La Crosse Tribune Sports News

NEW YORK (AP) — After a tough overtime loss two nights earlier, the Florida Panthers were focused on picking up their defensive intensity in Game 4.

CLEVELAND (AP) — J.R. Smith looked down at the postgame box score and couldn't believe his eyes.

Aaron Hill, Chris Carter and Domingo Santana all go deep for Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aaron Hill, Chris Carter and Domingo Santana hit home runs to help Jimmy Nelson and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Minnesota Twins 10-5 on Wednesday night.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott says the conference's representative on the NCAA's Division I Council did not vote the league's position when the council banned so-called satellite football camps this month.

ST. PAUL — The UW-La Crosse baseball team extended its winning streak to nine games Wednesday before St. Thomas ended it there during a nonconference doubleheader split.

Setting up a batter inside or out, shifting the defensive alignment, then playing the percentages still gets Bill Sandillo juiced up. So does thinking about the La Crosse Loggers’ 2015 offense and the seven records it obliterated during a 40-win…

For Coulee Region Chill forward Larry Jungwirth, a midseason trade turned around the fortunes of both his season in the NAHL and the Chill as a whole.

ONALASKA — All of the Onalaska High School boys golf team’s scorers placed fourth or better Wednesday as the Hilltoppers cruised to a victory in the second MVC meet of the season.

Practice time on a nice day is a luxury for high school baseball and softball teams.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michal Neuvirth skated off the Flyers' ice to a roar he wanted to hear.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — There were plenty of superlatives to go around in the Detroit clubhouse Wednesday night.

MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade did not see an offensive outburst like what the Miami Heat have put up in their first two playoff games coming, nor is he counting on it continuing.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia center Scott Laughton was taken off the ice on a stretcher after a scary hit into the boards Wednesday night in Game 4 of the Flyers' first-round playoff series against the Washington Capitals.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Thibodeau's NBA career started as an assistant on the inaugural Minnesota Timberwolves team.

IRVING, Texas (AP) — College Football Playoff officials believe several factors contributed to the significant decline in television ratings for the second year of the playoff.

MADISON — Nigel Hayes will enter the 2016 NBA draft while also leaving open the possibility of returning to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team for his senior season.

HOUSTON (AP) — Stephen Curry's sprained right ankle is feeling better but he isn't sure if he will be able to play on Thursday night in Game 3 of Golden State's first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oakland Athletics infielder Eric Sogard undergone surgery on his left knee on Wednesday.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — International Tennis Federation president David Haggerty says a disciplinary hearing has been scheduled in Maria Sharapova's doping case, with a ruling possible before Wimbledon.