La Crosse Tribune Sports News

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — It didn't take running back Bernard Pierce long to find a job.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kellen Dunham scored 20 points, including a pivotal 3-pointer with 1:18 to play, to lift sixth-seeded Butler to a 56-48 victory over 11th-seeded Texas in the NCAA Tournament …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The UAB Blazers may not have a football program anymore. They do have the first big upset of the NCAA Tournament and hope they can give their university something to ral…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — R.J. Hunter's 3-pointer with 2.7 seconds remaining capped a comeback from a 12-point deficit and lifted 14th-seeded Georgia State to a 57-56 opening-game victory over…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The first big upset of the NCAA Tournament goes to the scrappy UAB Blazers.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Adam Scott is off to another good start in the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a 4-under 68 that put him one shot behind the early leaders on a warm Thursday.

MIAMI (AP) — The Marlins have made another long-term investment in their young, talented outfield.

No longer a quarterback, McEvoy — a 6-6, 222-pound senior — will also work at wide receiver during spring practice.

ZURICH (AP) — The final match of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be played on Dec. 18, the country's national holiday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has picked Connecticut to win a third straight women's basketball championship in the NCAA Tournament.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jesper Parnevik is making his Champions Tour debut this week in the inaugural Tucson Conquistadores Classic.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have exercised their 2016 option on manager Ron Roenicke.

NEW YORK (AP) — All of a sudden this season, former players from a certain school seem to be analyzing nearly every big college basketball game.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Bo Ryan started his answer before a reporter finished the question about what it takes to play effectively without fouling.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A Formula One race in Germany this year looks increasingly unlikely as neither of the country's two circuits have been able to make a deal with series promoter Bernie…

SANTO ANTONIO DA SERRA, Portugal (AP) — Organizers have reduced the Madeira Islands Open to 54 holes and suspended play on Thursday because of high winds sweeping the Portuguese archipelago.

The 2014-15 college basketball season has taken the University of Wisconsin men from sea-to-shining sea (or at least from State College, Pennsylviania, to Berkley, California).

And UW must be if it hopes to advance deeper into the NCAA men’s basketball tournament than it did last year.

OMAHA, Neb. — When Greg Gard looks at Coastal Carolina, the associate head coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team sees a group that has faced plenty of difficult situation…

OMAHA, Neb. — High on the list of cardinal sins in the book of Bo Ryan is thou shalt not look beyond next, but not everybody inside the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program can abi…