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Ty Pelton-Byce is used to drawing plenty of attention from opposing teams as a UMass recruit and high-scoring center for the Madison Memorial Spartans.

Sun Prairie set out to knock the Middleton girls basketball team out of the ranks of the unbeaten teams in the Big Eight Conference on Thursday night.

A slow start didn’t stop the Madison Edgewood girls basketball team Thursday night.

Milwaukee center Larry Sanders was suspended for one game without pay by the NBA on Thursday for pushing Portland forward Nicolas Batum in the back as he elevated toward the basket.

Erik Doll, Eric Storms, Ben McDade and Lars Doll won the 400-meter freestyle relay on Thursday, sending the Monona Grove boys swim team to an 86-84 win over host McFarland in a non-conference dual.

When new University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst said Wednesday the offense he ran during his three seasons at Pitt was basically the same as the one he ran as UW’s offensive coordi…

After practice ended Thursday morning, four University of Wisconsin players gathered around their new coach.

There are two weeks left to hunt on public land, so try to get out and see if you can flush a pheasant or two up. 

University of Wisconsin football fans will likely see more of Tanner McEvoy in the Outback Bowl against Auburn on Jan. 1 in Tampa.

The last firearm deer season of the year will be a Holiday Hunt in that will open in the southern farmland zone. 

WASHINGTON — The lone wolf is the new national nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney, Australia. But there are two kinds of lone wolves — the cra…

The athletic director reached out to the former UW player and assistant the day Gary Andersen said he was leaving.

Last week we lost another young adult to an auto accident. He was not wearing a seat belt.

Why do banks and credit unions give us such low interest rates on our Certificates of Deposit. Before 2008, we were getting 3 percent to 5 percent on the CDs and money market accounts we had w…

Since the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, it’s been clear the 1 percent are buying elections left and right. The Koch brothers spent hundreds of millions dollars in 2014 and, un…

The nation again has been thrown into self-flagellation over the release of the U.S. Senate report on the CIA’s use of coercive tactics to get intelligence from captured jihadists who declared…

Republican Rep. Chris Kapenga felt it was "not right" that his first paycheck as a unionized electrical contractor included a deduction for union dues. Did he also complain to that same compan…

Here is a simple way to determine whether the CIA tortured:

Civilized society should not torture

Adam Smith expected the interview process for the football coach opening at Madison Memorial High School might be unique.