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March 28, 2008

First off let me say congratulations to Davidson for winning their NCAA tournament game tonight, but no way are they a better team than the Wisconsin Badgers.
I mean, Davidson plays in some kind of makeshift JV league, they’re all 5′9″ and 110 lbs., they all have mommies and daddies who tell them they’re special. Its […]

March 23, 2008

Actually it would not be sweet at all to have to be sixteen and go through high school all over again. If my teenage years played out like John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles, I can’t say that I would have been the nerdy Bryce played by John Cusack or even his buddy Cliff. I would have […]

March 21, 2008

A nice solid game last night by the UW men’s basketball team in their opening game of the NCAA tournament. They were a little sloppy with 17 turnovers, but overall I thought the Badgers dealt with Cal Fullerton’s speed pretty well.
One thing I couldn’t stand, though, were the announcers Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner. Do […]

March 16, 2008

Cheers to the UW Badgers basketball team for an impressive win over Illinois to add the Big Ten tournament championship to their awards and honors this season. Jeers to the NCAA selection committee for seeding Wisconsin third in the Midwest.
Actually I’m not all that surprised at the bracket selection, but seriously you’d think winning the […]

March 18, 2007

They say if you live by the sword you’ll eventually die by the sword, and it has turned out to be true in the case of the Badger men’s basketball team.
For too many games, especially late in the season, Wisconsin made an art out of falling behind early then coming back strong to win. Friday’s […]

March 16, 2007

It sure was a good thing that I was at work today instead of home in front of my TV; there’s a very good chance a shoe or a beer bottle or some other object would have become lodged in the screen early in Wisconsin’s opening-round NCAA tournament game.
Fer crying out loud, how do you […]

March 12, 2006

Well, the conference tournaments were pretty disappointing but now the NCAA tourney is set to begin. Wisconsin, which got booted in the quarterfinals after losing to Indiana 61-56, made the #9 seed in the Minneapolis bracket. They play on Friday against #8 seed Arizona and would advance to play Villanova, the top seed in that […]