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Wino & Gold Jersey Drive
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 5:41 a.m.

Jacob Katel
This summer, the Miami New Times and the Cleveland Scene teamed up to collect Northeast Ohio's unwanted LeBron James jerseys and other merchandise...
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...for distribution to the local homeless.
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We served pierogies Clevelands favorite food and distributed the bounty in what we call the Unofficial Subtropical Skid Row (USSR), the homeless-crowded streets a few blocks west of the Miami Heat's American Airlines Arena.
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Husband and wife Clarence Jones and Lisa White got matching home jerseys.
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David Scott tried to time his entrance for the cameras: "I can roll my chair up, and just give me my jersey."
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In total, we gave out 105 items stuff groups like the Miami Coalition for the Homeless and the Homeless Trust refused to accept due to "politics."
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Some of the jerseys still had price tags attached, and were once purchased for $60 or more.
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WPLG's Glenna Milberg showed up.
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After a forty-five minute hand-out session that bordered on frenzy, we ran out of jerseys.
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Then we hit the dregs of the T-shirts. So we drove around Miami, distributing the rest of our collection.
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We made a stop at the county jail, where we gave a cheery vagrant a LeBron T-shirt to replace his government-issued scrubs.
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And we ended up in Coconut Grove, where we bequeathed our collection's crown jewelthe "LeAfghan" to a man calling himself Departee Hardee, shown here with buddy Michael Chaver.
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Hardee threatened to do something lewd to the LeAfghan but youll have to read the feature.
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Wino & Gold Jersey Drive
After Miami snubbed Cleveland's offer to send unwanted LeBron James Cavaliers merchandise to give to the city's homeless, New Times, with the help of Cleveland Scene, stepped in and offered to distribute the items. Read the feature story, "Bum Wrap," here.
After Miami snubbed Cleveland's offer to send unwanted LeBron James Cavaliers merchandise to give to the city's homeless, New Times, with the help of Cleveland Scene, stepped in and offered to distribute the items. Read the feature story, "Bum Wrap," here.
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