Lainy Ristau evaporated any notion that she’d be nervous in her first trip to the WIAA Division-1 State Girls Tennis Tournament.
The UW-Parkside women’s volleyball team closed out a perfect weekend trip to Indianapolis on Saturday with a three-set sweep over Malone.
The Indian Trail girls volleyball team finished second, while Bradford finished fifth at Saturday’s Southeast Conference Tournament at Tremper.
Wilmot football coach Keiya Square probably couldn’t have envisioned a better weekend for his team’s Week 9 road trip to Delavan.
MOUNT PLEASANT — After time ran out on a game it desperately wanted to win, members of the Racine Case football team didn’t seem overly upset.
After losing at Waterford in Week 4, the Wilmot football team knew it just had to put its head down and keep winning games if it wanted a chance to catch the Wolverines for a share of the Southern Lakes Conference title.
For the first eight weeks of the season, the Bradford football team relied on its defense to keep it in games.
Junior quarterback Ryan McGonegle had a huge game for the Trojans, finishing 23-of-48 for 298 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions, but the Rebels emerged with a 41-32 victory in a high-scoring Southeast Conference game at Horlick Field.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes escaped significant ligament damage when he dislocated his right kneecap and there is optimism the reigning NFL MVP could be back on the field in about a month.
RACINE — A talented St. Joseph football team that opened this season with four straight victories arrived at Horlick Field on Thursday night dealing with this reality:
To see if its season will continue, the St. Joseph football team will now play the waiting game.
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For the first time, the WIAA Boys and Girls State Volleyball Tournaments will be held in conjunction.
Lainy Ristau evaporated any notion that she'd be nervous in her first trip to the WIAA Division-1 State Girls Tennis Tournament.
Everything about this week has been outside of the norm for the Carthage football team.
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From Alec Ingold living out a childhood dream at Lambeau Field to Alex Erickson's career day in Cincinnati, here's a look at eight notable performances from former Wisconsin Badgers players in Week 7 of the NFL season.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore has built a level of trust during his 13-year tenure, which includes the rebuilding effort that led to back-to-back World Series appearances in 2014 and 2015 as well as the 2015 championship. His choice for the manager to succeed Ned Yost carries the utmost importance as the Royals try to dig out of a hole that has included ...
The Milwaukee Brewers sent utility man Hernán Pérez outright to Class AAA San Antonio on Wednesday, and he chose to become a free agent.
Two takeaways from the eight-team steel cage match for Major League Baseball's managerial vacancies: 1. Get your Gabe Kapler memes ready. Gabe Kapler and Joe Espada were revealed Monday as the latest Cubs candidates, bringing the total to six. Seconds later came the first Gabe Kaplan/Gabe Kapler tweet, comparing the former Phillies manager with the star of the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, ...
Gabe Kapler didn't lose his job because he communicated poorly, or because too many Phillies got hurt, or, as general manager Matt Klentak suggested, because Philadelphia is too dumb to worship his analytics. All those reasons contributed to Kapler being fired as manager after two wordy seasons that ended in 80, then 81, wins. But they're not the main reasons. Kapler and his principal staff ...
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ATLANTA - Braves catcher Brian McCann announced Wednesday night that he has played his last game. In the Braves' clubhouse after the team's 13-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in the deciding Game 5 of the National League Division Series, McCann said he made the decision about a month ago and cherished playing his final season in a Braves uniform. "This is everything that I wanted to do," ...
Before the season began, Twins General Manager Thad Levine was asked about when the Twins' window of opportunity would be open. He replied that they were trying to jam their fingers under the window frame and get leverage. On Wednesday, during an end-of-season session with reporters, Levine provided an update. "I think we feel a breeze," he said with a grin. "We're feeling a breeze right now. ...
Joe Maddon is not the only experienced candidate being considered for the Los Angeles Angels' managerial opening. Former Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter and World Series champion John Farrell are also among their four candidates, according to people close to the situation who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and requested anonymity. Maddon interviewed in Anaheim on ...
