The Buzz grows at Marquette
Constantly underrated and lacking blue-chip star power, what Buzz Williams has built at Marquette has been nothing short of remarkable. That the Golden Eagles have been steadily rising as one of the...
View ArticleBraun wins appeal
Milwaukee Brewers leftfielder Ryan Braun has won his appeal of a 50-game suspension for performance enhancing drugs.
View ArticleFinally making some sense in college football
After 15 years of arguments, controversies and injustices, the Lords of college football are finally talking about getting it right.
View ArticleBraun wins his appeal; now what?
Against seemingly insurmountable odds, longtime baseball arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that Brewers leftfielder Ryan Braun had shown enough reasonable doubt with the chain of custody of his sample to...
View ArticleNow the hard part begins
Perhaps it is where we are as a society in disbelieving what even the most ardent doubter had to agree was a sterling performance at the makeshift podium at Maryvale Baseball Park in Phoenix as the...
View ArticleBaseball's ruins celebrated
Since I was a child I have been fascinated by sporting venues. I don't know exactly where this obsession originated other than my passion for sports itself, but the actual fields of battle have always...
View ArticleThe glue that held Milwaukee's last championship together
While Lew Alcindor was certainly the superstar he was advertised to be coming out of UCLA, the glue to the 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks was Oscar Robertson, who would have never come here had it not been...
View ArticleSolid as a Rock
Rocky Bleier had always beaten the odds. He was never the biggest, strongest, or fastest running back this state has ever seen. However, he may go down as the most tenacious.
View ArticleMilwaukee's first Major League team remembered. No, not them.
1997 was the final year the Milwaukee Brewers competed in the American League. However, the city's association with the so-called "Junior Circuit" dated back nearly 100 years earlier.
View ArticleThe Brewers future at Maryvale is up in the air
The Brewers lease at Maryvale Baseball Park is up after this year. Depending on your perspective that could be good news or it could be bad news. The good news is that the Brewers could demand...
View ArticleThe Golden Eagles soar...even if you hadn't noticed
Marquette has one of the top ten college basketball teams in the country. Unfortunately, outside of the tightly-knit university community, it seems as if few have noticed.
View ArticleThere used to be a ballpark...
"Now the children try to find it / And they can't believe their eyes." Frank Sinatra wasn't singing about Compadre Stadium, but he certainly could have been. After all, the Milwaukee Brewers former...
View ArticleMaking sports accessible to all is goal of new venture
Outward appearances cannot possibly tell you the full story of Damian Buchman's life, because according to the so-called "experts" he isn't even supposed to be alive. Nothing short of a medical...
View ArticleThe move that made Milwaukee cry
"I didn't realize it at the time," Hall of Famer Hank Aaron said. "But after we won the seventh game of the 1957 World Series, everything started to go downhill."
View ArticleMy parting wish: Milwaukee's new Sportsradio 94.5, WTMJ-FM
Since last June many have asked me what I would change about our sports-talk radio scene. The one big thing I would do is add one station to the already crowded mix. It seems counterintuitive but this...
View ArticleIs television the root of all evil?
I didn't recognize Lesley Visser when I saw her interviewing coaches, players and celebrities at the NCAA Tournament this year. Tragically, she, like so many before her, is experiencing the false...
View ArticleWill the gates finally swing open to the fairer sex?
What made Martha Burk's 2003 attempt so utterly feeble was that by based on Augusta's astonishingly strict membership policies, there wasn't a woman who otherwise would have even qualified for...
View ArticleGolf's everyman wins green after winning hearts at Whistling Straits
Two summers ago at Whistling Straits, a virtual unknown burst onto the golf scene at the 2010 PGA Championship. As his father was dying of cancer, a thoughtful, well spoken, humble kid named Bubba from...
View ArticleOne expensive joyride
After finishing the season ranked No. 5 in the country and having top quarterback Tyler Wilson returning, this was supposed to be the year Arkansas fans had been licking their chops for. Upon closer...
View ArticleThe emperor has no clothes in Madison
One way or another, Jarrod Uthoff is gone from the Badgers basketball program. To hold him back, while within the rules, is a morally and ethically bankrupt position for the University of Wisconsin to...
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