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Iowa youth basketball league to settle lawsuit from coach filming players undressing

August 3, 2022 Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based youth basketball league agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former players whose coach secretly recorded them undressing or obtained nude photos of them and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual exploitation of minors. Barnstormers Basketball of Iowa agreed to settle the case, according […]

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US Supreme Court backs high school coach in praying on field after games

June 27, 2022 Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday that a high school football coach who knelt and prayed on the field after games was protected by the Constitution, a decision that opponents said would open the door to “much more coercive prayer” in public schools. The court ruled 6-3 for the coach with the conservative […]

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Aquinas’ Conzemius wins two state championships, runner-up in relay, while Central’s Fried gets gold and silver

June 6, 2022 admin

Two high school track and field teams in La Crosse took third place over the weekend, while another finished fourth in the WIAA state meet at UW-La Crosse’s Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex. Led by a championship in the triple jump and a second-place finish in the long jump from junior Bennett Fried, the Central […]

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WIAA state track & field meet a unique, giant boon for the La Crosse area

June 2, 2022 Rick Solem

Of all the WIAA state events to be hosting, when it comes to bringing in a diverse crowd from all over Wisconsin, track and field may be the best. “Football obviously does really well,” Explore La Crosse’s Jeremiah Burish told WIZM. “Basketball does really well. But, man, track, it brings in a ton. There’s no […]

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Indiana lawmakers set to override veto of trans sports ban

May 24, 2022 Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Republican-dominated Indiana Legislature is poised on Tuesday to override the GOP governor’s veto of a bill banning transgender students from competing in girls sports, which would mean Indiana would join more than a dozen states that have adopted similar laws in the past two years. The Indiana proposal won approval by […]

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La Crosse will continue to host WIAA state track & field meet through 2026

May 20, 2022 Rick Solem

The WIAA state track and field championships have taken place at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse since 1990. The WIAA, UW-L and Explore La Crosse announced Thursday, that tradition will continue for another five years, beginning in 2023. The groups agreed to a five-year contract that will run through 2026, where the meet will take […]

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WATCH: Fielding nails 3 to send Central to D2 state championship

March 18, 2022 Rick Solem

With his team down two under 30 seconds to play in the state semifinals, a 3-pointer by Devon Fielding ended up being the winner. Central came back from 10 down late in the WIAA Division 2 semifinal to move onto the state championship with a 52-51 victory over Westosha Central, but it could have very […]

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Top-ranked Central heads into state semifinals Friday with 24-game win streak

March 18, 2022 Rick Solem

The top-ranked Central High School boys basketball team is back in familiar territory Friday — the Division 2 state tournament. The tourney kicked off Thursday, back at the Kohl Center for the first time in three years. One of those games was a West Salem win in its first-ever tournament berth. As for the top-ranked […]

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Koepnick scores 18 of 26 points in 2nd half in leading West Salem to first-ever state championship berth

March 17, 2022 Rick Solem

Carson Koepnick nailed three 3-pointers and scored 26 points in leading the West Salem High School boys basketball team to the state championship. The top-ranked Panthers, making their first-ever state appearance, beat No. 5 Brillion 71-61 in the Division 3 Semifinals on Thursday at the Kohl Center, where the state tournament returned for the first […]

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Holmen boys wrestling, Onalaska girls hockey finish WIAA state runners-up

March 7, 2022 Rick Solem

A couple of local teams finished state runners-up over the weekend. The Holmen High School boys wrestling team fell to undefeated Kaukauna 35-24 in the Division 1 championship Saturday at the UW Field House. The third-seeded Vikings finished the season 19-6. They beat No. 6 Arrowhead 42-35 to open state Friday, and got by second-seeded […]

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