MSSU women sign Division I transfer (The Joplin Globe)
Myosha Barnes, a 5-foot-6 guard, has found her way from San Jose, Calif., to join the Missouri Southern women’s basketball team.Barnes, from Milwaukee, Wis., averaged 6.3 points per game during the last three years at San Jose State University. She averaged 8.4 points and 3.4 rebounds her sophomore year when she started 20 games and scored a career-high 18 points against Utah State and New ...
Rebels with a French horn (OnMilwaukee.com)
French Horn Rebellion is a musical enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a bunch of synthesizers. The duo plays The Mad Planet Saturday, Aug. 16.
SPEED World Challenge Heads to Road America (The Auto Channel)
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (Aug. 6, 2008) - From Watkins Glen to Mid-Ohio and now Road America, SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge continues its tour of North America’s greatest road courses.
Osprey celebrate 10th summer of baseball in Missoula: ‘Mr. Osprey' Lyle Overbay tops all-decade squad (Missoulian)
Lyle Overbay leads the way on the Missoulian's all-decade team for the Missoula Osprey. Photo by Associated Press
Student notes (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter)
GREEN BAY The following Manitowoc County students received academic honors for the spring semester 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay:
Baseball Notebook Brewers acquire Gibbons; A's player linked to bookie (Winston-Salem Journal)
■ Former major leaguer Jay Gibbons is getting another chance with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Charting the majors (Detroit News)
Padres call up lefty Ledezma to replace Wolf
Posada may forgo surgery on shoulder (The Morning Call)
New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada wants to put off surgery on his right shoulder even if it means sacrificing the start of next season. If he does play the rest of this year, it won't be behind the plate.
12 pickoffs for A's pitcher (San Jose Mercury News)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Left-hander Greg Smith was saddled with the loss Wednesday in the A's 4-3 defeat to Tampa Bay, but he took satisfaction in picking off two runners, increasing his season total to 12 for what is believed to be an Oakland record.
MLB Notebook: Posada hopes to put off surgery on right shoulder (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Yankees catcher Jorge Posada wants to put off surgery on his right shoulder even if it means sacrificing the start of next season. ...