Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday 7/20/20
20 July 2020 Sports
The NFL has informed teams their training camps will open on time. League executive Troy Vincent sent a memo to general managers and head coaches on Saturday informing them rookies are to report by Tuesday, quarterbacks and injured players by Thursday and all other players should arrive by July 28th.
The league and the NFL Players Association are still discussing testing for the coronavirus and other health and safety protocols. Union leadership expressed several concerns in a 90-minute conference call with reporters Friday. However, under the collective bargaining agreement, the NFL can impose report dates.
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Brewers manager Craig Counsell announced Friday that right-handed pitcher Brandon Woodruff will start when Milwaukee begins the season July 24 against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
Woodruff said he hoped there are more to come. In addition, Counsell also announced on Friday that Brett Anderson would start Game 2 if a blister on his hand fully heals.
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Jon Rahm claimed the top spot in the world with authority on Sunday afternoon. Rahm, who started the day with a four-shot lead, cruised to a three-shot win at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village. It was enough to jump him ahead of Rory McIlroy to claim the No. 1 spot in the World Golf Rankings for the first time in his career. Rahm flew ahead of the pack on a hot, windy Saturday after posting a 4-under 68, the lowest round on a day when the scoring average was nearly two strokes above par. While his round on Sunday wasn’t outstanding by any means — he carded a 3-over 73 in his final round to finish 9-under on the week — it was far and above better than the rest of the pack. He sealed the deal on No. 16, too, after chipping in for birdie to push the lead back to four.
Ryan Palmer, who was in second headed into the final round with Tony Finau, finished the week in second at 6-under. Finau shot a 6-over on Friday, dropping him to eighth. Matthew Fitzpatrick came in third at 5-under.
The win marked the fourth in Rahm’s PGA Tour career, and his first since the Zurich Classic of New Orleans last season. Sunday’s outing was the first in which he’s finished inside the top 25 since play resumed last month after the COVID-19 hiatus, too. Rahm is now just the second Spaniard to claim the top spot in the rankings, the first since Seve Ballesteros did so for the final time in 1989, and the fifth-youngest ever to do so.
The 25-year-old also revealed that he’s lost two family members to the coronavirus, and that his grandmother’s ashes were actually spread in Madrid on Saturday.
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Jack Nicklaus revealed Sunday during the CBS telecast of the Memorial that he and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nicklaus and his wife, Barbara, turned 80 a month apart at the start of the year. Nicklaus said his wife had no symptoms, while he had a sore throat and a cough. Nicklaus said they were home in North Palm Beach, Florida, from March 13 “until we were done with it” on about April 20.
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Austin Dillon held a hard-charging field off three times on restarts in the closing laps to earn his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the 2020 season in Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. It was a 1-2 finish for the Richard Childress Racing team with Dillon’s rookie teammate Tyler Reddick finishing a mere .149-seconds behind. Before the Texas green flag, Dillon was 24 points outside the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs top 16 and now the Texas winner has an automatic berth. It’s his third career victory – with other trophies in the 2017 Daytona 500 and NASCAR’s longest race, the 2018 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway – 88 races ago. Joey Logano finished third, followed by Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick to round out the top five. Erik jones came in sixth, followed by Ryan Blaney, Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski and Arik Almirola. Wisconsin’s Matt Kenseth finished 18th.
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Will be see high school football, and prep sports at all, this fall? Some school leaders in the southwest part of the state have petitioned the WIAA to move fall sports to next spring, and the spring sports to next summer. This, according to the Wisconsin Sports Network. More discussion will take place on the issue as the WIAA and schools try to come to a conclusion on the best way to resume sports this fall.
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The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders won on the road Sunday, beating the Wisconsin Wood Chucks 13-7. With the win, the Dock Spiders improve to 10-9 and are a game behind the Wisconsin Rivets, who are 11-8, in the Wisconsin-Illinois East Division.
On Saturday, After allowing 11 runs in the first three innings, the Dock Spiders roared back and scored nine runs in the last four innings to stun the Rafters and win a wild Saturday afternoon contest, 13-11.
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The Blue Jays won’t play their home games in Toronto this year because Canada’s government doesn’t think it’s safe for players to travel back and forth from the United States, one of the countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said Saturday the federal government had denied the Blue Jays’ request to play at Rogers Centre, confirming what an official familiar with the matter had told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement. The team’s alternate sites for home games include its training facility in Dunedin, Florida, which is among the states that are virus hotspots, as well as Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York, which is home to Toronto’s Triple-A affiliate and just across the Niagara River from Canada. The Blue Jays are scheduled to start the season July 24 at Tampa Bay. Their home opener was set for five days later against Washington. Mendicino told the AP frequent travel to the U.S., where COVID-19 cases are surging, was the biggest issue. There are two current options on where to play. One is Buffalo, the other in Florida and the the team has mentioned there is a third site they’re considering.
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