Thursday, March 02, 2006

Peabody's Candela awaits word on WBC - Salem News
..After leaving USC two years ago, Candela moved north to Vallejo, Calif., and ran into Matt Ceriani, one of his old Brewer minor league teammates who was playing pro ball in Italy. Ceriani called his agent on Candela's behalf, and he said he could get Candela hooked up with an Italian club...

...Had he been healthy, he would have been part of two national championship teams and played in three bowl games.

"It wasn't high school anymore. I'd return a punt in practice, and some 300-pound lineman would be running as fast as I was," he laughed...

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