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The Milwaukee Brewers today offered arbitration to first baseman Prince Fielder and pitcher Francisco Rodriguez. The move allows them to gain draft pick compensation if Fielder and Rodriguez sign elsewhere.
The Brewers declined to offer arbitration to shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt.
The Green Bay men’s basketball team’s game at Marquette on Saturday, Dec. 10 has been moved from a 1 p.m. tip-off to 8 p.m. The contest at the Bradley Center has been moved because the NBA lockout has provided increased availability in the arena.
The game will still be televised by Time Warner Cable Sports32.
Former Green Bay Packers general manager Ron Wolf was named one of 26
Ron Wolf
semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s next class.
In January, the semifinalists will be reduced to 15 modern-era finalists plus two candidates recommended by the Hall of Fame’s Seniors Committee.
The Class of 2012 will be announced on Feb. 4, the day before Super Bowl XLVI.
The Wisconsin Badgers played their fourth straight cupcake and handled the
Bo Ryan
last just like the previous three.
Junior forward Jared Berggren scored a career-high 21 points to lead the 11th ranked Badgers to a 7-31 win over Missouri-Kansas City at the Kohl Center.
Berggren hit 8 of 9 from the field, including 4 three-pointers. Sophomore Ben Brust added 12 and junior Mike Bruesewitz added 10 points for the Badgers, who shot 52% from the field overall and 48% from three-point range.
The win was no. 246 for coach Bo Ryan at Wisconsin, tying him for second on the all-time wins list with Walter “Doc” Meanwell. Ryan improved to 246-91 in 10-plus seasons at the UW.
Wisconsin next plays in the Chicago Invitational against Bradley on Friday night.
Bud Selig’s career as the commissioner of Major League Baseball will end after
Commissioner Bud Selig
the 2012 season. The man who decided to end the 2002 Major League All-Star game at Miller Park in a tie (7-7), has received some raw treatment during his leadership.
But while the NBA is in the middle of a lockout and the NFL skipped an entire off-season in a labor dispute, Selig has baseball running like a well oiled machine.
The current collective bargaining agreement was scheduled to expire in December. With little fanfare, Selig, the owners and players kept their negotiations out of the headlines, reaching a new 5-year deal that extends through 2016. It means baseball, when the new 5-year deal is complete, will have had labor peace for 21 years.
While the NFL can’t seem to get its HGH plan off the ground, Major League Baseball will now become the first of the major pro sports to introduce blood testing for Human Growth Hormone, starting in the spring. A first failed test will result in a 50-game suspension. [Read more...]
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