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Here is an updated list of high school sports schedule changes, as announced by area school athletic directors through emails, faxes, tweets or on their official conference schedule websites. …

Here is an updated list of high school sports schedule changes, as announced by area school athletic directors through emails, faxes, tweets or on their official conference schedule websites.

Fort Atkinson High School associate principal and athletic director Mark Pollex has resigned to take over as athletic director at Greendale High School.

The forecast of dangerously cold temperatures for Thursday night has prompted the postponement of two high school boys basketball games involving area teams.

Capitol Conference commissioner Jeff Giese has announced the following rescheduling dates for boys basketball games that were snowed out on Dec. 20:

The Verona High School junior girls basketball standout inspires her coaches and teammates with her perseverance while fighting a cancer diagnosis.

The Wisconsin State Journal has been tracking Friday’s weather-related prep sports event postponements.

Gov. Scott Walker sent a letter to tribal leaders Thursday morning telling them he will sign the Indian mascots bill. 

RANKINGS

Sun Prairie High School senior wide receiver Michael Marchese announced on Twitter Saturday night that he has made a verbal commitment to play football next season at NCAA Division II Southwes…

From a WIAA news release:

Kryka will be among nine individuals honored next month in Anaheim, Calif., as recipients of 2013 Distinguished Service Awards from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

MILWAUKEE – Giannis Antetokounmpo won’t be the only member of his family to be playing in the Milwaukee area this fall.

SWC teams to play Coulee Conference foes in Weeks Three and Four, starting next year.

Scott Rohlfing left Verona’s football game at Madison La Follette feeling like his brain was going to bulge out of his eye sockets.

The Oregon Panthers were ranked second in Division 2 in the latest Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association coaches' poll. released Tuesday.

On the boys' side, Madison West, Monroe and Darlington are ranked second in their respective divisions.

Madison Memorial, Oregon, Mount Horeb, Belleville/New Glarus and Lakeside Lutheran earn No. 1 seedings in revamped, four-division format.

At an area meeting in Black River Falls, WIAA executive director also suggests his group wants to give up responsibility for conference alignment.

From a Baraboo High School news release: