{"id":1203,"date":"2010-05-17T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/jewels-of-the-night-dazzles-long-beach-state-fans\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:12:00","slug":"jewels-of-the-night-dazzles-long-beach-state-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/jewels-of-the-night-dazzles-long-beach-state-fans","title":{"rendered":"Jewels Of The Night Dazzles Long Beach State Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"


<\/em>Photos by Shar Higa<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Not many nights do you get to say to turn to your wife and say, “I was thinking tonight we’d go to L’Opera\u2026and Legends, and George’s Greek, and Naples Rib Co,” and the list goes on.  <\/span>But that’s why the food is always one of the centerpieces of Jewels of the Night, Long Beach State’s annual fundraising soiree that was in its 16th incarnation last Saturday night. <\/span><\/p>\n

And aside from the walk-up buffets from Long Beach’s finest eateries, there were the auction tables, with Dirtbags jerseys autographed by current MLBers, football jerseys signed by Terrell Davis; and there’s the chance to rub elbows with the people who make the university’s athletics go, from players and coaches to fundraisers and coordinators.<\/p>\n

On one night, all of those people take off their uniforms, get dressed up, and eat until they can’t walk.  <\/span>And at the end of the night, Long Beach State athletics is a good stretch closer to knowing it’s financially fit for the next year\u2014judging from Saturday night’s huge turnout, this year looked to be more of a success than last year’s big showing, even.  <\/span>Event chair Bruce MacRae looked happy at the end of the night, which is usually a good sign.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few photos from Saturday, and if you missed it this year, be sure and keep your eyes open next May for the 17th annual Jewels!<\/p>\n

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Collection of classic cars outside the Pyramid<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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The band insured 49er fans would feel right at home, with their normal soundtrack<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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The one night a year that the hoops get shoved into a corner in the Pyramid<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Plenty of space\u2014you know it was a good night for the university, since all those seats were filled<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Some of the ample auction offerings<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Sure, there were plenty of big names in local athletics\u2014but the Chick-fil-A cow is a show-stopper<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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There’s no bigger annual event for Long Beach State, nor any more entertaining fundraiser for any LB institution, than the annual behemoth that is Jewels of the Night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}