Lee wraps up Youth Olympics
Ryan Myhers was a man on a mission on Monday.
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks committed 23 turnovers — and won anyway.
Boys basketball
GREEN BAY — The 2019 season for the Green Bay Packers marked the dawn of a new era.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Coach Kyle Shanahan received the NFC championship trophy from his Super Bowl-winning father Mike and raised it to the sky.
Thompson falls at Olympics
While the Flying Eagles Ski Club staged ski jumping tournaments on Saturday, two of its favorite sons were making noise in Europe.
The Flying Eagles Ski Club has been credited with minor miracles through the years and pulled off another one over the weekend.
Mother Nature threw a curve ball at the Flying Eagles Ski Club but it was able to hit the ball out of the park.
Trent Witkowski hit the go-ahead layup with eight seconds remaining to give the McDonell boys basketball team a 49-48 win over Alma Center Lincoln on Saturday in Chippewa Falls.
Bowling
Boys basketball
UWEC’s Rodgers wins gold
NEW YORK — Their lead was only nine with a minute left in the first half and it looked like the Milwaukee Bucks might be on their way to a close game.
It was the kind of game that UW-Eau Claire would have lost last season.
UW-Stout men's basketball coach Jim Lake sounds like a broken record at this point.
Former University of Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland spoke harshly of the football program and his brief time in the NFL on a Netflix documentary released this week.
Cam Kuepers converted the go-ahead layup with 12 seconds remaining, Carter Brooks had a key block in the final seconds, and the UW-Eau Claire men’s basketball team edged UW-Stevens Point 63-62 on Saturday in Stevens Point.
WASHINGTON — Markus Howard scored half of Marquette’s total points and Koby McEwen hit four free throws in the final nine seconds as the Golden Eagles held off Georgetown to earn an 84-80 Big East Conference victory on Saturday afternoon.
For the eighth time in 25 years, the Packers and 49ers — both 14-3 this season — face off in the postseason. Green Bay leads 4-3 in what has been a memorable and sometimes spicy rivalry. San Francisco has won five of its six Super Bowl trips. Green Bay is 4-1.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers are one win away from accomplishing a turnaround that’s been done only once before in the Super Bowl era.
Slovenia power jumper Nik Fabijan was looking forward to another attack on Silver Mine Hill.
Rodgers still alive at Jr. Curling Championships
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Cassius Winston threw a lob from the right wing over the middle of the lane and Xavier Tillman dunked the basketball, breaking a record that stood for two decades.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Nine years into his career and a little more than two years removed from a debilitating torn Achilles injury, Richard Sherman is still tormenting quarterbacks on a weekly basis.
Spectators will get to see a new and exciting ball game this weekend at Silver Mine Hill.
MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 32 points and 17 rebounds, Khris Middleton scored 23 and the Milwaukee Bucks held off the Boston Celtics 128-123 on Thursday night.
The Bloomer girls basketball team’s defense stepped up when it mattered most, holding Ladysmith to two points in overtime to secure a 50-42 win on Thursday in Bloomer.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — JD Bohaty stood at the free throw line with 1.1 seconds left in the game and a chance to finish Regis off for good.
Boys basketball
City games postponed
GREEN BAY — Davante Adams obsesses about being great.
UW-Eau Claire men’s basketball played 35 minutes of strong basketball, sticking right with defending national champion UW-Oshkosh every step of the way.
When UW-Eau Claire and coach Tonja Englund needed a bucket Wednesday night in Oshkosh, the Blugolds went to their senior star Anna Graaskamp.
Nik Fabijan has flirted with the Silver Mine Hill record for two years.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Brett Favre vs. Steve Young. Aaron Rodgers dueling with Colin Kaepernick.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — It’s not even February yet and Chippewa Falls boys basketball is starting to accumulate prove it victories.
MADISON — Wisconsin coach Greg Gard's favorite saying of late has been, “Gritty, not pretty.”
Trailing by 13 at the half without star Caden Boser active, it would have been easy for Eau Claire Memorial to pack it in against Hudson.
MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo wasn't looking at the scoreboard.
Alesha Smith made 32 saves in net, Paige Ruppert and Paige Rodriguez both scored a goal and the fourth-ranked Eau Claire Area Stars girls hockey team topped sixth-ranked St. Croix Valley 2-0 on Tuesday in Eau Claire.
Blugolds earn WIAC honors
Boys basketball
Any stress Rebecca Rodgers felt attending her first Junior National Championship is long gone by now. But even the veteran of the event admitted there’s a bit more pressure on her this year.
Regis’ Snyder retiring
Boys basketball
Joe Biestervelt hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer, his only strike from deep on the night, to help Durand boys basketball to a 60-56 overtime victory against Regis on Monday.
