La Crosse Tribune Sports News

BASTAD, Sweden (AP) — Top-ranked Serena Williams sailed through her opening match at the Swedish Open with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Belgian qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure in the first round on Wednesday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that the Chiefs and All-Pro linebacker Justin Houston have agreed to a six-year, $101 million contract t…

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Alabama coach Nick Saban thinks something happened to the team's chemistry from the Southeastern Conference championship game to the Sugar Bowl against Ohio State.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Teachers led a gaggle of preschoolers in bright yellow slickers through the rain Wednesday on a field trip that had nothing to do with the golf about to take place…

The Cardinals are really good, the Phillies are really bad, and then there's everyone else.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lauren Hill will be honored at the ESPY Awards.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Tom Watson says the 2016 Masters will be his final tournament at Augusta National.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — British Open organizers say they will bide their time before deciding whether Turnberry should be removed from the championship rotation following comments by the …

TOKYO (AP) — The first sports stadium to break the $1 billion barrier was London's Wembley Stadium. Now, Tokyo's planned National Stadium for the 2020 Olympics will be the first to reach $2 bi…

TOKYO (AP) — When the dust settles on the marquee venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, it could well be the most expensive sports stadium in the world.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Torn by civil war and facing a humanitarian crisis, South Sudan is finding hope on the sporting front: The world's newest nation is in line for international recogniti…

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — With a chance to match history at the home of golf, Jordan Spieth is trying to make the British Open feel like just another event.

Biegel, who will be a junior in the fall, was named to the Lombardi Award watch list on Tuesday, a week after he received watch list recognition for the Bednarik Award.

Organizers would love for the Texan to take a shot at the grand slam at Whistling Straits.

But Spieth is 21, and in the midst of greatest the stretch of golf anyone has seen since Woods burst on the scene.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's no secret that Jennifer Aniston has long been J.J. Watt's celebrity crush. The Houston Texans star had just never connected with her.

Identifying success isn’t hard.

Jack Taylor’s basketball career has taken him from Black River Falls High School to prep school in St. Mercersburg, Pa., to UW-La Crosse to Grinnell, Iowa.

CINCINNATI — Mike Trout flashed the skill that puts him at the front of baseball’s new generation, just moments after four of the all-time greats had just walked off the field.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Four pitches into the game, Zack Greinke left one a little bit up. At Great American Ball Park, it's bad for a pitcher to be off, even by a very little.