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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).
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In copycat NFL, Seattle’s defensive scheme keeps spreading

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Seattle didn’t make the playoffs, but its defense essentially did. The scheme that carried the Seahawks to consecutive Super Bowls (2013-14) has become increasingly popular around the […]
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Fun interview with 40-year-old Ginobili, getting a hard time for lob-turned 3-pointer

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NEW YORK (AP) — He’s now the fifth-winningest coach in NBA history, though there are some things Gregg Popovich still doesn’t know. Like what everybody was yelling about after 40-year-old […]
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VIKINGS

Moss, Urlacher, Lewis among 15 NFL Hall of Fame finalists

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Star linebackers Ray Lewis and Brian Urlacher are among four first-time eligible former players selected among the 15 modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018. […]
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UW beats Hoosiers, who haven’t won in Wisconsin since 1998 … when Bob Knight was coach

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MADISON, Wis. — Ethan Happ had 28 points in leading the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team to its fifth consecutive win. The 6-foot-10 senior was 11 of 17 from […]
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Packers will go 9-7, as 2018 scheduled opponents released

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The 2018 Green Bay Packers schedule of opponents has been released. Here’s the rundown: HOME: Arizona, San Francisco, Buffalo, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota. ROAD: Los Angeles Rams, Seattle, New […]
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Hopes high as Vikings take bye, franchise scars to playoffs

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Civic groups, businesses and local government employees in Minnesota are already preparing for the next census two years away. Minnesota State Demographer Susan Brower is […]
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Stable Packers embark on offseason of change with GM search

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — One of the NFL’s model franchises for stability and success, the Green Bay Packers have embarked on an offseason of change after missing the playoffs […]
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BADGERS

No. 6 Wisconsin looks to build on record 13-win season

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — No. 6 Wisconsin was minutes removed from wrapping up the winningest season in school history when coach Paul Chryst started talking about the future. The first 13-win […]
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BUCKS

DeRozan goes for 52 in OT win over Bucks

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TORONTO — A smiling Jonas Valanciunas in a postgame press conference summed up DeMar DeRozan’s New Year’s Day. DeRozan scored a career-high and franchise-record 52 in a 131-127 Toronto Raptors […]
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Packers cleaning house to ring in new year, firing Capers and replacing Thompson

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The Green Bay Packers rang in the new year with a cleaning house of sorts. It’s funny what the team’s first sub-.500 record in nearly a decade will do. First, […]
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