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Things don’t get much easier for Onalaska native Lexi Donarski and the North Carolina women’s basketball team, which goes from playing No. 3 Notre Dame over the weekend to hosting No. 14 Duke on Thursday night. Donarski had, perhaps, her best game of the season for the 17th-ranked Tar Heels, who fell 76-66 to Notre…

It’s arguably the biggest game of the season for Onalaska native Lexi Donarski and the North Carolina women’s basketball team. The 17th-ranked Tar Heels (13-2) host No. 2 Notre Dame (11-2) at noon Sunday on ESPN. Donarski, in her final collegiate season, is averaging 9.3 points on 40.5% shooting, including 2.1 3-pointers per game. It’s…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Anfernee Simons scored 28 points and Deni Avdija 19 as the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 105-102 on Saturday night. Giannis Antetokounmpo hit two free throws to give the Bucks a 102-100 lead. Simons was fouled on a scoring drive and completed the three-point play, giving Portland a 103-102 lead…

The Green Bay Packers will tune up for the playoffs by trying to beat the Chicago Bears for a 12th straight time Sunday. Green Bay already has the longest active winning streak by any NFL team over a specific opponent.  LISTEN: Pregame for Packers-Bears on WKTY begins at 10 a.m. Tune in on 96.7 FM…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Caleb Williams drove Chicago to Cairo Santos’ 51-yard field goal as time expired and the Bears snapped a 10-game skid with a 24-22 victory over the playoff-bound Green Bay Packers, who lost quarterback Jordan Love and wide receiver Christian Watson to injuries on Sunday. The Bears (5-12) beat the Packers…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — John Blackwell set career-highs with 32 points and six 3-pointers, and Wisconsin finished with a program-best 21 makes from behind the arc in a 116-85 victory over Iowa on Friday night. Markus Ilver tied Wisconsin’s team record of 18 3-pointers in a game with 2:48 left and Xavier Amos got a…

Instead of having Pam Starcher stop in at WIZM, we took La Crosse Talk PM to her, and discussed how to make yoga a New Year’s resolution, right from her studio at The Yoga Place at Fifth and Main streets, downtown.  La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06 p.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online…

Claire and Phillip Mitchell kickoff a La Crosse Talk PM series on health, as the new year approaches and we all start thinking about resolutions. The two own Mitchell Holistic Health in Onalaska, a clinic that tackles health issues in various ways, from physical therapy to functional medicine to life coaching. La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo didn’t want to talk about the latest record the Milwaukee Bucks star added to his collection Thursday night. The two-time MVP instead was focused on figuring how the Bucks could stop their recent pattern of making things tough on themselves early in games. Two nights after erasing a 19-point deficit…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers apparently will have to make their entire postseason run without two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander. Packers coach Matt LaFleur said Wednesday that Alexander is undergoing surgery to repair the knee injury that has kept the 2018 first-round pick from playing for most of the past…