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Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge ranger Katie Julian joins to talk about the 100-year anniversary, the importance of the Mississippi River for migrating birds and how to help protect them, plus how one can get her job. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-9 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or…

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Justin Jefferson has gone four full games in a row for the Minnesota Vikings without reaching 100 receiving yards, the longest such streak of his spectacular career. Don’t think he hasn’t noticed. “I’m definitely sick of having these 80, 90-yard games. I definitely have to get over that hump of 100…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — After taking advantage of turnovers for the first third of the season, the Green Bay Packers are now getting a little too careless with the ball. The Packers (5-2) committed three turnovers and didn’t get a single takeaway Sunday in their 24-22 victory over the Houston Texans. Houston scored 16 points off…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Paul George’s debut with the Philadelphia 76ers is on hold and Joel Embiid is again set to miss time with an injury. LISTEN: Pregame Wednesday for Bucks-Sixers on WKTY begins at 6 p.m. Tune in on 96.7 FM / 580 AM Embiid and George will miss Wednesday’s season opener against Milwaukee and…

A matchup of co-conference champs to open the high school football playoffs Friday, as fourth-seeded Holmen hosts No. 5 Central. The Vikings (6-3) beat the River Hawks (5-4) 36-17 on Oct. 4. Holmen is coming off a 35-21 loss to Reedsburg, while Central lost 27-19 Friday to Logan, which has a three seed. 2024 WIAA…

The Logan High School football team got the third seed in the Division 3 playoffs. Coming off a 27-19 win for the Ark against Central on Friday, the Rangers head into the playoffs 7-2 overall. They will host Waupaca (4-5) at 7 p.m. Friday. The Comets have won 3 of 4, after starting the season…

The fourth-ranked Aquinas High School football team has a No. 1 seed heading into the Division 5 playoffs. The Blugolds (8-1), who beat Viroqua 46-13 Friday, will host Edgewood (4-5) at 7 p.m. Friday. Aquinas’ only loss this season came at Columbus 20-16 in Week 2. 2024 Division 4 high school football playoff bracket.  …

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Brandon McManus insisted he hadn’t planned to do a “Lambeau leap” if he made a winning field goal in his Green Bay Packers debut. But when he kicked a 45-yard field goal as time expired to give Green Bay a 24-22 victory over Houston on Sunday, McManus couldn’t help himself.…

It was a block party Sunday for the ninth-ranked University of Wisconsin volleyball team in beating Michigan 3-1 on the road Sunday. Carter Booth had a career-high 12 blocks, as Wisconsin set a four-set, team record with 21 in the game. Anna Smrek added eight blocks and setter Charlie Fuebringer had six — also a…

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — After the Minnesota Vikings were narrowly defeated by the thriving Detroit Lions, coach Kevin O’Connell invented an only-in-football noun to assess his team’s not-quite-complete-enough performance. “It’s just these little self-inflicteds,” O’Connell said, highlighting the pre-snap penalties and handful of other seemingly minor mistakes that added up to the 31-29 loss to the Lions on Sunday.…