La Crosse Tribune Sports News

Head coach Tony Granato will make $500,000 in the first season of a five-year contract. His salary will increase by $25,000 in each of the next four seasons.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazil soccer great Rivaldo is telling tourists to stay away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because "you'll be putting your life at risk."

GENEVA (AP) — Michel Platini will resign as UEFA president after failing to overturn his ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which cut his sanction from six to four years.

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.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jonathan Lucroy drove in the go-ahead run and then preserved the lead with his arm.

Tony Paletta has coached a number of good softball teams at De Soto High School.

CINCINNATI — Jonathan Lucroy greeted Ross Ohlendorf with a tiebreaking home run leading off the eighth inning, then caught Billy Hamilton stealing for the final out as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-4 Sunday for their second straight…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — UAB running back Gregory Bryant was declared brain dead Sunday, a day after he was found shot in a car on Interstate 95 in South Florida.

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — A teenager in Ohio got a treat on prom night: a surprise date with a Cleveland Browns player.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — The president of Penn State is decrying new allegations that former coach Joe Paterno was told that Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused a child as early as 1976 and that two assistant coaches witnessed the…

ROME (AP) — Beyonce told Serena Williams to dance and the tennis champion let loose.

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.