2/14/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday
14 February 2025 Sports
Brewers pitchers and catchers will be practicing today as spring training opens in Maryvalle. Right-hander Freddie Peralta has already been announced as the team’s starter for opening day. Brandon Woodruff will also take the mound today and throw as he comes back from shoulder surgery.
The NBA All-Star Game is Sunday night in Oakland. After a five-year absence, guard Damian Lillard will play. Tipoff is at 7:00.
The 16th ranked Wisconsin Badgers are at #7 Purdue in a huge Big Ten matchup on Saturday. The Boilermakers are 19-5 overall and 11-3 in the conference and coming off at two-point loss at #20 Michigan on Tuesday. Wisconsin is 18-5 and 9-4 in the Big Ten. Tipoff is at noon.
The Daytona 500, otherwise known as the Great American Race or the Super Bowl of Stock Car racing will be held Sunday in Daytona Beach, Florida. Kyle Busch is the favorite to win the race but a number of other top racers will have their say, including Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano and others. The race is scheduled to start at 1:30 CT.
A Texas man is filing a class action lawsuit against the Green Bay Packers over the data breach of the Packers Pro Shop website.
Brian Garcia, who filed the lawsuit in Brown County Court last Friday, argued in court documents that the Packers failed, “to properly secure and safeguard Private Information that was entrusted to it, and its accompanying responsibility to store and transfer that information.”
In a letter to customers, the Packers said they were alerted to the presence of malicious code inserted on the Pro Shop website on October 23, 2024. After an investigation, they learned that an unauthorized third-party may have accessed certain sensitive personal information of the consumers entered at the checkout on the website between September 23 and September 24, 2024, and October 2 and October 23, 2024.
The type of sensitive information included name, mailing address, email address, and credit card information.
Packers failed to take precautions designed to keep its customers’ private information secure. Garcia also argues that the Packers provided little information regarding how the data breach occurred.
Garcia filed the lawsuit as a class action complaint, so that others may be permitted to join the suit. In January the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection said around 8,514 people were impacted by the data breach.
The Packers have declined comment.
Aaron Rodgers’ disappointing two-year stint with the New York Jets is over. And the team’s only Super Bowl trophy is still standing by itself.
The Jets announced Thursday they told the 41-year-old quarterback they are moving on without him next season.
While Rodgers hasn’t said whether he intends to continue playing for a 21st NFL season, the Jets — with new general manager Darren Mougey and coach Aaron Glenn in charge — have officially ruled out a return to New York.
In a joint statement issued by the team, Mougey and Glenn said they met with Rodgers last week and informed him “that our intention was to move in a different direction at quarterback.”
The four-time MVP, who’s the fifth player in NFL history to throw 500 touchdown passes in the regular season, has one year left on his contract, worth a non-guaranteed $37.5 million.
It was another slow day of sturgeon spearing.
Spearers took a total of 31 fish from the Winnebago system, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Of those, 20 were speared on Lake Winnebago: three juvenile females, nine adult females and eight males. Another 11 were speared on upriver lakes Poygan, Winneconne and Butte des Morts: three adult females and eight males.
DNR officials say spearers continue to report poor water clarity on Lake Winnebago’s east side, especially in southeast locations. As a result, the registration station at Pipe will remain closed on Friday.
Four sturgeon tipped the scales at more than 100 pounds, led by Luke Harness’ 148.3-pound, 79.5-inch female speared on Lake Winnebago.
Spearing on the upriver lakes is expected to go at least into the beginning of the weekend. The closest spearers are to a harvest cap is adult males on the upriver lakes, where spearers have reached 64% of the harvest cap. Reaching 90% triggers an automatic season closure the following day, while reaching 100% triggers an immediate closure.
Spearers on Lake Winnebago are less than 50% toward any of the harvest caps.
Boys (Thurs._
Waupun 96 Ripon 31
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 73 Plymouth 69
Berlin 59 Winneconne 54
Waunakee 77 Beaver Dam 61
Green Bay West 71 Green Bay East 47
Xavier 65 West De Pere 63
Seymour 89 Shawano 48
New London 63 Menasha 54
Winnebago Lutheran 69 Campbellsport 40
Saint Mary’s Springs 71 North Fond du Lac 42
Laconia 59 Lomira 57
Omro 75 Mayville 69
Clintonville 61 Marinette 59
Freedom 55 Fox Valley Lutheran 53
Waupaca 54 Little Chute 46
Oconto Falls 59 Denmark 53
Wrightstown 77 Luxemburg-Casco 68
Mauston 37 Adams-Friendship 36
Westfield 55 Nekoosa 52
Wisconsin Dells 83 Wautoma 46
Lourdes Academy 48 Central Wisconsin Christian 45
Oakfield 73 Horicon 63
Dodgeland 66 Valley Christian 56
Wayland Academy 65 Hustisford 64
Pardeeville 74 Cambria-Friesland 52
Fall River 47 Randolph 40
Markesan 64 Princeton/Green Lake 36
Montello 83 Rio 80
Girls (Thurs.)
Omro 53 Winnebago Lutheran 47
North Fond du Lac 51 West Bend East 35
Kimberly 52 Notre Dame 47
Kaukauna 45 Marshfield 43
Little Chute 49 Stockbridge 14
Lourdes Academy 61 Central Wisconsin Christian 43
Oakfield 61 Valley Christian 44
Horicon 41 Wayland Academy 36
Boys Basketball (Fri.)
Lomira at Berrlin
Plymouth at Cedarburg (Sat.)
Waupun at Madison Memorial (Sat.)
Oakfield at Winnebago Lutheran
Fond du Lac at Appleton North
Neenah at Hortonville
Kaukauna at Oshkosh West
Appleton West at Appleton East
Westfield at Portage
Princeton/Green Lake at Central Wisconsin Christian (Sat.)
Waterloo at Dodgeland (Sat.)
Girls Basketball (Fri.)
Plymouth at Ripon
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Berlin
Kewaskum at Waupun
New London at Winneconne
Campbellsport at Laconia
Lomira at Saint Mary’s Springs
Mayville at North Fond du Lac
Beaver Dam at Oregon
Menasha at Green Bay West
Xavier at Seymour
Green Bay East at Shawano
Weyauwega-Fremont at Amherst
Pacelli at Tri-County
Wild Rose at Almond-Bancroft
Fond du Lac at Appleton North
Hortonville at Neenah
Oshkosh West at Kaukauna
Wisconsin Rapids at Oshkosh North (Sat.)
Appleton West at Appleton East
Clintonville at Oconto Falls
Fox Valley Lutheran at Waupaca
Luxemburg-Casco at Freedom
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