1/24/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
24 January 2024 Sports
The Milwaukee Bucks have fired Adrian Griffin as coach after just 43 games despite having one of the league’s top records midway through the season. The team announced the move Tuesday.
Just hours after firing Adrian Griffin Tuesday, NBA on TNT reported from CNN Sports that the Milwaukee Bucks are hiring Doc Rivers as the new head coach. Other NBA Insiders, like Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes, are saying the Bucks and Rivers are still working toward a deal. Rivers has served as a head coach in the NBA for 25 years, most recently with the 76ers.
Joe Prunty, who had been an assistant coach on Griffin’s staff, was set to serve as the Bucks’ interim head coach. Horst will speak at a news conference Wednesday, before the Bucks’ home game with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Milwaukee is 30-13 to tie the Minnesota Timberwolves for the league’s second-best record. The Bucks are 3 1/2 games behind the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference.
But the dip in Milwaukee’s defensive performance had raised concerns about the Bucks’ viability as a championship contender even after they had acquired seven-time all-NBA guard Damian Lillard before the season to team up with two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Bucks rank 22nd in the NBA in defensive rating, down from fourth a year earlier.
Milwaukee had given Griffith his first head coaching job this summer after firing Mike Budenholzer, who led the Bucks in 2021 to their first title in half a century. The coaching change came after the top-seeded Bucks were stunned 4-1 by the Miami Heat in the first round of last season’s playoffs.
Griffin, 49, had spent 16 seasons as an NBA assistant, including the last five with the Toronto Raptors. That followed a nine-year NBA playing career.
Tyler Wahl had 16 points and hit two free throws with 5 seconds left to help No. 13 Wisconsin beat rival Minnesota 61-59 on Tuesday night.
The win was Greg Gard’s 100th in the Big Ten, becoming the 23rd coach and fourth Badger in conference history to reach the century mark. Gard reached 100 Big Ten wins in 162 games, becoming the sixth-fastest coach to reach the century mark over the last 50 years. Wisconsin (15-4, 7-1 Big Ten) has won eight of its last nine games and 14 of the last 16. The Badgers have now won seven straight over the Gophers and 16 of the last 18 meetings overall. They’re 12-2 against the Gophers under Greg Gard.
A.J. Storr had 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Big Ten-leading Badgers (15-4, 7-1), who beat the Gophers (12-7, 3-5) for the seventh straight time. Max Klesmit scored 11 points.
As Elijah Hawkins drove into the lane with the Gophers down by one, Wahl — the fifth-year native of Minnesota playing in his home state for the final time — fought for position with Dawson Garcia and drew the foul call on Garcia.
After Wahl swished both free throws, the Badgers fouled twice to get the Gophers in the bonus and to the line where they went a woeful 5 for 13. Mike Mitchell made the first one and missed the second try with 3 seconds left, hustling to the baseline to grab his own rebound and get a clean shot to tie it. But the ball banked off the glass and just missed.
Hawkins, who missed Minnesota’s last game with a sprained ankle, had 16 points, nine assists, five rebounds and two steals. Wisconsin hosts Michigan State on Friday night.
Last weekend’s four NFL divisional round playoff games averaged 40.0 million viewers on television and digital platforms, the highest on record dating back to 1988.
The viewer average is a 7% increase over last year and a 5% jump from two years ago.
Sunday night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills on CBS averaged a divisional round record 50.39 million viewers, according to Nielsen. The previous mark was 48.52 million for the Jan. 15, 2017, game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers on Fox.
It was the most-watched program on any network since last year’s Super Bowl. At one point during the fourth quarter, the Chiefs 27-24 victory was averaging 56.25 million.
Saturday night’s contest between the Packers and San Francisco 49ers averaged 37.5 million, the most-watched Saturday telecast on any network since the 1994 Winter Olympics on CBS. The 49ers 24-21 comeback victory peaked at 40.9 million late in the fourth quarter.
The Detroit Lions 31-23 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday afternoon was the most-watched divisional round game on NBC since the 1993 season, averaging 40.4 million. It peaked at 49.1 million viewers as the Bucs mounted a final drive late in the fourth quarter.
The Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game, which kicked off the weekend Saturday afternoon, drew 31.77 million on ESPN, ABC, ESPN+, making it the most-watched ESPN game since it started doing games in 1987. The audience for the Ravens’ 34-10 victory peaked at 36.2 million during the third quarter.
The 2024 Hall of Fame class will include two of the best pure hitters of their era and one of the greatest, most indelible third basemen in baseball history.
Joe Mauer, Todd Helton and Adrian Beltre were elected by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday, results of which were presented from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Beltre, who received support from 95.1% of the 385 writers who cast ballots, and Mauer, voted in by 76.1% of BBWAA members, made it in their first year of eligibility. Helton (79.7%) was making his sixth attempt.
The three will be joined by Jim Leyland, the 22-year manager who was voted in by the Contemporary Baseball Era Non-Players Committee in December, at an induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, on July 21.
Gary Sheffield received 63.9% support in his 10th and final year on the ballot. Billy Wagner fell just short, receiving 73.8% in his second-to-last year of eligibility and thus missing induction by only five votes (Mauer, meanwhile, made it by only four votes). Andruw Jones (61.6%) and Carlos Beltran (57.1%) also received support from more than half the voting populace.
Players need 75% approval from voting members of the BBWAA, with those who receive less than 5% falling off the ballot.
Ryan Braun will get a permanent spot outside American Family Field. The Milwaukee Brewers announced Tuesday that Braun has been elected to the team’s Walk of Fame. He will be the 23rd person so honored.
Braun, who played for the Brewers from 2007-20, is the franchise’s all-time leader with 352 home runs. He ranks second with 1,154 RBI, an .891 OPS and .532 slugging percentage. His .296 career batting average ranks fourth in Brewers history.
A six-time all-star and 2007 National League rookie of the year, Braun was the 2011 NL MVP for a Brewers team that advanced to the NL championship series.
That 2011 season was clouded by a 50-game suspension for violating baseball’s drug agreement. The players’ association successfully overturned the penalty, persuading arbitrator Shyam Das that protocols for the chain of custody for the sample were not followed.
Braun was suspended in July 2013 for the final 65 games of the season for violations of the drug program and labor contract following baseball’s investigation of the Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic. He issued a statement then that said: “I am not perfect. I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.”
The induction ceremony will take place during the 2024 season. The date will be announced later.
Boys and Girls Basketball Schedule 1/23/2024
Boys:
Boys and Girls Basketball Schedule 1/23/2024
Boys:
Berlin 65, Adams-Friendship 27
Xavier 70, Seymour 44
New London 71, Green Bay West 52
Shawano 75, Menasha 55
Saint Mary’s Springs 79, Campbellsport 25
Omro 76, Laconia 72
Winnebago Lutheran 80, North Fond du Lac 60
Lomira 73, Mayville 42
Kaukauna 86, Appleton East 82
Appleton North 81, Appleton West 47
Kimberly 87, Hortonville 69
Fond du Lac 67, Neenah 61
Clintonville 72, Luxemburg-Casco 42
Fox Valley Lutheran 63, Oconto Falls 41
Freedom 87, Denmark 51
Little Chute 50, Wrightstown 49
Waupaca 75, Marinette 55
Wautoma 77, Princeton/Green Lake 52
Baraboo 66, Mauston 42
Horicon 80, Pardeeville 60
Rio 53, Valley Christian 44
Girls:
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 79, Ripon 39
Waupun 63, Plymouth 30
Winneconne 52, Kewaskum 51
Menasha 38, Shawano 36
Beaver Dam 68, Watertown 45
Appleton East 59, Kaukauna 55
Hortonville 65, Kimberly 59
Neenah 62, Fond du Lac 42
Appleton North 70, Appleton West 39
Oconto Falls 43, Fox Valley Lutheran 38
Crivitz 54, Little Chute 38
Westfield 40, Wautoma 39
Wisconsin Dells 71, Mauston 35
Adams-Friendship 52, Nekoosa 22
Lourdes Academy 70, Dodgeland 17
Oakfield 57, Valley Christian 46
Horicon 50, Hustisford 13
Randolph 52, Cambria-Friesland 31
Pardeeville 60, Fall River 57
Princeton/Green Lake 52, Rio 50
Markesan 70, Montello 45
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