Sports News
Sports – Monday, August 4th, 2014
The mending of fences
between Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers will take a huge step today. The Packers Hall of Fame will hold a press
conference at 1:30pm today where it is expected to be announced that Favre will
be inducted next summer. It is also
expected that they will announced his #4 jersey will be retired sometime during
the 2015 season. Favre will be eligible
for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
The Packers held their
annual Family Night on Saturday at Lambeau.
Over 67,000 fans showed up to watch the practice that didn’t include any
live tackling. Two injuries came out of
the workout. BJ Raji tweaked an ankle
and rookie tight end Colt Lyerla hurt his knee trying to jump over a
defender. The Packers will practice
tonight at 5:30pm in full pads.
The NFL kicked off the
preseason with the annual Hall of Fame Game in
night in
The Brewers lead in the
National League Central is down to just 1 game over
Louis
after a 3-2 loss to the Cardinals on Sunday.
Matt Garza was cruising along giving up just one hit through six innings
of work, but he tweaked his left oblique and
off of Zach Duke and Jeremy Jeffress.
Mark Reynolds hit his 19th homer in the loss. The Brewers will take today off and then open
up a three game series with the Giants at
on Tuesday night.
NL Central
Cubs 7 Dodgers 2
Reds 7 Mets 3
Rory McIlroy won the
Bridgestone Invite on the PGA Tour at -15.
Sergio Garcia was two shots back. Tiger Woods pulled out with his
nagging back injury.
Dale Earnhardt, Junior won
the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono.
Kevin Harvick was 2nd.
The Waupun American Legion Post
210 Baseball Team took home the Class A state title on Sunday with an 11-0 win
over Demark in Nekoosa. It’s the 2nd straight state title for
Waupun.