LOS ANGELES - This is not real. This cannot be happening. The Los Angeles Dodgers did not just collapse all over October again. The Dodgers did not just blow another season with their Hall of Fame pitcher crumbling again. The Dodgers did not just extend a 31-year championship drought with boneheaded bullpen decisions by their manager again. Yes, they did. Good Lord, they did. The nightmare ...
After losing the Raiders to Las Vegas and the Warriors to San Francisco, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred warned Oakland leaders the A's could be the next team to leave town. Manfred threatened city officials that if Oakland doesn't drop its lawsuit over the proposed sale of Coliseum land to the A's, it would risk losing the team to Las Vegas or some other city. "He kind of laid ...
PHILADELPHIA - There are plenty of interested observers as owner John Middleton methodically decides the fate of manager Gabe Kapler. One of the most interested of all might be Ed Wade, the former Phillies general manager who knows what it's like to wait a while only to find out your services are no longer wanted, which may or may not be the case for Kapler. Wade lived through that experience ...
WASHINGTON - Rich Hill's quest to pitch in the playoffs this season, an improbable aspiration less than a month ago after reinjuring the medial collateral ligament in his left knee, will come to fruition Monday when he takes the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the National League Division Series against the Washington Nationals. Hill is slated to log four innings. His pitch ...
Playing in baseball’s smallest market provides limitations, but after drawing nearly three million fans, David Stearns knows there’s an expectation to deliver a winning product.
HOUSTON - Good team. Sweet story. And destined to get crushed. That's the perception, right? The Rays are basically the semi-interesting character actors who eventually get punched out by October's stars. In today's case, the Astros of Houston. And, honestly, why wouldn't people think that? Houston's Game 1 and 2 starters will finish 1 and 2 in the Cy Young race. Their third baseman might be ...
MINNEAPOLIS - Mitch Garver liked the sport but didn't love it. But he was good at it, so naturally skilled on defense that colleges showed interest and his high school coach encouraged him to pursue a professional career. Soccer just wasn't his thing though. As a center back on his state champion high school team in Albuquerque, N.M., Garver showed enough promise that his coach, an Englishman, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Royals are in the ultimate transition, in ways huge and tiny, and the path of one specific transition will say so much about the rest. This is the first defining moment of the new Royals - of John Sherman's Royals. The team needs a new manager, and while the process will happen away from public view the result will be the first significant clue of what the Royals will be ...
NEW YORK - It can be gut-wrenching to witness what a toll pennant-race pressure takes on a manager, particularly one who has never been through it before. Just last week on an off day before the season's final road trip, Rocco Baldelli, clearly reeling from the burden of leading a team two days from clinching, succumbed to the strain by ... Falling asleep. On a park bench. In Detroit. "Yeah, ...
ATLANTA - Don't say the final weekend of the regular season meant nothing. It meant enough that the Cardinals, in the effort to stay out of the dreaded wild-card game, started Jack Flaherty, the best pitcher in baseball since the All-Star break, on Sunday, which means he won't start Game 1 of the NLDS. He'll wait until Game 2 on Friday, which is a break for the Braves. Flaherty's ERA over the ...
NEW YORK - When healthy, Kyle Blanks could crush a baseball. In the final 32 games of 2009, his rookie season with the San Diego Padres, playing in a home field so cavernous it was known as Petco National Park, Blanks hit 10 home runs. But he never hit that many home runs in a season again, his career deteriorated by a procession of injuries and surgeries to his elbow, leg and shoulder, and ...
“I think you really got to see the character of our team, the fight, the heart of our guys,” said Christian Yelich, the 2018 NL MVP who might win the award again despite a fractured kneecap that ended his season on Sept. 10.
CHICAGO - The Cubs have expanded their list of internal candidates for the manager's job to include bench coach Mark Loretta and first-base coach Will Venable. They join David Ross, a special assistant to baseball operations, as potential replacements for Joe Maddon. Loretta, 48, served as a bench coach for the first time in 2019 after spending nine seasons in the Padres front office as a ...
