Officer Death Due To COVID

The Dane County Sheriff’s Office says one of its deputies – 61-year-old Richard “Rick” Treadwell — has died from the coronavirus. Treadwell had worked for the department for 25 years, most recently as a recruiter and trainer. A release from Sheriff David Mahoney says the evidence indicates Treadwell contracted the virus while he was on…

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COVID- 19 stats

The latest Wisconsin numbers for COVID-19: COVID- 19 Wisconsin Statistics Positive test results: 70,462 (+453) Negative test results: 1,115,149(+4,361) Patients hospitalized: 5,558 (+13) Deaths: 1,081 (+0) Patients recovered: 61,720 (87.6%) Current active cases: 7,643

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Fedex Cup Lead

Dustin Johnson fired a final-round, eight-under-63 to cruise to an 11-shot victory at the P-G-A Tour’s Northern Trust at T-P-C Boston. Johnson finished at 30-under par for the four days. Harris English was second at 19-under, one shot ahead of Daniel Berger. Tiger Woods tied for 58th at six-under after a final round 66. Johnson…

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False Positive Results

Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur confirms his team was one of several N-F-L teams receiving false-positive reports from a New Jersey lab on COVID-19 tests. Nearly one-third of the N-F-L teams got the mistaken results from BioReference lab. LaFleur says a couple of his players were affected. The Chicago Bears reported they had nine…

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Twins Win

The Minnesota Twins built an early 4-0 lead and hung on to beat the Royals 5-4 in Kansas City yesterday. Nelson Cruz’s solo homer in the top of the ninth pushed the lead to 5-3 and proved to be the difference as K-C scored once in the bottom of the ninth to pull to within…

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Brewers Swept

Gregory Polanco’s two-run homer in the eighth gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 5-4 win Sunday and a sweep of their weekend series against Milwaukee. Brewers first baseman Justin Smoak’s sixth-inning home run with a man on had given the visitors a 4-2 lead, but they couldn’t hold it. David Phelps surrendered Polanco’s go-ahead blast and…

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NCAA decision

The N-C-A-A will likely make a decision next month about the 2020-21 basketball season as it looks to navigate the global health crisis. N-C-A-A senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt said that mid-September is the target date to announce if a season is plausible, when it would start and what its structure would be.

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Packer Report

Signing running back Aaron Jones to a new contract could be the next top priority for Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst. Nose tackle Kenny Clark has a new deal that could keep him in Green Bay for the next five years. The 25-year-old Jones has shown he’s a playmaker, leading the N-F­L with 19 touchdowns…

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Reap Big Benefits

Thanks to his big weekend in Ohio, Madison golfer Jerry Kelly is automatically qualified for The Players Championship next March and he has a five-year exemption into the P-G-A Tour Champions’ season opener in Hawaii. Kelly picked up a 450-thousand-dollar winners’ paycheck after claiming a two-shot victory at the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship in Akron…

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Brewers Rotation

Hard-throwing right-hander Corbin Burnes rejoins the Milwaukee starting rotation for tonight’s (Tuesday’s) 7:10 p-rn game at Target Field in Minneapolis. With a 10-and-1 0 record, Milwaukee is tied for second place in the National League Central Division, three-and-a-half games behind the Cubs. The Brewers will be trying to extend their three-game winning streak against the…

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