La Crosse Tribune Sports News

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Nick Marshall was a busy man at Auburn's pro day, throwing passes, performing in defensive back drills and finally fielding punts.

DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Pedro Alvarez hit a three-run shot and Korean rookie Jung Ho Kang connected for his first major league homer, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-7 win over the Toronto…

MIAMI (AP) — To say the Miami Heat have been presented with a new problem every day since last season ended, that would be an exaggeration.

The marketing agency that represents Jameis Winston is trying to trademark "Famous Jameis," the popular nickname for the Heisman Trophy during his two years at Florida State.

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel says city building ordinances don't allow the renovation project at Wrigley Field to have construction crews working around the clock.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant will be out at least another week for the Oklahoma City Thunder, but Russell Westbrook could return Wednesday against the Philadelphia 76ers.

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Tick, tock, baseball is on the clock.

DENVER (AP) — The Denver Nuggets have fired coach Brian Shaw after 1½ seasons.

Settle, who coached Badgers backs from 2006 to '10, replaces Thomas Brown, who spent one season at UW before leaving for Georgia.

ROME (AP) — With three kids at home, Mia Hamm already had plenty on her plate when two professional clubs called over the space of just a few days in October.

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man who admitted to recruiting foreign baseball players for the operators of a steroid-dispensing clinic has been sentenced to prison followed by house arrest.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex Rodriguez predicts he'll be "a little nervous" when he returns to the field Wednesday for his first game in 17 months following a season-long drug suspension.

LONDON (AP) — Susie Wolff will drive for the Williams team in the first practice sessions at the Formula One races in Spain and Britain this season.

The third-ranked University of Wisconsin women's hockey team will play eighth-ranked North Dakota Saturday in the WCHA Final Face-off semifinals.

The University of Wisconsin men's hockey team has its final road assigment of the year Friday and Saturday when it plays at Michigan State.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki avoided a repeat of her last appearance at the Malaysian Open - a first-round loss - by dispatching Chinese qualifier Wang Yafan 6-3…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Football in the sun-drenched Mediterranean island of Cyprus is riddled with match-fixing by referees, an operation designed to line the pockets of soccer officials and p…

LONDON (AP) — McLaren says Fernando Alonso will not race in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix following a crash during Formula One testing that sent him to the hospital for three days.

That's the word from coach Bo Ryan on Jackson, who has missed 12 games since breaking his right foot in UW's loss at Rutgers on Jan. 11.

The UW athletic director has first hand experience with concept of freshman ineligibility, and he said it was "very good for me."