WISCONSIN DELLS - Birthday presents generally aren't the size as the one Cam Knutson received Friday night. It wasn't wrapped, either.
Feb 10, 2012 | 11:48 pm | (1) Comments
There were a lot of things for Portage head coach Brian Conner to like about his team's performance against Sauk Prairie on Friday night, so when the coach was asked about what stood out to him, he said without hesitation, "defense."
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Lodi junior point guard Kris Seffrood scored a game-high 19 points, including 7 in the fourth quarter, while senior forward Danny Padley added 16 to help lead the Blue Devils to a 89-68 victory over Lakeside Lutheran on Friday night in Lake Mills.
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Senior guard Luke Rothe and the Watertown Luther Prep boys basketball team got revenge for their 67-62 loss to Poynette from earlier in the season. Rothe recorded a triple-double with 12 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds, as the host Phoenix blew out the Pumas, 76-49 on Friday night in W…
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All that matters is the outcome, right?
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Brandon Jennings scored 24 points and made a big layup in overtime as the Milwaukee Bucks rallied for a 113-112 win Friday night over the Cleveland Cavaliers, who were without rookie guard Kyrie Irving and lost center Anderson Varejao in the third quarter with a sprained …
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MOUNT HOREB - Other than for a couple moments Thursday night - once late in the second quarter and once early in the third quarter - things kind of went the way they have been going this season for Portage's prep boys basketball team.
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Portage native Ryan Brunt and his teammates on the Pete Fenson curling rink certainly took notice when the seeds were announced for the U.S. Men's Curling Championships, which begin in Philadelphia on Saturday.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Freshman point guard Andre Hollins gave Minnesota his best game of the season, guiding a spirited comeback with a career-high 20 points against No. 21 Wisconsin. The performance was missing something, though, and that was a win.
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Both teams were playing for a chance to be Southern Wisconsin Curling Conference champions. And while both still were in contention afterward - for the time, anyway - neither finished at the top.
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Portage's Kaitlin Schultz continued her impressive season, winning the giant slalom race at the Southern Conference's fifth meet of the season on Monday, at Tyrol Basin in Mount Horeb.
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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…

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…