Greg Speirs, press release, Lithuanian olympic basketball tie dye uniforms story, lithuanian slam-dunking skeleton

SKULLMAN SIDEBAR - THE OTHER DREAM TEAM

For release 01-29-12 - New York, NY. - The strangest and most way out part of The Other

Dream Team story was about the Slam Dunking Skeleton and where it came from.

The slam-dunking 'Skullman' skeleton became the infamous icon

rallied around by the men's 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team during the Barcelona olympics.

The image seemed to energize the team on their way to a bronze victory.

Source of the Slam Dunking Skeleton: The design was actually created by New York sports artist Greg

Speirs, who is the Licensor and owner of the image of the 'Slam Dunking Skeleton' property seen in the 1992

Olympics and in the movie: "The Other Dream Team". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3998173/

The second phase of the fundraising was taken to another level :

A widely unreported part of the 1992 story is the fact of the artist's contribution of over $450,000.00 to

the 1992 Lithuanian olympic basketball team, which represented 100% of his profits from the merchandising

of his trademark property and the majority of the funding given to the team. (Speirs as the source and owner

of the intellectual property rights to the artwork decided to donate 100% of his realized profits from the sales

of Skullman shirts to the continuation of the funding of the 1992 team).

Apart from the initial donations and raising of money earlier in this story by other individual parties involved for

the team's trip, the continuation of the "major funding" actually came from the marketing of the artist's

trademark Slam Dunking 'Skullman' image on t-shirts. The merchandise generated hugh ongoing funds for

the team and Lithuanian children's charities. Specifically Speirs is credited as the major sponsor of the team

because of this fact and the size of his donation.

NOTE: We give notice to the public and media that the artist is owner of the copyright and trademark. The artwork image is a federally protected intellectual property. Our interest is in insuring that proper accreditation is always given in the media to the artist aforementioned in this release when his property is spoken about or used.

Links:

Newspaper article: http://beverlykelley.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/olympic-gold-sometimes-thats-not-the-only-prize-worth-winning.htm

IMDB Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3998173/

Who's Who in America Biography: http://biography.marquiswhoswho.com/sports-artist/greg-speirs/4298026

Skullman website: http://www.skullman.com

Speirs site: http://www.gregspeirs.com

Photos: http://www.skullman.com/greg_speirs%20Monaco%20bobsled%20photo%20gallery.htm

contact: mikethompson@skullman.com

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