| Wolves Weekly Press Notes
Chicago's 15 wins (15-2-1-0) and 31 points are the most through 18 games in franchise history; the Wolves pace the American Hockey League with an .861 winning percentage and share the league-lead with 31 points.
WOLVES HEADLINERS
--- BRETT STERLING: Netted two points in each of the last three games, posting three goals and three assists during that span ... Shares second on the team with eight goals and has recorded 13 points in 10 games with Chicago since being assigned by the Atlanta Thrashers on Nov. 5 ... Made his NHL debut this season, notching a goal and two assists in 10 games with Atlanta
--- JESSE SCHULTZ: Posted five points (G, 4A) in three games last week, including two multi-point outings ... Netted two or more points in seven of his 18 games this season ...
Fans are losers in NFL Network impasse
The NFL knew it had something special when its scheduling formula spit out a Packers-Cowboys matchup this season. While the league could never have anticipated they would rank as the top teams in the NFC, it did know the value of tradition and could document each team's enormous drawing power on national television. So when the schedule maker divvied up 2007 games among the league's television partners, it decided the Packers-Cowboys would not go to Fox, the network of the NFC, or the prime-time packages on NBC or ESPN, a trio which anted up $2.41 billion in rights fees this season. Instead, the NFL delivered the game to its own fledgling NFL Network, which will deliver the game to only one-third of the country. It's part of the league's plan to help transform an ugly duckling into a cash cow.
Roosevelt backers look to raise renovation money at R Party
Sixty-one years ago Roger Stetson pulled up a stool and sat down at a long lab table in Mr. Koch's science lab, across from beakers, Bunsen burners and that beautiful girl on the other side of the table.
The two Roosevelt High School 10th-graders quickly formed a friendship, sitting across from each other every home room, chatting about the latest school gossip, the upcoming dance and tennis. Yes, tennis.
Roger was "hooked" on tennis. Shirley would watch from the bleachers, which she continued to do even as the two headed to Iowa State University. They'd later wed and Roger would be called up to the Navy.
After discharge, Roger returned home and the two raised a family of four, all of whom would follow dad onto the court.
They've since picked up whistles and clipboards, focusing now on coaching.
Lights back on at Boys and Girls Club
LAS CRUCES - The dire financial straits at the Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces have eased a bit - the lights are back on and the heat is running - but the group still is in need of any assistance the community can provide. A recently awarded $20,000 state grant "will buy us a little bit of time," said local club CEO Clint Ziehl. In addition, the community provided enough donations to pay a $2,800 electricity bill and get the lights turned back on, and a Nov. 15 fundraiser at Glenn Cutter Jewelers & Gallery raised some money. "It's still really tight. We're budgeting the best we can and cutting out all the expenditures we can," Ziehl said. Those include salaries - the club has hired work-study students to replace full-time paid staff members. One thing Ziehl refuses to cut are club scholarships.
Wolves Weekly Press Notes
Chicago's 15 wins (15-2-1-0) and 31 points are the most through 18 games in franchise history; the Wolves pace the American Hockey League with an .861 winning percentage and share the league-lead with 31 points.
WOLVES HEADLINERS
--- BRETT STERLING: Netted two points in each of the last three games, posting three goals and three assists during that span ... Shares second on the team with eight goals and has recorded 13 points in 10 games with Chicago since being assigned by the Atlanta Thrashers on Nov. 5 ... Made his NHL debut this season, notching a goal and two assists in 10 games with Atlanta
--- JESSE SCHULTZ: Posted five points (G, 4A) in three games last week, including two multi-point outings ... Netted two or more points in seven of his 18 games this season ...
Seth Davis: Postcard from Gonzaga
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Here in this sleepy town in the Pacific northwest, a basketball hoop still hangs over the driveway of the house where John Stockton grew up on, appropriately enough, Superior Street. After Stockton graduated from Gonzaga in 1984 and became a star with the Utah Jazz, he purchased a small, three-bedroom house next door. That house would hardly merit a spot on MTV's Cribs, but as Gonzaga coach Mark Few drove me past it last Friday, it provided a snapshot not just of Gonzaga's past, but also its present. "Do you see Stockton much?" I asked Few. "Oh, yeah," he replied. "I just got done working out with him." You see, John Stockton may have graduated from Gonzaga, but he never really went anywhere. The same is true for Gonzaga.
Cruel defeat snuffs out European dream
IN THE end, the emotions were not so much mixed as scrambled to the four corners of Hampden. We had seen Italy score in 70 seconds, we had seen them dominate the early minutes with some chilling football that not only took the fire out of the home support but also shocked Alex McLeish's team to the core. But in the final stages of the game it was the world champions who had the heat coming on them, their lead wiped-out by a scrambled Barry Ferguson goal just after the hour, their assurance of before in danger of being stripped away. With ten minutes remaining, Scotland drove forward once again, the substitute Kenny Miller linking with James McFadden and sending the most delicious ball across the Italian penalty area. The Azzurri were at sixes and sevens, Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluca Zambrotta, two of the game's pre-eminent defenders from two of the world's most glamorous clubs, were over-run.
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