La Crosse Tribune Sports News

GALESVILLE — The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School girls basketball team gets noticed much of the time because of what it can do offensively behind the play of Division I recruit Annalese Lamke.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in Ca…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks are trading J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert to the disappointing Cavaliers, who have struggled in superstar LeBron James' first season back in Cleveland.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Zach Auguste's basket off an offensive rebound with 1:07 left helped No. 13 Notre Dame hold off No. 18 North Carolina 71-70 on Monday night.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — When the Oregon Ducks look back at their lone loss of the season, sure there's lingering disappointment, but not a lot of second-guessing.

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo and Jason Witten have seen plenty of bad endings in Dallas.

GREEN BAY — Stoic defensive lineman Mike Daniels has trained his focus squarely on Dallas.

Four area teams top Division 3 list; Cuba City, Barneveld still on top in Divisions 4 and 5; DeForest is second in Division 2 and Middleton is third in Division 1.

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Former Washington Redskins defensive back Fred Smoot has been acquitted of misdemeanor domestic assault following a bench trial in Virginia.

MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL is considering expanding its playoffs in 2015. Currently, 12 of 32 teams make it to the postseason, meaning that the first weekend of playoff competition this year featur…

A flag flies. Dallas fans groan. Detroit fans rejoice.

DENVER (AP) — Free agent catcher Nick Hundley and the Colorado Rockies have finalized a $6.25 million, two-year contract.

NEW YORK (AP) — Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz appear to be shoo-ins for election to the Hall of Fame in what is shaping up as the baseball writers' biggest class of inductees i…

ATLANTA (AP) — John Smoltz could do it all on the mound.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Detroit-Dallas game Sunday averaged 42.3 million viewers on Fox, the third-highest total in NFL wild-card history.

For the fifth straight week, Kentucky is the unanimous No. 1 team in the AP Top 25.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Top-ranked Kentucky has had nine days off to recharge from an impressive nonconference run that has ratcheted up projections of an unbeaten season.

LONDON (AP) — Steven Gerrard began his Liverpool farewell tour by scoring twice to give the Reds a 2-1 win over fourth-tier Wimbledon on Monday night in the third round of the FA Cup.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Detroit Lions coach Jim Caldwell says he believes the NFL can improve the way it uses technology and further remove the "human factor" from the way games are officiated.

ATLANTA (AP) — A person with direct knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press the Atlanta Braves have reached an agreement on a one-year contract with catcher A.J. Pierzynski.