After my last post, a lot has happened. I mended the fences with my friend here in Scottsdale and he has really changed his attitude 100% to one where we will be working together in an atmosphere where he will be completely accountable and trustworthy. These things are #1 as far as importance to me in running a strong, legitimate program.

I want to thank all of you who have reached out to me after the last blog post, particularly those who have offered me a short term place to stay while traveling through Europe---somethign which I've decided I definitely want to do after the basketball season ends (roughly around May).

As far as needing your guys help, tryouts start in 3 weeks, and the season starts 5 weeks from today. My goal for raising money was to reach $1,000. After a lot of fundaraising already, I've reached $690, which is $310 away from my goal. I really need your guys help to reach that last $310 dollars.

My last blog post received 1500 views. If I was able to get $10 from 30 people (1 out of ever 5 viewers), I'd be able to reach that goal. The main reason for raising these funds is in order to purchase gym time for practices, uniforms, a video camera for recording games, referees for our games and buying into a tournament or two.

It's an under funded high school basketball team, the school is named Tempe Accelerated High, so it's both for gifted kids and for kids who have struggled with the administrative system and have screwed up but are trying to work their way through and get out with at least a GED. We are coaching their team and we require the funds because the school did not get a high enough enrollment for state funding to kick in.

I can accept money by the following means:

Carbon (ID - RxCowbell)
Cake (E-mail tk1983ap@hotmail.com)
Pokerstars (ID - iV.Geoffrey) -- A friend of mine who is willing to accept transfers and forward the money to me
Paypal (ID - Pjennings28@hotmail.com)
GDMP's
Amazon Gift Cards

Your help will be greatly appreciated, and I will be updating our teams progress over the course of the year within this blog. Any amount you might be able to help will mean something, even a couple bucks.

Thanks for your consideration.

Peter