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Huggie Bear News
Huggie Bear News
Help Coach Bob Huggins win the Infinity Coaches’ Charity Challenge and help him win $100,000 for the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Foundation.
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Infiniti is a proud corporate partner of NCAA Men’s Basketball. We’re donating $5,000 to each of the charities involved in the Coaches’ Charity Challenge. The...
Join us on November 26, 2011 to
"Shoot 2 Cure"
with a Candlelight Memorial
Service and Auction
proceeds benefiting the
Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund and Hospice Care
Huggie Bear Products has teamed up with Hospice Care Corporation to "Shoot 2 Cure" with a Candlelight Memorial and Auction to raise money for cancer research.
- Light a candle in honor of a survivor or in memory of a loved one.
- Listen to a truly inspiring address by Chet Marshall, a cancer survivor and spiritual speaker.
- Each participant will receive a t-shirt, light refreshments, a commemorative candle and a keepsake program.
- Your loved one's name will be read aloud and listed in our program.
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The Huggie Bear Product line was inspired by our mother Norma Mae Huggins. Norma was a godly Christian lady, wife ,mother and friend to many. Norma was loving, kind, nurturing and humble a great cook and a hard worker. She loved the Lord, her husband and her children and would do any thing for them.
She was the cook at Eastern Ohio Basketball camp for the many years that our dad, Charlie Huggins and her owned the camp. She touched many lives, both young and old, during those years. She would get up at 4:00am to go start breakfast and get the coffee on for the coaches. The coaches knew no matter what time they would come in she would always have there coffee and a smile and ask about there family and about their team. After breakfast she would clean up and start lunch...
When Debbie Bradford saw former West Virginia University standout Da'Sean Butler lying injured on the floor during last spring's Final Four semifinal game against Duke, she had thoughts of her late mother.
Butler, the leading scorer for the Mountaineers, had torn his ACL in his knee while trying to rally his team against the Blue Devils. His career wearing the Gold & Blue had ended on the hardwood floor of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
One of the first persons to comfort the senior standout was Bob Huggins, who looked more of a father tending to his injured child than a head coach trying to win a game.
"That was mom coming out in Bob," said Bradford of her older brother. "You could see the emotion and concern he had for Da'Sean. My mom was the same...
About the only surprising aspect of West Virginia coach Bob Huggins selling a line of "Huggie Bear" goods in his likeness is that somebody didn't think of it sooner.
The Huggie Bear mugs, T-shirts and baskets are the brainchild of Huggins' sister Debbie Bradford and artist Jeff Moores, who attended West Virginia before transferring to an art school in New York. Proceeds from the sale of the merchandise will go to the cancer endowment named for Huggins' late mother Norma Mae, who died of colon cancer more than seven years ago.
"I drew Huggie Bear, a bear in Coach Huggins' likeness, and he liked the idea only if we donated the proceeds to his mom's charity," Moores...
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