Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday 1/20/21
20 January 2021 Sports
Sports for Wednesday
Boys Basketball (Tues.)
Campbellsport 67, Horicon 54
Cedarburg 78, Kettle Moraine Lutheran 54
Plymouth 41, Kewaskum 33
Winneconne 75, Laconia 64
Milwaukee Academy of Science 107, North Fond du Lac 51
Omro 78, Markesan 62
Hortonville 75, West De Pere 66
Oshkosh West 63, Green Bay West 33
Kaukauna 93, Green Bay Southwest 85
Kimberly 84, Appleton East 50
Menasha 74, Green Bay East 60
New London 90, Wautoma 35
Seymour 80, Oconto 45
Xavier 84, Sheboygan Falls 55
Wisconsin Valley Lutheran 49, Weyauwega-Fremont 43
Lacrosse Logan 54, Mauston 46
Baraboo 61, Nekoosa 39
Amherst 45, Westfield 24
Central Wisconsin Christian 58, Montello 34
Randolph 63, Portage 51
Rio 49, Cambria-Friesland 37
Girls Basketball ((Tues.)
Lourdes Academy 38, Wautoma 35-A three-point shot by Wautoma at the buzzer hit the rim and bounced off. Ava Stahl led the Hornets with 16 points while Molly Moore led the Lady Knights with 14. Wautoma drops to 6-10 on the season while Lourdes Academy improves to 9-8.
Westfield 61, Ripon 48-Lucy Beuthin led the Tigers with 13 points.
Plymouth 53, Campbellsport 27
Winnebago Lutheran 59, Kewaskum 48
Deforest at Waupun 69, DeForest 43
Laconia 68, Lomira 26
North Fond du Lac 45, Mayville 43
St. Mary’s Springs 46, Omro 41
Kaukauna 78, Fond du Lac 47
Appleton East 49, Hortonville 46
Kimberly 75, Appleton West 46
Neenah 68, Oshkosh North 25
Appleton North 40, Oshkosh West 39
Rosholt 58, Weyaauwega-Fremont 28
Beaver Dam 86, Portage 11
Dodgeland 59, Fall River 37
Pardeeville 61, Hustisford 55
In Big Ten basketball tonight, #10 Wisconsin hosts Northwestern. The Badgers are 11-3 while Northwestern is 6-6.
The Packers return to the practice field today as they prepare to host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday in the NFC Championship game. It will be a showdown between two of the greatest quarterbacks of all time in the Packers Aaron Rodgers and the Bucs Tom Brady. The winner advances to the Super Bowl to play the winner of the Kansas City Chiefs-Buffalo Bills game in the AFC Championship game in Kansas City.
Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Tuesday. He was 75. The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, said Sutton died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, after a long struggle with cancer. The Atlanta Braves, for whom Sutton was a long-time broadcaster, said he died in his sleep. A four-time All-Star, Sutton had a career record of 324-256 and an ERA of 3.26 while pitching for the Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, California Angels and the Dodgers again in 1988, his final season. A master of changing speeds and pitch location, Sutton recorded just one 20-win season, but earned 10 or more wins in every season except 1983 and 1988. Of his victories, 58 were shutouts, five were one-hitters and 10 were two-hitters. The right-hander is seventh on the career strikeout list with 3,574. Sutton ranks third all-time in games started and seventh in innings pitched (5,282.1). He worked at least 200 innings in 20 of his first 21 seasons, with only the shortened 1981 season interrupting his streak. After going 23-7 during one season in the minors, Sutton won a spot in the Dodgers’ rotation in 1966. He made his big-league debut for the defending World Series champions on April 14, 1966, and earned his first victory four days later.
Sutton immediately found himself in a rotation with Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen as the fourth starter. Sutton recorded 209 strikeouts that season, the highest total for a rookie since 1911. He helped the Dodgers win National League pennants in 1974, 1977 and 1978. He left the team as a free agent in 1980 and signed with Houston. A trade in 1982 sent Sutton to the Brewers, where he pitched Milwaukee to its first American League pennant. He worked for his sixth postseason team in 1986 with the AL West champion Angels and then returned to the Dodgers in 1988, retiring before the end of a season that saw them win the World Series. Sutton carved out a new career as a broadcaster after his playing days ended, largely with the Braves.
Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre has some advice for Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who suffered a concussion on Sunday. Be careful. Favre realizes that Mahomes will want to play. Favre spent almost all of his career in an era before the NFL took concussions seriously. For him, whether to play or not play due to a head injury was never a question. Now, Favre preaches caution for football players.
“I played 321 straight games, it kind of goes against everything I stood for when I played,” Favre told TMZ.com. “But you’ve gotta be smart. You’ve gotta be smart. I was never faced with the decision that he potentially will face this week. And ultimately the decision may fall on the doctors. And if they choose that he doesn’t play, then it’s the right move, because of the long-term damage.”
“When you’re in the moment, and you’re young, you’re bulletproof, man,” Favre said. “But I’m 51 years old, and I’m wondering what tomorrow will bring, because of concussions more than anything.”
“This is a test for the NFL, right now,” Favre said. “To see a star player in a crucial, crucial game, what will happen with their decision. . . . The protocol’s in place. Let’s see if they follow it.”
It wouldn’t have been an issue in Favre’s time. Chiefs coach Andy Reid acknowledged that on Monday, when addressing the situation with reporters.
“There was a chance back in the day that Patrick comes back in [the game],” Reid said. “You saw him run up the tunnel. By the time he got to that point, he was feeling pretty good. But there’s a certain protocol you have to follow and that takes it out of the trainer’s hand, the player’s hand and the doctor’s hand.!
But there’s still influence that the player can exert over the process.
“Just say he has a headache on Friday, but [the] previous three or four days he’s fine,” Favre said regarding Mahomes. “Is he gonna tell them? I doubt it. He wants to play. . . . For years up until 10 years ago there was no protocol in place, and once you felt better — which could be three or four hours — you were back out playing. He will want to play.”
He definitely will want to play. The team will want him to play. That’s why, in 2009, the NFL took the decision out of the hands of team doctors (who at times were inclined to clear a player to play in order to continue to be the team’s doctor). In this specific case, the league will want Mahomes to play. The question becomes whether that will impact in any way the judgment exercised by the neurologist who is independent of the team but not of the league.
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