Milwaukee Sports Headlines

WEDNESDAY

After claiming his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title last year, Jimmie Johnson has won the off-season too. Comparing media coverage to the cost to reach the same audience through traditional advertising, Joyce Julius & Associates Inc. estimates some 6,000 mentions of Johnson's drew an exposure value of more than $10 million.

In an Olympic stunner, Shaun White failed in his quest for three straight halfpipe gold medals Tuesday, falling to Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov. In fact, White didn't even win a medal.

The way Bode Miller skis, vision is everything. So it was somewhat surprising when the most decorated Alpine skier in U.S. ski team history revealed Tuesday that he needs Lasik eye surgery and regrets not having had it before the Olympics.

The Seattle Seahawks went to the University of Wisconsin well once again.

The Active Times assigned five Olympic experts to come up with the top 50 Winter Olympic athletes of all time. Here are the top 20:

Spearers registered 1,495 sturgeon after three days of the 2014 Winnebago season, the Department of Natural Resources said.

TUESDAY

Former Milwaukee Bucks guard Desmond Mason, who played his college basketball at Oklahoma State, said that during his college career he heard fans shout racial taunts from the stands in Lubbock, Texas, where Texas Tech plays its home games.

Monique Lamoureux, Brianna Decker and Amanda Kessel all scored within 55 seconds in the first period as the United States romped to a 9-0 victory over Switzerland on Monday to all-but clinch a spot in the Olympic women's hockey semifinals.

Maria Hoefl-Riesch won her second straight Olympic super-combined title Monday, with downhill leader Julia Mancuso settling for bronze. Hoefl-Riesch was fifth fastest in the downhill, but her superior slalom skills gave her the gold.

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MONDAY

Evgeni Plushenko answered all the questions Sunday night, pushing Russia closer to its first gold medal of the Sochi Olympics.

Ireen Wust gave the Netherlands its second straight gold medal at the Olympic speedskating oval by winning the women's 3,000 meters Sunday. Wust turned in a time of 4 minutes, 0.34 seconds to knock off defending Olympic champion Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic.

Jamie Anderson gave the United States a gold-medal sweep in the first Olympic slopestyle snowboarding competition, while Jenny Jones took bronze to give Britain its first ever medal in any snow sport.

Matthias Mayer added his name to Austria's rich skiing lore by winning gold in the Olympic downhill before ever earning a World Cup victory. Pre-race favorites Aksel Lund Svindal and Bode Miller finished fourth and eighth, respectively.

JUNIOR HONOR SCORESAMF WEST ALLIS

Cliff Christl, who covered the Green Bay Packers for decades as a newspaper reporter, has joined the team as its historian.