Friday afternoon football in Darlington got a "one-year reprieve" and will continue this fall despite much discussion among Southwest Wisconsin Activities League officials this week over the loss of... >>MORE

This is the 10th in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the ninth in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the eighth in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the seventh in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the sixth in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the fifth in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the fourth in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the third in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the second in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

This is the first in a series of Prep Talk Graduation '09 blogs featuring area WIAA Scholar-Athletes and the essays they wrote as part of the consideration process for the WIAA's highest academic... >>MORE

If you're into long-range planning, you might want to put these two changes in the WIAA softball tournament series onto your 2010 radar:

Belmont coach Jeff Hodgson reminded me today that, starting next... >>MORE

DEERFIELD -- The sun is shining, the prep baseball teams are taking their infield practice and another postseason installment of the Cambridge-Deerfield rivarly will be authored today in a... >>MORE

As they do each year, Madison East, Madison La Follette and Madison Edgewood spend all of April and May breaking in the infield dirt and watching the outfield grass turn green at Warner Park.

And then... >>MORE

I'd been meaning to drop an e-mail to my colleague Tom Oates and ease his concerns over the WIAA's discussion of the divisional placement of private schools for WIAA tournament competition.

Then I got... >>MORE

With the Memorial Day weekend falling before WIAA tournament activity in most spring sports -- most notably track and field -- it will be a very busy Tuesday in the prep sports world.

Regional... >>MORE

As discussion continues in Wisconsin on whether to add nine-player football for smaller schools struggling with low participation numbers, the Michigan High School Athletic Association has approved a plan for an eight-player playoff division -- apart from the 11-player football playoffs in... >>MORE

With the prep softball season winding down, so too are the opportunities to go to bat for a cause.

Madison La Follette will step to the plate Tuesday with a "Striking Out... >>MORE

STEVENS POINT -- Baldwin-Woodville athletic director Wade Labecki was named Friday as the deputy director of the WIAA.

The WIAA Board of Control voted to approve the hire during its monthly... >>MORE

The WIAA Division 1 basketball sectional that includes Madison’s four public high schools will be split geographically for the 2010 tournament, according to brackets... >>MORE

Iowa-Grant has tapped the wrestling program of its biggest rival -- Mineral Point -- for its new coach and bring stability to a program that is on WIAA probation through the 2009-10 season.

Zach... >>MORE

Tonight is one of the biggest nights for high school track and field this side of the conference and WIAA postseason meets.

From the Spartan Invitational for boys at Madison Memorial to great co-ed... >>MORE

The Baraboo High School community is coming together Saturday to support Thunderbirds baseball coach Chris Labeots' family with an event planned around -- appropriately -- a baseball... >>MORE

Madison West's Ellie Pearson spent the better part of her senior year weighing her college options and announced Sunday night the Regents girls basketball standout announced that the best option -- for her -- is NCAA Division III DePauw University in Greencastle,... >>MORE

The Western Six Rivers has really raised the bar in Division 4 prep softball over the last five years, so it stood to reason that Thursday's showdown between conference rivals Belmont and River Ridge would be a... >>MORE

Today was supposed to be catch-up day on our Spring Sports Outlooks, which are about as overdue as the library book at the bottom of your closet.

Unfortunately, the volume of high school sports results... >>MORE

Monona Grove senior Hayley Martin, the WIAA Division 2 state swimming champion in the 50-yard freestyle, has announced that she will compete this fall at the University of Nebraska.

Actually, her... >>MORE

Boys gymnastics has faded from the high school sports landscape, but that hasn't prevented some area individuals from competing in the sport at the highest level.

Austin Cain, a sophomore at Marshall, is... >>MORE

By my count, it took Stoughton athletic director Rich Reitzner six days, two hours and eight minutes to follow through on the suggestion of an e-mail I sent to Matt Hockett last week after learning that the... >>MORE

Expect changes to the WIAA state basketball next season, but -- at this point -- none that would change the divisional assignment of smaller schools in metropolitan areas.

The WIAA basketball advisory... >>MORE

Theirs was going to be a key girls soccer game what with Madison Edgewood and Monona Grove lurking around the top of the Southern Badger Conference standings.

But when the Crusaders and Silver Eagles meet... >>MORE

My Saturday began at home with word mid-morning that a Madison Memorial boys basketball player had been suspended from the Spartans' WIAA Division 1 regional championship game against Sauk... >>MORE

On a day when the present Wisconsin Badgers women's basketball players enjoyed a game to remember, one of their future teammates moved one win closer to an early visit to Madison.

