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The 13th-ranked Wisconsin men’s hockey team fell behind just 37 seconds into the game and never quite had it on Friday night at the Kohl Center, falling 3-2 to Alaska Anchorage.

Curler Debbie McCormick is in Eau Claire this weekend to compete in the Leinenkugel's Open Bonspiel.

Eight former Badgers heard their names called as members of the 2014 U.S. Olympic men's and women's hockey teams. The 2014 Olympic Winter Games get underway Feb. 7, in Sochi, Russia.

The Wisconsin men's basketball team improved to 14-0 with a dominating 76-49 victory over Northwestern in their Big Ten opener Thursday night in Evanston.

Linebacker Chris Borland says Wisconsin played hard in the postseason, but he otherwise can't figure out what the program need to do better other than improved execution.

Temperatures are expected to be in the single digits when the teams kick off late Sunday afternoon and drop through the game.

The Eau Claire North hockey team has struggled in recent years but is turning the corner. The Huskies have to give some credit to this week's Gordy's Athlete of the Week, goalie Bryce Kamenick.

Connor Shaw was responsible for five touchdowns, including three passing, and No. 8 South Carolina outlasted No. 19 Wisconsin 34-24 in the Capital One Bowl on Wednesday.

Tuesday in our College Athlete Check-In, we talk to former Menomonie and current Badger wrestler Eric Peissig and former Memorial and Winona State runner Heidi Hujik.

The UW-Eau Claire men's basketball team got up by as many as 14 points against the University of Northwestern-St. Paul (Minn.) but the Eagles fought back to get within three before the Blugolds won 70-65 in the final game of the 45th Annual UW-Eau Claire Holiday Classic in Zorn Arena .

Both the No. 8 Gamecocks (10-2) and No. 19 Badgers (9-3) enter the New Year's Day matchup having had shots at reaching a BCS bowl before being untimely losses.

Gov. Nikki Haley placed the friendly wager Tuesday with her colleague in Wisconsin.

The team made about 40,000 tickets available Monday morning.

Tonight in our college athlete check-in. We catch up with Eau Claire Memorial grads, brothers Wes and Trevor Manz, swimmers at Kenyon College.

The Green Bay Packers are headed to the playoffs for the fifth straight year by winning three of their final four games. The Packers will host San Francisco Sunday at Lambeau Field in an NFC Wild Card game.

The UW-Eau Claire men's basketball team showed no rust after 16 days off as they jumped out to a big halftime lead and never looked back in a 65-41 victory over Northland College at the 45th annual Holiday Classic in Zorn Arena tonight.

Continuing our College Athlete Check-In. Today we catch up with Wisconsin Badger swimmer Austin Byrd. The Chippewa Falls grad earned a top 10 finish in the 200 yard backstroke at the Big Ten Championships last year as a freshman. In 2011 and 2012, Byrd won back to back state titles in the 100 backstroke. The first Cardinal to get a scholarship to Madison, Byrd says he made the right choice becoming a Badger.

On Monday, the team announced it's opponents for next season on its website.

In a statement released by the team, Chudzinski, a lifelong Browns fan, said "I am a Cleveland Brown to the core, and always will be."

The three Big Ten schools -- Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State -- remained third through fifth.