Alabama-Birmingham team wearing different colored sneakers for good cause
The heartwarming reason why UAB players are wearing different colored shoes in the NCAA tournament
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/uab-shoes-ncaa-tournament
Because sometimes fans may not always be paying attention to college basketball before the NCAA tournament, a quick glance at the sneakers being worn by UAB may seem a bit confusing because they’re two different colors.
So what’s going on here? AL.com wrote about it in November:
The Blazers have partnered with the Alabama Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s of Alabama. Sporting one green and one white sneaker this season is their way of helping raise awareness and, hopefully, money for pediatric cancer.
“We played a team over in Spain (this past summer) and one of the players came out, wearing a black and white shoe and everybody just noticed it,” Haase said. “So we started talking and kind of joking about that and one idea led to another idea about 27 ideas later this is the one we came up with.”
