La Crosse Tribune Sports News

BALTIMORE (AP) — Exaggerator has finally beaten Nyquist, and it came in the Preakness on Saturday to end any chance of another Triple Crown.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The Minnesota Twins are honoring the University of North Dakota's national champion men's hockey team.

ATLANTA (AP) — Gary Payton believes the United States is behind other nations in organized 3-on-3 basketball.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Manager Pete Mackanin summed up his team's day perfectly: "Ugly weather. Ugly game."

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang left a game Saturday against the Colorado Rockies because of discomfort in his left hand.

MIAMI (AP) — An auction house says it is offering the jersey Bryce Harper wore during his memorable dugout fight with a teammate. The Washington Nationals star says they've got the wrong shirt.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris Herrmann got the Arizona Diamondbacks' offense started against Carlos Martinez. Then he helped them finish the job.

UW-La Crosse’s baseball team is quite simply the class of the Midwest Regional.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — CC Sabathia came off the disabled list to pitch six innings and become the eighth player in the modern era to win 100 games or more with two teams, and the New York Yankees beat the…

SPRING GREEN, Wis. — The Prairie du Chien High School baseball team has been a tough one to beat all spring, but it’s playing at a pretty high level at the end of the regular season.

PHOENIX (AP) — Jewell Loyd banked in a 12-footer with 2.9 seconds remaining for the last of her career-high 30 points in the Seattle Storm's 81-80 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night.

CHICAGO (AP) — Adam Eaton's emotions boiled over after he became the eighth Chicago White Sox player to be called out on strikes to end the game.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins are all alone at the bottom.

NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Matz pitched seven sharp innings to win his sixth consecutive start, Michael Conforto hit a two-run homer and the New York Mets beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 on Friday night.

CHICAGO (AP) — When asked before the game if facing the World Series champions would be a good measuring stick, Chicago White Sox third baseman Todd Frazier pointed to the standings.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ninety minutes before the opening faceoff, Jon Cooper talked about what the Tampa Bay Lightning needed to do to get back on track in the Eastern Conference finals.

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros have long had trouble with Colby Lewis.

DETROIT (AP) — Brad Ausmus and Anibal Sanchez have one important thing in common right now.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The homer-happy Toronto Blue Jays lost their power strokes during a recent five-game losing streak.

Maybe the TV ratings or attendance numbers don’t show it, at least not yet. But NASCAR is having one of its best seasons on the track a third of the way through its marathon schedule.