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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Courtney Williams scored 17 points and Alanna Smith had 15 points to help the Lynx offset an off night for star Napheesa Collier and beat the Connecticut Sun 77-70 to even the best-of-five WNBA semifinal series at one game apiece on Tuesday. Collier, who scored 80 points in the two-game sweep of…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jackson Chourio is looking forward to more champagne-soaked clubhouse celebrations, even if he still isn’t old enough to partake fully. LISTEN: Bob Uecker on the call Tuesday as the Brewers host the Mets. Pregame on WKTY begins at 3:55 p.m. First pitch at 4:30 p.m. Tune in on 96.7…

Former La Crosse Loggers pitcher Chris Sale, at 35 years old, is the National League’s triple crown winner. The Atlanta Braves ace led the NL in wins — going 18-3 — ERA (2.38) and strikeouts (225). Sale pitched for the Loggers in the summer of 2008. At 20 years old, Sale struck out 74 in…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers weren’t supposed to get this far. Neither were the New York Mets. LISTEN: Bob Uecker on the call Tuesday as the Brewers host the Mets. Pregame on WKTY begins at 3:55 p.m. First pitch at 4:30 p.m. Tune in on 96.7 FM / 580 AM Yet here they are…

They gotta play all 162 games. Two games last week postponed because of a hurricane have come back to haunt the Mets and Braves — and keep the Brewers from knowing who they’ll face to open the playoffs. LISTEN: Bob Uecker on the call Tuesday for the Brewers playoff opener. Pregame on WKTY begins at…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Sam Darnold and the Minnesota Vikings keep proving skeptics wrong while maintaining early control of the NFC North race. Darnold threw three touchdown passes and Jordan Addison scored twice as the undefeated Vikings built an early 28-point lead and hung on down the stretch to beat the Green Bay Packers…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Jordan Love arrived at Lambeau Field wearing a Brett Favre Packers jersey. Then he went out and produced the kind of performance that Favre once made a habit of delivering at home. Love went 32 of 54 for 389 yards and nearly helped Green Bay come all the way back…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Francisco Lindor homered and drove in two runs, David Peterson pitched seven brilliant innings and the New York Mets moved within one win of a playoff berth Sunday with a 5-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. LISTEN: The Milwaukee Brewers playoff opener will broadcast Tuesday on WKTY. Pregame begins at 3:55 p.m.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Coliseum crowd booed No. 13 USC off the field at halftime Saturday after the Trojans committed three turnovers, struggled for defensive stops against Wisconsin and generally played like a team that wasn’t ready for the Big Ten. Although they couldn’t argue with their fans’ feelings, the Trojans are already very…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joey Ortiz drove in three runs for Milwaukee and the New York Mets mustered just two hits as their playoff hopes sustained another blow with a 6-0 loss to the Brewers on Saturday night. New York (87-72) lost its third straight and fell one game behind Atlanta (88-71) in the NL wild…