A well rested Milwaukee Bucks team will welcome Kobe Bryant and the Lakers to the Bradley Center tonight. The lakers are playing on back to back nights after beating the Bulls in Chicago. The Bucks are coming off a Saturday night win over Portland which returned them to the .500 mark. They need to shoot better if they hope to beat the defending champs and western division leaders.

The Badger men's basketball team is back at it as well hosting Cal-Poly at the Kohl Center.

Congrats to the Spash boys basketball team. After going winless in the Valley all last season they opened this year with a win over a good DC Everest team scoring 22 points in the 4th quarter.

The Northwoods League has expanded, adding a team in Wisconsin Rapids. The as-yet named team will play at Witter Field. Earlier the summer college league had added a team in Willmar, Minnesota.

I promised yesterday to include the ballot for this years Central Wisconsin Baseball Hall of Fame. It's divided into 4 categories.

Category 1-resident and Non-Resident Professional

Jack Baldschun

Juan Berenguer

Ray Boone

Darnell Coles

Jim Delsing

Ken Frailing

Gary Gaetti

Louis (Bud) Heyman

Moe Hill

Mike Jirschele

Tom Metcalf

Ward "Grumpy" Miller

Omar Minaya

Edwin Nunez

Shirley Palesh

Jim Presley

Walter Wilmot

Mookie Wilson

Gregg Zaun

Ben Zobrist

Category 2-Resident Amateur Player

Andy Augustine

Jerry Barwineck

Roger Breske

John Goodman

Wally Hriber

Bill Kautzer

Bill Kuse

Morrie Nowitzke

Joe Petka

Frank Schade Sr.

Craig Scheffler

Mike Simon

Dan Thompson

Joe Westfall

Jon Winter

Category 3-Amateur Coaches/Managers

Bill Helmuth

Roy Larson

Tom Lechnir

Tom Magnuson

George Scherer

Jim Schymanski

Keith "Whitey' Steinagel

John Westfall

Category 4-non uniform personnel

Randy Allen

Judge Gerald Boileau

Ron Carpenter

Archie Davis

Pam Gardner

Bob Gifford

Ed Kent

John Henry Moss

Mike Osterbrink

Chuck Summers

The voting is going on now and the results should be available in a couple of weeks.

Songs of the Day

Different Drum-Stone Poneys (1967) Linda Ronstadt fronts the band and has a hit with a song written by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees. The other Poneys were Bob Kimmel and Kenny Edwards. Edwards toured and recorded with Ronstadt through the 70's.

Diamonds on The Soles of Her Shoes-Paul Simon (1986) from his masterwork "Graceland" featuring the fabulous Afreican group Ladysmith Balck Mambazo. Here is a live version recorded at a 1987 concert in Zimbabwe.