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Badgers to practice in Green Bay

March 23, 2016 By Bill Scott

Don Hutson Center With Wisconsin set to face LSU in the Carmex Lambeau Field College Classic, the Badger football team will hold a practice in Green Bay on April 2.

The Badgers will practice inside the Don Hutson Center beginning at 10 a.m. After practice, the team will have the opportunity to tour Lambeau Field and the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.

“I’m excited for our players,” UW head coach Paul Chryst said. “Lambeau Field is one of the great places in our sport and we’re really looking forward to playing there in September, but this gives them a chance to take some time and really see what it’s all about.”

Bucks cough up lead, fall to Pistons

March 22, 2016 By Bill Scott

The Milwaukee Bucks led most of the way last night, but Andrew Drummond’s tip-in with two-seconds left gave the Detroit Pistons a 92-91 victory at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Bucks guard Jerryd Bayless missed a pair of free throws with 9.6 seconds left and the Bucks up 91-90. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope missed a three-pointer, but Drummond tipped in the miss.

Detroit (37-34) entered the game tied with Chicago for the eighth and final playoff spot and a half-game behind Indiana for the seventh spot in the East.

Khris Middleton scored a game-high 27 points and Giannis Antetokounmpo had 21 points and 12 rebounds. Greg Monroe had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Bucks.

Marcus Morris scored 21 points to lead Detroit.

The Bucks coughed up leads of 17 and 13 points during the loss. They have 11-games left in the NBA regular season.

Brewers split a pair

March 22, 2016 By Bill Scott

Wily Peralta

The Milwaukee Brewers split a pair of exhibition games on Monday, beating the Angels of Anaheim 4-3 and falling 3-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Brewers beat the Angels in walk-off fashion as Yadiel Rivera and Jacob Nottingham hit back-to-back homers off Angels’ reliever Deolis Guerra in the ninth inning.

In the Brewers loss to the Diamondbacks, prospect Josh Hader had a solid start for Milwaukee, as he gave up one hit in three shut-out innings.

Earlier in the day, right-hander Wily Peralta was named the Brewers’ Opening Day starter against San Francisco on April 4th, something Peralta called a “dream come true”.

Jones will not return to Green Bay

March 22, 2016 By Bill Scott

James Jones

James Jones will not be back with the Green Bay Packers this fall. His agent, Frank Bauer, says the Packers have told him they’ll go with younger receivers, and they will not re-sign the 31-year-old Jones after he came back for a second stint with the Packers last September following Jordy Nelson’s torn A-C-L.

Green Bay has five receivers age-25 and younger, and the 30-year-old Nelson is the oldest of the group.

General Manager Ted Thompson is counting on better seasons from Davante Adams, Ty Montgomery and Randall Cobb while continuing to develop Jeff Janis and Jared Abbrederis.

Packers promote Wolf and Gutekunst

March 21, 2016 By Bill Scott

Eliot Wolf

The Green Bay Packers have promoted Eliot Wolf to director-football operations and Brian Gutekunst to director of player personnel.

Wolf is in his 13th season with the team and spent the past year as the director of player personnel after serving as the director of pro personnel for three years. He originally joined the Packers as a pro personnel assistant in 2004 and spent four seasons in that position.

Gutekunst, who is entering his 18th season with the Packers, has spent the past four years as the director of college scouting after previously working 11 seasons as a college scout in the Southeast region. Before joining the Packers full-time, he was a scouting assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998, a scouting intern for the Packers in the summer of 1997 and assisted the New Orleans Saints’ coaching staff in training camp in 1995. [Read more…]

Badgers beat Xavier, advance to “Sweet 16” (AUDIO)

March 21, 2016 By Bill Scott

Bronson Koenig

Bronson Koenig played the hero on Sunday night, hitting two of his six 3-pointers in the final seconds to send the Wisconsin Badgers to a 66-63 win over the Xavier Musketeers in St. Louis.

Koenig hit a three with 11.7 seconds left to tie the game at 63-all. After Zak Showalter drew a charge against Xavier freshman guard Edmund Sumner, the Badgers advanced the ball to mid-court and called a time out. Greg Gard drew up a play for Koenig and it came off just as planned. Koenig hit a fade away three in the corner to give the Badgers the 3-point win.

Koenig hit six-0f-12 from three-point range and finished with 20 points. Ethan Happ added 18. [Read more…]

Former Marquette assistant, Schwab dies

March 21, 2016 By Bill Scott

Trey Schwab

Former Marquette men’s basketball assistant coach Trey Schwab has died, losing his battle from complications of the double-lung transplant he received more than 12 years ago.

The 50-year old Schwab had been an assistant in the N-B-A and the C-B-A when former Marquette coach Tom Crean added him to his Golden Eagles staff in 2001.

Soon after, Schwab developed pneumonia symptoms which were later diagnosed as the incurable lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He had to wait two years for a suitable donor, and he received a double-lung transplant at U-W Madison, where he later became an advocate for the hospital’s transplant program.

Brewers win, Liriano hospitalized

March 21, 2016 By Bill Scott

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Rymer Liriano is hospitalized after being hit in the face with a pitch during a 3-1 exhibition win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Phoenix.

It happened in the eighth inning on Sunday, when Dodgers right-hander matt West threw a high-and-tight pitch that struck the 24-year-old Liriano near his left eye. Liriano was carted off the field and taken to a hospital where he’ll undergo further test. He’ll start the season on the disabled list.

Liriano was acquired in a trade with the San Diego Padres in January, and he’s out of minor league options, which put pressure on him to compete for an outfield spot with the Brewers.

Jimmy Nelson gave up one run on four hits in six innings against a Dodgers split squad, as Milwaukee improved to 9-8-1 in the Cactus League. They’ll face the Angels today.

There’s just 14-days between now and opening day at Miller Park.

Bucks fall at home to Utah

March 21, 2016 By Bill Scott

After a tight battle in the first half, the Utah Jazz pulled away in the second and knocked off the Milwaukee Bucks 94-85 at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.

The win is the fourth straight for Utah (34-36), giving the Jazz their second straight season series sweep over the Bucks (30-40).

The Jazz biggest lead was 17 in the fourth quarter before the Bucks narrowed the margin, but it was too little, too late.

Utah had seven players in double figures, led by Gordon Hayward’s 18 points. Shelvin Mack added 13 points and 12 assists in the win.

Jabari Parker had 19 points on eight for 14 shooting.

The Bucks hit the road for three straight this week, starting with a game at Detroit tonight.

AUDIO: Jason Kidd says they couldn’t get anything going :23

Jordan finishes runner-up in NCAA Wrestling

March 21, 2016 By Bill Scott

Junior Isaac Jordan wrapped up his season as a national runner-up for the Wisconsin wrestling team at the 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

Jordan’s bid for a perfect record ended by three-time national champion Alex Dieringer (33-0) of Oklahoma State and Jordan finished with a stellar 29-1 record on the season.

Jordan dropped a 6-2 decision to Dieringer at 165 pounds but held the four-time All-American to his tightest match of the tournament. Jordan became Wisconsin’s first finalist since 2014.

Wisconsin has had 15 individual runner-up finishes in program history.

UW finished in 23rd place in the team standings with 20 team points. Fellow Big Ten Conference member Penn State took the national team title with a total of 123 team points.