Mathematically still in the hunt for a repeat Badger North Conference title - though help would be needed down the stretch - the Baraboo Thunderbirds girls basketball team had to knock off one of the top teams in the league and in Division 2, Friday, to keep those hopes alive.
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The atmosphere was about as loose as any swim practice could get.
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Baraboo Thunderbirds boys basketball coach Tom Steinhorst, who's headed the program for 22 years, has decided that this season will be his last guiding the squad.
Feb 09, 2012 | 11:30 pm | (1) Comments
The lesson learned for the Baraboo-Portage Thunderbirds from this game was simple: stop giving the referees a reason to blow the whistle.
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REEDSBURG - Only a game and a half separated the Reedsburg Beavers and Baraboo Thunderbirds in the Badger North Conference boys basketball standings entering Thursday's meeting.
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The Baraboo Thunderbirds gymnastics team reached new heights with its team score, but Mount Horeb's depth was too much to overtake as the visitors came away with a 139.375-126.875 victory in a Badger Conference dual meet, Tuesday.
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Even though the Badger Thunder came out on the short end of Tuesday's 3-1 decision against the visiting Central Wisconsin Storm, the squad took from the game everything it wanted.
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DEFOREST - Sophomore TJ Laux was just beginning to heat up when he got his Baraboo-Portage Thunderbirds hockey team on the scoreboard in the first period, Monday.
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MARSHFIELD - Elliot Ashbeck scored a game-high 27 points and had seven rebounds as the Marshfield Tigers moved past the Baraboo Thunderbirds boys basketball team 63-49 in non-conference action Saturday.
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WAUNAKEE - Senior Adair Ebright added a runner-up finish at the Badger Conference meet to his list of accomplishments this season, and Kolt Bode and Trevor Hanson each wrestled their way to third place as the Baraboo Thunderbirds placed 7th (178 points) at Saturday's league tournament in …
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Ernie Els can plan on a trip to Arizona for the Match Play Championship _ just barely.
Sunday was the final week to qualify for the first World Golf Championship of the year, and the Match Play takes the top 64 players off the world ranking. Pebble Beach winner Phil Mickelson is no…
Kim Barnes Arico became the winningest coach for St. John's when the Red Storm defeated 17th-ranked Rutgers 61-52 on Sunday.
Nadirah McKenith led the Red Storm with 18 points. Da'Shena Stevens scored 16 and Shenneika Smith had 11. Khadijah Rushdan led Rutgers with 17 points.

MADISON -- University of Wisconsin men's basketball coach Bo Ryan was so fascinated by a recent article in the New York Times he distributed copies of it to his players.
Its headline - "Average is Over" - was succinct. And while Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman was wri…