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For the first time ever, surfing was included at the Pan American Games. Here are some highlights from the first events.
How much do you know about the Pan American Games? The largest multi-sporting event in the Americas will start Friday and run until Aug. 11. Here's a look at the event:
Cleveland rocked and the American League rolled Tuesday, prevailing over the National League 4-3 in Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game. Who were the winners and losers? Let’s take a look.
Reaction from the baseball world to the death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs on Monday at 27:
The team beat France 2-1 in Friday's quarterfinal and now faces England July 2.
BEREA, Ohio - Braxton Miller said he had a couple NFL choices when he was released by the Philadelphia Eagles last week, and then a chance to join the Browns fell in his lap. On Wednesday, the former Ohio State quarterback/wide receiver practically glowed as he spoke about his return to the Buckeye State. A Springfield, Ohio, native, he said the Browns are his father's favorite team. His ...
PHILADELPHIA - Alshon Jeffery doesn't like to go back there, to the Superdome in January, to the moment that people sometimes have brought up over these last seven months. It is clear that he would rather they not bring it up, no matter how gingerly they might approach the topic. He dropped a pass late in a playoff game, the ball caroming off his hands and into the belly of Saints cornerback ...
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota sports history is filled with extreme highs, crushing lows, colorful personalities, amazing moments and haunting questions of "what if ..." But you would be hard pressed to find a bigger story - one that combines all those aforementioned elements - than the arrival of Brett Lorenzo Favre with the Vikings. The quarterback swoops into town on a gorgeous summer Tuesday, ...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Will Thursday be the day we get a true look at the 2019 Patriots? Historically, the third preseason game is considered the dress rehearsal for the Patriots. It's in this game where we see starters on offense and defense, either for the first time or for the most snaps, until Week 1 of the regular season. While the fourth and final preseason game is typically reserved for ...
It would seem that Quintez Cephus, an academic All-Big Ten pick in 2017, has a solid case for an appeal because he was a student in good standing when he was expelled
Mason Crosby, 34, is competing with Sam Ficken to keep the job he's had as Green Bay kicker since 2007.
Mike Moustakas homered and Keston Hiura drove in a pair of runs to lead Milwaukee to a 5-3 win over the Cardinals in a rain-shortened game Wednesday night at Busch Stadium.
“Here’s what she does. She makes our team, our gym, our culture better. We’re better because she’s on this team,” UW coach Kelly Sheffield says of the junior.
Here’s a look at three keys for the Green Bay Packers when they take on the Oakland Raiders in their third preseason game, which will be played tonight north of the U.S.-Canada border at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba:
Former Middleton standout Kayden Lyles is back on offense after spending 2018 as a defensive end for the Badgers.
A police report says Moore was driving in the village of Hobart on Friday when his Mercedes Benz spun out and crossed the grass median on State Highway 29, colliding with the oncoming truck.
The Packers think Gary, their top draft choice this year, can be an impact player on the defense.
Seventh-year left guard Lane Taylor is being pushed by rookie Elgton Jenkins.
Teddy Greenstein: Reasons to believe in teams capable of winning Big Ten West — and reasons to doubt
Northwestern was such an out-of-nowhere Big Ten West champion last year, I’m still not sure it happened. Duke and Akron might feel the same.
Taylor, a junior tailback, was a consensus All-America pick last season, while Biadasz, a junior center, was a consensus first-team All-Big Ten pick.
St. Louis remains in first place in the NL Central by a half-game over the Chicago Cubs, who beat San Francisco 5-3. Third-place Milwaukee is four games back.
The two casinos closest to Wisconsin in Dubuque — Diamond Jo and Q — are expected to have their sportsbooks running by Labor Day weekend.
Bears coach Matt Nagy is mostly keeping his starters from experiencing any significant preseason game action. How might it affect the team for better or worse?
Aaron Witt, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound defensive end from Winona, Minnesota, is a three-star recruit who is the 14th known commitment in UW’s 2020 recruiting class.
Graham Mertz, a record-setting high school quarterback in Kansas, has made a good impression in his bid for playing time this season.
