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17 WE ARE basketball players and coaches chosen for All-Star game
The Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced the participants of the 2020-21 All-Star Games which will be held at JustAGame Fieldhouse in Wisconsin Dells this summer. One of the coolest…
Read MoreKelly’s Heroes
Amery’s legendary coach guides Warriors to first state wrestling title Mike Kelly has done it all. After years of individual championships, three decades of wrestling in places as far away as…
Read MoreBoys Basketball Roundup
Sometimes life just isn’t fair. Take the Grantsburg Pirates for instance. The senior-dominated Pirates racked up a 13-2 season record and won the Lakeland West Conference title with a 9-0…
Read MoreSaints come marchin’ in; Searching for first state trip
You know what they say. “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” But the St. Croix Falls Girls Basketball Team is out to change all that — and they will begin…
Read MoreWIAA releases Boys Basketball tournament brackets
The Boys tournament starts on Tuesday, Feb. 16, and the girls start this week! (Check out the girl’s brackets here) Here are the boy’s brackets involving WE ARE teams: Division…
Read MoreMerlin the Magician
Grantsburg loses the man with his thumb on the community and education in his heart. Merlin Johnson, 1930 – 2021Did Merlin Johnson have a philosophy about life? If he did,…
Read MoreGirls Basketball Roundup
Earney now Ellsworth’s all-time leading scorer Autumn Earney is now the all-time scoring leader at Ellsworth High School after she scored 18 points in a 60-51 loss to Somerset to…
Read MorePirate ship sailing under full steam
•Big center reaches rebounding mark, heads for scoring milestone. Four years ago a group of young men began their basketball travels aimed at succeeding together on the hardcourt. This year…
Read MoreWIAA releases girls basketball tournament brackets
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Basketball tournaments are right around the corner! The Girls get their tournament started on Tuesday, Feb. 9 and the Boys start a…
Read MoreThe day I met Hank Aaron
Spending days catching the rubber ball bouncing off the side of our house like Willie Mays, smashing rocks over the pasture fence as Hank Aaron, or rounding the wooden-plank bases…
Read MoreA Crown for Unity Girls; Comet Boys Soaring
The WE ARE Network covers 15 teams in both boys and girls basketball spanning five conferences. Some of those teams are taking shots or have won conference championships. It’s a…
Read MoreBringing life to the history of Grantsburg
What Christmas gift do you get for the mother who has everything? A year ago Olaf Danielson was faced with that dilemma. “When we drew names I got my mother…
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