Milwaukee Sports Headlines

The Milwaukee Wave, in the midst of reorganizing and trying to stay alive as an indoor soccer franchise, have parted ways with longtime coach Keith Tozer.

Claire Costanza and Hayley Baas each scored four goals to lead the Marquette women’s lacrosse team (5-5, 1-0 Big East) to a 14-6 victory over visiting Cincinnati (6-4, 0-1).

Fox Sports did not renew the contract of NFL game analyst Brian Billick, the former Ravens head coach who joined Fox in 2008.

FRIDAY

Nick Johnson scored all of his 15 points in the last 2:45, after missing his first 10 shots, and Arizona rallied to beat San Diego State, 70-64, Thursday night and advance to the final eight of the NCAA Tournament.

The Gators extended the best winning streak in school history to 29 straight in reaching the South Regional final. The tournament’s overall top seed will play 11th-seeded Dayton Saturday night for a trip to the Final Four.

Kentucky plays the one-and-done game and won a title that way in 2012. Louisville goes for a more long-term approach and took home its own championship trophy last season. The in-state rivals meet on Friday in the Sweet 16.

Michigan State hasn’t changed its name but it hasn’t been said in the last couple of weeks without “finally healthy” right before it. The Spartans are finally healthy and they are playing like the team that started the season 18-1.

Follow beat reporter Jeff Potrykus' tweets from Wisconsin's Sweet Sixteen NCAA Tournament game against No. 6 Baylor at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Follow beat reporter Jeff Potrykus' tweets from Wisconsin's Sweet Sixteen NCAA Tournament game against No. 6 Baylor at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

The Badgers play the Bears on Thursday night in a Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament game.

The NCAA Tournament returns Thursday. Here are some tidbits about a few of the Sweet 16 teams:

Arizona and San Diego State are back on familiar ground in the NCAA Tournament West Regional. Three years ago, both failed to advance out of the Sweet 16. This time, one of them is going home again.

THURSDAY

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Projected payrolls for the 30 major-league teams. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses for players on the 25-man active roster, disabled lists and restricted list as of 2 p.m. EDT March 25, plus players teams have committed to putting on their rosters. In some cases, parts of salaries deferred without interest are discounted to reflect present-day values. Adjustments have been made for cash transactions in trades, signing bonuses that are responsibility of club that agreed to contract, option buyouts and termination pay for released players.TeamPayroll Highest paidSalaryLos Angeles Dodgers$235,295,219 Zack Greinke$28,000,000 N.Y. Yankees$203,812,506 CC Sabathia$24,285,714 Philadelphia$180,052,723 Ryan Howard$25,000,000 Boston$162,817,411 Jake Peavy$16,157,271 Detroit$162,228,527 Miguel Cabrera$21,943,027 Los Angeles Angels$155,692,000 Albert Pujols$23,000,000 San Francisco$154,185,878 Matt Cain$20,833,333 Texas$136,036,172 Prince Fielder$24,000,000 Washington$134,704,437 Jayson Werth$20,571,429 Toronto$132,628,700 Mark Buehrle$19,000,000 Arizona$112,688,666 Aaron Hill$11,000,000 Cincinnati$112,390,772 Joey Votto$12,000,000 St. Louis$111,020,360 Adam Wainwright$19,500,000 Atlanta$110,897,341 Justin Upton$14,458,333 Baltimore$107,406,623 Nick Markakis$15,350,000 Milwaukee$103,844,806 Aramis Ramirez$15,137,803 Colorado$95,832,071 Troy Tulowitzki$16,000,000 Seattle$92,081,943 Robinson Cano$24,000,000 Kansas City$92,034,345James Shields$13,500,000 Chicago White Sox$91,159,254John Danks$15,750,000 San Diego$90,094,196Chase Headley$10,525,000 New York Mets$89,051,758David Wright$19,329,646 Chicago Cubs$89,007,857Edwin Jackson$13,000,000 Minnesota$85,776,500Joe Mauer$23,000,000 Oakland$83,401,400Yoenis Cespedes$10,500,000 Cleveland$82,534,800Nick Swisher$15,000,000 Pittsburgh$78,111,667Wandy Rodriguez$13,000,000 Tampa Bay$77,062,891David Price$14,000,000 Miami$47,565,400Giancarlo Stanton$6,500,000 Houston$44,544,174Scott Feldman$12,000,000