Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday 2/2/21
2 February 2021 Sports
Sports for February 2nd
Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and coach Matt LaFleur say they expect Aaron Rodgers to remain their team’s starting quarterback in 2021 and beyond.
Rodgers had said after the Packers’ 31-26 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC championship game that “there’s a lot of guys’ futures that are uncertain, myself included.”
“Is that a trick question? Absolutely,” LaFleur said. “There’s no doubt about it. You are talking about the guy that is going to win the MVP of the league. We are not in this position without him. I couldn’t be happier with not only his performance but the little things he does within that locker room to ensure that everybody is locked in, focused. Ready to go. Absolutely he will be here. For a long time.”
Sunday night Los Angeles Times writer Sam Farmer reported the L.A. Rams “made a run” at trading for Rodgers but the Packers were “adamant” that they were not trading him. Gutekunst responded to the report saying, “There’s no truth to that whatsoever.”
Gutekunst and LaFleur made those comments Monday during season-ending Zoom sessions with reporters.
The Badger men’s basketball team is back in action tonight hosting Penn State at the Kohl Center. Wisconsin (13-5), which fell five spots in the AP rankings to 19th this week, lost Saturday to the Nittany Lions (6-7) 81-71.
In the NBA Monday night the Bucks snapped a two-game losing streak with a dominating win at home over the Portland Trail Blazers, 134-106. Jrue Holiday led a balanced Milwaukee attack with 22 points, Bobby Portis added 21 and Giannis Antetokuomnpo had 18. Nassir Little led the Trail Blazers with 30 points. The Bucks improve to 12-8 and are tied for second place in the Eastern Conference with the Brooklyn Nets, two-and-half games behind Philadelphia. Milwaukee hosts Indiana Wednesday night.
Boys Basketball (Mon.)
Portage 73, Wautoma 67-Logan Johnson led the Hornets with 22 points and Gabe Ascher had 17.
Oostburg 66, Laconia 46.
Sheboygan Lutheran 96, Saint Mary’s Springs 73
Oshkosh North 79, Green Bay West 40
Markesan 46, Central Wisconsin Christian 33
Boys Basketball (Tues.)
Plymouth at Ripon-Tipoff at 7:15 on Am 1600/93.1 FM, WRPN.
Campbellsport at Berlin-Tipoff at 7:15 on FM 102.3, The Bug.
Waupun at Kewaskum
Wautoma at Adams-Friendship
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Winneconne
Plymouth at Ripon
Mayville at Laconia
Hortonville at Fond du Lac
Oshkosh North at Appleton North
Kimberly at Oshkosh West
Wautoma at Adams-Friendship
Lourdes Academy at Dodgeland
Princeton/Green Lake at Rio
Girls Basketball (Moh.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 52, Ripon 47-Celia Lopez led the Tigers with 11 points and McKenzie Nodolf had 10. KML also won the JV game 31-21.
Wisconsin Dells 68, Wautoma 35-Ava Stahl led the Hornets with 10 points. The Dells had four players in double figures led by Audra Johnson with 12 points.
Randolph 81, Mayville 37
Appleton East 61, Oshkosh West 42
Westfield 58, Pardeeville 46
Central Wisconsin Christian 56, Montello 41
Fall River 56, Lourdes Academy 53
Johnson Creek 45, Horicon 30
Markesan 39, Cambridge 34
Princeton/Green Lake 63, Rio 58
Girls Basketball (Tues.)
Berlin at Pardeeville
Adams-Friendship at Wautoma
Waupun at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Laconia at Winnebago Lutheran
Lomira at Saint Mary’s Springs
Mayville at Columbus
North Fond du Lac at Omro
Oshkosh North at Hortonville
Mauston at Westfield
Montello at Princeton/Green Lake
Cambria-Friesland at Chilton
After the Major League Baseball Players Association rejected a proposal by MLB to delay the start of the season, the league said it would start spring training and the regular season as scheduled. A day of brusque, back-and-forth discussions between the league and the union, sources said, wound up as almost everyone involved expected: with no deal to push back the season, and with the Feb. 17 spring training report date and April 1 Opening Day still intact.
MLB on Friday proposed a 154-game schedule that would pay the players for 162 games and pause their arrivals to camp until March 22 and the first games until April 28. The offer included expanding the playoffs from 10 to 14 teams and implementing the designated hitter in the National League. The union immediately balked, citing language in the proposal it believed would grant commissioner Rob Manfred more expansive powers to cancel games in the event of a potential COVID-19 outbreak.
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