The Wisconsin Football Coaches Association announced Monday its all-state teams for the 2018 prep football season.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The University of Wisconsin’s game at Penn State on Saturday was the last of its kind for the Badgers this season.
MINNEAPOLIS — Yes, the narrative of Joe Mauer’s career was missing a championship chapter. That plotline stalled for a few years while the star was set back by injuries.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke changed everything about who AP Top 25 voters considered to be the nation’s best team with a single dominating performance against a marquee opponent.
MINNEAPOLIS — Karl-Anthony Towns had 25 points and a season-high 21 rebounds, and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Brooklyn Nets 120-113 on Monday after finally trading Jimmy Butler.
GREEN BAY — For a change, it was the Packers in a runaway.
The UW-Eau Claire women’s cross country team earned an automatic qualifier spot at next weekend’s NCAA Division III championship meet.
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
MILWAUKEE — Markus Howard scored 37 points and Marquette beat Bethune-Cookman 92-59 on Saturday.
GREEN BAY — One team is starting a backup at quarterback but still above .500. The other boasts one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks, yet has a losing record.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Trace McSorley and Penn State went back to a familiar formula Saturday — a steady diet of elusive Miles Sanders.
LOS ANGELES — Montrezl Harrell left his diamond-studded Energizer bunny necklace at home.
Eau Claire Memorial diver Gretchen Hanson placed 12th in Division 1 at the state meet in Madison on Saturday.
There will be a new national champion in Division III volleyball this year.
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AVONDALE, Ariz. — Bubba Wallace does not care about the way things used to be done in NASCAR, and he is not interested in how veterans believe he is supposed to drive.
NEW YORK — Harrison Smith has been making his mark for years with big hits and clutch interceptions for the Minnesota Vikings.
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GREEN BAY — Packers receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling turned to Twitter to give a tutorial about how to pronounce his first name.
SCHOFIELD — Rice Lake found its offense in the second half, but it came too late for the defending Division 3 state champions.
The last 30 seconds had to have moved at a glacier’s speed for UW-Eau Claire goalie Zach Dyment.
Menomonie senior Mille Lausen finished as the state runner-up in the 500-yard freestyle at the Division 2 girls state swimming and diving meet on Friday in Madison.
The UW-Eau Claire volleyball team wasted no time avenging a loss two weeks ago to St. Thomas.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State needs more out of its offense or the 21st-ranked Nittany Lions might not get much more out of their season.
MINNEAPOLIS — Joe Mauer is retiring after 15 major league seasons, six All-Star games, three Gold Glove awards, three batting titles and 2,123 career hits, all with his hometown Minnesota Twins.
Rice Lake is one game away from Madison.
Several local football players were named to the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association all-region teams on Thursday.
Diving has been a strong suit for the Eau Claire Memorial swimming and diving team for years.
MADISON — Ty Emberson is outnumbered.
Midway through a hugely disappointing season, there is a passiveness surrounding the Green Bay Packers, almost as if they are resigned to the notion they will miss the playoffs for a second straight season.
The 16 seniors who will play their final collegiate football games on Saturday afternoon for UW-Eau Claire have worn the bruises.
GREEN BAY — Randall Cobb is out of detailed answers for now.
Pistons send Ellenson to G League
MADISON — Jonathan Taylor can go pretty much anywhere at any time when he has the ball in his hands.
METAIRIE, La. — Dez Bryant has found a new team, agreeing to join the already prolific offense of the surging New Orleans Saints.
Move over Josh Gasser. You’ve got some company.
EAGAN, Minn. — The physical attributes Danielle Hunter has used to amass his league-leading total of 11½ sacks this season are so ideal that some of his Minnesota Vikings teammates have taken to calling him “Create-A-Player,” the feature on Madden NFL that allows gamers to concoct the seemin…
It had been a while since the UW-Eau Claire women’s volleyball team won a WIAC title. In fact, it was seven years ago. When Apple came out with the iPad 2, Britain got a new Duchess and the world’s population reached seven billion people.
For an entire offseason, the UW-Eau Claire women’s basketball team has sat around pondering key moments of the season.
UW-Eau Claire men’s basketball coach Matt Siverling leaned forward in his chair, took to his microphone and said a sentence many around the program share in feeling.
A day that started with mystery ended with familiarity.
GREEN BAY — Every year, Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy nips any playoff talk in the bud by saying it’s not a topic of conversation until the team wins 10 games.
NEW YORK — Milwaukee's Christian Yelich is the favorite for National League MVP, and Colorado's Nolan Arenado and Chicago's Javier Baez also were revealed as other two top vote-getters when the Baseball Writers' Association of America revealed the finalists for its major awards Monday night.
UWEC football game pushed back
The University of Wisconsin enters its third straight week without knowing who will start at quarterback.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady threw for 294 yards and a touchdown, and James White ran for two scores to lead the New England Patriots to a 31-17 victory over Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings turned their defensive line loose on Matthew Stafford in a dominant performance that would have made the old Purple People Eaters proud.
Bob Gibson outduels Denny McLain in the World Series opener 4-0 and the teams go on to a seventh game with the Tigers taking a 4-1 win behind Mickey Lolich and Jim Northrup’s 2-run triple in the seventh. The win was the third of the series for Lolich and he is named MVP.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kevin Harvick earned a shot at another NASCAR Cup championship, rocketing past polesitter Ryan Blaney in overtime Sunday to win at Texas.
MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo is taking his game to another level.
