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Sixers team owner gives Penn wrestling $1M gift

Editor’s Notes; Now this is a great idea! We think every NBA team owner should contribute $1 million to support college wrestling teams! Our thanks and a nod of the TDR headgear to former wrestler Josh Harris.
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Did you hear about the owner of an NBA team who was once a wrestler?
Put aside the jokes about the perfect covering for a basketball floor is a wrestling mat. The owner of Philadelphia 76ers basketball team has made a $1 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania wrestling program where he wrestled three decades ago.
Josh Harris, a 1986 graduate of the Wharton School of Business at Penn, and his wife Marjorie are giving the seven-figure gift to the Quaker wrestling program through the Harris Family Charitable Foundation which they established. “The gift, which will be distributed over five years, includes $500,000 of which the university will use to create the Joshua J. Harris Wrestling Assistant Coach Endowment,” according to the official announcement made by Penn wrestling Wednesday. “An additional $500,000 will be applied to team travel, recruiting, nutrition, equipment and salaries, along with planned facility renovations.” Harris wrestled for Penn in the early 1980s at 118 pounds — “40 pounds ago” as he told the Philadelphia Inquirer — where he took on the likes of Bobby Weaver of Lehigh, compiling a record of about .500 as a Quaker. Harris first took up the sport at age 10, growing up in Chevy Chase, Md., where he placed third in a Maryland state freestyle tournament. Harris, who also owns the New Jersey Devils, said that wrestling helped him focus on academics. “It really helped me in life.” Rest of the Story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/20346

July 22, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized