--Brett Favre is coming back to Green Bay this summer, though no word on whether he'll stick around and come out of retirement to play again.

A week before his former teammates report for the start of training camp, Favre will be at Lambeau Field on July 19 to present Frank Winters for induction into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. Winters was Favre's trusted center and one of the quarterback's off-the-field buddies.

Nose tackle Gilbert Brown, a teammate of Favre and Winters, also will be enshrined. He will be presented by onetime teammate Santana Dotson.

Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr will be a presenter as well, for longtime team video director Al Treml.

--Prior to his return to Green Bay, avid golfer Favre will play for the first time in the American Century Championship celebrity tournament in Lake Tahoe, July 8-13.

Aaron Rodgers, Favre's successor with the Packers, will be a repeat participant in the event that attracts A-list celebrities from sports and entertainment.

--Although the St. Louis Rams are relocating their training camp to the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon, they won't be a practice partner for the Packers this year. The Rams previously arranged joint workouts with the Tennessee Titans.

The Rams will become the third NFL team to have training camp in Wisconsin. The Packers have traditionally trained in Green Bay. The Kansas City Chiefs have been in River Falls for several years.

--As far as Packers rookie offensive tackle Breno Giacomini knows, he is the first player who is a descendant of soccer-crazed Brazil to join the ranks of the NFL.

"It makes me proud, my family proud, a lot of people in Brazil," Giacomini said. "They're always calling my mother."

Giacomini, a fifth-round draft pick out of Louisville, is often confused for being Italian.

"Really, the only Italian person in my family was my great grandfather," Giacomini said. "Everybody else is from Brazil. My parents came here about a year before I was born."

QUOTE TO NOTE
"(One) of the things he said was he loves the competition, (but) he's just tired of the daily grind. And, I feel the same way." -- LPGA star Annika Sorenstam, who on May 13 while announcing her plan to retire at the end of the year referenced the March 6 retirement news conference by Packers quarterback Brett Favre.

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