by Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Sports

by Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Sports

Santa has made his list and checked it twice, trying to find out who's been naughty or nice, and Virginia Tech cornerback Antone Exum has passed the test with flying colors.

Exum, like every player participating in the Russell Athletic Bowl ‚?? Virginia Tech vs. Rutgers on Dec. 28 ‚?? received a $500 gift card to Best Buy as part of his bowl-game goodie bag. (Every player on every team participating in the postseason receives some sort of swag from the bowl's operators.)

But Exum didn't spend his gift card on himself, outside of $30 on headphones. Instead, and in the spirit of the holidays, Exum used the vast majority of his gift card to treat three kids to a shopping spree.

"Spent my $470 Dollar Best Buy Gift Card From The Bowl Game on These Three Kids I Met from Bahamas I Met In The Store!! Made Their Christmas!!"

"It was really all wants," Exum said of his original shopping list, writes Andy Bitter of The Roanoke Times. "It wasn't anything that I needed or anything, so I just put it back and tried to help some kids out."

The three kids ‚?? two brothers and a cousin visiting from the Bahamas ‚?? put Exum's card to good use, buying a PlayStation 3, some controllers, some video games and a Blackberry, Bitter writes.

Since the total was more than $500, two of Exum's teammates, Tariq Edwards and Marcus Davis, covered the difference.

From Exum:

"It just came down to at the end of the day, I was blessed to have a lot of fortunate Christmases when I was a kid. So I hope that every kid deserves to have those perfect Christmases‚?¶ So when I had the chance, I wanted to give those kids the chance to shop in my cart and get anything they wanted and hopefully it's a Christmas that they won't forget. And I know that it was a Christmas that I won't forget because I won't forget those smiles and the excitement on their faces when I told them they could get whatever they wanted in the store."

Exum wears jersey No. 1, by the way, because I know you'll be looking for him during Friday's bowl game against Rutgers.