La Crosse Tribune Sports News

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Voters in a North Texas school district have approved a bond issue that includes $50 million to build a 12,000-seat high school football stadium.

An unlikely series of twists and turns has taken Tsipis from coaching a team of 9-year-old boys to taking control of a Badgers program he calls “sleeping giant.”

Tsipis vows to recruit and land the state's top prep players, something the previous women's basketball coaching staff at UW did not do.

WHITEWATER, Wis. — The UW-La Crosse men’s and women’s track and field team’s trophy case expanded again Saturday with a pair of team championships at the WIAC Outdoor Championships.

BASEBALL

CINCINNATI — Craig Counsell was hopeful his big bats would create some noise in the 10th inning Saturday night.

POYNETTE, Wis. — The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School softball team bounced back from a loss on Friday to win two games Saturday at the Poynette Jamboree.

STEVENS POINT, Wis. — The UW-La Crosse baseball team put the finishing touches on a WIAC regular-season championship by splitting a doubleheader against UW-Stevens Point on Saturday.

GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers and their fans aren’t likely to forget last season’s overtime playoff loss at Arizona for a long time.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Nyquist won the Kentucky Derby by 1 ¼ lengths on Saturday, improving to 8-0 in his career as the fourth consecutive favorite to win the race.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Nyquist crosses finish line first in Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

Matt “Grizzly” Adams was literally passing through La Crosse, stopping for a day to see a friend, then continuing his 5,100-mile, 85-hour journey back to his home state of Alaska.

She grew up a soccer player in the Twin Cities area and was recruited to play the sport by Viterbo University. But Rachel Turi liked to run, too.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The racing world wondered if there was a worthy successor to last year's Triple Crown champion American Pharoah.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — UAB running back Greg Bryant was shot and killed Saturday in South Florida, the school said. He was 21.

Nelson will have two years of eligibility remaining beginning in 2017.

A year ago, Greg Gard sat in the audience at the American Cancer Society’s annual Coaches vs. Cancer Wisconsin Gala and felt fortunate.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The pain and passion over the Penn State sexual abuse scandal were reignited with new allegations that Joe Paterno was told Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a child as early as 1976 and that two assistant coaches witnessed…

POYNETTE, Wis. — The second-ranked Logan High School softball team took aim at some pretty good competition Friday and came home with two victories to run its winning streak to six games.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — The UW-La Crosse softball team used an aggressive approach at the plate to beat UW-Oshkosh 9-1 in six innings and advance past the first round of the WIAC Tournament on Friday.