La Crosse Tribune Sports News

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.

CINCINNATI (AP) — 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.

The La Crescent American Legion baseball team has won its sub-district tournament the past 11 consecutive years, its district tournament nine of the last 11 and has been crowned Minnesota Stat…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Pete Rose came home for the All-Star Game and made a rare on-field appearance in the place where he's still treated like a king.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says the league is leaning toward eliminating division records in the playoff-seeding formula, and that the change is expected to become finalized…

DALLAS (AP) — Deron Williams has joined his hometown Mavericks after Brooklyn bought out the contract the point guard signed when he spurned Dallas to stay with the Nets three years ago.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — All-Star center Marc Gasol says he's sorry if Grizzlies fans worried over how long it took to learn that he wasn't leaving Memphis. There was never reason to fret, though.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Baseball management is intrigued with the idea of using pitch clocks to speed play in the major leagues. The players' association thinks it is a horrible idea.

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — Drag racing is about to get a little more exposure.