MARK JOHNSON RUMORS & GOSSIP

Geovany Soto is supposedly in Chicago today so Cubs team orthopedist Stephen Gryzlo can take a look at that sore shoulder. If the defending NL ROY lands on the Disabled List, the logical move would be to summon 33-year-old Mark Johnson from Iowa. The lefthanded-hitting Johnson, who was originally drafted by the White Sox back in '94, went 4-for-19 at Mesa this spring. Over...

According to multiple reports on Wednesday night, Geovany Soto will have his right shoulder examined in Chicago on Thursday by Dr. Stephen Gryzlo. The report from the Sun-Times titled the "DL becomes a possibility for Soto" stated Soto does "not have a strong feeling on when he might return." The Cubs have five open spots on their 40-man roster. According to...

Geovany Soto will stop off in Chicago on the way to Milwaukee. He'll see Dr. Gryzlo to have his shoulder examined. Nothing new, as noted earlier. It goes back more:Soto had the same soreness before, in 2007 at Triple-A Iowa, when he woke up one morning and couldn't lift his arm. He said it lasted about a week, and then just went away. Soto insisted the current soreness...

One of the very few unsettled roster spots for the Cubs is the back-up catching position. Mark Johnson was considered one of the three candidates when spring training began, but it’s now down to Koyie Hill and Paul Bako. Hill is projected to be better than Bako in 2009, but those involve samples over the last few years that are small and/or unreliable. So far this spring...

The 2008 Champions Tour Administaff Small Business Classic tees off at The Woodlands Country Club on Friday. The Monday qualifier was played on ... well, why don't you just guess which day it was played? Here are the golfers who earned spots in the field: Mitch Adams, Cary, N.C., 68 John Morse, Marshall, Mich., 68 James Chancey, Altamonte Springs, Fla., 69 Mark Johnson, Kingsland, 69 Massy

I had a lot of fun writing this article about the boxers I feel were/are the best in the area from 1985-2006. Please let me know what the Yardbarker community is saying. While looking through my collection of old boxing magazines, I came across the March 1996 edition of The Ring. This issue had a special section called "A Tale of 10 Cities" in which different boxing writers...