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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).

OLYMPICS: What would a South Korean ask a North Korean?

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Koreas share a border, a culture and a language. But 70 years after they were separated, North and South are about as divided as […]

Dogged: Badly wrecked, German shepherd shows at Westminster

NEW YORK (AP) — Exactly what happened to the dog on that New Jersey highway, no one really knows. This much is true: Fanucci the young German shepherd was so […]

North Korea won Pyeongchang political gold, but what’s next?

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — North Korea won the political gold medal at Pyeongchang just by showing up. But what’s next? Kim Jong Un scored some badly needed publicity points […]

Ali at the center of any talk of activism by black athletes

Muhammad Ali knew he didn’t have much time left. His career was at stake — but more importantly, so was his freedom — as he awaited the day he would […]

Fresh off huge win, top-ranked Aquinas, of course, gets top seed in playoffs

After a big win in Iowa against a team with a UConn recruit, undefeated and top-ranked Aquinas High School girls basketball team is now the No. 1 seed for the […]

Brewers give Wisconsin residents 1st crack for tix vs. Cubs

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers are giving Wisconsin residents first crack at tickets for home games against the Chicago Cubs beginning at 9 a.m. today. The team wrote: Beginning […]

Busy Brewers shift spring focus from rebuild to winning

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The rebuilding plan for the Milwaukee Brewers is a smashing success, so much so that they’re not really rebuilding anymore. Bold moves to trade for Christian Yelich […]

In honor of the Olympics Opening Ceremony

Related posts: Olympian Adam Rippon has ‘no interest’ in fight with Pence Snow volleyball will make case for Olympics in Pyeongchang Norovirus at Olympics has officials scrambling, worried USA Gymnastics […]

USA Gymnastics sets up fund for athletes abused by Nasser

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — USA Gymnastics has established a fund it says it designed to assist gymnasts who were victims of former sports doctor Larry Nassar. The organization’s president, Kerry Perry, […]

Norovirus at Olympics has officials scrambling, worried

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Signs posted around the Olympic venues urge extreme caution. Nine hundred troops stream into the area to help. Worried organizers sequester 1,200 people in their […]

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