La Crosse Tribune Sports News

CLEVELAND (AP) — The perfect coach plopped down in his seat at the podium, his face a mixture of exhaustion and exultation.

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Almost sacked for safety concerns after 50 years, the nation's last tackle powderpuff football game will now be played.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro Olympics organizers say they have sold 67 percent of available tickets.

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Police Athletic League will receive a $300,000 gift from the Detroit Tigers Foundation to support a new multi-sports youth complex and headquarters at the old Tiger Stadium site.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State says big man BeeJay Anya is withdrawing from the NBA draft and returning to school for his senior season.

A person with knowledge of the contract says two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum has completed as $2.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on a court hearing for the suspect in the shooting death of retired New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith (all times local):

PARIS (AP) — Security will be tighter than ever at the French Open in the wake of last November's Paris deadly attacks.

GENEVA (AP) — Just 10 days after the rebranded FIFA Council met for the first time, one of its members faces being banned from soccer in fallout from World Cup corruption allegations.

NEW YORK (AP) — Consider Gary Payton unimpressed by Golden State guard Stephen Curry becoming the first unanimous MVP in NBA history.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Everyone loves Nyquist.

Micaela Crall and Elizabeth Toye have left the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program.

MOSCOW (AP) — A spokesman for Russia's top investigative agency says it would like to question the former head of the Russian doping lab over his allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

MIAMI (AP) — Zhou Qi needs someone to help him communicate at workouts with NBA teams, simply because he does not speak English well enough to understand most instructions.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The suspect in the April shooting death of retired New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith is set for a court hearing.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Dodgers blew a two-run lead, starter Ross Stripling couldn't make it to the fifth inning, and now they're back to .500 after four losses in five games.

ATLANTA (AP) — USA Swimming has moved a pre-Olympic training camp out of Puerto Rico because of the Zika virus.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Angels are rising right along with Mike Trout's batting average a month after both of them were scuffling.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The divers were warming up, getting ready for the biggest moment in their lives when, out of nowhere, a man in a blue tutu rushed to the ladder, ran to the edge of the board…