All the right people showed up yesterday in Oakland, Michigan for the Illitch Celebrity Golf Classic. Among the attendees: Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Bill Laimbeer and Al Kaline. But it's important to remember that whenever Red Wing Defenseman Chris Chelios is involved, it usually means that a boatload of his buddies from Malibu are going to show up too.
In this case, that meant John Cusack, Tim Allen, Dave Coulier, Thorsten Kaye, John McGinley and D.B. Sweeney were all on hand. One other familiar face who showed up, but didn't play, was Chelios buddy and Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr., who spoke with Ken Bradley of Sporting News Today:
"I play hockey, all kinds of other stuff, but no golfing," Gooding joked. "We have this great pickup (game) every Monday night in Los Angeles that is sponsored by CAA and Pat Brisson specifically -- he handles Sidney Crosby. I skated with Wayne Gretzky ... even skating with Chris Chelios I got a proper elbow to the head. It was awesome, just awesome to be out there."
Gooding, Jr. has long-standing ties to the hockey community going back better than a decade. He's a regular at all sorts of celebrity hockey tournaments, which has gotten him involved in some interesting projects, like this PSA he taped a year ago with Tie Domi for Spread the Net, a charity dedicated to purchasing mosquito nets for African families in order to stop the spread of Malaria:
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8-26-2008 @ 1:45PM
Earl Sleek said...
Also, Anaheim's 2007 commemorative Stanley Cup DVD was narrated (nearly capably) by Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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