Last Thursday, the Dodgers boarded a flight from San Diego to San Francisco for the regular season's final series like it was Halloween. A baseball ritual historically earmarked for rookie hazing, no one was spared from dressing up. The entire traveling party - players, coaches, trainers, interpreters, broadcasters - participated. The Dodgers ditched tradition. The rookies were not treated any ...
What could go wrong in the Cubs' manager search? Depends on who you ask. This will be the fifth search for Theo Epstein, and perhaps the most important of his career after the controversial decision to launch the manager who ended the 108-year championship drought. "You always learn a lot when you have an opportunity to do a managerial search," Epstein said Monday at Wrigley Field in an ...
CHICAGO - Debra Ebert and Sandy Schley sat toward the back of the second-floor ballroom at the Chicago History Museum, amid the crowd of 200 baseball fans and history buffs as historians, writers and professors delved deeply into the records and ramifications of the infamous 1919 World Series. Fans and members of the Society for American Baseball Research spent their weekend listening to ...
Milwaukee was undone by wildness from closer Josh Hader and an error by Trent Grisham with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Washington Nationals ended the Brewers season 4-3 on Tuesday night.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Rays infielder Joey Wendle remembers the specifics of the speech, if not the setting. It was his first or second spring after being traded from the Indians to the A's in December 2014, and manager Bob Melvin was giving what amounted to the advance scouting report for the posse chasing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. "We had a meeting when I was over there, and it was ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers will take distinctly different pitching paths in Tuesday night's National League wild-card game with the same destination in mind: a trip to Los Angeles to open the NL Division Series against the Dodgers on Thursday night. The Nationals will lean heavily on a rotation that ranked second in the major leagues in ERA (3.53) and ...
CHICAGO - Cubs President Theo Epstein frequently uttered the word "accountability" Monday at the annual Cubs postmortem at Wrigley Field. "When we fail to accomplish any of our goals, that is my responsibility as the leader of the baseball operation," he said. "As a leader, it's really important to be accountable, and really important to take a really honest look at things that we can do ...
Injured starters Lorenzo Cain, Ryan Braun, Mike Moustakas and Eric Thames appear likely to play against the Nationals on Tuesday night.
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SAN FRANCISCO - When Bruce Bochy rides off into the sunset this offseason, he won't be doing it in a brand new SUV. The Giants planned to give one lucky fan at Sunday's season finale a Toyota Rav4 to wrap up Fan Appreciation Day. Neither Bochy nor any of the Giants fans in attendance to support him on Sunday won the giveaway contest. As if the Dodgers' ride to the postseason couldn't get any ...
LOS ANGELES - October starts Tuesday, and so does the postseason. We could just tell you which teams are in, or we could tell you which team is going to win. The Houston Astros, right? We would like to tell you the Los Angeles Dodgers will win, and the grainy Kirk Gibson videos finally can be retired, and 30-year-olds all over the Southland can say they have seen the Dodgers win the World ...
PHILADELPHIA - Bryce Harper was flown from his home in Las Vegas on John Middleton's private jet with the red 'P' on its tail and as soon as he landed in Clearwater, Fla., the Phillies' expectations for the 2019 season took off. The pursuit of Harper and/or Manny Machado was the never-ending story of the offseason and, finally, with spring training in full swing, the Phillies had their man. ...
ST. LOUIS - Before he chronicled the Cardinals' first division title clinching since 2015, Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold helped save a man's life Sunday at Busch Stadium. St. Louis-based videographer Mike Flanary, 64, collapsed in the Cubs' dugout before the game and was briefly without a pulse before CPR was performed by Goold, a longtime lifeguard and former Eagle Scout trained ...
The Cardinals' blowout victory against the Cubs on Sunday rendered Milwaukee's game meaningless.
Closer Josh Hader surrendered a two-out home run in the ninth inning and Matt Albers gave up a homer to the first batter in the 10th as the Colorado Rockies rallied for a 3-2 victory at Coors Field.
