La Crosse Tribune Sports News

CHICAGO (AP) — For once, the key to the first round of the NFL draft doesn't belong to the team picking first.

Two blockbuster trades at the top of the NFL draft have revealed exactly where the league is in 2016.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Prosecutors will have to present witnesses against the man accused of killing retired New Orleans Saints player Will Smith at a hearing Thursday, unless a grand jury indicts him first.

LA CRESCENT — The rain fell as La Crescent High School baseball coach Rick Boyer hit ground balls, fly balls and line drives toward his players at George Horihan Field on Wednesday.

Lloyd “Albie” McKinney sat surrounded by concrete.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Renowned basketball coach Bob Knight on Wednesday threw his support behind Donald Trump's presidential campaign, less than a week before Indiana voters go to the polls in the state's primary.

HIGH SCHOOL STANDINGS

CHICAGO — Jake Arrieta will have to wait for his chance to match Johnny Vander Meer.

MADISON — Unlike many others in his position, Joe Schobert never experienced the hard-hitting reality that his childhood dream was simply that.

SEATTLE (AP) — Nintendo of America plans to sell its controlling stake in the Seattle Mariners to a group of minority owners led by John Stanton, who would become the team's chairman and chief executive officer.

Schobert has likely positioned himself to be a Day 2 selection in this week’s NFL Draft, which begins with the first round Thursday night in Chicago.

MONTREAL (AP) — Russia was responsible for more doping violations than any other country in 2014, while track and field was the sport with the worst doping record over the year, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Philadelphia third baseman Maikel Franco has agreed to sell 10 percent of his future earnings for $4.35 million to a company called Fantex, which plans to sell securities to investors.

NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama wrapped up her speech to dozens of U.S. athletes to mark 100 days before the Rio Games and immediately headed over to a temporary court set up in the middle of Times…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Olympic flame was handed to organizers of the Rio de Janeiro Games in Athens on Wednesday, 100 days before the opening ceremony in Brazil.

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas judge has set a $1,500 bond for former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel in his misdemeanor domestic assault case.

Card broke her own Big Ten records in the shot put and discus at the Triton Invitational in San Diego last weekend.

He was an eight-time high school state champion at Stevens Point. He won five NCAA titles and UW won team championships in cross country in 2005 and indoor track and field in 2007.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's Olympic committee on Wednesday unveiled Zika-proof long-sleeved shirts and pants it says will help protect the country's Olympic athletes from the mosquito-borne virus at this year's games in Rio de Janeiro.