Five months ago, Michigan freshman quarterback J.J. McCarthy, on the heels of the NCAA’s change in policy regarding college athletes profiting off their name, image and likeness, pledged to donated a percentage of his profits to a children’s hospital in Chicago, near his hometown, and at C.S. Mott in Ann Arbor.
McCarthy expanded on that promise this week and is donating $10,500 from his “J.J. For the Kids Foundation” to several children’s hospitals and has earmarked $3,000, the biggest chunk of his pledge, to the families of Oxford High and the Oxford School Fund for those affected by the shooting last week that killed four students.