La Crosse Tribune Sports News

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Carlos Gomez was a way of igniting the Milwaukee Brewers.

MADISON -- Duje Dukan was a late arrival to a shorter-than-usual practice for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team on Tuesday night, and one of the first things the reserve forwar…

Like a lot of folks, UW-La Crosse softball players apparently like being – and playing ball – outside.

One week after Patrick Willis surprised the NFL with his decision to retire, his would-be replacement at inside linebacker has decided to do the same.

Monaco reached the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2004 despite a 2-0 loss at home to Arsenal on Tuesday night, advancing on away goals after a 3-3 aggregate tie in the…

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Struggling with her serve and a rash of errors, Serena Williams needed three sets to get by Sloane Stephens 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-2 and reach the fourth round of the BNP …

ATLANTA (AP) — Kevin Ware shows no queasiness toward that nasty scar running down the front of his right leg. He even rubs it from time to time — a good luck charm, one might say.

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You can still count on two hands how many players walked away from a pro football career with more good days likely ahead of them than behind.

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Many Major League Baseball teams at spring training followed their annual tradition of wearing green jerseys and hats at spring training for St. Patrick's Day. The Detroi…

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — The head of the Major League Baseball Players Association says he'd "love" to see Pete Rose reinstated.

You can still count on two hands how many players walked away from a pro football career with more good days likely ahead of them than behind.

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Chris Carter was 3 for 3 with two doubles and four RBIs to break out of a spring-training slump and lift the Houston Astros over the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-7 Tuesday.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Clay Buchholz allowed four runs in four innings, and Boston's defense committed four of the game's seven errors in an 11-3 loss by the Red Sox to the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Matt Wieters returned to catching exactly six months after Tommy John surgery and played six innings in the Baltimore Orioles' 10-9 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The PGA Tour hasn't seen this kind of parity in two decades.

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Jhonny Peralta had three hits, including his first homer of spring training, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over a Miami Marlins' split squad 7-1 Tuesday.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels were in the ballpark together one more time, each guy going a different direction.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thunder forward Serge Ibaka could miss the rest of the season after having an arthroscopic procedure on his right knee Tuesday.

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Yu Darvish had his season-ending elbow surgery Tuesday, when the torn ligament from the Texas Rangers ace's right arm was replaced with a tendon from his forearm.