{"id":5473,"date":"2011-02-23T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2011-02-23T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:35:39","slug":"espninfiniti-competition-could-net-baylor-100000-for-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/02\/espninfiniti-competition-could-net-baylor-100000-for-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\/Infiniti competition could net Baylor $100,000 for scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of 14 universities featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2011\/02\/espn-college-gameday-to-broadcast-from-the-ferrell-center-march-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s GameDay Games of the Week<\/a>, Baylor men&#8217;s basketball head coach Scott Drew is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/012011aad.html\" target=\"_blank\">one of 14 coaches included in The Infiniti Coaches&#8217; Charity Challenge<\/a>. Each coach is competing for a charity that is near to his heart; fan voting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/infiniti\" target=\"_blank\">espn.com\/infiniti<\/a> will determine the winning coach and charity. The top vote-getter&#8217;s charity will receive a $100,000 donation from Infiniti, while the remaining charities each receive $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>With Baylor in the midst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/09\/starr-calls-baylor-nation-to-support-100-million-student-scholarship-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">a push to raise $100 million for student scholarships<\/a>, Coach Drew&#8217;s designated charity is a scholarship fund he and his wife established here at Baylor. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwyYItOJo7M\" target=\"_blank\">the video<\/a> embedded below, Drew explains why scholarships are so important.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwyYItOJo7M\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwyYItOJo7M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voting runs through March 11, with the winner announced March 14. So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/infiniti\" target=\"_blank\">vote early and vote often<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Coach Drew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of 14 universities featured on ESPN&#8217;s GameDay Games of the Week, Baylor men&#8217;s basketball head coach Scott Drew is also one of 14 coaches included in The Infiniti Coaches&#8217; Charity Challenge. Each coach is competing for a charity that is near to his heart; fan voting at espn.com\/infiniti will determine the winning coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-athletics","category-student-life","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}