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NEW YORK (AP) — Defending NBA Cup champion Milwaukee will play its group-stage games in this season’s tournament against New York, Chicago, Charlotte and Miami, the league announced Wednesday. The league unveiled the groups for the third year of the tournament, which tips off on Oct. 31. Group play continues through Nov. 28. Quarterfinals will…

Minnesota Twins center fielder and Georgia native Byron Buxton was announced as the fourth participant in the Home Run Derby on Monday. The derby will take place next Monday, the night before the All-Star Game, at Truist Park in Atlanta. The 31-year-old Buxton will be the eighth Twins hitter to take part in the derby,…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former Chicago White Sox first baseman/outfielder Andrew Vaughn is back in the majors with the Milwaukee Brewers, who promoted him as they sent first baseman Rhys Hoskins to the injured list on Monday with a sprained left thumb. Hoskins’ assignment to the 10-day injured list was retroactive to Sunday. He sprained the…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach Al LeBoeuf is away from the team after having prostate surgery. The Brewers said Tuesday that LeBoeuf is expected to rejoin the team without providing a specific timetable. He had the operation on Monday. LeBoeuf (leh-BUFF) is coaching in the majors for the first time this year. The…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Andrew Vaughn is back in the majors with the Milwaukee Brewers and making quite an early impression with his new team. The Brewers called up the former Chicago White Sox slugger from the minors on Monday after a sprained left thumb landed first baseman Rhys Hoskins on the injured list. In his…

MIAMI (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Brandon Woodruff struck out eight and threw two-hit ball through six innings against Miami on Sunday to win his first start in the majors since Sept. 23, 2023. The two-time All-Star hadn’t pitched in the big leagues since having shoulder surgery after the 2023 season. Woodruff (1-0) struck out the side…

Continuing our sports and tax conversations — this time about selling franchises and the weird world of vape tax — with Dr. Adam Hoffer, director of excise tax policy at the Tax Foundation, on La Crosse Talk. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM…

Although it’s no longer held in Waupaca and boat rides with recovery beers are a thing of the past, the Waupaca Boatride Volleyball Tournament is celebrating its 41st year. Director Eddie Zelhofer on WIZM, discussing how the competition, that began in 1984, evolved into the largest volleyball tourney in the U.S. La Crosse Talk airs…

MIAMI (AP) — Milwaukee first baseman Rhys Hoskins is expected to miss the next upcoming games after he left the Brewers’ game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday because of left thumb discomfort. “It doesn’t look great. It’s not fractured,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said following the club’s 4-2 loss to the Marlins. “He doesn’t feel…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Harrison Bader hit his second home run of the game in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday. Bader, the No. 9 batter, lined the first pitch he saw from Kevin Kelly (0-1) into the first row of…