UW’s Davis steps down
Wisconsin wrestling coach Barry Davis resigned on Monday, ending his 25-year tenure as the Badgers' head coach.
Davis, a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, coached 26 All-Americans, eight Big Ten champions and three NCAA champions while at Wisconsin. He was named NWCA National Coach of the Year in 2010 after leading UW to a fourthplace finish at the NCAA championships.
Davis is Wisconsin's all-time winningest coach and led the Badgers to 15 top-20 finishes at the NCAA championships.
Davis will coach the Badgers through the NCAA Championships on March 15-17.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
UW-Milwaukee’s season came to an end as the Panthers fell to Wright State, 59-53, in a semifinal game of the Horizon League Tournament on Monday night in Detroit.
The Panthers (16-17) were led by Jeremiah Bell, who tallied 22 points.
Wright State (24-9) was paced by Loudon Love’s 18 points.
Lundquist sidelined: Veteran play-by-play announcer Verne Lundquist will not be calling NCAA Tournament games this year.
Lundquist, 77, has been calling tournament games for CBS since 1998.
Lundquist had back surgery last fall and decided to step away from doing this year’s tournament. HOCKEY
The Wisconsin women's hockey team earned the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship and will host rival Minnesota in a tournament quarterfinal game Saturday at LaBahn Arena.
The game marks the sixth meeting between the Badgers and the Gophers in the season as UW went 4-1-0 against Minnesota, sweeping the regular-season series against Minnesota for the first time in school history.
The NCAA quarterfinal matchup comes just six days after the two team's most recent meeting as the Golden Gophers defeated the Badgers, 3-1, in the 2018 WCHA Final Faceoff title game on Sunday.
Kunin’s season ends: Minnesota Wild rookie forward Luke Kunin is out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee.
The Wild announced the former Wisconsin star suffered the tear during Sunday’s 4-1 win at Detroit. He is expected to have surgery in the coming weeks and return to play in about seven months.
The 20-year-old was most recently recalled by the Wild on Feb. 27.
AUTO RACING
A former NASCAR trucks driver has been arrested on a federal charge of trying to entice a minor into sex.
Rick Crawford, 59, was arrested Thursday in Lake Mary, Fla., after he had been communicating about sex with an undercover sheriff ’s deputy posing as a 12-year-old girl.
Crawford told investigators he didn’t believe the girl was 12 and would not have followed through with sex if she turned out to be underage.
Crawford raced in the truck series from 1997 to 2013.
SOCCER
American forward Charlie Davies, whose career was derailed by a car crash in 2009, is retiring from soccer at age 31.
Davies scored four goals in 17 appearances for the U.S. before he was a passenger in a car crash on Oct. 13, 2009 that killed another passenger and left him with two broken bones in his right leg, a dislocated left elbow, a ruptured bladder, bleeding on the brain and broken bones in his nose, forehead and eye socket.
The driver was found to be drunk and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.