Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday 4/17/20
17 April 2020 Sports
Good news for golfers on Thursday. Part of Governor Tony Evers new Safer at Home Home order allows golf courses to open next Friday,, April 24th. However, there will be restrictions including scheduling and paying for tee times online or by phone only. Clubhouses and pro shops must remain closed.
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As the sports world is shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are selling memberships in the franchise to raise money for continued operations.
The Timber Rattlers are owned by the nonprofit corporation Appleton Baseball Club Inc.
A membership comes with voting rights, a commemorative certificate, a ticket to opening day and a ticket, picnic and photo with the team at the game scheduled for Aug. 23. Memberships are not stock. The value does not increase and there are no dividends.
Membership certificates cost $50 plus a handling charge. They can be renewed each year for $25. The team says it will use all money raised for business operations and stadium improvements.
The Timber Rattlers have 29 full-time and more than 400 seasonal employees. That does not include players, who are paid by the Milwaukee Brewers, the Timber Rattlers’ major league affiliate.
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Denver Broncos Pro Bowl linebacker Von Miller has tested positive for the coronavirus, he told 9NEWS in Denver on Thursday.
“It’s true,” Miller told 9NEWS by phone. “I’ve just been here in the crib and I started to get a little cough. You know, I have asthma and I started getting a little cough a couple days ago. My girlfriend … she told me when I was asleep, she said my cough, it didn’t sound normal.”
Miller, a unanimous choice for the NFL’s All Decade Team, said a nebulizer didn’t help and his assistant persuaded him to go to the doctor on Tuesday to get tested.
Miller is the second active NFL player known to have tested positive for the coronavirus. On Wednesday, Los Angeles Rams center Brian Allen told Fox Sports that he also tested positive.
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California high school star Jalen Green, the No. 1 prospect in the 2020 ESPN 100, is making the leap to a reshaped NBA professional pathway program — a G League initiative that will pay elite prospects $500,000-plus and provide a one-year development program outside of the minor-league’s traditional team structure, sources told ESPN
Green — a potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft — announced Thursday he is bypassing college to become the professional pathway’s first participant, a decision that likely clears the way for more commitments of elite prospects.
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PHILADELPHIA — Eagles center Jason Kelce announced his retirement Thursday — from arm-wrestling. But football? That’s still a go.
In an Instagram post that put more than a few fans on edge, Kelce said that he had decided to “RETIRE…from arm wrestling,” leaving behind a 2-0 record, with one victory against Flyers center Claude Giroux and the other against a bar patron one random night this offseason in the Philadelphia suburbs.
That was all a lead-up to the real news, that Kelce would be returning for a 10th NFL season.
Word got out toward the end of an injury-riddled 2018 season that he was pondering retirement — a notion that Kelce didn’t deny, adding that it’s something that goes through many veterans’ minds each offseason during the latter stages of their careers. The love of the game and the camaraderie he has with his teammates brought him back in 2019, and now again in 2020.
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The world will get to see “The Last Dance” documentary series starting this weekend. But Michael Jordan and the rest of the Chicago Bulls knew 1997-98 would be their last dance together from the beginning of that championship season.
Speaking to “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts on Thursday, Jordan said his sixth and final championship season with the Bulls was a “trying year” and that the knowledge it would be the group’s final season together loomed from the start.
The documentary series, which will begin Sunday night on ESPN and run over the next five Sundays, chronicles that final season Jordan played in Chicago, which saw the Bulls win their third straight title and sixth in eight seasons. It also covers Jordan’s life leading up to that year, including his time at North Carolina, where he won a national championship in 1982 by hitting the winning shot in the title game against Patrick Ewing and Georgetown.
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The PGA Tour announced on Thursday that it will resume the 2020 season with the Charles Schwab Challenge on June 11, and rolled out its revised tour schedule for the rest of the season.
The Tour suspended operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic after the first round of The Players Championship last month, and canceled all future events across all Tours through the AT&T Byron Nelson in May. All four major championships have either been postponed to the fall or canceled, too.
The Charles Schwab Challenge was initially scheduled to take place from May 21-24. It is now going to take the RBC Canadian Open’s slot on the schedule in June instead. That event is not on the revised schedule. Fans will not be allowed to attend the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, either — a policy that will likely be implemented for the first several events.
The Tour has an opening on its schedule immediately after the Charles Schwab Challenge from June 18-21, when the U.S Open was initially scheduled to take place. The RBC Heritage will be played that weekend instead.
The LPGA is planning to restart its season the week of June 15, too, with the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
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