Wisconsin News and Sports
Carmelo Anthony scored 27 points and pulled down 10 rebounds in his New York debut as the Knicks held off the Milwaukee Bucks 114-108 before a sold out Madison Square Garden.
Former Denver teammate Chauncey Billups chipped in 21 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds in the win. Toney Douglas also had 23 points off the bench for New York.
John Salmons led the Bucks with 27 points. The Bucks are off until Saturday when they host the Chicago Bulls.
The 68th WIAA individual state wrestling tournament kicks off its 3-day run at the Kohl Center with Division 1 preliminaries at 3pm this afternoon.
A total of 224 wrestlers qualified in division 1 and 168 in both division 2 and division 3. 231 schools are represented.
Wisconsin Rapids leads the division 1 field with 12 wrestlers. Franklin and West Allis each qualified eight. In Division 2, Ellsworth leads with eight qualifiers, followed by Luxemburg-Casco with seven and Oconto Falls with six. In division 3, Coleman had eight qualifiers, followed by Ozaukee (7) and Edgar (6).
Germantown’s Jesse Thielke is the only three-time state champion in the field. He captured the Division 1, 112 lb field in 2008 and then took the 125 lb titles each of the last two years. There are 4 two-time state champs in the field and 18 wrestlers that have a single state title entering this years event in Madison.
Champions will be crowned on Saturday.
Madison’s Steve Stricker has been bounced from the opening round of the
Steve Stricker
Accenture Match Play Championships in Marana, Arizona on Wednesday.
Stricker lost to 17-year old Matteo Manassero. He joins other top American seeds Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk on the sidelines after they lost their opening round matches as well.
Menomonee Falls native Mark Wilson won his first round match and advanced to second round action today.
The end could be near for the marathon Assembly session on the Governor’s budget repair bill.
Republican leadership demanded this morning the number of amendments be limited to one per Democratic lawmaker, according to a statement from Minority Leader Peter Barca’s office.
“The other option they presented was to cut off debate entirely, which they could have done,” says the office’s Melanie Conklin.
Wispolitics.com reports Democrats originally had about 100 more amendments to go before conceding to the remaining 38, of which began debate around 6 a.m.
This session has reached more than 44 hours, minus some breaks.
Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy will have surgery on his right pinkie finger today. Lucroy broke his finger during a blocking drill on Wednesday in Phoenix.
Lucroy will have a pin inserted in the finger today and is expected to miss four weeks.
Lucroy hit .253 with four homers and 26 rbi’s in 75 games last year. He started the season at Double-A Huntsville.
The Brewers also lost infielder Mat Gamel for at least a week with a right oblique injury that he injured during batting practice.
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