Sunday Morning Musings
Now that the dust has settled on the 2010 NFL draft, on the surface it appears the end result was more about acquiring depth than providing any major impact for this year’s Green Bay Packers. The way the Packer secondary was dissected in games against Minnesota, Pittsburgh, and Arizona last season, Green Bay’s most urgent [...]
Saturday Morning Musings
(For once, I’m ahead of schedule) In sports, as in politics, the good is often made out to be the enemy of the perfect. And we saw a couple of prime examples of that concept come into play this last week. First, there seemed to be a lot of online unhappiness with University of Wisconsin [...]
Sunday Morning Musings
The first weekend of the NFL free agency period is almost over and the big news around Packerland is that 8 year veteran Aaron Kampman is set to leave Green Bay to join the Jacksonville Jaguars. Kampman reportedly agreed to a four year deal with the Jags that should return him to his customary defensive [...]
This Week in ‘Re(ar)view’
It seems University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan has finally figured out what virtually everyone else in the state already knew; that he should put his 5 best players on the floor to start the game……….and that Tim Jarmusz isn’t one of them. Ryan reinserted recently returned forward Jon Leuer into the starting lineup [...]
Killing the Golden Goose
Last week in this space I wrote that there is nothing rational about being a sports fan. Apparently, that principle extends to the business of professional sports as well. It never ceases to amaze me how the owners of pro sports franchises, who are generally successful in other walks of their business ventures, can be [...]
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