La Crosse Tribune Sports News

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chase Anderson's task Tuesday night was to be better than the best, and he was up to the challenge.

Aquinas High School’s softball team was ready for the challenge of Jordyn Kleman during Tuesday’s MVC showdown with top-ranked Logan.

One night after suffering a tough one-run MVC loss to Logan, Kylee Schams and the Holmen High School softball team played the role of spoiler.

BASEBALL

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — To see him now, it’s hard to believe Jason Day had only one victory in his first six years on the PGA Tour.

The right-hander gives up back-to-back home runs in the ninth before Jeremy Jeffress gets the save.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors are investigating claims that dozens of top Russian athletes participated in a sophisticated state-sponsored doping program, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers won the NBA draft lottery Tuesday night and will have the No. 1 pick in June.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Self isn't paying state taxes on the bulk of his millions of dollars of income as men's basketball coach at Kansas, and it's all legal under 2012 tax reforms pressed by Gov. Sam Brownback.

LONDON (AP) — In a major doping crackdown stretching back eight years, 31 athletes in six sports could be barred from competing in the Olympics after they were caught in retesting of drug samples from the 2008 Beijing Games, and…

The Dallas Cowboys signed former University of Wisconsin tight end Austin Traylor to their 90-man roster on Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) — The IOC announced Tuesday that 31 athletes in six sports and from 12 countries could be banned from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after their doping samples from the 2008 Beijing Games came back positive in…

PARIS (AP) — An unidentified drone buzzes a soccer stadium crammed with spectators at the European Championship. It might just be carrying a camera. Or something more sinister. Toxic chemicals, perhaps.

NEW YORK (AP) — The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's victory over the Soviet Union is forever remembered as the "Miracle on Ice."

It will be the first major college football game played at Lambeau Field.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — IOC says results of retests of 250 doping samples from 2012 London Olympics still to come.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — IOC says 31 athletes test positive for doping in retesting of 2008 Beijing Olympic samples.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oklahoma City center Steven Adams has apologized for describing Golden State's guards as "quick little monkeys" in an interview with ESPN following the Thunder's 108-102 win over the Warriors in Game 1 of the Western Conference…

The University of Wisconsin football team will be a sizable underdog in its season opener, according to Las Vegas oddsmakers.