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John Madden’s love of football and family came through the most on Thanksgiving. On Thursday, NBC will continue to honor Madden’s legacy when it opens its broadcast before the nightcap between the Miami Dolphins and Green Bay Packers. LISTEN: Pregame Thursday for Packers-Dolphins on WKTY begins at 5 p.m. Kickoff at 7:15 p.m. Tune in…

The sixth-ranked University of Wisconsin volleyball team bounced back from a sweep by No. 2 Nebraska, by beating Ohio State 3-2 on Wednesday at the UW Field House. Save for the Badgers’ last two matches against Nebraska, they would have a 15-game win streak. Against OSU (14-15,7-12 Big Ten), Sarah Franklin had conference Big Ten…

Wisconsin has a string of 22 consecutive bowl appearances and winning seasons. Both streaks are in jeopardy as the Badgers prepare to close their regular season by hosting Minnesota in the battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe. Wisconsin needs a win to get to .500 and become bowl eligible. Wisconsin’s only path to a winning season…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton, an Oshkosh, Wis., native, looked and sounded more like himself Monday night. He made one 3-pointer after another, found open teammates with nifty passes and, yes, was smiling again. Celebrating a second-straight win certainly helped matters, too. For the usually unflappable two-time All-Star, the bounce back game…

MIAMI (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 37 points and handed out 12 assists, and the Milwaukee Bucks wasted a 22-point second-half lead before beating the Miami Heat 106-103 in an NBA Cup game on Tuesday night. Brook Lopez scored 13 points and Bobby Portis had 11 for the Bucks, who have won five in a…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur hopes the homework he did earlier this month will help his team deal with its compressed schedule over the next couple of weeks. The Packers’ 38-10 victory Sunday over the San Francisco 49ers began a 12-day stretch in which they play three games. They’re…

Tomah native Dustin Derousseau has scored 20 or more points in every game but one, as the UW-La Crosse men’s basketball team is off to a 4-1 start. The Eagles are averaging 84 points a game. Their only loss came 82-73 to 14th-ranked Nebraska Wesleyan. UW-L beat Marietta 99-75 on Friday, then John Hopkins 76-59…

The 19th-ranked University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team improved to 7-0 on Sunday, after an 81-75 win over Pitt. The last time the Badgers were 7-0 to start a season, La Crosse native Bronson Koenig was a sophomore point guard for a Wisconsin team that knocked off unbeaten Kentucky (38-1) in the Final Four, before…

An opening-round win and now the UW-La Crosse football team gets the No. 3 team in the nation. The 18th-ranked Eagles made easy work of Northwestern (Minn.) with a 59-14 win at home Saturday. At noon Saturday, UW-L travels to undefeated St. John’s (10-0), which will air on the WKTY App and on 92.3 FM…

She had 14 points in leading the North Carolina women’s basketball team on Sunday, but Onalaska native Lexi Donarski got in the box score in a way she doesn’t usually. The 6-foot senior shooting guard helped get this block — a double block or a half block? — in a 53-36 win over Villanova. Donarski…