La Crosse Tribune Sports News

With National Signing Day approaching, the State Journal's recruiting tracker will keep you up to date on all the news involving the Badgers' 2015 recruiting class.

The Badgers’ 2015 class now sits at 21 scholarship players.

UW’s bench players remain confident despite being shut out of the scoring column twice in the Badgers’ past five games.

The Gophers string together four goals in 100 seconds to wipe out UW’s advantage.

Messner, who will turn 16 in April, is regarded by some talent evaluators as the top 1999-born prospect in the state. He has 13 goals in 19 games for the Regents this season.

MANKATO, Min. — Entering with four weekend series remaining in the regular season, a pair of freshmen made sure the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team didn’t take its foot off the gas…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams, coughing frequently and still clearly affected by a recent cold, won the first set of her Australian Open final against Maria Sharapova 6-3 on Saturday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams, coughing frequently and still clearly affected by a recent cold, won the first set of her Australian Open final against Maria Sharapova 6-3 on Saturday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams, coughing frequently and still clearly affected by a recent cold, won the first set of her Australian Open final against Maria Sharapova 6-3 on Saturday.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Three previous trips were enough for Tiger Woods to leave quite an impression at the Phoenix Open. The hole-in-one on the most raucous hole in golf. Fans moving a half…

PHOENIX (AP) — A rookie who probably won't play in the Super Bowl could help the New England Patriots win it.

CHONGLI, China (AP) — Clad in neon-green from head to toe, Chinese snowboarder He Qiang is part of a growing cohort of middle-class enthusiasts in a country with little tradition of winter spo…

PHOENIX (AP) — Eric Bledsoe scored 23 points and backcourt mate Goran Dragic had 21 as the Phoenix Suns held off the Chicago Bulls 99-93 on Friday night.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Ryan Miller made 22 saves in his first game against his former team, and the Vancouver Canucks sent the Buffalo Sabres to their 14th straight regulation loss…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Patrick Kane had two goals and an assist, and Patrick Sharp assisted on every Chicago goal in the Blackhawks' 4-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Golden State Warriors stepped off the plane in Salt Lake City with a bad taste in their mouths from a two-point overtime loss against the Chicago Bulls earlier in the…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Brandon Ashley scored 12 points and T.J. McConnell had a career-high eight steals to spark No. 6 Arizona's smothering defense, lifting the Wildcats to a 57-34 victory over…

Junior Kelsey Card made her mark Friday at the Armory Track Invitational, which features competition between 71 colleges and universities, at the New Balance Track and Field Center in New York City.

BOYS BASKETBALL

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia took out the Australian Open junior girls' title on Saturday, winning five consecutive games after Katie Swan took a medical timeout a…