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Waunakee High School’s 6’6, 220lb tight end Austin Maly has given Wisconsin an oral commitment for its 2011 freshman class.
Maly caught 24 passes for 527 yards and three touchdowns as a junior last season and helped Waunakee win the WIAA Division 2 Championship by beating Kimberly.
Maly is the third known oral commitment for 2011. He joins Baldwin-Woodville linebacker Jake Keefer and Merrill tight end Sam Arneson.
A Milwaukee Brewers starter finally went 7-innings in a game. Randy Wolf pitched 7-scoreless innings to lead the Brewers to a 6-1 win over the Houston Astros at Miller Park. The win ended a 8-game home field losing streak for the Brewers.
Milwaukee had gone 20 straight games without a starting pitcher going 7-innings. The last Brewers starter to pitch 7-innings was Yovani Gallardo on May 1 in a 2-1 win over the San Diego Padres. Manager Ken Macha said that’s the first of a few things that ended up going quite well.
AUDIO: Ken Macha says a number of things went well :14
The Astros came to town with the league’s worst batting average of .227.
The Brewers got home runs from Ryan Braun and Rickie Weeks.
Chris Narveson pitches game 2 of the series tonight. He’s 4-1. Roy Oswalt goes for the Astros. Oswalt is 2-6 with a 2.66 ERA for the Astros.
Ryan Braun ranks as the leading vote-getter among outfielders and all Brewers on the ballot are faring well in early voting results of the 2010 all-star team. The first round of voting results was announced by Major League Baseball on Tuesday.
Braun, who it hitting .324 with 7 home runs and 30 rbi’s ranks third overall in National League voting, trailing only second baseman Chase Utley of the Phillies and first baseman Albert Pujols of the Cardinals.
Rickie Weeks currently stands second among National League second basemen, trailing only Utley. Alcides Escobar, Prince Fielder and Casey McGehee each rank third at their respective positions.
This years 81st Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will be held on Tuesday, July 13 at Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California.
Vegetable garden at the state capitol. (Photo: Jackie Johnson)
The state capitol is home to a new vegetable garden.
It’s for demonstration and educational purposes, but it’s also quite functional. “Tomatoes, we have basil and parsley, and cucumbers, lettuce over there, potatoes, peppers, cabbage, kale, broccoli.”
Megan Cain is Program Manager for Madison Farm Works. Her group designs, installs, and maintains vegetable gardens at private homes, businesses and schools. So, a logical next step is to plant in a circle bed on the capitol square.
Longtime State Senator Fred Risser calls it a pilot project. The Madison Democrat is Chairman of the State Capitol and Executive Residence Board, or SCERB,which overseas those places. His committee OK’d the garden idea, saying the group “made a very good presentation.”
“I’m very impressed at the work they’ve done here. They’ll have a chance to show us what they can do in the next six months. If it works out I suspect it’ll become an annual thing.”
What about the potential for vandals? “Well that’s certainly the most popular question today, is ‘what about people vandalizing the garden?’” Cain adds, “We’re certainly hoping that’s not going to happen, so that it can be there for everybody to see.” But if a portion of it does get ruined, she says they’ll fix it.
Cain says, however, if a little kid were curious about the taste of a cherry tomato, it would be OK to try it.
Madison FarmWorks plans to donate the food to the Goodman food pantry. As for the cost of the garden …
“There is no cost to the state of Wisconsin. In fact, actually the state saves a little money because they don’t have to garden the area themselves.”
There hasn’t been a vegetable garden on the capitol grounds as far back as Risser can recall — and that’s a long time. The longest serving legislator in the nation says the garden sets a good example for other communities across the state and the country.
A push from President Obama to boost small businesses is earning praise from Governor Doyle.
The President is calling on Congress to pass legislation expanding tax credits and loan programs for small businesses. Governor Jim Doyle says such a move is crucial to improving the economy. Doyle says small businesses account for up to 80-percent of new jobs and help drive the entrepreneurship that’s needed to add even more. [Read more...]
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