Will Venable drove in two runs as San Diego defeated the LA Dodgers 7-5.
A unique 6'11" center from California wants to attend Princeton.
A top junior guard has verbally agreed to attend Georgetown.
Penn is the final Ivy League school to release their men's basketball schedule.
C. Young (6-6) - 7.0 IP 2 H 0 ER 4 BB 5 K 4.11 ERA. 111 pitches, 66 strikes.
Chris Young threw seven shutout innings and sent the first pitch he saw at the plate in the seventh inning into the Nationals bullpen for hit his first career home run (video). San Diego beat Washington 6-1.
Georgetown coach John Thompson III was a visitor to the Padres clubhouse before the game.
Will Venable had three hits, including his second career home run (video) as San Diego beat Washington in 14 innings.
Venable's Friday was less embarrassing than his Wednesday, when Padres rookies had to wear Hooters Girls uniforms on the team flight to the east coast as part of a hazing ritual. Consider yourself warned about clicking on this link. Venable had the good sense to position himself in the back of each photo, however.
Chris Young gets the start in DC tonight at 7:10 pm ET.
Two Georgetown alums have donated one million dollars to endow a men's basketball scholarship.
Kyle Koncz has joined the faculty at Lake Forest Academy.
The Princeton Packet recently spoke to Will Venable.
When interviewed by Sign On San Diego, Venable used a basketball analogy to describe running into an outfield wall at Petco Park.
Will Venable had two hits and a walk on Sunday as the Padres fell 8-6 to San Francisco in 10 innings.
Last night Venable went 1-5 at the plate in a 11-5 Padres win over Colorado. Venable is batting .311 through 17 major league games.
Lindy's has released their 2008-09 Ivy League preview, written by Craig Haley of the Trenton Times. Princeton's write-up can be found here.
C. Young (5-6) - 7.0 IP 3 H 3 ER 1 BB 9 K 4.43 ERA. 109 pitches, 82 strikes.
Chris Young pitched well, but San Diego could not solve Tim Lincecum, who threw his first career complete game shutout. Will Venable went 0-4 at the plate, but did make a great diving catch you can watch by following the above link.
Venable was interviewed before the game by SF Gate.
Athlon Sports has released their 2008-09 Ivy League preview.
Chris Young starts for San Diego against Tim Lincecum in San Francisco tonight at 10:05 pm ET.
Matt Steinmetz from Golden State Warriors Examiner interviews Geoff Petrie about Pete Carril.
Will Venable continues to thrive as a Padre.
Richmond head coach Chris Mooney is not a cheater, writes Ed Kracz of the Bucks County Intelligencer.
Craig Robinson has landed a "program-changing recruit" at Oregon State.
A 6'4 guard has picked Northwestern over Wake Forest, Oklahoma State and Loyola.
Will Venable had his fifth two hit game in his last six starts, as San Diego beat the Dodgers 4-0. Venable is now batting .353 as a Padre.
They're still talking about how Chris Young pitched on Sunday.
Richmond has revealed violations by its men's and women's basketball programs to the NCAA.
Two names for the recruiting radar: a 6'8" Bucks County forward who has Princeton on his list of five finalists and a 6'8" guard/forward who says Princeton is among the schools that his father says have committed to come see him work out.
Georgetown recruit Hollis Thompson will spend his senior season at De La Salle.
Cornell guard Adam Gore has torn the ACL in his left knee.
C. Young (5-5) - 9.0 IP 2 H 0 ER 0 BB 5 K 4.48 ERA. 96 pitches, 67 strikes.
Chris Young came within four outs of professional baseball's 18th perfect game, his flirtation with immortality broken up by a long Gabe Kapler home run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth. Young settled for the first complete game of his career, a 10-1 San Diego victory over Milwaukee. Will Venable added two hits and was driven in by Young on a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Bill Bradley will be speaking at NC State's Millennium Seminar this evening.
Craig Robinson, Chili Cook Off celebrity judge.
Chris Young gets the start today in Milwaukee at 2:05 pm ET.
Will Venable was the final out of San Diego's 1-0 loss to Milwaukee, grounding to second after a "great eight-pitch battle" with Ben Sheets.
The San Diego Union Tribune points out an overlooked first for Venable.
TigerBlog offers some orange and black-tinted memories of Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Dick Vitale.
AP Photo/Morry Gash
Will Venable hit his first major league home run, a 420 foot blast to deep center field, as San Diego won 5-2 at Milwaukee. Watch video of Venable's drive here. The 6'3" 225 lb Venable is hitting .348 after six professional starts.
Georgetown now knows dates and opponents for its 2008-09 Big East schedule.
The Town Topics is the latest to talk to new MCCC coach Howie Levy.
Will Venable picked up two more hits and scored two runs in San Diego's 6-4 loss to Los Angeles. Venable's prospects are analyzed by Baseball Prospectus in their list of call-ups to keep your eye on.
Chris Young is a fan of the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw.
Northwestern has released its 2008-09 basketball schedule.
The Ivy League has concluded its investigation of the Harvard men's basketball program.