Steve... >>MORE

It might not be student-athlete exploitation to the level of the NCAA, but the Benton Police Department certainly appears to be padding its coffers thanks to the popularity of a certain prep boys basketball team in... >>MORE

Steve Prestegard, my e-mail friend from The Ripon Channel, fired off a breaking news e-mail late Thursday night to tell me that the Ripon girls basketball team -- behind a 41-point performance from University of Wisconsin recruit Taylor Wurtz -- won its WIAA Division 2... >>MORE

One of the challenges of setting the match-ups for the season-ending Badger Challenge prep boys baksketball crossover series in the... >>MORE

The WIAA boys basketball tournament brackets have been released and, as I expected, there is a little more depth to the "seeds of... >>MORE

I wish I could be the bearer of controversy or the  messenger of injustice, poised to present some big-league bungling in the... >>MORE

Let the record show that the three men assigned to officiate Thursday night's prep boys basketball showdown between Beloit Memorial... >>MORE

It was bound to happen, wasn't it?

After going through the usual peaks and valleys of a high school freshman, Madison... >>MORE

Idle musings while a Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln grad wonders how many Rapids Assumption grads are lurking -- er, living -- in the Madison area (it was like the Royal Event last night in Columbus where '79  Assumption grad Mike Jeffery coached the Cambridge girls basketball... >>MORE

Give them credit. Opposing girls basketball teams have been as resourceful as they can be in preparing for Janesville Parker and senior... >>MORE

The book on incoming WIAA executive director Dave Anderson is this: He's a good person who has had the good fortune of surrounding... >>MORE

In a move that was probably a long time in coming, the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association has announced plans to play two all-star... >>MORE

The incredible finish from Friday night's Big Eight Conference prep boys basketball game between host Middleton and Madison... >>MORE

Some prep basketball games that we don't get to cover cause more of a stir in the office than others.

But... >>MORE

If I had a bucket of Gatorade, I'd be dumping it on Madison West cross country runner Brett Kelly right now.

Instead, all I... >>MORE

Saturday will bring us one month away from the start of the WIAA girls basketball regionals and did you see what I saw in the Tuesday... >>MORE

You never know what you're going to hear when a high school basketball player comes out of the lockerroom after a game, but Monroe... >>MORE

Who's it gonna be? Deb or Dave?

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've been asked that question since the WIAA pared... >>MORE

Just when we were going to look back at some of the great games that were played Tuesday night, Black Hawk athletic director Jerry... >>MORE

We received an e-mail this morning from Barneveld native and current UW-Stevens Point assistant women's basketball coach Megan (Hodgson) Wilson, who is joining the effort to raise awareness -- and money -- for breast cancer research.

Wilson, a former Pointers player, is in her... >>MORE

The last time I covered a UW-Platteville men's basketball game, a fella named Bo Ryan was roaming the coaches'... >>MORE

Are you sensing an familiar pattern in winter-weather behavior around here over the last month?

If you're an area high... >>MORE

From the we'll-believe-it-when-we-see-it-on-YouTube department comes this news of Barneveld principal/athletic director/volleyball coach/golf coach Kevin Knudson making a "halfcourt" shot as a contestant in the "Hot Shots" portion of Tuesday night's halftime... >>MORE

It's back-to-school for children throughout the state today after their long winter's break from classes and homework over... >>MORE

As Southern Cal celebrates its Rose Bowl victory over Penn State onSunday evening in Pasadena, Calif., I can't help but think where... >>MORE

I strolled into the University of Wisconsin Field House about 9 a.m. Monday and walked out just after 11 p.m., once the nine boys and... >>MORE

Holiday basketball tournament information can be found on our PrepStats portion of the ... >>MORE

Shhh. Can you hear that?

It's the sound of silence this Christmas Day on the high school sports front -- a rare day of rest... >>MORE

Most school districts were already on winter break today, but there's still one more night of prep basketball to squeeze in before... >>MORE

The PrepStats database is down due to technical difficulties. We are working to restore links to schedules, scores and standings on www.madison.com... >>MORE

College coaches cannot comment on recruits until they've signed their national letters of intent.

That tired NCAA rule gets... >>MORE

As I sit here writing a column about the significant advances the WIAA has made during Doug Chickering's 23 years as executive... >>MORE

Jay Wilson and I didn't hop in an SUV from the WISC-TV fleet on Wednesday morning and drive to Stevens Point because we had to... >>MORE

It's been an eventful Saturday in high school sports.

