Milwaukee Sports Headlines

WEDNESDAY

HONOR SCORESALPINESaints and Sinners

TUESDAY

The final prime-time rating for the Sochi Winter Olympics on NBC-TV was up slightly from the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics but down from the Vancouver Games in 2010.

The best hockey players in the world competed in the Sochi Olympics. Some may soon find themselves playing for a new team in the NHL.

Former UW-Milwaukee star Sarah Hagenwas among 24 players selected Monday to play for the U.S. in the Algarve Cup.

Two safeties rise above the rest in this NFL draft class. In one corner, there’s the dizzying Calvin Pryor. In the other, there’s the technical Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.

MONDAY

BIRKEBEINER SKATE (50k)MEN

JUNIOR HONOR SCORESAMF WEST ALLISMajors

SUNDAY

Blair Beck belted a two-run double with two outs in the eighth to send Kansas to a 9-8 victory over UW-Milwaukee in the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, Fla.

Santiago Ocariz joined his wife, Carolyn, as an American Birkebeiner champion with his victory Saturday in the 54-kilometer race for classic skiers.

Two veterans of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver — one American and one German — earned gold Saturday in the American Birkebeiner and eased the disappointment of failing to join their national ski teams in Sochi.

“I almost thought I was watching film of a young Brett Favre,” Favre told USA Today. “I didn’t think I did a lot of things well (at Southern Mississippi), but he did.”

After several years of complete separation, the Green Bay Packers and former quarterback Brett Favre have been in regular contact and the possibility of him returning to Lambeau Field to have his number retired increases with each conversation.

Indianapolis — After several years of complete separation, the Green Bay Packers and former quarterback Brett Favre have been in regular contact and the possibility of him returning to Lambeau Field to have his number retired increases with each conversation.

SATURDAY