Wisconsin News and Sports
Three members of the Milwaukee Brewers’ Dominican Summer League team have been hit with 50-game suspensions after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today that the Major League Baseball Commissioner’s office says outfielder Erickson Salaya and 3rd baseman Alixon Cequea tested positive for metabolites of Nandrolone, and pitcher Leonard Lorenzo tested positive for Boldenone.
Tipster hotline to report violators of Wisconsin’s three-week old smoking ban remains pretty quiet.
Wisconsin Health Department spokesperson Seth Boffeli says other states with smoking bans also use some sort of compliance hot line. “These compliance lines are an important tool,” he says, “Essentially it gives the public an avenue if, for instance, they’re at an establishment and don’t feel comfortable speaking up.” [Read more...]
Gay marriage opponents and supporters rally in Madison today.
The National Organization for Marriage stops in Madison during its 23-city, 19-state bus tour, before it wraps things up with a rally in the nation’s capitol on August 15th. The so-called “Summer for Marriage, One Man – One Woman Tour” covers many key battleground states in the ongoing fight to preserve marriage as that between one man and one woman.
Katie Belanger heads Fair Wisconsin, a gay and lesbian rights group. She says hundreds of gay rights advocates are expected in Madison today to call for the repeal of the state’s constitutional ban on same sex marriage. [Read more...]
Jim Edmonds ailing right Achilles tendinitis is preventing him from starting
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games for the Brewers, but Edmonds still played hero in Milwaukee’s 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds in the series opener.
With the score tied 2-2 with 2-outs in the 8th, Edmonds sent a 1-2 pitch from Bronson Arroyo deep but foul, just outside the foul poll in right field. Arroyo came back with another fast ball and Edmonds promptly sent it deep into the right-center field seats to give the Brewers the win. For Edmonds, it was just his second career home run off of Arroyo. [Read more...]
The search resumes today for a 19-year-old Milwaukee man who disappeared late Monday while swimming with friends near Sheboygan. The Coast Guard said the man was swept out by a strong under-tow in Lake Michigan. He and two other teens were swimming about 75-to-100-feet off the shore of a beach, when he started being pulled farther away. It happened near Alliant Energy’s Edgewater Power Plant in Sheboygan.
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