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BROOKFIELD, Wis. 鈥?More than 150 athletes put their skills to the test for the 9th Annual Big Cheese Classic Elite Wheelchair Basketball Tournament in Brookfield.Players including Paralympians and wounded veterans. Teams came from as far as California, Florida, and Michigan. It s a very physical sport. They aren t dainty with their chairs. They re very competitive. They re very athletic. They crash into each other. They can fall over. It s not for the light of heart, Nicole Verneuille said.Veneuille is the program director for Wisconsin Adaptive Sports Association WASA w
stanley cup hich hosted the 3-day event. The range of abilities, level that is in the sport is far and wide, Verneuille said. I think this is the perfect platform for everybody to see that this is a real sport and individuals with disabilities can do a lot more than you think they can. Jeremy Lade has been playing wheelchair basketball si
stanley us nce he was 12 years old. He said this past weekend was more about getting ready for a national tournament. What we tell people is the first thing that they re probably going to see is a wheelchair, is adaptive equipment, but after you get a
stanley romania couple minutes into the game you start seeing basketball, because the wheelchair just starts to disappear. Lade has competed at three different Paralympics. For him, wheelchair basketball is part of who he is. It s one of those things that is more than just basketball. Early on helped build confidence, showed me I could do everything that everyone Bbpt SE Wisconsin Weather: Friday to be sunny and breezy, high of 70
Now a tropical depression, Nicholas has made its way from eastern Texas into Louisiana, where it could dump several inches of rain on a state already recovering from a devastating hurricane.Nicholas made landfall early Tuesday morning as a Category 1 hurricane near Sargent Beach, Texas. It continued to hug the shoreline throughout the day on Tuesday, losing wind speeds while gradually making its way eastward.Nicholas did cause some problems with Texas s power grid, as more than 100,000 customers are currently without power.While Nicholas no longer packs the wind speeds it did when it first made landfall; the storm continues to pose a threat to Texans and Louisianans becaus
stanley cup e of heavy rainfall totals. Galveston, Texas, saw 14 inches of rain on Tuesday, while nearby Houston got 6 inches of rain.The Natio
stanley thermobecher nal Weather Service predicts that parts of Louisiana could get as many as 10 inches of rain in the coming days.Nicholas arrival in Louisiana comes just weeks after one of the strongest storms in the history of the state 鈥?Hurricane Ida 鈥?reached its shores. Ida devastated the state, downing trees, flooding areas and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands. Even weeks later, about 80,000 customers in the state are still without power.Entergy, the company that provides electricity to Louis
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