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College baseball: Solid pitching, defense leads to victory for Cavaliers
The moist and chilly weather forced the Kankakee Community College baseball team out of its scheduled game at the Sauk Valley Community College. But the Cavaliers coach, Mr. Todd Post convinced the Prairie State College to come to the Cavs’ field. Once the opponent arrived, and the team did the rest, earning a 6-2 win [...]
Tim Ahrens: Entertaining Soldiers need more community support
It doesn’t matter how many are in attendance for the Windy City Soldiers’ games at the Kankakee Community Resource Center. All the players care about is putting on a good show, according to team spokesman and All-Star point guard Barry Bradford. “We just wanted to make it entertaining.”Mission accomplished, Mr. Bradford.
Soldiers claim first home victory
The Soldiers followed up Saturday’s tough overtime loss to the Holland Blast by taking another step in the right direction with a 118-116 victory over the Racers, moving over the .500 mark and picking up the team’s first victory in the Kankakee Community Resource Center. Soldiers forward said that they are happy to be home [...]
Media Notes
In Ft. Worth, Bryan French writes of the NHL Network Online, which launched Wednesday on NHL.com, “There are plenty of good elements — and it’s now much easier to sort through the trash.” The game highlights are “great stuff,” but the site’s “The Hockey Show” in its first two episodes ”seemed to offer a lot more fluff than [...]
Names In The News
HBO’s “Real Sports” next Tuesday will feature footage of U.S. Sen and presidential candidate BARACK OBAMA playing basketball March 19 with U.S. troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Obama, when told by HBO’s BRYANT GUMBEL that the White House has an outdoor basketball hoop, said, “I wasn’t aware of that.
ESPN’s Low-Key Approach to Masters Leads To Solid Reviews
ESPN’s first-round coverage of The Masters on Thursday ”mostly succeeded, thanks to a strategy of hardly ever being recognizable as ESPN,” according to Charles Elmore of the PALM BEACH POST. During the telecast, ESPN aimed “not to disturb the hushed dignity” of the event. Networks televising The Masters “scale back their noisier, busier tendencies.”
Catching Up With TBS MLB Play-By-Play Announcer Chip Caray
CHIP CARAY represents the family’s third generation to grace the broadcast booth. His grandfather, late HOFer HARRY CARAY, spent 53 seasons calling MLB games, and his father, SKIP, has been calling Braves games since ’76. Chip on occasion has journeyed outside the diamond, calling games for the Magic and Florida State Univ. football, among others.
Gov. Gregoire Plans To Ask Stern, BOG Not To Approve Sonics Move
Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire Thursday said that she plans to ask NBA Commissioner David Stern and the NBA BOG, which next week will meet to vote on the Sonics’ relocation request, “not to approve the Sonics move and to give the state a chance to keep the team,” according to Chris Daniels of KING-NBC.
League notes
In the wake of Ravens K and player rep Matt Stover suggesting the NFLPA replace Exec Dir Gene Upshaw by March ‘09, an NFL player said that “seven of the 10 members of the NFLPA executive board and a third of the reps are in Stover’s camp with just two board members and a third of [...]
Pacman vs. Pretty Boy in the works?
The trash talking is just beginning between the camps of Filipino boxing champ Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao and British boxing sensation Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton – particularly between eternal rival coaches Freddie Roach and Floyd Mayweather Sr. but another kind of talk is already underway for another Manny Pacquiao fight – this time with another Mayweather, [...]