3/26/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
26 March 2024 Sports
Green Bay guard Noah Reynolds has entered the NCAA transfer portal, and will consider his NBA Draft prospects this spring as well.
Reynolds made the announcement on social media on Monday that he would be putting his name into the portal.
The junior guard also did not rule out the possibility of returning to Green Bay to play for the Phoenix yet again next season.
Reynolds transferred to Green Bay from Wyoming last offseason, following new head coach Sundance Wicks, who was an assistant at Wyoming before being hired by the Phoenix.
Reynolds led the team in scoring, averaging 20 points per contest, assists and minutes played. Following the regular season he would be named Horizon League Newcomer of the Year and was a First Team All-Horizon League selection.
Green Bay dropped three of their final four games of the regular season after Reynolds suffered an ankle injury in practice.
He returned to play in the Horizon League tournament loss to Milwaukee and finished with 27 points and six assists in the contest.
Just a few days away from the Milwaukee Brewers’ home opener and the team revealed something new fans will take notice of.
On Monday, the team showed off its two new scoreboards and LED digital displays behind home plate and along the baselines at American Family Field.
The new displays will provide greater visibility for fans during the game.
The new main display overlooking center field measures 12,077 square feet and will be among the largest scoreboards in Major League Baseball, boasting full-screen edge-to-edge coverage, as well as a brand new 2,840 square-foot 8mm LED scoreboard over right field.
Saturday in Pennsylvania UW-Oshkosh gymnastics became back-to-back-to-back national champions, a 3-peat for the Titans in dominating fashion.
UWO’s final overall score of 194.975 set a new D3 record and two athletes, bringing home three national individual titles.
Emily Buffington clinched top spot in uneven bars, and senior took it a step further claiming title as 2023 all-around champion. While a school record score on floor lifted Mia Lucero to the top of the podium.
UW-Oshkosh gymnastics has officially reached dynasty category after their third straight team title.
It’s the programs seventh overall national championship, and fifth in NCGA
NFL owners approved a massive revamp of the kickoff play Tuesday, opting, after three days of discussions at the league’s annual meeting, for a format that originated in the XFL.
The new alignment rules represent the most significant on-field rule change for the NFL in years and are designed to reverse more than a decade of declining return rates while also lowering concussion rates. In essence, the format will move the majority of the kicking and return teams downfield to minimize high-speed collisions. It will go into effect for one year only in anticipation of possible tweaks over time.
During the 2024 season, kickers will continue to kick from the 35-yard line, but the other 10 players on the kickoff team will line up at the receiving team’s 40-yard line. At least nine members of the return team will line up in a “setup zone” between the 35- and 30-yard line. Up to two returners can line up in a “landing zone” between the goal line and the 20-yard line.
No one other than the kicker and returner(s) can move until the ball hits the ground or a player inside the landing zone. Touchbacks will be marked at the 30-yard line, and no fair catches will be allowed. In the event a team wants to attempt an onside kick, it will have to inform officials of its intent and would then be allowed to use the NFL’s traditional formation. No surprise onside kicks will be allowed.
The proposal follows the structure and philosophy of the XFL version with a slight shift in where the players are aligned. In the XFL, they lined up farther downfield, between the returning team’s 30- and 35-yard lines. More than 90% of kickoffs were returned during the XFL’s two seasons. NFL special teams coaches who participated in designing the NFL version of this format are hoping for a return rate of at least 80% in 2024.
The reason for the change is clear. In its efforts to reduce concussions on kickoffs, the NFL over the past 15 seasons has implemented rule changes designed to reduce returns. It moved the kickoff from the 30-yard line to the 35-yard line, outlawed wedge and double-team blocks and in 2023 created a rule that allowed a fair catch to be spotted at the 25-yard line.
Touchback rates dramatically increased over that period, and the return rate fell to a league-record 21.7% in 2023. The number of concussions dropped too, but only in parallel with the return decrease. The rate of concussions per kickoff, according to league officials, has remained relatively constant.
Speaking before the vote, Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said he was in favor.
“You felt like that took a significant amount of plays out of the game, and those were from special teams. And you don’t make it up really anywhere else. And so, we put an emphasis on it. So, I believe in it.”
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