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Onalaska native Lexi Donarski and the North Carolina women’s basketball team plays its first game Thursday as a member of the Top 10. The ninth-ranked Tar Heels (23-4) head to Syracuse (10-15) for a 5 p.m. tip. Donarski has scored double digits in seven of her past nine games. Over that stretch, she’s shot 47.1…

The NBA has suspended Milwaukee forward Bobby Portis Jr. for 25 games without pay because he tested positive for the painkiller Tramadol, a violation of the league’s anti-drug program. Portis cannot play again until April 8 — the 79th game of Milwaukee’s 82-game regular-season schedule — at the earliest. His suspension starts with the Bucks’…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — John Tonje scored 31 points and No. 11 Wisconsin beat Illinois 95-74 on Tuesday night to earn its fifth straight victory and end its recent run of futility in this series. Wisconsin (21-5, 11-4 Big Ten) had lost its last nine matchups with the Fighting Illini, including an 86-80 defeat Dec.…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell is receiving a one-year extension on a contract that will now run through the 2031 season. The school’s athletic board approved the one-year extension recommendation Wednesday. Fickell originally agreed to a seven-year contract paying him an average of $7.8 million per year when Wisconsin hired him away…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo is excited about playing with his new Milwaukee Bucks teammates but isn’t quite sure how soon that time will come. LISTEN: Pregame for Bucks-Clippers on WKTY begins at 6:30 p.m. Tune in on 96.7 FM / 580 AM Antetokounmpo returned to practice Wednesday after missing Milwaukee’s final six games before…

The Badgers moved up five spots in the Top 25 poll, after beating then-No.7 Purdue last weekend. Wisconsin (20-5) is now the highest-ranked team in the Big Ten, and they’ve been ranked this high before. Back in early December, the Badgers opened the season 8-0, earning a No. 11 spot in the polls. They went…

Onalaska native Lexi Donarski and the North Carolina women’s basketball team have cracked the Top 10 in the NCAA. The Tar Heels (23-4), fresh off beating intra-state rival, 10th-ranked NC State, moved up three spots in the polls to No. 9 overall. Donarski, who is in her last collegiate season, has scored in double figures…

RALEIGH, N.C. — Onalaska native Lexi Donarski scored 10 points, as the No. 12 North Carolina women’s basketball team beat 10th-ranked NC State by one point with a pair of free throws in the final seconds in front of a sellout crowd of 6,319. Grace Townsend’s pair from the stripe with 5.2 seconds gave the…

Several area high school teams fared well in the 2025 Wisconsin Interscholastic Fishing Association State Ice Fishing Championship held in La Crosse on February 15.  A total of 79 teams of high school students from around the state competed on Pools 7 and 8 for 7.5 hours beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturday morning.  The…

PHOENIX (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich says he will be ready for the start of the season. Six months removed from back surgery that brought a premature end to a resurgent season, Yelich arrived in camp Saturday at full strength with his sights set on an even better 2025 campaign. “I saw before…