On a patio at the Hotel del Coronado over breakfast Friday, the conversation between old fraternity brothers at USC made an abrupt, alarming and appetite-obliterating turn.Emil Wohl of Kensington began to explain how, at a charity golf event for the organization, the exposed midsection of Saturday Night Live legend and comedic tour de force Will Ferrell had slipped into public view.
In 2022, the charity will rush past 2,000 scholarships awarded that now have reached $5,000 for each year, or $20,000 in all. A man from Orlando paid $57,000 to chip and putt his way around the municipal course with the movie mainstay on Friday., with a grin. “Craig still gives me crap about that. I was not secure with my long-term employment . I felt like it was going well, but I’m just like, OK, I’m just going to write a check for $50.
When Pollard arrived at USC as a baseball player, he already had summited one cancer mountain after being diagnosed as sophomore. He hurdled six months of chemo, three months of radiation and surgery that removed his spleen, appendix and several lymph nodes. He never stopped playing baseball.“The second time was way tougher,” Pollard said. “The first one, I was living at home. I was home and had my parents there. The second time, the chemo stopped working.
As Ferrell’s career rocketed into the stratosphere, the emotional ties to Cancer for College and the friend he so hugely admired cemented.