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Senior swingman Sean Chislom scored 22 points to help the Rock Valley North Conference-leading McFarland boys basketball team take a 78-55 victory over host Edgerton on Friday night.

The Middleton boys basketball team sank 14 3-pointers Friday night, keeping a grip on its slim lead in the Big Eight Conference race with a 76-57 victory over visiting Verona.

As distressing as it’s been to watch the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team this season, at least there’s been some spasms of unpredictability.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Connor Medbery pulled off a come-from-behind win in the final seconds at heavyweight, but it wasn’t enough to save the University of Wisconsin wrestling team’s perfect Big T…

Sophomore Kristen Barman scored eight of her 13 points in overtime Friday night to lead the host Wisconsin Heights girls basketball team to a 54-50 victory over New Glarus in Capitol South Con…

Scoring six pin victories, the Sun Prairie wrestling team rolled to a 45-26 victory over Verona in the championship match of the Big Eight Showcase on Friday.

It shouldn’t be a shock that two of Madison’s top prep athletes have suffered from depression within the past year.

The Philadelphia Phillies have engaged in discussions to send closer Jonathan Papelbon to the Milwaukee Brewers, according to ESPN sources and multiple media reports.

On the day the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board formally ratified the hiring of Paul Chryst as football coach, his boss was providing a bit more insight into the selection process.

The national anthem is intended to glorify America and not the performer. There is little room for individual interpretation and styling.

ESPN commentator Dan Dakich's rant about the accidental poking in the eye of two Badgers basketball players in Tuesdays' game against Iowa was way over the top.

University of Wisconsin baseball should be reinstated.

Three times in the past year I've thought about writing a letter to the editor about the sculpture "Nails' Tales" at Camp Randall Stadium.

UW-Madison has closed its controversial cat research laboratory because of the impending retirement of professor Tom Yin and not because of protests by animal rights groups, the university says.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week. 

And PerBlue adds an executive from Glu, a major, mobile game development company.

The three-year release plan has the potential of putting Wisconsin’s elk population on a fast track of reaching goals of 1,400 animals in the original Clam Lake area and 400 elk at a second si…

Prominent Repubican operative David Polyansky is the latest to join Team Walker.

Since September, police have been investigating a reported series of sexual assaults of a now-former Whitehorse Middle School student by a staff member and are readying a case to be reviewed b…

Three Madison-area Democratic legislators say they plan to introduce a bill that would allow dying people to medically end their lives.