Valentines for Charity!

Everyone probably has a little cabin fever from the latest snowpocalypse but that's gonna change starting this week for indoor bocce! On tap for Week 4 is the Valentines for Charity fundraiser. We'll be selling Valentines for $1. Buy a Valentine and you automatically win a prize! But not all prizes are created equal - below is a list of what you might score:

* Candy
* Condoms
* Indoor bocce set
* $50 gift certificate to Pour House
* And a kiss from a black shirt!

For every dollar collected, the DC Bocce League will match it. All donations will go to the towards the upkeep and maintenance of Garfield Park. Located at 2nd and F Streets, SE, this park is the site where DC Bocce's inaugural season took place six years ago. Since then, we've used the park every spring and summer to host our outdoor Capitol Hill Leagues. Garfield is also the home of the only public bocce courts in DC. You can find out more information on the park through our website.

Super Bowl Party at Pour House!

We want to take this opportunity to spread the word to everyone that our friends at Pour House are hosting a Super Bowl party this Sunday and offering a great deal! For $20 you can have all the Miller Lite, Yuengling and Bud Light you can drink, plus for an additional $15 you can have all-you-can-eat Burgers and Hot Dogs. During a 4 hours game those deals will definitely pay off. And of course other specials will be available throughout the night along with the full menu if you're just looking to have a beer or two. Tickets for both specials can be purchased at the door or in advance here.

If you're looking for a place to hang out with friends and watch the game, this event comes with a ringing endorsement from the DC Bocce League. Colin, Kelly, and the rest of your regular bocce bartenders hope to see you there!

McFadden's Super Bowl Party

Super Bowl XLIV comes up this Sunday and West End sponsor bar McFadden's would like to invite all football (and bocce) lovers to join their Super Bowl extravaganza, kicking off at 6pm. Throughout the game they will be offering $3 Miller Lite and Coors Light drafts/bottles, $10 pitchers, as well as wing and burger specials. In addition, several prizes will be raffled off including a 42-inch TV!

Tables can also be reserved in advance with pitchers and small appetizers included in the cost. Call 202-292-4067 to reserve a table for your group! Visit their website for full details.

Skeeball Contest for Haiti Earthquake Relief

Join us before and after your Week 2 games for DC Bocce's Skeeball Contest at Pour House! Buy in for $1/game and roll for the high score to win an indoor bocce set or a $50 Pour House gift certificate. Play as many rounds as you like. All donations collected will be matched by the DC Bocce League and sent to a relief organization for the people of Haiti. We look forward to a spirited competition!

Peroni Pitcher Contest Each Week!

For those of you that weren’t at last week’s captain’s meetings, we have some good news we’d like to share about a little contest sponsored by Peroni. Basically, the team that drinks the most Peroni and Blue Moon pitchers this season wins a Basketball Prize Pack! Every time your team orders a pitcher of Peroni or Blue Moon, you'll get 1 ticket to fill out with your team name that will get tossed into a pot behind the bar. At the end of the season, we’ll tally up the tickets, and whichever team has the most tickets wins the trip! The Grand Prize includes:

• 6 posh seats to the Washington Wizards
• $200 gift certificate to Penn Quarter Sports Tavern

PLUS, each week at 10pm sharp at the Pour House we’ll pick a ticket at random out of the Peroni pot for a chance to win gift certificates to Pour House! And you don’t have to play just on bocce nights – you can accumulate tickets for your team any day of the week when you order Peroni or Blue Moon pitchers at Pour House or the American Legion.

Good hunting!

Ben's and Teaching For Change

DC Bocce donated $1,100 to Teaching for Change on behalf of the Ben's Chili Bowl Bocce team for their success during the 2009 seasons. Many thanks to team members Jonathan Zackey, DJ Saul, Jim Haggerty, Ben Detofsky, Jack Gaynor and Tim Naylor who chose Teaching for Change to receive their Final Four Capitol Hill Tuesday Division winnings. This is the third season that the team has selected Teaching for Change -- may the team continue to be successful. Photos from the event can be found on the DC Bocce League Facebook page. The celebration was held at Ben's Next Door where the team received its trophy and Teaching for Change received the donation.

*Pictured from left: Ben's Chili Bowl Bocce team member DJ Saul, Ben's Chili Bowl owner Nizam Ali, Teaching for Change board member Sharon Grevious, and DC Bocce League board member John Groth.

One Warm Coat Drive

Thanks to all the Playoff teams that came out for the finals weeks of the Fall season. And a special thanks to everyone who donated a coat during the opening rounds for the One Warm Coat Drive, put on by Serve DC. We rounded up a few bags worth of winter coats as DC Bocce's contribution to the effort. Serve DC would like to thank everyone who donated to the One Warm Coat Drive. More than 400 coats for men, women and children were collected for the DC Coalition for the Homeless.