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FOX 6, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Brewers and the National Prostate Cancer Coalition are joining together to host the Drive Against Prostate Cancer free screening event. Screening will be conducted by the Medical College of Wisconsin physicians and other experts from Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, in a 39ft. rolling doctor’s office offering the gold standard in screening. This RV has been custom-designed to provide healthcare to men in a friendly environment. Men will be examined on a first-come, first-serve basis. Both Digital Rectal Exams (DRE) and Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests will...

MILWAUKEE -- On Monday, the Milwaukee Brewers will open a six-game, seven-day homestand which includes visits by two National League Central rivals. Highlighting the homestand is "Cerveceros Day" on Saturday, July 29... On Saturday, July 29, the Brewers will celebrate "Cerveceros Day" at Miller Park. The Brewers will pay tribute to Hispanic baseball by wearing uniforms that read "Cerveceros" ("Brewers" in Spanish) across the chest. Brewers great Teddy Higuera and Milwaukee Braves legend Felix Mantilla will be honored by the Brewers and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in a pre-game ceremony. Throughout the ballpark, there will be mariachi bands, bilingual...

MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers agreed to a $700,000, one-year contract with catcher Chad Moeller on Wednesday and to a minor league deal with left-hander Rigo Beltran. Moeller, who batted .208 with five homers and 27 RBIss in 101 games for the Brewers last season, was eligible for salary arbitration. He will back up Damian Miller, who agreed to a three-year deal with Milwaukee this week.

An independent review of the state of the Milwaukee Brewers released Thursday paints a portrait of a franchise that is $133.1 million in debt, and that received nearly $44 million in equity from team owners over the past 10 years yet reported a net loss from operations of $28.8 million over the same time period.The report, by a three-member panel of business leaders appointed by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, also contains a few surprises, specifically a review of the salaries paid former Brewers president and now baseball commissioner Bud Selig, his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb, and son-in-law Laurel Prieb....

President Bush left the White House, Monday, April 5, 2004, for a trip to Charlotte, North Carolina to speak on job training and attend a Bush-Cheney 2004 luncheon. Bush will then attend a opening day major league baseball game in St. Louis, Missouri, throwing out the first pitch, before heading to his Crawford, Texas ranch for the rest of week.

Brewers announce team is for sale By DON WALKER Wendy Selig-Prieb, chairman of the team's board of directors, made the announcement at an afternoon news conference, saying the decision was in the best interest of baseball in Milwaukee. "The unrelenting desire of our ownership group to bring baseball back to our community some 35 years ago has been surpassed only by their unwavering commitment to preserve major league baseball in our community," said said. "While the ownership may be changing Brewers baseball will remain an important part of the fabric of our community." Board member Michael Grebe said the decision...

How will he react to the call? Paul Molitor isn't sure. Nobody can ever be sure until they actually get a call like the one Molitor should get Tuesday. Sometime around noon, the telephone in his Hopkins home should ring, and on the other end there will be a voice telling him what fewer than 260 men have ever heard: "You've been elected to baseball's Hall of Fame." At that point, Molitor can only guess what he will do. "There are a few things that happen in your career, and people talk about it being kind of out-of-body, and you...

PITTSBURGH — Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire. The Milwaukee Brewers' racing sausages, still hot under their collars — er, casings — after being whacked by the Pirates' bat-wielding Randall Simon last month, will confront their biggest enemy this side of Jimmy Dean again today. This time rather than the sausages vs. Simon, it will be the sausages vs. the Pirates' racing pierogies in a match race during the Brewers-Pirates game. The winner will be awarded the cherished Golden Skillet for mascot racing excellence. The loser will try to avoid being served as a main course...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire. The Milwaukee Brewers' racing sausages, still hot under their collars - er, casings - after being whacked by the Pirates' bat-wielding Randall Simon last month, will confront their biggest enemy this side of Jimmy Dean again Friday. This time, rather than the sausages vs. Simon, it will be the sausages vs. the Pirates' racing pierogies in a match race during the Brewers-Pirates game. The winner will be awarded the cherished Golden Skillet for mascot-racing excellence. The loser will try to avoid being served as a main course...

<p>Simon was leaning over the railing of the Pirates dugout between the sixth and seventh innings when the customary sausage race was being contested, with four people in costumes running around the infield warning track. When the Italian sausage (19-year-old Mandy Block) passed Simon, he struck her with a bat, knocking her and the hot dog (a 19-year-old woman) down. The women suffered a few scrapes.</p>

In a major shake-up, the Milwaukee Brewers will announce that Ulice Payne, a prominent Milwaukee attorney, will be named president of the team, three sources have told the Journal Sentinel. The sources also said that Doug Melvin, a former general manager with the Texas Rangers, will be named the new Brewers general manager, replacing Dean Taylor, who will be dismissed from the team. Payne, a well-known attorney who is the managing partner of the Milwaukee office of Foley & Lardner, will take over the president's role from Wendy Selig-Prieb, who has served as president and chief executive officer of the...