January 26, 2008 If you’ve recovered from last Sunday’s championship game and you’re ready to relive the 2007 season, SportsCenter on ESPN is running a feature Sunday on Wayne Scullino and the year he’s had since moving his family from Australia to Green Bay to follow the Packers. Judging from this post on his blog, […]
July 22, 2008 posted under: Vikings suck The Minnesota Vikings have been begging and pleading that state for years to build them a new stadium to replace the Humpy Dumpty Dome in Minneapolis, but those tight-fisted Minnesotans just won’t give them a penny. (Hundreds of millions so billionaire Carl Pohlad can have a new baseball […]
March 7, 2006 Enough fooling around with regular season conference games, it’s time to get serious. The Big 12 and Big 10 tournaments get started this week and I’m looking for good things from both my Cyclones and my Badgers. Okay, neither team was looking real sharp coming down the stretch, but a guy can […]
February 3, 2006 posted under: Badgers hockey, Iowa State hockey Before we get to the big game on Sunday, there’s plenty of other stuff going on to get yourself warmed up after a long week. The Badgers hockey team will try and turn things around when they travel to Duluth to face the UMD Bulldogs. […]
August 17, 2006 posted under: Badgers in the NFL, Brian Calhoun, Jim Leonhard, Owen Daniels, Tim Dobbins The first round of pre-season games last weekend made the perfect stage for a couple rookies from Iowa State and Wisconsin to make their professional football debut. Linebacker Tim Dobbins had a great first outing (unfortunately) for the […]
March 2, 2008 posted under: Anne Capistrant, Iditarod, Jon Korta, Zoya DeNure Up in Alaska they’re getting ready today to start the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an endurance test pitting man and beast against the elements and 1,100 miles of Alaskan wilderness. Surprisingly, there are more than a couple people with Wisconsin ties taking […]
November 23, 2007 posted under: Lions, Packers, Post-game, Thanksgiving Sweet Jebus, thank you for delivering the Green Bay Packers from the clutches of ineptitude and stupid penalties and granting them a victory over Detroit. Amen. The Thanksgiving Classic yesterday between the Packers and Lions was very much like the typical family Turkey Day meal: There’s […]
December 18, 2007 Big props to the Philadelphia Eagles for playing tough defense all afternoon and scoring just enough to hang a second loss on the Cowboys. Now we just need the Redskins to play for pride in the final weekend of football and Green Bay could be hosting throughout the playoffs. My brother whipped […]
June 29, 2006 posted under: Nick Barnett Finally a reasonable voice speaks up in the strange story of Nick Barnett and FiveSix Ultra Lounge. For those of you who have not been following this saga, a quick recap: The Green Bay city council voted a few weeks back not to renew the liquor license for […]
February 19, 2008 posted under: Badgers football, James Kamoku I’ve been reading the posts on the Journal Sentinel’s Badger Blog about Wisconsin fifth-year senior linebacker James Kamoku and his family, who have been going through a pretty rough time lately. His mother cannot work because of back problems, his grandmother suffered a heart attack recently, […]
November 17, 2005 posted under: Bucks Milwaukee finally got the upper hand as a visiting team, beating Golden State last night 90-87. Michael Redd scored 27 and Bobby Simmons added 20 with 11 boards. The victory ended a 17-game losing streak on the road for the Bucks, a drought that started back in March with […]
January 29, 2006 posted under: NFL Network, Time Warner Cable sucks Much to no one’s surprise, the National Football League announced yesterday that they will televise eight regular season games in prime time on its own NFL Network next season. The games will be shown on Thursday and Saturday nights, starting with a Thanksgiving night […]
December 10, 2007 posted under: NFL playoffs, Packers, Raiders Green Bay clinched the NFC North division title today in convincing fashion with a 38-7 blowout victory over the Oakland Raiders in front of the Lambeau faithful. It was just the sort of win the Packers needed to get the fan base re-energized and to gain […]
March 13, 2008 posted under: Willie Wood The Journal Sentinel has a good piece today on Packers great Willie Wood. It’s sad to hear about players struggling in old age with health problems — especially dementia — but it’s good to hear that Wood is being taken care of. I also like the quote from […]
