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Rick Solem

Sports, news journalist since 2002. | Hometown: Greenville, Wis. | Avid noonball basketballer and sand volleyballer in La Crosse | Two-time Waupaca Boatride first-round playoff loser | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate | Cut from UW-SP's basketball team in 2000 on Midnight Madness as a junior walk-on | Went on to become UW-SP intramural basketball champion | Then UW-SP club lacrosse defenseman with two career goals (on two shots).

The day after: Pyeongchang breathes, bids Olympics farewell

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — From volunteers to support staff to the joint Korea women’s hockey team, people from many cultures bid farewell to each other and to the 2018 […]

Report: FBI probe docs list range of payments to top players

New details of payments to athletes in a federal investigation that has lurked in the shadows since first rocking college basketball last fall mark the latest threat to the sport’s […]

NBA setting up hotline to report misconduct, work concerns

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA is establishing a confidential hotline for league and team employees to report concerns about misconduct in their workplace. The move comes after a Sports […]

Healthy, productive Mauer aims to play ‘as long as I can’

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — The final season of the franchise-record contract the Minnesota Twins gave Joe Mauer has begun, bringing with it the inevitable questions about his future. For […]

First Person: How Pyeongchang might feel to a North Korean

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — What’s it like to wake up in North Korea one day and South Korea the next? The differences are pretty jarring. The similarities can be, […]

Texas transgender wrestler back to defend state title

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mack Beggs is back. He’s still wrestling, still competing for a state championship and still undefeated. And he’s still wrestling against the girls. It’s just been […]

USA curlers playing for Olympic gold after upsetting Canada

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — John Shuster and his U.S. team will play for a gold medal against Sweden after a 5-3 semifinal upset over Canada, a country that has […]

When NBA returns, will Warriors’ dominance come back, too?

The Golden State Warriors have never lost more than 15 games in a season under Steve Kerr. They could reach that total in the first night after the All-Star break. […]

Brewers finalize details of spring complex renovations

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new clubhouse building and entry plaza are part of the Milwaukee Brewers’ plans to renovate the team’s spring training facility in Arizona. The club finalized details […]

Pitino: Louisville should consider legal action vs. NCAA

Former Louisville coach Rick Pitino believes the school should consider taking legal action against the NCAA after the governing body ordered the vacation of the Cardinals’ 2013 men’s basketball champion […]

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