La Crosse Tribune Sports News

The Big Ten will reportedly nearly triple its annual media rights revenue beginning in 2017.

ROME (AP) — An anti-establishment party founded by a comic has triumphed in Italian mayoral runoff elections, trouncing Premier Matteo Renzi's candidates in Rome and another key city and turning its sights Monday toward its next goal — national power.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius and other relatives have been threatened in an extortion attempt ahead of the former track star's sentencing on July 6 for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, Pistorius' family said Monday.

PARIS (AP) — The Latest from soccer's European Championship (all times local):

Overshadowed again in a loaded National League, the San Francisco Giants have taken control of their division with a run that feels awfully familiar.

A look at what's happening all around the majors today:

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Richard Jefferson is an NBA champion, and that's how he says his career will end.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The championship parade and celebration for the newly crowned NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers will be held on Wednesday.

CLEVELAND (AP) — More tears. Only this time, tears of joy.

CHICAGO (AP) — After being swept in Chicago, the Pittsburgh Pirates are suddenly closer in record to the NL-worst Atlanta Braves than the first-place Cubs.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a fan fell from the second to the first deck of Oakland's Oracle Arena after the Cleveland Cavaliers' Game 7 victory over the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals.

CHICAGO (AP) — Prized prospect Willson Contreras received a standing ovation as he made his way to the plate in the sixth inning for his first major league at-bat.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two construction workers chatted while applying white grout to the walls of a new subway tunnel one recent day, their voices and the smells of the building materials stark reminders of what was missing: passengers…

DETROIT (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired infielder Chris Taylor from the Seattle Mariners on Sunday night for pitching prospect Zach Lee.

The La Crosse Loggers dropped a back-and-forth slugfest to the Kenosha Kingfish on Sunday night, falling 9-6 in front of 2,389 fans at Copeland Park.

OAKMONT, Pa. — Dustin Johnson settled the score Sunday in the U.S. Open.

OAKLAND, Calif. — LeBron James cradled the shiny gold trophy and struggled to sum up what might be his sweetest championship yet, the one he is so proudly bringing home to his native northeast Ohio just as he promised to…

OAKMONT, Pa. — Maybe Dustin Johnson is smarter than the average golfer after all.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers had to wait for Kike Hernandez’s eighth-inning homer to get on the scoreboard Sunday. Patience led to the winning run, too.

NEWTON, Iowa — Sam Hornish Jr. won three IndyCar championships and an Indianapolis 500 before fading into obscurity as a NASCAR driver.