Billy Williams was surrounded by family, friends and longtime former teammates as a statue of the likeness of the Cubs Hall of Famer was unveiled during a ceremony Tuesday at the corner of Addison and Sheffield, just outside of Wrigley Field.Former teammates Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, Glenn Beckert, Randy Hundley and Ron Santo were in attendance as Williams' wife, Shirley, four daughters and grandchildren watched the long-awaited depiction of Sweet-Swinging Billy Williams from Whistler, Alabama.
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Tuesday on B-Squared, the guys welcome a format change to the program. Boise State with a statement win last night in Landover. If they win out, should they get a crack at the National Championship? Also, we dissect the season openers of Northwestern, Illinois and Notre Dame. Is there reason for optimism for each of the three fan bases? The Bears host the Lions in just five days. Are they being pelted with too much criticism after a less-than-impressive pre-season? Mike Quade benched Starlin Castro after his latest mental gaffe. Stern move, but would he have done it to well-paid veteran such as Aramis Ramirez or Alfonso Soriano? The White Sox had a great weekend, but so did the Twins. We talk all these topics and more.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Mark Prior struck out two batters in a scoreless inning Sunday in his debut for the Triple-A Oklahoma City RedHawks.
Prior stranded the bases loaded after allowing a pair of singles and walking a batter in the fourth inning of Oklahoma City's 9-1 loss to the Omaha Royals. It was the first game for the former first-round draft pick and All-Star pitcher after signing a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers.Prior is trying to make a comeback after two shoulder injuries forced him to miss the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The right-hander went 42-29 in five years with the Chicago Cubs and was an All-Star in 2003.
He started his comeback in the independent Golden Baseball League last month before being acquired by the Rangers.
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Fish and Gotty recapped the opening weekend in Big Ten Football. They talked about Denard Robinson's success for Michigan, big wins for Iowa and Ohio State, tough losses for Illinois and Purdue, and the rest of the games around the conference. Tonight's guest was Dave Heller of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel who gave us some inside info on the Wisconsin Badger team.
The opening Hang Ten Big Ten Power Rankings are:
- Ohio State
- Iowa
- Wisconsin
- Michigan St.
- Penn St.
- Michigan
- Northwestern
- Indiana
- Purdue
- Illinois
- Minnesota
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"Tough day," said manager Mike Quade. "Win a series and feel lousy. Demps had a tough day, obviously. Still, he's an out way from keeping us in the thing. One of those days, and then it got away from us and got sloppy after that. - The mistakes of youth showing up again. I've said before, it's not a straight line. There are going to be relapses. There's going to be trouble. The kids have done a good job, but you're going to have days like this."Quade went on to finish:
"There'd be days like this my mama said."
Nick Rizzo explains to Cubs fans why Eric Wedge isn't the right person to manage the Cubs
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Stupid Cubs. You spend the whole summer losing, and then when there's finallly something in it for me, you decide to start playing baseball.
And the new, improved Carlos Zambrano improved to 4-0 with a 1.98 earned-run average in six starts since undergoing anger management counseling.
By: Evan J. Thomas
Electric… That was the feeling as new head coach Brian Kelly led the 2010 version of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish onto the field Saturday at an unseasonably cooler Notre Dame Stadium. Kelly stated before the game that the pageantry of college football and seeing his first game at Notre Dame was a little overwhelming.
The first quarter featured a slew of short passes, draws and dump offs by junior Quarterback Dayne Crist in Kelly’s spread offense. The offense moved the ball in those first ten minutes but with the short plays didn’t get down the field too far.
Late in the first quarter, Irish defensive back Darren Walls snagged an interception off of a misguided pass from the Miami Hurricane transfer and Purdue quarterback Robert Marve. The interception set off a series of big runs by the Irish offense and sophomore Cierre Wood and included some great downfield blocking by All American Junior wide receiver Michael Floyd. Seven plays and 84 yards later and senior running back Armando Allen scampered into the end zone for the first touchdown in the Brian Kelly era. The first quarter ended with Crist having only one incompletion and the Irish leading 7-0 over the Boilermakers.
The second quarter began just as the first one ended as Notre Dame’s offense moved briskly down the field. One highlight included Crist, who is coming off a season ending knee injury last season galloping down the sideline for his first significant run of the season. Crist showed no ill effects of the knee injury as he smartly ran out of bounds before taking a hit. After a few incompletions out of the end zone, the Irish added a short field goal for a 10-0 lead with 11:10 remaining in the half.
The Boilermakers finally showed some life in the remaining minutes of the second quarter as they brought in red shirt freshman Rob Henry and used some trickery to move the ball on the Irish defense. Purdue did manage to get the ball inside the Notre Dame 10 yard line but the Irish defense held their own and made some great tackles in holding Purdue to a field goal.
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