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An incredible opener — incredible third quarter — for Onalaska Lexi Donarski in her fifth and final NCAA tournament. The Onalaska native nailed five 3-pointers and scored 17 of her game-high 19 points in the third quarter alone, as the 12th-ranked, third-seeded North Carolina women’s basketball team beat 14th-seed Oregon State 70-49. North Carolina (28-7)…

In its first trip to state, the Cochrane-Fountain City High School boys basketball team will be coming home Saturday as champions. The Pirates got 18 points from Porter Ehrat and 17 from Cameron Lipinski in beating Sheboygan Lutheran 60-54 at the Kohl Center for the Division 5 state title. C-FC (28-2) overcame a slow start…

Trey Bahr was 9-for-11 and teammates Calvin Bahr and Logan Becker both shot 7 of 11 in leading the Aquinas High School boys basketball team to a blowout win for a Division 4 state championship Saturday. The Blugolds beat top-seeded Bonduel 74-45 at the Kohl Center to win their first title since 2013 and fifth…

Behind Cameron Lipinski’s 24 points, the Cochrane-Fountain City Pirates reach the WIAA Boys Division 5 State Championship with a 66-54 win over Turtle Lake on Friday morning.  Lipinski went 7 for 14 on his field goals in the game plus two three-point baskets and eight of ten on free throws.  Reed Schmidtknecht got things started…

Last year, they watched a 3-pointer at the buzzer end the season. This time around, it was almost Déjà vu between the Aquinas High School boys basketball team and Mineral Point in the Division 4 state semifinals. Mineral Point launched another 3-pointer at the buzzer. This one, though, was to send things into overtime, and…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have committed to moving forward with J.J. McCarthy as their starting quarterback this season after deciding not to offer Aaron Rodgers a contract, a person with knowledge of the decision said Wednesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Vikings were not commenting…

DENVER (AP) — Wisconsin grinded its way back into the March Madness win column Thursday, getting 19 points from John Blackwell and double-digit scoring from four others on the way to an 85-66 victory over Montana. The third-seeded Badgers won in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2022. Last year, they were a first-round upset victim to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 28 points and the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers 118-89 on Thursday night. Gary Trent Jr. had 23 points off the bench, Kyle Kuzma added 20 and the Bucks swept the season series with two comfortable wins eight days apart. Bronny James had 17 points…

DENVER (AP) — A late-bloomer in both high school and college, Wisconsin guard John Tonje never envisioned his rise to college basketball stardom. He never thought he’d still be hitting the hardwood two years after graduating and there’s no way he counted upon becoming an All-American while leading the Badgers into March Madness a month…

CHICAGO (AP) — Christian Yelich and Milwaukee finished on top of the NL Central each of the past two seasons. A three-peat is going to be quite the challenge. While the Brewers had a quiet winter in the wake of their third division title in four years, the Chicago Cubs revamped their roster and the…