For the third year in a row, the annual D-III Backyard Brawl on Sept. 5 in Jackson between Millsaps and Mississippi College will benefit the Community Animal Rescue & Adoption Center, the state's largest no-kill animal shelter.

Here's the scoop from Millsaps.

A high school basketball player from San Diego has left school a year early and signed with an Israeli Premier league team. We wish we could have left high school early because we thought it was "boring," and then pick up a $150,000 check for our trouble. After all, in 1973, that was real money. Now, it's just a few nights on the town with Rick Pitino.

Armintie Price, the former Myrtle and Ole Miss standout, has been traded from the Chicago Sky to the Atlanta Dream -- where the coaching staff includes former Rebels head coach Carol Ross. Here's a story from the Atlanta paper.

Here's a press release from the Dream.

Price, a two-time Journal high school player of the year (2002-03) was the WNBA's 2007 Rookie of the Year but her playing time had decreased since then. She was only averaging 3.5 points a game this season in Chicago.

The Milwaukee Brewers will eat about $11 million to cut ties with slumping Bill Hall, the former Nettleton standout. He's been designated for assignment, giving the team 10 days to trade him or cut him.

It's a big baseball story developing this afternoon, part of a general shakeup in Milwaukee and the top story for the newspaper there. Here's the MLB.com take on the news.

We ran a version of this analysis, first posted on Aug. 1, that seemed harsh in terms of its outlook about Hall's future with the Brewers. Instead, it turned out to be correct.