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GAME BALL: CARDALE JONES

INDIANAPOLIS — The stakes were right out there for all to see, having been talked to death in the national media all week.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Melvin Gordon was a breakout performer for the University of Wisconsin football team in 2013, but the standout tailback had a couple outings that stuck in his craw.

INDIANAPOLIS — What does it say about the University of Wisconsin football team that it’s had a stake in four of the past five Big Ten Conference crowns?

Former Madison Edgewood athlete Drew teDuits eclipsed the national ‘A’ standard in the men’s 200-yard backstroke at the Texas Invitational in Austin, punching a ticket to the NCAA National Cha…

ASHWAUBENON — Jarod Zirbel scored twice in a four-goal third period, and the Madison Capitols rallied for a 5-2 victory over the Green Bay Gamblers in United States Hockey League game Saturday…

The Monona Grove boys hockey team opened its season Saturday with a 4-1 victory over visiting Waunakee.

An 18-8 scoring run in the fourth quarter lifted the Marshfield boys basketball team to a 54-47 victory over host Baraboo in nonconference play Saturday.

Senior Shaquita Lee scored 21 points Saturday afternoon to lead visiting Madison West to a 70-63 victory over Madison La Follette in a double-overtime Big Eight Conference girls basketball game.

Mike Eaves has witnessed exhilarating victories, agonizing defeats and remarkable performances in his 13 seasons as the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach.

A two-seat airplane piloted by a 70-year-old Monona man flipped onto its top as it attempted to land on the grass landing field at Morey Airport just before 3:15 p.m. Saturday.

At the close of the third quarter during the Wisconsin Badgers runaway football victory over Nebraska, a new entry went into the record books … and not just Melvin Gordon’s single-game rushing…

The Warhawks come back from the brink, scoring three fourth-quarter touchdowns to beat Wartburg.

During the last four years, many policies have been put in place in Wisconsin presumably aimed at "job creation." Actually, almost none of these policies would create jobs, even if they succee…

If Gov. Scott Walker does not voice his concern and promise to veto legislation making Wisconsin a right-to-work state, he will be showing his true colors.

The letter in Thursday's State Journal "Walker needs better understanding of science" contended Gov. Scott Walker doesn't understand science and needs a science adviser.

Thank you for publishing the insightful column by Tom Still, "Science is filtered by values," in Sunday's State Journal.

I urge Dane County’s Zoning and Land Regulation Committee to approve the conditional use permit so work can start at the Waterloo Pump station, on the Line 61 tar sands oil pipeline operated b…