Looks can be deceiving edition
It seems that with Big Ten men’s basketball teams in recent seasons, a good start is just that, a good start. It doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a good middle or even a good ending for that...
View ArticleWinter’s grip edition
Why would the NHL pull the plug on letting its best players take part in the Winter Olympics every four years? You can cite injuries to players with guaranteed contracts and seeing a ton of money the...
View ArticleFinally Four
Winning a national championship might actually be second on the benefits scale of making the Final Four for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team. The first will be breaking the stereotype...
View ArticleMiddle of spring edition
- May 8, 2014 will be either be a day of infamy for the Minnesota Vikings or it will not be. When presented the golden opportunity to draft Johnny Manziel as their quarterback of future heading into a...
View ArticleMid-summer edition
- Whenever there is a change in regime of any kind of organization, the new leader is given both the authority and the benefit of putting in his own personnel in key positions. The Milwaukee...
View ArticleTumble into Fall
So is Roger Goodell going to be fired as NFL commissioner because of the Ray Rice fiasco? Put it this way: If none of the transgressions of the rouges gallery of NFL owners (Wilf, Irsay, Haslem,...
View ArticleYou think you know somebody(thing)
The first person qualifying for the sarcastic phrase “You think you know somebody..” would of course be Adrian Peterson. This article from the Star-Tribune pretty much tells, or better yet re-tells the...
View ArticleThe Decembrist Edition
There will certainly be those University of Wisconsin football fans who will wonder “what-might-have-been?” had the Badgers had started Joel Stave at quarterback from the beginning of the season....
View ArticleDeflation edition
So much in deflation these days…gas prices, the European economy, and footballs. There once was a fellow named Anderson, who became a head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In fact he had a...
View ArticleMad in March edition
Sometimes we all go a little mad. It’s March after all. It would have been the height of madness if the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament committee put Wisconsin in the same regional as No. 1 ranked and...
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