Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday 2/15/21
15 February 2021 Sports
Sports for February 25th
Michigan only needed 20 minutes or so to shake off the rust from a three-week layoff. Isaiah Livers scored 20 points, Hunter Dickinson had 11 points and 15 rebounds, and the third-ranked Wolverines rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat No. 21 Wisconsin 67-59 on Sunday. The Wolverines (14-1, 9-1 Big Ten) hadn’t played since a 70-53 victory at Purdue on Jan. 22. Michigan announced the next day it was pausing all athletic activities after several people linked to the athletic department tested positive for a COVID-19 variant that transmits at a higher rate. After trailing most of the way, Michigan scored the game’s final eight points. Wisconsin (15-7, 9-6) collected just six points and one basket over the final 7:45. Dickinson made numerous big plays with the game on the line.
Michigan trailed 57-56 when Dickinson got the offensive rebound off a missed 3-pointer from Eli Brooks and found Livers, who sank a 3-pointer with 2:48 left. D’Mitrik Trice tied the game by hitting two free throws, but Michigan pulled ahead for good on Dickinson’s putback with 1:46 remaining.
Trice scored 16 points, Aleem Ford had 15 and Jonathan Davis had 11 for Wisconsin. Michigan’s Franz Wagner had 10 of his 14 points in the second half.
Wisconsin led by as many as 14 in the first half and took a 39-27 lead into the locker room. Wisconsin shot 53.8% overall and went 5 of 7 from 3-point range in the opening half against a Michigan team that came in holding opponents to 37.4% shooting, third best in Division I. Ford led the way by scoring 11 points in the first 8 1/2 minutes. But the Badgers shot 7 of 28 in the second half and missed their last 11 3-point attempts.
Michigan figures to stay at No. 3 when the AP Top 25 comes out Monday. Wisconsin could fall a couple of spots. Michigan hosts No. 25 Rutgers on Thursday. Wisconsin hosts No. 15 Iowa on Thursday.
Justin Jackson scored a season-high 22 points and hit a critical 3-pointer in the final minute to help the Oklahoma City Thunder overcome Giannis Antetokounmpo’s triple-double and beat the Milwaukee Bucks 114-109 on Sunday night. With Milwaukee making a late push, Jackson hit a 3-pointer with 14.9 seconds remaining to put the Thunder in control for good in just his second start of the season. Al Horford had 20 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, Lu Dort scored 19 points and Darius Bazley added 18 for Oklahoma City. The Thunder won without leading scorer Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who sat out with a sprained left knee. Antetokounmpo had 24 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists for his fourth triple-double of the season and Khris Middleton added 23 points for the Bucks. Milwaukee has lost three straight — all without guard Jrue Holiday, who has been out because of health and safety protocols.left knee. The Bucks host the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday.
Michael McDowell stormed through a crash scene to win the Daytona 500, snapping an 0-for-357 streak with a fiery pileup in his rearview mirror. McDowell led just the final lap — maybe half of it, really — when Brad Keselowski turned teammate Joey Logano as the Team Penske drivers jockeyed for the victory. McDowell stayed flat in the gas and plowed past the two spinning cars to the lead, then won a three-wide drag race until NASCAR threw a race-ending caution. A rain delay of almost six hours pushed the race into the night and under the lights, albeit without almost half the field. A 16-car accident just 15 laps into the race — moments before the rain — thinned the contenders and set up a showdown between Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin. Hamlin and Harvick had the two best cars but pit strategy ended Hamlin’s shot at winning a record third-consecutive Daytona 500. Reigning Cup Series champion Chase Elliott finished second and 2018 Daytona 500 winner Austin Dillon was third. Harvick finished fourth, and Hamlin was fifth after leading a race-high 98 laps.
Daniel Berger shot a final round 65 and finished with a long birdie putt on the 18th green to win the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Sunday. Berger finished 270, 18 under to win by two strokes over Maverick McNealy while Patrick Cantlay and Jordan Spieth were three shots off the pace.
For the first time in nearly a year, fans will cheer the Brewers when they take the field in Spring Training. Major League Baseball released revised Spring Training schedules on Friday with health and safety considerations in mind, and the Brewers subsequently announced that they will begin selling tickets to games at American Family Fields of Phoenix at 10 a.m. CT on Thursday. Tickets will be available on Brewers.com, via telephone or at the box office in Phoenix.
The Brewers and other teams are taking steps to safely host fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendance for each home game will be capped at about 2,300 fans, just shy of 25 percent capacity, and spectators will be seated in “pods” separated from one another. Fans aged 2 and older must wear masks when not eating or drinking. To minimize touch points with security, no bags will be permitted other than medical bags, manufactured diaper bags or purses smaller than five inches by nine inches. Tickets will be delivered digitally.
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