Orton named Starter for Pre-Season Opener

According to an article on Yahoo! Sports, Bears QB Kyle Orton will start the first pre-season game for the Chicago Bears. Lovie says that Rex Grossman will get just as many snaps with the first team, and the roles will be reversed in the next pre-season game.

Bulls New Schedule Released!

Per NBA.com, here's the new Bulls schedule for the upcoming season.

Some interesting games, to me:

October 28: Season and Home Opener Vs. Milwaukee and Ex-Coach Scott Skiles
October 30: Road Opener @ defending NBA Champs Boston
December 26: Day-After-Christmas game against Michael Beasley and the Heat @ Miami
February 12, 2009: Home game against Beasley and the Heat.


ESPN will be televising 4 Bulls games.
TNT will be televising 6 Bulls games.

Eyre Designated, Wood Returns

Early today, Scott Eyre was DFA'd in order to make room for Kerry Wood. Eyre may be a waiver-wire deal, as he drew interest from several teams in the last week before the trade deadline.

In Wood's return, he pitched a scoreless 8th inning today, giving up one hit, no walks and no K's. I suspect he'll be closing again asap.

Lack of posts

Hey readers...first off, thank you for coming to my site to get your Chicago Sports News on a semi-daily basis. I appreciate your reads, and when I start getting comments I will appreciate them as well. That being said, I have recently started my internship and it keeps me busy for about 14 hours a day. This will go on for 3 more weeks, but after that everything calms down for me a little. I will still post as often as I can, but the nice balance of every-other-day posts may be skewed. Stick with me, and if you have any suggestions of remedies to this problem, I'm more than happy to listen. I'm going to try to get a friend of mine to make some posts when he's available, so maybe that will help. Again, thanks for reading guys and gals, and stick with me.

Bears first depth chart released

This from the Sun-Times:


Offense

WR--Rashied Davis/Devin Hester, Mike Hass, Brandon Rideau, Ryan Grice-Mullen
LT--John St. Clair, Cody Balogh, (Chris Williams)
LG--Terrence Metcalf, Anthony Oakley, Ryan Poles
C--Olin Kreutz, Josh Beekman, Anthony OakleyRG--Roberto Garza, Tyler Reed, Chester Adams
RT--John Tait, Kirk Barton
TE--Desmond Clark, Greg Olsen, Kellen Davis, Fontel Mines, Marcus Stone
WR--Marty Booker/Brandon Lloyd, Mark Bradley, Earl Bennett, Marcus Monk
QB--Rex Grossman/Kyle Orton, Caleb Hanie
RB--Matt Forte, Adrian Peterson, Garrett Wolfe, P.J. Pope, (Kevin Jones)
FB--Jason McKie, Lousaka Polite

Defense

LE--Adewale Ogunleye, Dan Bazuin, Joe Clermond, Nick Osborn
DT--Tommie Harris, Israel Idonije, Marcus Harrison
NT--Anthony Adams, Matt Toeaina, (Dusty Dvoracek)
RE--Alex Brown, Mark Anderson, Ervin Baldwin
WLB--Lance Briggs, Jamar Williams, Joey LaRocque
MLB--Brian Urlacher, Nick Roach, Rod Wilson
SLB--Hunter Hillenmeyer, Darrell McClover, Michael Okwo
LCB--Charles Tillman, Corey Graham, Zack Bowman, Leslie Majors
RCB--Nathan Vasher, Trumaine McBride, Ricky Manning Jr., Trey Brown
SS--Brandon McGowan, Kevin Payne, Leonard Peters
FS--Mike Brown, Danieal Manning, Craig Steltz, Josh Gattis

Reaction to Griffey deal.

As I promised, I will give a reaction to EVERY deadline deal that happened for both Chicago teams. Unfortunately, that means only one reaction. In the near-future, I may try to break down every 'near-deal' that didn't occur. But for now...

White Sox Get: OF Ken Griffey Jr.

Reds Get: RHP Nick Masset, 2B Danny Michar

Okay, so on the outside it doesn't seem like the Sox gave up a whole lot for Griffey, but I personally am a big fan of Nick Masset. I believe his stuff is more than capable at being more than productive at the major league level. Danny Michar is only batting .230 on the major league level this season, but given the fact that Juan Uribe is still on the team I'm not sure the White Sox needed to get rid of another middle-infielder.

As for Griffey, I personally think this was a move by Kenny Williams FOR Kenny Williams, not for Ozzie Guillen. Griffey can't play center on an everyday basis anymore, and his BA is only .245. Jr. will definitely get butts in the seats, but I'm just not sure the return was worth the price. It's no secret that KW and Ozzie haven't always gotten along, but when Ozzie asked for help I'm not sure he meant another outfielder.