• Yates pitches for Island Movers • Adults can learn to swim too • Madden joining NBC as game analyst • Basketball player sentenced to 35 years Yates pitches for Island Movers By The Garden Island Former Kaua‘i High School
• Yates pitches for Island Movers
• Adults can learn to swim too
• Madden joining NBC as game analyst
• Basketball player sentenced to 35 years
Yates pitches for Island Movers
By The Garden Island
Former Kaua‘i High School pitcher Kirby Yates is the only Garden Isle athlete on the 2005 Island Movers roster.
The Movers open up their summer season against a team made up of Hawai‘i All-Stars, tonight at 6 p.m. at Les Murakami Stadium.
Their roster includes college and high school seniors heading off to college in the fall.
Yates, who was drafted by the Boston Red Sox, will head off to Yavapai Community College (Arizona) in the fall.
The Island Movers head to Japan from June 22 to July 13. Their season ends on August 4, against international teams.
Adults can learn to swim too
Mokihana Aquatics is opening up a new, adult learn to swim class, which includes aquatic exercise. It will start up on Sunday, June 19 and every Sunday after that and runs from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. For more information, call Coach “O” at 821-0587.
Madden joining NBC as game analyst
NEW YORK — John Madden was the first announcer Dick Ebersol thought of when NBC acquired the rights to the NFL’s Sunday night package.
In mid-May, Ebersol went to California to talk with the popular analyst and try to convince him to join NBC when the network begins broadcasting the NFL again in 2006. The work paid off.
On Wednesday, NBC announced it had signed Madden to a six-year deal to be the network’s lead analyst for their NFL coverage.
“We’re just positively giddy to have John Madden join NBC’s Sunday night football,” said Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics.
Madden has spent the past three seasons teamed with Al Michaels on ABC’s “Monday Night Football,” a spot he will remain in for one more season.
“The whole thing (is) an opportunity to go somewhere where we’re starting something new, something different,” Madden said of moving to NBC.” I just think that, doggone it, this is pretty good.”
Ebersol said that NBC is waiting until after the NBA Finals are over to talk with Al Michaels about possibly teaming with Madden again.
Before joining ABC, Madden teamed with Pat Summerall to call Fox’s lead game from 1994-2001. They were the top NFL announcing team on CBS for 13 seasons before that.
Known for his folksy style and his love of football’s grit and grime, Madden has won 14 Sports Emmys.
The former Oakland Raiders coach — he led them to a win over Minnesota in the 1977 Super Bowl — has become a pop-culture phenomenon thanks in large part to the popularity of his video game “Madden NFL Football.” Since its initial release in 1989, the game has sold more than 43 million copies and become the No. 1 selling sports video game of all time.
Basketball player sentenced to 35 years
WACO, Texas — Former Baylor basketball player Carlos Dotson was led off to prison for 35 years Wednesday to shouts from the stepfather of his murdered best friend and teammate, who held up a framed picture of his son and yelled: “Remember him! Remember his face!”
“You, Carlton Dotson, are a killer, a sinner of the worst degree, and may you never forget what you did,” Brian Brabazon said during the sentencing, at times glaring and pointing at Dotson as his voice rose to a shout.
Dotson showed no emotion. Valorie Brabazon, the mother of victim Patrick Dennehy, sat in the front row sobbing as her teenage daughter tried to comfort her.
She said afterward that the family would attend all parole board hearings and urge that Dotson “doesn’t walk the streets again.”
