The uncertain trumpet
Are the Minnesota Wild pretty much done for this season now that Mikko Koivu is injured again? Well, they certainly aren’t playing like they have much to look forward to. Their strong start to the...
View ArticleThere’s a sucker born every minute
I never thought the Bucks would find another team who would take Andrew Bogut off their shoulders. Who would want a player who, despite his talent, was hurt all the time? Indeed, the fear I had was the...
View ArticleConfusing winter and spring
Strange weather we’re having. When it’s winter it feels spring (almost summer like) and when it’s spring it feels like winter. In this way you can wrap up a lot of different sports in one post. It’s...
View ArticleDesktop Sportsman – Spring into Summer edition
And what a busy, important spring it was… With the i’s finally dotted and the t’s finally crossed, the Minnesota Vikings now have a new stadium and the long, long process of getting all of Minnesota’s...
View ArticleMiddle Earth edition
What Tolkein had mind in writing about the Ring of Power in his Lord of the Rings books concerned an inherit evil in the manner of power itself which would lead men to either destroy each other...
View ArticleBush League edition
Use bush league employees get bush league results. That’s why many of these NFL Replacement referees were working junior college football games instead of the pros. Ultimately it was up to the owners...
View ArticleIndications weekend
There are a number of interesting sporting events going on this weekend that will provide some solid indicators to the future for a number of Upper Midwest sporting teams: Tonight the Bucks and...
View ArticleUp one week down the next
It seems like pro and college teams in these parts are never really all bad or all good. They’re up one week and down the next. Looking like champions today until tomorrow comes and they’re bums again....
View ArticleThy Lions of March edition
Someone once said being involved in wrestling isn’t really about having fun, it’s about fulfillment. You dream of something like a gold medal in the Olympics or the state or NCAA tournament, you work...
View ArticleThe Cold Spring
We’re in between baseball and snowfalls even though it’s spring. One of the aspects of the new Big Ten hockey conference which is appealing is more opportunities for non-conference scheduling and...
View ArticlePatience of Job edition
Baseball is a game of patience and thus baseball executives, mangers and fans have to exercise a patience which could only try the likes Job. Sometimes they have to endure years of failure before a...
View ArticleMake-over edition
Revelations of star athletes taking PEDs or doping themselves up for athletic competitions has obviously made over the reputations of stars like Ryan Braun and Lance Armstrong (In A-Rod’s case it only...
View ArticleSiesta in the second half edition
From now on I shall take naps during the second half of Packers games, as I did on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, stricken with and cold and fatigue and convinced the Pack, down 29-10 early in the third...
View ArticleLooks can be deceiving edition
It seems that with Big Ten men’s basketball teams in recent seasons, a good start is just that, a good start. It doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a good middle or even a good ending for that...
View ArticleWinter’s grip edition
Why would the NHL pull the plug on letting its best players take part in the Winter Olympics every four years? You can cite injuries to players with guaranteed contracts and seeing a ton of money the...
View ArticleMiddle of spring edition
- May 8, 2014 will be either be a day of infamy for the Minnesota Vikings or it will not be. When presented the golden opportunity to draft Johnny Manziel as their quarterback of future heading into a...
View ArticleMid-summer edition
- Whenever there is a change in regime of any kind of organization, the new leader is given both the authority and the benefit of putting in his own personnel in key positions. The Milwaukee...
View ArticleThe Decembrist Edition
There will certainly be those University of Wisconsin football fans who will wonder “what-might-have-been?” had the Badgers had started Joel Stave at quarterback from the beginning of the season....
View ArticleDeflation edition
So much in deflation these days…gas prices, the European economy, and footballs. There once was a fellow named Anderson, who became a head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In fact he had a...
View ArticleMad in March edition
Sometimes we all go a little mad. It’s March after all. It would have been the height of madness if the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament committee put Wisconsin in the same regional as No. 1 ranked and...
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