We received a text message from the victorious Madison Edgewood girls... >>MORE

When you've won seven WIAA state championships in a row, it's probably should come as no surprise that success breeds more... >>MORE

Hartland Arrowhead knocked off Madison Memorial and defending WIAA Division 1 state champion Madison East during the first Wisconsin... >>MORE

The budding fashion designer in Verona senior Leslie Schaefer knows the school colors at Kent State University leave a little bit to be... >>MORE

If you can't feel the anticipation for high school football building today, then get ready for it full force Friday.

It's... >>MORE

Summer unofficially came to an end this week as the girls golf season got under way with two big invitationals... >>MORE

Prep football will have several area radio outlets this fall and one of them has announced its... >>MORE

Scrutiny of Milwaukee Public School's liberal transfer rules -- and the temptation to use them to recruit players to certain schools in certain sports -- will probably gain a heightened awareness in wake of Wednesday's news that Milwaukee King has been banned from the 2009... >>MORE

Catie O'Leary, who will be a senior this fall at Janesville Parker, has accepted a women's basketball scholarship to Loyola... >>MORE

 It is a big week for Wisconsin wrestlers -- and two from the Belleville-New Glarus cooperative high school prorgram, in particular... >>MORE

Madison Abundant Life Christian School is moving two of its home football games to Deerfield High School this... >>MORE

Several area girls swimmers are spending the weekend in the pool at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, competing at the Speedo Champions Seniors meet and trying to meet qualifying standards for next month's Junior National swimming meet at the University of... >>MORE

There is no shortage of things to do in Madison this weekend -- from Paddle & Portage to the Dane County Fair to a visit from the... >>MORE

We are 34 days from the first prep football practice of the 2008 season, but it's never too early to look ahead to the season. And... >>MORE

The Wisconsin High School Golf Coaches Association all-state teams will be published in the Wisconsin State Journal over the next few... >>MORE

Madison Edgewood is looking for a girls swimming coach for this season, which begins August 12.

For more information, contact... >>MORE

Visitors to the Verona High School gymnasium this week might have noticed something missing above the bleachers along the east wall of... >>MORE

We were reminded in an e-mail this week from the National Collegiate Scouting Association that today is a big day for many high... >>MORE

Waukesha Catholic Memorial has been added to the area WIAA Division 2 basketball sectional for the 2009 tournament, adding a perennial... >>MORE

The best graduating senior basketball players from the Six Rivers Conference will come together Friday at Black Hawk High School in... >>MORE

 Madison Memorial junior shortstop Lindsey Umberger will continue the pipeline of Wisconsin prep softball talent to Tennessee Tech after deciding recently that she will attend the NCAA Division I school in Cookeville, Tenn., and play college softball... >>MORE

The prep softball season was finally in the rear-view mirror Tuesday as I left Goodman Diamond, but I was still thinking... >>MORE

Longtime McFarland girls basketball coach Sue Murphy has resigned to become principal at the district's Waubesa Intermediate School,... >>MORE

 If you're like me and find it cute when six, say, six student fans from Barneveld show up at a WIAA state tournament basketball game -- or any indoor sporting event, for that matter -- with their stomachs and chests bearing the letters "E-A-G-L-E-S," then you're not... >>MORE

Mike Battista deserved more attention than he got for his fine work Monday during the first round of the WIAA Division 1 state boys golf... >>MORE

Madison Memorial junior Jeronne Maymon has been invited to the National Basketball Players Association Top 100 Camp, his father Tim said... >>MORE

The first stage of qualifying for the WIAA state boys golf tournament is behind us and -- just like the two-step process for... >>MORE

Sure, the rush-hour traffic around Madison Memorial can making getting there a true, white-knuckle experience.

Granted, the... >>MORE

Here is how the returning WIAA state track and field champions fared during Monday night's regionals:... >>MORE

The WIAA postseason begins tonight in track and field and, if you were planning to catch some of the action this week, it'll be... >>MORE

Four Madison Edgewood athletes made their intentions to play college sports official this week by signing national letters of intent at... >>MORE

Another Ewing from Verona is heading to Winona (Minn.) State to play an NCAA Division II sport.

Point guard Sadie Ewing, who led... >>MORE

Kurtis Muller, a freshman from Sun Prairie, has been the only everyday freshman starter this season on the University of Iowa baseball team.

Muller, an... >>MORE