La Crosse Tribune Sports News

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — After three preseason games, the Jacksonville Jaguars still have questions — more like concerns — about the left side of their offensive line.

Predictably, people from all sides of the spectrum are weighing in on 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's controversial decision to not stand during the National Anthem.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tomas Plekanec has been chosen captain of the Czech Republic's team for the World Cup of Hockey.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns have released linebacker Paul Kruger, a startling move in another step in the team's youth movement.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian athletes including the women's pole vault world record holder, Yelena Isinbayeva, have visited an air base in Syria that Russia uses to target Islamic State fighters.

DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling is in trouble again with police.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots offensive lineman and team dentist Bill Lenkaitis has died.

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo's first female leader said Monday that she will use her platform to host a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly 2020 Olympics and push a women's rights agenda that she hopes will be a model for Japan's central…

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment says the former star wrestler and manager Harry Fujiwara, better known as Mr. Fuji, has died at age 82. An obituary posted on WWE's website Sunday said Fujiwara died that morning. The obituary…

Corey Clement’s final fall camp with the University of Wisconsin football team was quite different than the one before it, when Clement was openly discussing his hopes to follow Melvin Gordon and enter the NFL draft a year early.

Entering his fourth year in the University of Wisconsin football program, junior linebacker Jack Cichy has never played a down against Michigan. Or Michigan State. Or Ohio State, for that matter.

Of the 30 teams in the major leagues, 18 are either in playoff position or within 3 1/2 games of a spot.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Austin Wilson homered and singled twice as the Bakersfield Blaze topped the Stockton Ports 11-8 on Sunday.

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MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Collin Ferguson hit a walk-off single with one out in the 11th inning, as the Modesto Nuts defeated the Lancaster JetHawks 3-2 on Sunday. With the victory, the Nuts swept the three-game series.

BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio farm is honoring the Cleveland Cavaliers with corn mazes designed in the shape of their championship trophy, LeBron James' head and the words "Homegrown Hero" and "Believeland."

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Fans of the UW-La Crosse football team should prepare themselves:

MADISON — Wisconsin could have a better team than it did in 2015. And a worse record.

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) -- Michael Perez tripled, doubled twice and singled, scoring a run and also driving one home as the Visalia Rawhide defeated the San Jose Giants 10-3 on Sunday.

ADELANTO, Calif. (AP) -- Jose Cardona had four hits and two RBI, and Adam Quintana allowed just four hits over seven innings as the High Desert Mavericks defeated the Lake Elsinore Storm 10-2 on Sunday.