Milwaukee remains one game behind St. Louis in the NL Central and drops two games behind Washington for the top NL wild card.
PITTSBURGH - Before Wednesday's loss to the Pirates, the last time the Cubs had an eight-game losing streak was on Aug. 8, 2012. New President Theo Epstein had just traded Ryan Dempster, Paul Maholm, Geovany Soto and Reed Johnson and brought up the team's two best hitting prospects, Brett Jackson and Josh Vitters. The Cubs had 16 players on the roster making $600,000, and a rookie first ...
PITTSBURGH - In a perfect world, the Cubs would like to hurt the playoff chances of both the Cardinals and Brewers. But since the eliminated Cubs are left with three games against the Cardinals in the regular-season's final series this weekend, they can help only the Brewers, who pulled within one game of the idle Cardinals' lead in the National League Central Division with another win ...
CINCINNATI - Marty Brennaman told it like it was for 46 seasons as the radio voice of the Cincinnati Reds. He never hid his emotions. It was no different on his final day on the job. Brennaman called his final game Thursday at Great American Ball Park. A man who witnessed World Series triumphs in two of his first three seasons as "This one belongs to the Reds" became his trademark saw the Reds ...
Orlando Arcia doubled with the bases loaded, and the Brewers closed in on the division lead Thursday, beating the Cincinnati Reds 5-3 for their seventh straight victory.
It all fell apart, in slow and agonizing fashion in one of the most stunning end-of-the-season collapses in franchise history.
Joe Maddon said Thursday that pitchers Yu Darvish and Kyle Hendricks will be shut down for the rest of the season, as well as perhaps Anthony Rizzo, Ben Zobrist and Jason Heyward.
The Phillies exited baseball's postseason race quietly Tuesday afternoon in Washington. If their demise made a sound, it would have been that of the last air as it escapes from a deflating balloon, something approximating either a light snore or weary flatulence. That's a bit harsh, but the Phillies have earned it. They haven't been good this season, but they also haven't been fully bad. What ...
PITTSBURGH - After the Cubs fell short of high expectations with a sudden decline in the season's final two weeks, President Theo Epstein acknowledged in general terms what they need to do to return to a championship level. "There's obviously change needed in a lot of areas," Epstein said Wednesday before the Brewers' victory over the Reds eliminated the Cubs from playoff contention for the ...
Milwaukee, which has won six in a row and 17 of 19, is one game behind in the race for the NL's top wild card and only 1½ games behind St. Louis for the NL Central lead.
“There are teams like us tucking our tails between our legs and going home, and teams like the Brewers and Cardinals that are moving on,” Jon Lester said.
Ryan Braun added to his impressive total of homers at Great American Ball Park, and the Brewers moved one win away from clinching a wild-card berth Tuesday night, beating the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 for their fifth straight victory.
CHICAGO - As Joe Maddon tried to keep the Cubs' sinking ship afloat during the final homestand, a familiar presence was hovering at Wrigley Field. David Ross, the former Cubs catcher who is now a special assistant to the team's baseball operations department, was at the park watching the collapse in progress. It was the talk of the ballpark, whispered by ushers and security guards whenever ...
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The sixth-ranked Badgers confirmed suspicions that they are indeed below the line when it comes to the elite teams this season, losing a game they probably should have won but definitely deserved to lose.
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Data collected in the Current Employment Statistics survey found Wisconsin manufacturers employed 6,800 fewer people in September compared to a year earlier.
The state Senate Education Committee approved 7-1 a proposal that would change how 4-year-old kindergarten students are counted if they attending a full-day program five days a week.
A number of items in the 2019-21 biennial budget, including an income tax cut and increased education funding, will likely cause a drawdown in state reserves by more than $800 million over the biennium.
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UW-Madison Police will pilot Hexwave, which can detect weapons without slowing down large crowds in the way metal detectors often do at athletic events.
WILL alleges the Wisconsin Elections Commission violated a state law requiring updated and accurate voter data.
The council, which was created to enhance security in Wisconsin elections, includes representatives from more than two dozen organizations.