Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday 2/18/21
18 February 2021 Sports
Sports for February 18th
Kewaskum at New Berlin Eisenhower
Winnebago Lutheran at Oostburg
De Pere at Hortonville
Sheboygan North at Kimberly
Westfield at Bonduel
Crandon at Randolph
Rio at Albany
Beaver Dam at Germantown
Shawano at Notre Dame
Xavier at Freedom
Wisconsin hosts Iowa tonight in Big Ten basketball. The 11th ranked Hawkeyes are 15-6 while the 21st ranked Badgers are 15-7. Wisconsin is coming off a loss at home last Saturday to 3rd ranked Michigan 67-59 after leading by as many as 14 points. After tonight’s game, the Badgers play at Northwestern on Sunday.
In the NBA tonight the Bucks host the Raptors for the second straight game. Milwaukee lost its fourth straight Tuesday night, 124-113. The Bucks are 16-12 in the Eastern Conference a game behind Brooklyn and two-and-a-half games behind Philadelphia. Toronto is 13-15 and five-and-a-half games out in the East.
Alex Lasry the son of Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry and a senior vice president with the team, announced in a YouTube video on Wednesday that he’s running for U.S. Senate in 2022. Lasry, 33, is running as a Democrat for a seat currently held by Republican Senator Ron Johnson. Johnson has not said if he will seek a third term. Marc Lasry and Wesley Eden purchased the Bucks franchise in 2014 from former Sen. Herb Kohl. Alex Lasry began as a vice president of strategy and operations for the Bucks and intends to take a leave of absence from his position while campaigning.
Tim Tebow is retiring from baseball after five years as a minor leaguer with the New York Mets. The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner returned to baseball in 2016 for the first time since his junior year of high school and reached Triple-A, encouraged by then-general manager and current team president Sandy Alderson. Tebow, who works for ESPN’s SEC Network as a football analyst during the offseason, played 77 games at baseball’s highest minor league level in 2019, batting .163 with four home runs. He finishes his career with a .223 average over 287 games.
The man at the center of the Padres’ renaissance is staying in San Diego for a long, long time. Fernando Tatis Jr., a 22-year-old shortstop with generational talent and generational flair, has agreed to a 14-year contract worth $340 million. The club has not yet confirmed the deal. The landmark signing is the third-largest contract in MLB history in terms of new total money added and the longest extension in terms of years added to a player’s contract. Only Mike Trout and Mookie Betts received larger deals, and they signed those contracts at 27 and on the precipice of free agency. Tatis, meanwhile, has played two seasons in the big leagues and was still a year away from reaching arbitration-eligibility. The extension begins this year and contains a full no-trade clause, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. It also contains a signing bonus north of $10 million, and none of the money is deferred.
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