Published on: 11th November, 2009
Who: Michigan Wolverines @ Wisconsin Badgers Where: Camp Randall Stadium, Big Ten Network. When: Saturday, Nov. 14, 11:00 AM CST. You have to feel sorry for Michigan. This week The Detroit News reported that the state expects to lose a total of one million jobs this decade, largely due to the collapse of ...Published on: 6th November, 2009
Who: Wisconsin @ Indiana Where: Memorial Stadium, Big Ten Network When: Saturday, Nov. 7, 11 AM CST. It’s been a terrible week for former Wisconsin Badger football stars now playing in the NFL. First tight end standout Owen Daniels injures his knee on Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. He’s out the rest of the season, ...Published on: 3rd November, 2009
It was Ted Thompson’s worst nightmare, and fittingly enough, it happened just hours after Halloween ended. Brett Favre. Celebrating at Lambeau Field. After having just beaten the Packers. As a member of the (shudder) Minnesota Vikings. But the true nightmare for Mike McCarthy’s team is not that Brett Favre is now ahead ...Published on: 28th October, 2009
What: Purdue @ Wisconsin. Where: Camp Randall Stadium, ESPN2 When: Saturday, October 31, 11 AM CST. I love the double bye. I support the double bye. I miss the double bye. For anyone too young or for anyone too heavily engaged in the then-dominant stoner grunge scene to remember it clearly, the 1993 NFL season was the ...Published on: 15th October, 2009
Who: Iowa Hawkeyes @ Wisconsin Badgers. Where: Camp Randall Stadium, ESPN. When: Saturday, October 17, 11 AM CST. If you like television—and really, don’t you believe those people with the “Kill Your Television” license plates are scary crazy?—you should check out a book called The Last Great Ride by the late NBC president ...Published on: 1st October, 2009
Who: Wisconsin Badgers @ Minnesota Gophers Where: TCF Bank Stadium, ESPN When: Saturday, Oct. 3, 11 a.m. CST. In listening to the new Beatles remasters, I keep having the same thought over and over: Man, that Paul McCartney can play the bass. In continuing with my musings, I also consider how McCartney was clearly the best ...Published on: 6th September, 2009
I hate fall. Fall means the end of warm weather (and it wasn’t even warm this year in Southern Wisconsin—once again, global warming has let me down), the end of swimming (the only exercise I enjoy, although I’m not sure if taunting my son with threats of getting dunked counts as ...Published on: 2nd August, 2009
What a difference a year makes. Last August 2, despite having just been swept in a four-game series by the hated Cubs, the Milwaukee Brewers were thirteen games over .500 and had the second-best record in the National League. Behind the newly-acquired CC Sabathia, the splashiest free-agent acquisition in club history, the Brewers ...Published on: 25th July, 2009
Anybody who knows me knows that during the summer, I spend three glorious hours a week watching CBS’s Big Brother. I make no apologies for it, as I find the program endlessly entertaining. However, this summer—thanks to a “gift” from DirecTV—I’ve been able to watch Showtime 2’s Big Brother After Dark, which ...