Pro Sports Notebook
Issue date: 6/29/09 Section: Sports
Baseball
The largest crowd this year at U.S. Cellular field saw White Sox win in
the Cross Town Classic against the Cubs by a score of 6-0.
White Sox hitters got to Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano early, while Sox
pitcher John Danks kept a zero on the board. Sox out fielder Jermaine
Dye added his team leading 18th home run in eighth inning.
Soccer
Brazil achieved a ccme-from-behind victory against U.S. Men's soccer team
in final for Confederations cup in South Africa.
Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan scored to put U.S. Men's team up, only
to have Brazil score three times in the second half. The U.S. had previously
beat Spain and Egypt.
Nascar
19-year-old rookie Joey Logano won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in Loundon
N.H. The victory makes him the first teenager to win on the NASCAR Circuit.
NBA
After being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Center Shaquille O'Neal has chose to sport 33 on his jersey, a number he wore in high school, and LSU.
When he played professionally, he sported the number with Orlando, Miami and Phoenix
In the 2009 NBA draft, The Bulls drafted power forwards James Johnson and Taj
Gibson in the first round. Johnson is 6'8" and came from Wake Forest while Gibson
is 6"10 and came from USC.
The largest crowd this year at U.S. Cellular field saw White Sox win in
the Cross Town Classic against the Cubs by a score of 6-0.
White Sox hitters got to Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano early, while Sox
pitcher John Danks kept a zero on the board. Sox out fielder Jermaine
Dye added his team leading 18th home run in eighth inning.
Soccer
Brazil achieved a ccme-from-behind victory against U.S. Men's soccer team
in final for Confederations cup in South Africa.
Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan scored to put U.S. Men's team up, only
to have Brazil score three times in the second half. The U.S. had previously
beat Spain and Egypt.
Nascar
19-year-old rookie Joey Logano won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in Loundon
N.H. The victory makes him the first teenager to win on the NASCAR Circuit.
NBA
After being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Center Shaquille O'Neal has chose to sport 33 on his jersey, a number he wore in high school, and LSU.
When he played professionally, he sported the number with Orlando, Miami and Phoenix
In the 2009 NBA draft, The Bulls drafted power forwards James Johnson and Taj
Gibson in the first round. Johnson is 6'8" and came from Wake Forest while Gibson
is 6"10 and came from USC.
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