Sports briefs 11/10/04

Baseball

• A vacancy in the Chicago Cubs broadcasting booth was filled Tuesday when former Arizona Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly was hired as the team's television analyst beginning next season.

Brenly, 50, replaces Steve Stone, who resigned last month after 20 years following a season of turmoil where he came under fire for on-air comments critical of the team's performance and its managerial strategy.

Colleges

• Former Missouri running back Devin West and five other standout athletes will be inducted in January into the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame, the school said Tuesday. They are the 15th class to be inducted since the Hall began in 1990. A dinner to honor the six is scheduled for Jan. 21 in Columbia, with the inductees to be honored the next day during a halftime ceremony at the men's home basketball game against Nebraska. This year's inductees are West, who from 1995 to 1998 was the school's career leader in all-purpose yards; Al Abram, who played basketball from 1958 to 1960 and became the first black athlete to receive a scholarship at Missouri; Rebecca Davis, a women's track and cross country athlete from 1993 to 1997; Sonny Siebert, who in 1958 led Missouri to the College World Series runner-up spot and led the school's basketball team in scoring; Ray Thorpe, who earned All-America honors in baseball in 1967 and was a key player on the Tiger football team that won the 1966 Sugar Bowl; and Charlie McMullen, a three-time All-American in track and cross country from 1970 to 1974.

The University of Cincinnati suspended a defensive lineman Tuesday following his arrest for a scuffle at a night spot where he works as a bouncer. Donald Germany, 21, was charged with two counts of felonious assault. He pleaded innocent on Tuesday. Under school policy, the backup defensive end was suspended while his case is pending.

Hockey

• The Worcester IceCats will move to Peoria, Ill., next season after the sale of the AHL team by the St. Louis Blues is completed. The team will continue to operate as the Blues' top minor league affiliate and be renamed the Rivermen. The sale to Bruce Saurs and Anne Griffith are subject to approval by the AHL's Board of Governors.

-- From wire reports