SPORTS digest

Spots available in charity scramble event

The 2017 Miller Lite Greatest Golfer of the Valley Scramble Championship has a few more slots available for the upcoming charity scramble season.

The Miller Lite Championship will take place on Aug. 15 at The Lake Club and is presented by Superior Beverage/Miller Beer.

It’s part of The Greatest Week in the Valley — seven days of Greatest golf, the Panerathon, football and more — celebrated by Covelli Enterprises.

Benefits of the free charity scramble include Superior Beverage donating $300 in prizes to your event — worthy of a first-place package for each winning player, premium promotion and more players to your event and host course.

World Series banner unveiled at Wrigley

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Finally, a banner moment at Wrigley Field.

The Chicago Cubs have raised their 2016 World Series championship flag, delighting a raucous crowd that waited through a rain delay for a moment more than a century in the making.

Hall of Famers Ryne Sandberg, Fergie Jenkins and Billy Williams raised banners for the franchise’s two previous championships and last year’s NL pennant before Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo had the honors for the drought-busting title flag.

Rizzo then brought the championship trophy out when he returned to the field from under the bleachers, drawing more cheers prior to Chicago’s home opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It was a moment generations of fans never got to witness. Even more wondered if they would ever get the chance. But that all changed when the Cubs beat the Indians in a thrilling Game 7 at Cleveland last fall for their first championship since 1908.

Wrigley Field opened in 1914 but the “Lovable Losers” didn’t move in until 1916.

Junior Seau’s nephew signs with Bills

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The Buffalo Bills have signed defensive end Ian Seau, the nephew of late Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau.

Signing with Buffalo represents a second chance for Seau. He signed with Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted rookie free agent last year but was cut before the start of last season.

Seau spent three seasons at Nevada, where he combined for 18 sacks in 25 games over his final two years.

Phillies to induct Rose to club’s Wall of Fame

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Pete Rose will be inducted into the Philadelphia Phillies Wall of Fame in an on-field ceremony on Aug. 12 prior to the club’s game against the New York Mets.

Rose, the all-time hits leader who was banned from baseball in 1989, made four All-Star appearances and helped the Phillies to one of their two world championships during his five seasons in Philadelphia from 1979-83.

The 39th inductee into the club’s Wall of Fame, Rose was selected through fan voting.

Kings fire coach and general manager

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The Los Angeles Kings have fired coach Darryl Sutter and general manager Dean Lombardi, who led the franchise to its only two Stanley Cup championships.

The Kings on Monday also promoted former defenseman Rob Blake to vice president and general manager, while longtime executive Luc Robitaille will be their new team president in charge of all hockey and business operations.

Los Angeles won the first two titles in team history in 2012 and 2014, but hasn’t won a playoff round since that second title.

The Kings (39-35-8) missed the playoffs this spring for the second time in three years with their worst record since 2009. They finished 10th in the 14-team Western Conference, fading down the stretch with a team that looked slow and limited.

The moves bring an emphatic end to the best era in the mostly ordinary franchise history of the Kings, a Second Six expansion franchise.

Staff/wire report