Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday 6/3/20
3 June 2020 Sports
The PGA Tour has a deal in place to play back-to-back weeks at Muirfield Village in Ohio.
According to a memo sent to players Tuesday, the tour has reached an agreement with Workday to be the title sponsor of a tournament that would be held July 9-12, one week before the Memorial. It was not clear what role Jack Nicklaus, the tournament host of the Memorial, would have at the first event. The tour said it would be a full field of 156 players at the Workday event — without spectators — which would allow the Memorial to return to a 120-man field afforded to invitational events. The additional Muirfield Village event replaces the John Deere Classic, whose officials decided last week it would not be held because of logistics and limitations from the COVID-19 pandemic. The John Deere would return to the schedule in 2021 in Silvis, Illinois.
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All 32 NFL teams have been told by Commissioner Roger Goodell to hold training camps at their home facilities this summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most NFL teams stay at their training complexes year-round, but Dallas, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Buffalo are among those that stage training camp elsewhere. The Cowboys and Steelers are scheduled for the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 6 and will be the first two teams to report in late July. Dallas usually trains in Oxnard, California, and Pittsburgh in nearby Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The Cowboys have never held their entire preseason at home. The Steelers have trained at St. Vincent College in Latrobe for more than a half-century. The league has canceled all in-person workouts at team facilities, which only in the past two weeks have begun opening on a limited basis. No coaches nor players other than those undergoing medical treatment and rehabilitation have been allowed in those facilities. Soon, the NFL is hopeful of having club complexes fully open, but under strict medical guidelines including social dis tancing protocols.
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Law enforcement officials on Tuesday apprehended a man who had gained entry to Miller Park and caused minor damage to the playing field.
“At approximately 7 a.m. this morning, an unarmed individual illegally entered Miller Park and gained access to the playing surface,” the Brewers said in a statement. “He was apprehended a short time later by law enforcement after causing minor damage to the field. As this involves an ongoing investigation, we unfortunately cannot provide additional details at this time.”
The incident was isolated to one individual, according to a source, and there is “no indication whatsoever” that it was related to recent protests in Milwaukee and throughout the country over the death of George Floyd.
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The Washington Wizards said former player, coach, and general manager Wes Unseld died Tuesday. He was 74.
Unseld is a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. The five-time All-Star played for Washington from 1968-1981 and started his career with the team when they were known as the Baltimore Bullets. Unseld was a mainstay at center for the Wizards franchise throughout the entirety of his career. He played 73 or more games in all but two of his seasons with the team and averaged over 36 minutes per game in his career.
He was named the NBA MVP and the Rookie of the Year in 1968-69 when he averaged 13.8 points per game and an astonishing 18.2 rebounds per game. A year later, he upped his scoring average to 16.2 points per game and still averaged 16.7 rebounds per game while increasing his shooting percentage to nearly 52 percent
Washington won the 1978 NBA title with Unseld manning the post, and he was named NBA Finals MVP. He averaged nearly 12 rebounds and eight points per game in that championship season and played three more seasons before retiring.
Unseld became a vice president for the team immediately after he retired and was named the team’s head coach midway through the 1987-88 season.
He served as Washington’s coach for six-plus years and stepped down after the 1993-94 season. The team never made the playoffs outside of Unseld’s first season and finished seventh in the Atlantic Division in each of his final two seasons.
Unseld then became the team’s general manager in 1996 and left that job after the 2002-03 season ahead of surgery on both of his knees. Unseld was the team’s general manager when Michael Jordan finished his playing career with the Wizards after he joined the team’s front office. Jordan’s final season as a player was Unseld’s final season as a GM and he averaged 20 points per game as Washington finished 37-45 and fifth in the Atlantic.
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Navy and Notre Dame will not be opening the 2020 college football season in Ireland because of the coronavirus pandemic. The teams announced Tuesday morning that the Aug. 29 game had been moved from Dublin to Annapolis. The game will be played at Navy’s home football stadium instead of the Aviva Stadium in Dublin
The game, which was set to be played in “Week 0” on the weekend before Labor Day, will now be moved to either the Saturday or Sunday of Labor Day weekend in Week 1. It will be televised by either ESPN or ABC.
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