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This week, Louie’s Kids names nine additional celebrities that will be playing in its second annual ‘Slim Down the South Celebrity Softball Challenge’ benefiting the area nonprofit on Saturday, Aug. 4 at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park (‘The Joe’). Of these nine additional players, South Carolina fans will be pleased to see several University of South Carolina (USC) names, including that of Frank Martin, the newly named basketball coach of the Gamecocks. Martin, the former basketball coach of Kansas State University, was elected the new head coach of the USC basketball team in late March. The softball game will represent his first visit down to the Lowcountry since becoming the new USC coach.  Additional players from the USC community include Harold Green, USC star running back and former NFL Cincinnati Bengal, Drew Meyer, former Texas Ranger and current assistant USC baseball coach, and USC baseball player Brison Celek. Other newly-named celebrities to join the roste...

This Saturday, celebrities are coming together to help fight childhood obesity with the Slim Down the South Celebrity Softball Challenge for Louie's Kids. It all started off as a dream for Louis Yuhasz of Louie's Kids, he said one night to his partner, Fred, what if we have a softball game and invite celebrities from around the nation to show kids that they're standing behind the kids to lose the weight and get healthy. And that dream turned into a reality. With big names Bill Murray and Darius Rucker saying yes to being captains of the team, to all the other wonderful celebrities that are participating too, it's amazing to think that the event is almost here.  The  Slim Down the South Celebrity Softball Challenge  is an amazing 'Field of Dreams' day at the ballpark and a softball  game between celebrity teams to raise awareness and  monies for  Louie's Kids  and  Run Buddies  to combat childhood  obesity in the areas hardest hi...