Sunday Morning Musings
With the major league baseball trade deadline fast approaching, much of the attention in Milwaukee has been centered on what, if anything, the Brewers are going to do about first baseman Prince Fielder, rightfielder Corey Hart and, to a lesser extent, second baseman Rickie Weeks. The speculation is only logical since all three will be eligible [...]
Saturday Morning Musings
(Getting this out of the way early this week as I’ll be heading to Miller Park Sunday morning.) The “big” news in Badgerland this week was the addition of the University of Nebraska to the Big(12)Ten. After months of consideration and conjecture, the Big Ten made it official on Friday afternoon with a press conference [...]
Rationalizing a Badger Win
I heard a lot of explanations on the airwaves this morning for how the Wisconsin Badgers were able to defeat the University of Miami 20-14 in the Champs Sports Bowl on Tuesday evening. Commentators, including ESPN analyst Todd Blackledge during the game broadcast, cited everything from the unseasonably cool weather in Orlando to the condition of a [...]
QUICK HIT: Badgers to Orlando
After the University of Wisconsin football team handily defeated Hawaii on the road Saturday night, they still held out hope for a bid to the Outback Bowl on January 1. On Sunday night, the Badgers found out that their disappointing late season loss at Northwestern allowed the Wildcats to leapfrog them and be selected to face Auburn in [...]
Great Parking Spot
The sideline was filled with dignitaries, including Ron Dayne, Travis Beckum, Owen Daniels, Suzy Favor-Hamilton, the 1999 Rose Bowl champion team, and Charissa Thompson dressed in a not-so-sideline-reporterish outfit. The Badger sideline had its usual 100-member red and white clad football squad that has performed well in 2009. On the visitor sideline was…well, the team [...]
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