UW is one of seven ranked Big Ten teams, joining No. 5 Ohio State, No. 7 Michigan, No. 15 Penn State, No. 18 Michigan State, No. 20 Iowa and No. 24 Nebraska.
Coach Matt LaFleur won't commit to playing Aaron Rodgers in the third preseason game, saying the quarterback has already "gotten a lot of good work."
He says Aaron Rodgers' top backup is on the current roster, and Rodgers believes DeShone Kizer and Tim Boyle have been better than they’ve looked because of the moving parts around them.
Milwaukee fell three games behind National League Central-leading St. Louis with the loss, which marked the first time since August 2017 the Brewers were limited to one hit.
"It's like the good, the bad and the ugly," Cardinals shortstop Paul DeJong told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Nearly five weeks into a contract holdout, former Badgers running back Melvin Gordon told ESPN he is training rigorously in California and staying ready to play football.
Sunday was the 10-year anniversary of Favre arriving at the Vikings' ex-training facility, with a helicopter, media members, fans and even a guy in a parrot suit giving chase.
UW junior forward Cameron Murtha, senior forward Dani Rhodes and junior defender Claire Shea were among 42 players named to the Big Ten Preseason Honors list.
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GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers’ offense without Aaron Rodgers is … not especially good.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — No. 4 Oklahoma has named Jalen Hurts its starting quarterback for the Sept. 1 season opener against Houston.
If an athlete allows sufficient recovery after suffering a concussion and before returning to play, the damage done to the brain is likely entirely reversible.
MADISON — Former Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus has been cleared to return to school after a jury acquitted him of sexual assault charges.
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On this week's "Center Stage" political podcast, Milfred and Hands lament Madison's utopian disdain for 78 lower-cost apartments in the lower part of a Downtown tower a block off the Capitol Square. The Madison City Council is confusing affordable housing with high-rise penthouses.
The final 10% is largely made up of 18- to 35-year-old males and primarily pickup truck drivers.
As part of a National Association of Convenience Stores outreach program, freshman Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., worked behind the count at Lou Perrine’s Gas & Grocery, 5145 Sheridan Road, for a short time Wednesday.
The state beer excise taxes in Wisconsin ranked 48th highest in the nation, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation based on January 2019 data.
The case attracted unprecedented interest, with more than 50 groups and individuals participating in the evaluation process, which drew hundreds of public comments, almost all of them opposed to the line.
There are as many people who are happy to see a new electric transmission line that'll stretch from near Madison, Wisconsin, to near Dubuque, Iowa, as there are folks who are angry about it.
Wisconsin's governor wants the state's power companies to be 100-percent green in the next 30 years. But there are a number of people who say that's either unrealistic or too expensive to happen.
"I am not planning on endorsing," Baldwin said. "I want to offer up my insights."
The combined state and average local sales taxes in Wisconsin ranked 43rd highest in the nation, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation based on July 2019 data.
If some Wisconsin species are federally listed as threatened in the future, they might see weaker protections.
Without too much effort, you can find hints of Wisconsin throughout the city and beyond.
It’s beginning to feel like 1980s news tape showing America’s despotic enemies running amok.
America has just surpassed a grim milestone, with more than 250 mass shootings blasting the nation in only 216 days, at a rate of more than one act of gun carnage per day in 2019.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank must consider the ramifications for two groups who often face skepticism: African-Americans who are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system and women who believe they are victims of sexual assault.
CHICAGO (AP) — The political and economic stars have aligned for the development of a suburban Chicago airport, according to a transportation expert.
In the past couple of months, the flaws in the Federal Reserve’s management of the economy have become hard to ignore. The central bank’s current way of doing things is increasingly self-defeating.
Editorial: Don't skimp on protecting the 2020 elections
They were a generation getting back to the garden, the dirt and homegrown America. Their music blended soul, gospel, folk, country and rock. They would go on to start the health craze of the 1970s organic movement, and would later see the commercialization of the rock star, a capitalistic pa…
Fifty years ago, when I was 19, I got the assignment from the trade magazine Billboard to cover the Woodstock Festival because none of the older writers wanted to go. My review the following week rhapsodically began, “About 400,000 rock fans gave peace a chance Aug. 15-18, and it worked.”
