the Lion's Club, the international network of lions and ladies dedicated to humanitarian service. Drop off your used prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses to a Lion's Club near you or send them by mail. Read more about "Recycle for Sight" month. The Den is looking to collaborate with the Lion's Club to be our official charitable partner.

On a related note, LaSalle basketball shall rise to prominence, or at least memorableness, when we get a baller with some thick rims, and not the kind you find on an Escalade. Cue Harris from Major League: "I think they like good, young man." Athletes don't like to show weakness, so few admit to bad eyesight. But everybody loves a guy in glasses who takes charges and hustles. Mufasa cheers for guys in masks; I like goggles.

All-Time Goggles & Spectacles Team:

Center: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (back-up is Moses for a quick blow)
Forward: James Worthy (only one on this list who was born with goggles)
Forward: Horace Grant (bro Harvey will get garbage time and you won't even know a switch was made)
Guard: Thurl Bailey (okay, he's a forward but he could shoot. He's my two guard)
Guard: Gazelle (since there is not one documented case of a point guard wearing glasses on the court I'm calling my own number)
Sixth Man: Kurt Rambis
Coach: John Wooden
Towel Boy: Chris Sabo