Category: Sports
WIAA State Individual Wrestling Tournament starts Thursday
February 20, 2013 By Bill Scott The 70th Annual WIAA Individual Wrestling Championship Tournament gets underway Thursday and concludes Saturday at the Kohl Center in WIAA State Wrestling action Madison. Division 1 preliminaries get underway at 3pm, quarterfinals start at 5:15 and Divisions 2 & 3 preliminaries cap off day 1 at 7:15pm. A total of 14 champions will be [...]
No. 19 Wisconsin cruises past Northwestern 69-41
Feb. 21, 2013 EVANSTON, Ill. — Jared Berggren and Ben Brust each scored 12 points, and No. 19 Wisconsin shut down Northwestern 69-41 on Wednesday night for its fifth win in six games. The balanced Badgers (19-8, 10-4 Big Ten) had five players with at least eight points and held the Wildcats to 29-percent shooting during [...]
AP Wisconsin Sports Updates: Bucks lose to New Jersey – Packers raise prices
NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Johnson hit a buzzer-beating jumper in overtime last night to give the Brooklyn Nets a 113-111 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. Johnson finished with 24 points, and Brook Lopez and Deron Williams added 19 apiece for the Nets. Brandon Jennings scored a game-high 34 points for the Bucks. NEWARK, N.J. [...]
Packers officially release Center Jeff Saturday
February 18, 2013 - By Bill Scott The Green Bay Packers released C Jeff Saturday today. Saturday, who signed with the Packers as an unrestricted free agent in March 2012 after playing 13 seasons (1999-2011) with the Indianapolis Colts, started 14 games for Green Bay this past season and was named to his sixth career Pro Bowl. He [...]
No. 20 Badgers blow out No. 13 Ohio State 71-49 in hoops
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin can be awfully good when it is making shots. Ohio State found that out Sunday. The 20th-ranked Badgers shot 53 percent from the field, their best performance of the season, to rout No. 13 Ohio State 71-49. “The guys got good looks, and they went down,” Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan [...]
Badger hockey team beats No. 2 ranked Gophers at Soldier Field
CHICAGO February 18, 2013 (AP) Wisconsin scored three times in the second period and held on to beat second-ranked Minnesota 3-2 Sunday in the Hockey City Classic at Soldier Field. Sean Little capped a flurry of goals with the game-winner at 16:22 of the second period for the Badgers (13-10-7, 10-7-7), who spoiled the Gophers’ [...]
No.18 Wisconsin loses to No. 2 Minnesota in hockey
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Minnesota has the third-best power play in the nation, and Wisconsin saw it first-hand three times in the Golden Gophers’ 3-2 win on Friday in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Second-ranked Minnesota (20-5-4, 12-5-4) was 3-for-4 with a man advantage and came into the game scoring at a WCHA-best 25 percent on [...]
Hollins helps Minnesota top No. 20 Wisconsin 58-53 in hoops
By By DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Sports Writer – 1 day ago MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Andre Hollins hit the go-ahead 3-pointer midway through overtime to finish with 21 points and lead Minnesota to a 58-53 victory over No. 20 Wisconsin on Thursday night. Wisconsin went to overtime for the third straight game. Austin Hollins added 11 points [...]
Packers release Woodson
Charles Woodson missed 9-games this past season with his second broken collarbone in the last three years and today, the Green Bay Packers released the Charles Woodson veteran safety, saving more than $9.4-million on the teams salary cap. This day was coming and today’s move shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody. But it’s never fun [...]
Replacement refs take heat of call in Packer game
By CHRIS JENKINS, AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — With the Green Bay Packers still seething, fans pondering the possibility of turning off their televisions on NFL Sundays and even the President weighing in, it’s official: Overnight, the NFL’s replacement referees went from minor nuisance to staggering problem. With the league’s regular officials [...]
