By Adam Roberts – 7/15/2021 With Kareem and Oscar in the house, and 25,000+ outside Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee was in a position to either make the 2021 NBA Finals a best-of-three or fall into a daunting 3-1 hole with two road wins necessary to win the Finals. In Game Three, Giannis was the superstar with…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/14/2021 Aquinas girl’s basketball under head coach Dave Donarski has churned out its fair share of college athletes over the years, and they can lay claim to another one today. WXOW’s Scott Emerich reports that senior Jacy Weisbrod has chosen to attend Northern Colorado, a Division One member of the Big…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/14/2021 The Washington Wizards have started to finalize the names on their list of head coach candidates, and two Milwaukee assistants are on the list. Darvin Ham and Charles Lee join Denver assistant Wes Unseld Jr. as finalists for the position, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Ham has been the lead…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/14/2021 The National League just can’t catch a break in the MLB All-Star Game. With yesterday’s 5-2 loss to the American League, the NL has now dropped eight straight midsummer classics. For me, the primary reason for watching last night’s game was two-fold. First and foremost, I wanted to finally get…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/13/2021 Looks like Team USA Basketball is going to appreciate the arrival of Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday even more than we thought. The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team has now lost back-to-back exhibition games for the first time since pros joined the roster in 1992. Australia upset the Americans 91-to-83…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/13/2021 Zac Bellman has been the primary source of news for me on all things related to Trempealeau County since I’ve taken over this position. And while he’s going to be leaving the Trempealeau County Times later this month, he did break some juicy GET football news before he leaves. Bellman…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/13/2021 The Coulee Region will have six representatives at the 48th annual American Legion State All-Star Game. Owen Cauffman of Gays Mills, Onalaska’s Bryce Hoeft, Prairie du Chien’s John Nicholson, Viroqua’s Clayton Slack, La Crosse Post 52’s Brandon Stadtler and Sparta’s Brett Stuessel will be the area’s reps on August 8th…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/12/2021 This year has been a bizarre one in terms of sports calendars. We normally do not have the MLB Draft, Home Run Derby, and NBA Finals overlapping each other, but a global pandemic will do that sort of things. While the Bucks were taking care of business against the Suns…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/12/2021 Johnny Davis was already the Coulee Region basketball world’s golden boy. Now he just has some extra hardware to prove it. Davis and the USA U19 team won gold at the FIBA World Cup in Latvia with an 83-81 nailbiter against France to cap off a perfect 7-0 run in…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 7/12/2021 I had a privilege of getting to travel solo to the Deer District for yesterday’s NBA Finals game in Milwaukee. Standing shoulder to shoulder with over 25,000 other individuals outside Fiserv Forum was a sports experience unlike any I’ve ever had before and made me feel like I was a…… Continue Reading »