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Paul Pogba was soccer's most expensive player two years ago. He was lifting the World Cup with France only five months ago.
Mitchell Trubisky threw for two touchdowns, Eddie Jackson ended Rodgers' NFL-record streak without an interception and Chicago clinched the division with a 24-17 victory over the Packers on Sunday.
Stephanie Aasen sat out her entire junior season while playing at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, because of the effects of a concussion, suffered her sophomore season.
The junior basketball star suffered a concussion in January that cut short her sophomore season and kept her out of school for a month. Now more cautious, she's back playing basketball for Evansville High.
Five notable high school performances and five events to watch in the week to come of high school sports.
Thank you for putting down your shiny object long enough to read this column—unless, of course, you’re reading it online.
Five different players scored as the Jets defeated the Minnesota Magicians 5-2 in a North American Hockey League game in front of 733 fans at the Janesville Ice Arena.
A roundup of high school basketball games for Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018.
The Janesville Craig gymnastics team finished eighth in the 11-team Homstead Invite on Saturday.
Janesville Craig's Keeanu Benton won the 285-pound weight class Saturday to highlight city wrestlers competing at the E.H. Stech Invitational in West Allis.
Verona finished with 670 points, with Waukesha South a distant second with 420. Janesville Parker and Janesville Craig finished eighth and ninth, respectively.
Sam Close and Jack Boyle each made six 3-pointers to lead Middleton's boys basketball team to a 70-58 Big Eight Conference win over Janesville Parker on Saturday.
A roundup of area high school boys basketball games played Friday, Dec. 14, 2018.
A roundup of area high school girls basketball games played Friday, Dec. 14, 2018.
The Jets made goalie Cole Brady’s night fairly simple, and he stopped all 26 shots he faced in a 2-0 North American Hockey League victory at the Janesville Ice Arena.
The Janesville Craig girls basketball team would probably like to forget about the second half of Friday’s Big Eight Conference game against host Madison East.
Middleton High's girls basketball team beat Janesville Parker 62-22 in Big Eight Conference play Friday night.
Parker, leading by two points going into the final event, finished first and third in the 400-yard freestyle relay to secure an 89-81 Big Eight Conference dual win over rival Craig
A roundup of area high school boys basketball games played Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018.
Madison La Follette scored the first 13 points of the game and wound up beating the visiting Cougars 91-75 in a Big Eight Conference game.
Tyler Edwards scored twice, but the city's boys high school co-op hockey team lost 8-2 on the road Thursday.
In the first meeting of this season between the Badger Conference rivals Thursday night at Edwards Ice Arena, there was no separating the two girls hockey teams. Rock County, the area's co-op team, and Cap City, the co-op based out of Sun Prairie, skated to a scoreless draw.
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The Cougars earned pins in three of the first four matches and finished with seven overall in an 80-0 Big Eight Conference victory Thursday.
Madison East's boys basketball team was as good as advertised Thursday night.
The fifth-ranked Purgolders rolled to a 67-30 Big Eight Conference win over Janesville Parker.
With 33 points, the Jets are tied with Fairbanks for second place in the Midwest Division. The two teams are seven points back of the division-leading Minnesota Magicians.
Janesville has a chance to cut into that deficit this weekend when it hosts the Magicians for 7 p.m. games on both Friday and Saturday nights.
Is it time for high school basketball to go back to the two-person officiating crew? A lack of quality varsity officials has made it difficult to fill the current three-person crews. Gazette sports reporter John Barry takes a closer look at the situation.
Janesville Parker's wrestling team improved to 3-0 in the Big Eight Conference dual meets Wednesday night with a 57-24 win over Madison La Follette.
UW-Whitewater senior Nate Trewyn, a Milton High graduate, has been selected to play in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl on January 19 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
A recap of high school girls basketball games for Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.
A recap of high school boys basketball games for Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.
Conor Joyce's highlight-reel shorthanded goal was the first of his three tallies as Janesville's boys co-op high school hockey team beat Baraboo 5-1.
Paige Banks and Abby Eftemoff combined for 38 points, and the Blue Devils put together their most complete performance of the season in a 60-48 upset of the Whitewater Whippets, injecting more chaos into the Rock Valley Conference's title race.
Olivia Rebout won the all-around Tuesday with a score of 32.150, Ariyana Stalsberg was second and the Cougars topped Janesville Parker, 123.175-101.925, in a crosstown rivalry dual meet to open the Big Eight Conference season.
The Badgers made just two baskets in the second half but never relinquished their lead in a 44-39 Southern Lakes Conference victory that dealt host Elkhorn its first loss of the season.
Knauf scored three times, including twice off feeds from Presley Kovacevich and Cammi Ganshert, in the first 5 minutes, 21 seconds, and the Rock County Fury blanked the Badger Lightning 7-0 in a high school girls hockey game in Beloit.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have fired offensive coordinator John DeFilippo, whose first season on the job ended after just 13 games amid a sharp decline in production by the offense over the past six weeks.
A recap of high school basketball games around the area for Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.
Eric Bledsoe had 20 points and 12 rebounds, and the Milwaukee Bucks shot 52 percent from 3-point range in the first half of a 108-92 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night.
UW-W won a pair of home games over the weekend to improve to 7-0 and sat at No. 12 in the d3hoops.com poll last week. The mission seems pretty simple: wins as many nonconference games in as many different ways and against as many different styles as possible.
Gazette page designer and sports writer Tom Miller muses about all things sports while wondering where the Packers' recently fired head coach spent his Sunday.
Malcolm Brogdon scored eight of his 18 points in the fourth quarter, Giannis Antetokounmpo had 19 points and matched a season high with 19 rebounds, and Brook Lopez had 19 points for the Bucks, the first team to beat Toronto twice this season.
The Edgerton native caught a 6-yard touchdown from Derek Carr with 21 seconds left in Sunday's game in Oakland. It was the second score of his NFL career.
Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and set an NFL record for interception-free football, and the Packers beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-20 on Sunday to win their first game under interim head coach Joe Philbin.
Janesville Parker High recently hired a pair of strong candidates to coach its athletic programs on the ball diamonds this spring. But why did it take this long?
Five notable performances from area high school athletes and five events to watch in the coming week.
The slow arrival of “safe” ice on Lake Koshkonong and dwindling number of exciting hunting opportunities have provided ample opportunities to reflect on 2018, comparing it to years gone by.
Kaitlyn Eder made 6 of 8 3-pointers on the way to 26 points, and the Lancers won 66-53 in a Big Eight Conference game.
Howard scored 27 points, Hauser added 13 points and 14 rebounds, and Marquette held No. 12 Wisconsin to 21 percent shooting from 3-point range in a 74-69 win in overtime on Saturday.
Mary Hardin-Baylor will make its third straight trip to the Stagg Bowl after stuffing the Warhawks 31-14 Saturday afternoon in Belton, Texas
A recap of high school girls basketball games for Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018.
