January 6, 2006 It’s official, the Minnesota Vikings have hired Brad Childress as their new head coach. The decision came quickly (so quickly, in fact, that he cancelled a planned interview in Green Bay) after the team interviewed just a couple other coaches for the job. According to Mr. Critic at ‘Nietzsche or Nitschke?’, though, […]
January 26, 2006 The new ads for the Super Bowl running on ABC and ESPN have me scratching my head. If you haven’t seen them (just stay tuned, you will), the curious thing isn’t the visual element — just stock footage of past championships dug out of the vaults of NFL Films — but the […]
August 30, 2008 Here’s one of those moments that makes you very happy the Green Bay Packers franchise is a publicly-owned non-profit corporation. Real estate developer Ed Roski Jr. is in the market for an NFL team to take up residence in a new stadium he is planning to build in City of Industry outside […]
May 8, 2006 Missed this news in the run up to Packers minicamp, but Wisconsin fullback Matt Bernstein joined teammate Brian Calhoun in Detroit last week. Bernstein signed with the Lions as an undrafted free agent in time to join the team’s rookie minicamp over the weekend. No word on the Lion’s Web site on […]
February 19, 2008 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, and he has an uncle on […]
January 10, 2006 The Milwaukee Bucks survived a late charge by the Timberwolves to come away with a 95-92 victory, snapping a three-game losing streak. Michael Redd was the top scorer with 22 points and seven rebounds. James Magloire hit six of 11 from the field and 15 total points, while Tony Kukoc added 14 […]
May 24, 2007 That’s done as in finished, at and end, over and out. Keyshawn is retiring from the NFL and Robert Ferguson lives to see another day. But that’s okay because I’ve changed my mind about the veteran wide receiver: Clearly he has a selfish, “there’s no team in I” attitude that would have […]
August 23, 2006 Former Badger running back Brian Calhoun saw his first limited NFL action this past weekend with Detroit, getting two carries for one yard and catching two passes for six yards. His first touch came late in the second quarter on first down deep in Cleveland territory, but the play went for negative […]
January 23, 2008 Sweet Jebus I had forgotten how much I can’t stand Brent Musburger doing basketball coverage. I realize he’s a sweet, senile old man but can’t someone put him out to pasture already? It was pretty sweet though that Greg Stiemsma got to go ice fishing with Erin Andrews. The good part of […]
August 21, 2007 The online Wisconsin sports scene has lost one of its best today: The Oracle of Cheese has decided to pull up stakes and take in a little retirement. While us fans are sad to see him go, I’m sure we all wish Craig well during his much deserved time off. Craig was […]
December 31, 2005 There is a part of me that wants to flip the bird to 2005 and say, “Good riddance,” but another part of me thinks we should get a do-over. I’m pretty sure that if we gave it a second chance, 2005 could turn out okay. But I suppose that’s not likely to […]
November 5, 2006 GBFan at The Wisconsin Sports Bar posted yesterday a request for help trying to locate Packer bars and Badger bars outside the state of Wisconsin. There are a lot of us ex-pat Midwesterners living in far flung corners of the country where the alternatives for watching the games are usually pretty grim. […]
September 4, 2006 As many of you know, the latest Madden NFL video game came out a couple weeks ago. It set a record for the best first week sales of any video game in history, taking in $100 million as more than 2 million copies were sold. From that, I’m guessing that many of […]
November 19, 2007 Randy Moss and Terrell Owens are the talk of the town after putting up some sick numbers yesterday. Both wide receivers scored four touchdowns, each played a down on defense and batted down a pass. The only difference between them yesterday: T.O. had 173 yards on eight catches, while Moss had 128 […]
