Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers

After an emotional speech praising his seven seniors, after many tears and just as many hugs, Wright State baseball coach Rob Cooper had one more thing to add. "Seniors eat first," he said. It wasn't the happiest of postgame meals. A senior class that...

UW-Milwaukee isn't a glamorous Division I school. Baseball recruits aren't exactly lining up to play there. It takes a special kind of player to go there and succeed like the Panthers have. "Our field is nothing special by any means," assist coach and...

After a week on the job, UW-Milwaukee athletic director Amanda Braun gratefully noticed that few of the coaches were interested in complaining about their facilities. "Which I appreciate," she said. "For one thing, we've got to focus on not repeating...

Yvette Healy learned during her years at De Paul, both as a decorated player and as an assistant coach, the ingredients essential to fielding a softball team capable of consistently competing for NCAA tournament berths. When Healy took over a struggling...

Last winter Oakland University basketball coach Greg Kampe spent most of his Thursdays and Saturdays coaching Summit League basketball games. The nights in between? Spent checking out the future competition. "Every Friday night I could I watched a...

Citing increased exposure, a schedule with proximity to home and a higher level of competition, Oakland athletic director Tracy Huth said the program’s membership to the Horizon League is one it can hardly wait to begin. “Let’s just...

The Sports Xchange Oakland headed to Horizon League Oakland University is the latest school to change conferences, announcing Tuesday that it will move from the Summit League to the Horizon League. Oakland will officially join the Horizon League on...

Oakland University is the latest school to change conferences, announcing Tuesday that it will move from the Summit League to replace Loyola in the Horizon League. Oakland, which is located in southeast Michigan, will officially join the Horizon...

If it wasn't apparent before Saturday, it should be clear today that Wisconsin likely erred by not offering a scholarship to linebacker A.J. Klein in 2008. Klein, a two-time Fox Valley Association linebacker of the year who led Kimberly High School to...

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