Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday 7/31/20
31 July 2020 Sports
A couple of close games highlighted the restart of the NBA last night. The 2019-20 season resumed at Walt Disney World as the Utah Jazz beat the New Orleans Pelicans 104-102 in the first game and then the Lakers beat the Clippers on a Lebron James putback, 103-101.
Tonight the Milwaukee Bucks return to play against the Boston Celtics. The Bucks have the league’s best record at 53-12 while Boston is 43-21.
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After a day off Thursday, the Brewers return to action this afternoon in their home opener against the St. Louis Cardinals at Miller Park. Milwaukee split its first six games and trail the Cubs by a game in the NL Central. The Cardinals are 1 ½ games back while the Pirates and Reds are two games behind. In the NL Central yesterday the Chicago at Cincinnati was postponed.
The Brewers send left-hander Brett Anderson to the mound against Cardinals right-hander Jack Flaherty, who’s 1-0 on the season. Meanwhile, Christian Yelich hopes being at home will help him get out of a 1-27 slump to start the season. His only hit was a home run. First pitch this afternoon is at 1:10 and the game can be heard on AM1100/98.3FM, WISS.
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The Packers placed kicker Mason Crosby, tight end Jace Sternberger and defensive tackle Treyvon Hester on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Fifteen players around the league were added Thursday. This comes two days after linebacker Greg Roberts was the first Packers player to be put on the COVID-19/Reserve list. The Packers are counting on Sternberger, a third-round choice in 2019, to play a bigger role with Jimmy Graham now in Chicago. The Packers drafted Crosby in 2007, and he has remained in Green Bay since. Crosby had a strong season last year, missing just two field goals and one extra point.
The NFL’s new reserve/COVID-19 list category was created for players who either test positive for COVID-19 or who have been quarantined after having been in close contact with an infected person. If a player falls into either of these categories, his club is required to immediately place the player on the reserve/COVID-19 list, and that player is not counted on the active roster.
Teams are not permitted to comment on a player’s medical status other than referring to roster status.
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In a baseball season where everything looks different, how about one more? According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, Major League Baseball and the players’ union have agreed that all doubleheaders during the 2020 season will now consist of two seven-inning games. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal was the first to report an agreement was in the works.
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On the heels of a 9-0 shutout victory in Green Bay, the Dock Spiders (17-12) earned their fourth consecutive win and ended the three-game win streak for the La Crosse Loggers (14-15) in a sound 5-1 victory at home Thursday night. The Dock Spiders will end their short homestand and host the Loggers again tonight (Friday) at 6:35, looking for win number five in a row.
In golf, defending champ Brooks Koepka matched his career best with an 8-under 62 to take a 2-stroke lead over Rickie Fowler and Brendon Todd after the first round of the FedEx St. Jude Invitational. A week after missing the cut in Minnesota in the 3M Open, Koepka had nine birdies and a bogey on a windy day at TPC Southwind in the World Golf Championship event. Koepka also will defend his PGA Championship title next week at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. For Fowler, it was his lowest round after missing three cuts since the PGA Tour’s return to play in June. He credited getting back to playing golf instead of just working on the range.
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For the second year in a row there will be no sharp-tailed grouse hunting in the state of Wisconsin this fall. That’s in part due to the coronavirus impacting critical data-gathering this spring on the game bird species in decline. Once prevalent around the state, sharp-tailed grouse are now found in only Northwest Wisconsin. With the state’s Safer at Home order preventing spring survey work, and a decade of data showing the population in decline, sharp-tailed grouse will be off limits for a second year in a row. During the last hunting season in 2018, 25 hunters drew tags and harvested 11 birds. A cousin to the sharp-tailed grouse, the ruffed grouse, is more suited for forested areas and remains prevalent in Northern and Central Wisconsin.
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