La Crosse Tribune Sports News

NEW YORK (AP) — The executive director of the NBA Players Association said Thursday the suspension given to Charlotte's Jeffery Taylor by Commissioner Adam Silver is "excessive, without preced…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Whether top-ranked Kentucky could beat the NBA's winless Philadelphia 76ers isn't the point for a squad looking strong enough to beat everybody else in college basketball.

Senior Ben Hertrampf was the UW-La Crosse football team's most consistent player of the season.

The NFL players' union on Thursday appealed the league's suspension of Adrian Peterson and demanded an independent, neutral arbitrator hears the case.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Beating Yale year after year has its advantages, but Harvard defensive back Norman Hayes still felt as if he were missing something.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Julieta Granada played bogey free in a tough wind Thursday for a 6-under 66 to take a two-shot lead in the CME Group Tour Championship.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson believes the right driver won NASCAR's championship, and that a Ryan Newman victory would have been "tough to swallow for the sport."

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of licensing for the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro says merchandise sales could reach 1 billion reals ($400 million).

The milestone came and went, chronicled with a blurb that got second billing to the news that his team actually won a game.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rob Manfred has been given a five-year term as baseball commissioner when he succeeds Bud Selig in two months.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Construction work on the golf course for the 2016 Olympics could be halted under a filing made by state prosecutors suing the city of Rio de Janeiro and the developer ove…

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA will further review the 2018 and 2022 World Cup corruption investigation, putting the status of hosts Russia and Qatar back in question.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Naismith Hall of Fame basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian is hospitalized in Las Vegas, where his son says he's being treated for pneumonia.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nike is pulling back on plans for a shoe that sneakily honors Allen Iverson after the former NBA superstar demanded answers.

PHOENIX (AP) — Hawaii punter Scott Harding takes the snap, runs toward the sideline and surveys the oncoming rush before unleashing an end-over-end kick.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it would be "impractical" at this time for the Buffalo Bills to host the New York Jets on Sunday because of a lake-effect snowstorm that co…

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports and Kasey Kahne have agreed to a three-year contract extension that will keep the driver with the No. 5 Chevrolet SS team through the 2018 NASCAR Spri…

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The intense rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg increased Thursday heading into the final race of the season with Rosberg taunting his Merced…

LILLE, France (AP) — Despite his bad back, Roger Federer will face Gael Monfils on Friday in the second singles match when Switzerland faces France in the Davis Cup final.