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The seventh-ranked University of Wisconsin volleyball team had no problem in the first round of the NCAA tournament, sweeping Fairfield 3-0 Friday night at the UW Field House. All Round 2 games appear to be on ESPN+. Later round will make it to actual stations The Badgers (24-6) play No. 19 Georgia Tech (21-9) at…

DETROIT (AP) — The Green Bay Packers got an unexpected extra chance to stop the Detroit Lions’ offense on Thursday night. They still couldn’t do it. With 43 seconds left in a 31-31 tie, the Lions faced fourth-and-inches from the Packers 21. They were in easy field-goal range for Jake Bates, but coach Dan Campbell…

Bill Soper, the president of the La Crosse Area YMCAs, joins to reminisce a bit about doing segments for 30 years with Mike Hayes, who passed away last week. We also got a bit of an update on a future YMCA in Holmen, plus how the La Crosse YMCAs have evolved to more than just…

Onalaska native Lexi Donarski and the 16th-ranked North Carolina women’s basketball look for their fifth consecutive win this afternoon when they host No. 14 Kentucky. The game tops off at 4 p.m. on ESPN2. The Tar Heels (7-1) only loss so far this season has come to No. 2 Uconn, 69-58 back on Nov. 15.…

Two days ago, it looked as though two unbeaten men’s basketball teams in Wisconsin, ranked fifth and 11th in the nation, were going to meet up in Milwaukee for an epic game. Then No. 11 Wisconsin fell to unranked Michigan 67-64 on Tuesday, before fifth-ranked Marquette fell to No. 6 Iowa State 81-70 a day…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jalen Johnson had 23 points and 13 rebounds and the Atlanta Hawks halted Milwaukee’s winning streak at seven games, beating the Bucks 119-104 on Wednesday night. De’Andre Hunter scored 20 points, Trae Young 17, Bogdan Bogdanovic 15, Onyeka Okongwu 13 and Zaccharie Risacher 12 as the Hawks extended their winning streak to…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Defending the run has been one of the Green Bay Packers’ weaknesses over the last several years. Not so much lately, though. Green Bay limited San Francisco to 16 carries for 44 yards in a 38-10 rout of the 49ers on Nov. 24, with two-time All-Pro Christian McCaffrey gaining 31 yards on…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vladislav Goldin scored a career-high 24 points — including three straight baskets inside down the stretch — and Michigan defeated No. 11 Wisconsin 67-64 on Tuesday night in the Big Ten opener for both teams. Michigan (7-1, 1-0) won its sixth straight and handed Wisconsin (8-1, 0-1) its first loss of the season.…

December 2024’s WKTY donation is to JCI La Crosse’s Toys For Tots. They have been running our local Toys For Tots program for over 80 years!  Thanks to our sponsors, Kratt Lumber Company and Performance Foodservice, WKTY Cares was proud to make a $1,000 donation to support their work in our community! You can donate to their Amazon Wishlist HERE,…

Longtime Viterbo volleyball coach Ryan DeLong joined WIZM’s La Crosse Talk, as his team continues in the NAIA tournament. We discuss volleyball in the area, the expectations — perhaps unfairly — put on the 15th-ranked V-Hawks to seemingly always qualify for the postseason and how they got here this time around. La Crosse Talk airs…