La Crosse Tribune Sports News

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.

BASEBALL

STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Senior Travis Buxton-Verstegen singled home Justin Anderson in the top of the 10th inning Friday to help the fourth-ranked UW-La Crosse baseball team complete a sweep of UW-Stevens Point.

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Chris Gilbertson was faced with a dilemma he wasn’t sure how to solve. On one hand, he loved to race dirt track cars throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Cincinnati's relievers had allowed at least one run in a major league-record 23 consecutive games.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Professional miniature golf player Matt Male has already heard all the wisecracks about the windmills, pirate ships and waterfall hazards. So just save it.

ST. PAUL — Adrian Peterson hasn't run the ball in a preseason game since 2011. He would like to change that this summer.

The seven-player class shows to have above-average athleticism

GREEN BAY — Coach Mike McCarthy got his first look at all the brawny rookies drafted by the Green Bay Packers.