Sports – Monday, July 28th, 2014

The Green Bay
Packers begins their first full week of training camp today with an 8:20am
practice that is open to the public. 
They will practice today, then take Tuesday off before 8:20am workouts
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. 
Saturday is the annual Family Night Scrimmage, which is sold out. 

 

The Packers
locked up wide receiver Jordy Nelson over the weekend with a four-year deal
worth $39 million dollars.

 

The Brewers
suffered a tough 2-0 loss to the Mets on Sunday at Miller Park.
 Lucas Duda’s 2-run homer in the 6^th
accounted for the only runs of the game. 
Jimmy Nelson was the hard luck loser, giving up just 5 hits and 2 runs
in seven innings of work.  The Crew
tallied just six hits on the afternoon. 
The Brewers open up a three game set in Tampa tonight against the Rays.  Kyle Lohse takes on former Brewers prospect
Jake Odorizzi.  Coverage begins at 5:35pm
on News-Talk 1450 KFIZ.

NL Central

Cards 1 Cubs 0

Pit 7 Col 5

Wash 4 Reds 2

 

Six new members
were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
over the weekend.  Frank Thomas, Gregg
Maddux, and Tom Glavine went in as players while Bobby Cox, Tony LaRussa, and
Joe Torre were immortalized as managers.

 

Jeff Gordon won
the Brickyard 400 on Sunday at Indianapolis
for a record 5^th time. Kyle Busch was 2^nd, followed by
Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth.

 

On the PGA Tour,
Tim Clark won the Canadian Open by one shot over Jim Furyk.    

 

East Shore League

Forest
21 Mt. Calvary 20

Cleveland 14 St. Peter 7

Chilton
7 St. Cloud 5

Johnsburg
11 Marytown 9