Also from what I understand, a person in West Tennessee has started a movement called "HOOPS and HOPES." I believe they are simply asking as many teams as possible to send "basketball stuff" to Kari...signed balls, posters, etc...get creative. The concept is that basketball is a team effort...as is fighting cancer. Kari was playing at the middle school level when she began to have knee pain and had to be "threatened" by her coach, "Either go to the doc or you're not playing." She's a determined girl. But, prayer is most needed...she is indeed very ill.