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The Orlando Magic owners are giving $1 million dollars to help families hurt by Charley. The Magic are also teaming up with the Local 6 station to give out packages of ice during this difficult time. The original plan was to fly the ice in from Detroit but refrigeration issues turned out to be difficult to solve.

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Instead, the ice is being trucked in. Eighty thousand pounds worth. In addition, the Magic has reportedly told its sales staff to stop selling season tickets and instead to go out and volunteer. Of course, that stretches the meaning of the term "volunteer." Perhaps "draft" would have been a better word for it. On the other hand, perhaps it was merely misreported. Most likely, the Magic told the staff to stop selling tickets andgave them an opportunityto help out in the community. Pressure to do so would be counterproductive, unless one wanted to get cynical, which one doesn't want to do yet. It's too soon.

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In other news, the reports that Erick Dampier will probably be moved to Dallas eventually instead of signing with Atlanta means that Kelvin Cato, Tony Battie, and Andrew DeClercq have nothing to fear about a potential double-double center in their division; oh wait, there's still Shaq. Oops!

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TEAM NOTES
Friday, August 20: Talent Auditions, Open Casting Call, 10am-2pm or 4-8pm @ the Multisport Gym @ RDV Sportsplex.

NEWSLINES

Tim Povtak ofThe Orlando Sentinelwrites: The owners of the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic were sitting home safely in Michigan when Hurricane Charley struck Central Florida on Friday night. But family members still felt the hurt -- and the need to help. The DeVos family is donating $1 million for disaster relief that will be used to help families in Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Volusia and Polk counties who need assistance because of Hurricane Charley.The family also is transporting 80,000 pounds of ice to Central Florida. The American Red Cross will be involved in the distribution of the relief funds.

Mike Bianchi ofThe Orlando Sentinelwrites: It's been a long time since the Orlando Magic have made this community feel like a million bucks. But they did it Tuesday -- figuratively, spiritually, literally. A million bucks; that's how much Magic owner Rich DeVos, wife Helen and the Orlando Magic thoughtfully and quietly contributed to the Hurricane Charley Relief Fund on Tuesday.There was no press release issued by the team. There was no mention of it on the Magic's Web site. There was no blaring, banner headline on the 6 o'clock news: MAGIC GIVE A MILLION DOLLARS!

Local 6 News reports: Local 6 News has teamed up with the Orlando Magic and its sister station in Detroit to truck in 80,000 pounds of ice for the victims of Hurricane Charley.Local 6 News will be giving away ice at several locations Thursday beginning at noon. The first location will be at the Local 6 studios at John Young Parkway. Also, ice distribution will be at Geneva Elementary School and Dewey Boster Park in Deltona, Fla.

The Detroit Free Pressreports: San Diego State head basketball coach Steve Fisher hired former Michigan player Mark Hughes as an assistant coach for the Aztecs... Hughes, 37, has no prior collegiate coaching experience, but was the head coach for the Grand Rapids Hoops of the CBA from 1997-2002. Hughes was an assistant with the NBA's Orlando Magic under Doc Rivers the past two seasons.