La Crosse Tribune Sports News

IOWA CITY, Iowa — At times this week, the Iowa football team had to stop preparing for Heisman Trophy candidate Melvin Gordon and the University of Wisconsin’s seemingly unstoppable running ga…

ATLANTA (AP) — Jeff Teague scored a season-high 28 points and the Atlanta Hawks recovered after blowing a 19-point lead to beat the Detroit Pistons 99-89 on Friday night.

FLINT, Mich. — The Coulee Region Chill avoided a third consecutive shootout with its 5-4 win over Michigan on Friday.

ATLANTA (AP) — Jeff Teague scored a season-high 28 points and the Atlanta Hawks recovered after blowing a 19-point lead to beat the Detroit Pistons 99-89 on Friday night.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Isaiah Thomas scored 23 points and Markieff Morris had 18 to lead the Phoenix Suns past the winless Philadelphia 76ers 122-96 on Friday night.

MADISON, Wis. — Junior tailback Blair Mulholland rushed for 152 yards and two touchdowns as Kimberly capped its perfect season with a 31-6 victory over Arrowhead in the WIAA Division 1 champio…

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Lee Janzen shot a 4-under 68 on Friday at Pebble Beach for a two-stroke lead over Andrew Putnam after two rounds of the Callaway Pebble Beach Invitational.

In the 1970s and again in '80s, I signed that era's version of the Giancarlo Stanton deal.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Raul Ibanez, Kevin Cash and Don Wakamatsu are the finalists to replace Joe Maddon as manager of the Tampa Bay Rays.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons won't apologize for somehow being in first place with a losing record.

Mother Nature isn't going to throw a wrench into Ken Johnson's 21-year streak of attending every Buffalo Bills game — no matter where they play.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Michelle Wie played well enough Friday in the CME Globe Tour Championship to consider a million ways her great year can get even better.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Family members say Naismith Hall of Fame basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian remains hospitalized in stable condition at a Las Vegas hospital where he's being treated for pneumonia.

MIAMI (AP) — A lawyer for a former University of Miami pitching coach is seeking a wide range of Major League Baseball records for the coach's upcoming trial on illegal performance-enhancing d…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson's hearing for the appeal of his suspension will be held on Dec. 2. And it will not be in front of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Trevone Boykin sprinted forward and hurled himself into the end zone with an acrobatic somersault.

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Stars have signed center Jason Spezza to a $30 million, four-year contract extension.

Far removed from punishing hits on the ice, the real crunching in the NHL these days is being done in front offices around the league with the numbers involved in the complex, lengthy calculat…

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke says a boycott of the 2018 World Cup in Russia would be "nonsense."

LILLE, France (AP) — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga rued the lack of support of his home crowd Friday after losing to Stan Wawrinka in the opening singles match of the Davis Cup final between France and S…