Girls Softball Tournament scores:
GMG 9-0 Cedar Falls University
Don Bosco 5-0 North Tama
Lynnville Sully 12-1 Montezuma
Madrid 5-2 Grandview Park Baptist
Class 2A first round games scheduled tonight....3A & 4A games
begin on Saturday.
Iowa, ISU to play on Big Ten Network
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa and Iowa State football fans now
have something in common to root for: a possible deal between
Mediacom and the Big Ten Network.
Iowa officials say the Sept. 13 matchup between the Hawkeyes and
Cyclones will be televised on the Big Ten Network. Mediacom, Iowa's
largest cable TV provider, does not carry the network.
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said last month that Mediacom
and the Big Ten Network are set to resume negotiations. That's
after the network reached a deal with Comcast, which covers every
state in the Big Ten but Iowa.
The annual rivalry game will be played at Kinnick Stadium, with
kickoff set for 11 a.m. The Hawkeyes first two home games, against
Maine and Florida International, will also start at 11 a.m.
SAMARDZIJA-CUBS
Former Notre Dame WR Samardzija moves to Triple-A
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Cubs pitcher Jeff Samardzija
found a makeshift Number 83 jersey in his locker
shortly after being promoted to Triple-A. Samardzija had long
traded in the navy and gold of Notre Dame football for blue
pinstripes. But even he had to laugh.
Samardzija knows that until he proves otherwise, he'll always be
that floppy-haired wide receiver who chose baseball over the NFL.
Samardzija signed a 5-year, $10-million contract with the Cubs
in 2007. That's despite speculation that he could have been a
first-round pick in the NFL Draft. The former Notre Dame football
star made his debut for Iowa on June 24.
Samardzija is 1-and-1 with an ERA of three in two Triple-A
starts. He says that questions about whether he has any regrets
over his decision to play baseball get old. He says made it because
everyday he woke up, he wanted to play baseball.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mike Fontenot hit a tiebreaking home run in
the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs continued their offensive
resurgence in a 6-5 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday
night.
Jim Edmonds also homered for the Cubs, who have scored 16 runs
in the first three games of this four-game series after being held
to nine runs while getting swept by the Chicago White Sox over the
weekend.
Carlos Marmol (2-3) picked up the win for Chicago despite giving
up a tying three-run homer to Ray Durham in the seventh.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Troy Glaus' second homer of the game with two
outs in the ninth won it for St. Louis, an inning after
pinch-hitter Chris Duncan's two-run shot tied it in the Cardinals'
8-7 victory over the New York Mets on Wednesday night.
Glaus' fifth career game-winning homer came off rookie Carlos
Muniz (0-1), a towering drive that barely cleared the left-field
wall. Rick Ankiel hit his 17th homer in the fifth and flied out to
the wall in center field before Glaus' at-bat.
Ryan Franklin (3-2) worked a perfect ninth for the Cardinals.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The Tampa Bay Rays expanded their
lead in the American East last night by scoring six runs in the
seventh inning of a 7-6 comeback over Boston. Evan Longoria put the
Rays ahead with a two-run double and scored on Jason Bartlett's
two-run single that put Tampa Bay ahead 7-4. The Rays trailed 4-1
in the seventh before completing a three-game sweep and moving 3
1-2 games ahead of the second-place Red Sox.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Former Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre
has dismissed an ESPN report that he's considering coming out of
retirement, telling a Mississippi newspaper Website the report is
"all rumor." ESPN reported that an unidentified Packers source
said the 38-year-old Favre told coach Mike McCarthy in the past two
weeks that he has the itch to play. Packers cornerback Al Harris
said on ESPN's "NFL Live" that Favre made similar comments to
him.
SEATTLE (AP) - SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett has worked out a
settlement with Seattle officials that allows him to move the NBA
franchise to Oklahoma. But Bennett will have to pay the city of
Seattle 45 million dollars immediately and give up the team's
nickname and colors. Bennett also might have to make a
30-million-dollar payment to the city by 2013 unless Seattle
obtains a new NBA franchise by then, or the state legislature
approves funding for the renovation of Key Arena by the end of
2009.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Today's Wimbledon schedule features
the women's semifinals and the completion of a men's quarterfinal
match between Arnaud Clement and Rainer Schuettler .
Venus Williams will battle Elena Dementieva in the day's
first match in Centre Court before Serena Williams takes on Zheng
Jie of China. Clement and Schuettler were tied at one set all when their
match was suspended by darkness yesterday.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery has
opted for a plea hearing today instead of going on trial next week
on heroin distribution charges. Montgomery previously had pleaded
not guilty and requested a jury trial on the charge, which carries
a minimum 5-year prison term. The former 100-meter world-record
holder, was indicted for allegedly dealing more than 100 grams of
heroin in Virginia.
