Category: Sports
WNBA Draft Headline Features Caitlin Clark…BUT why is this a thing?
One of the feel good stories of 2024 has been the success of college basketball player Caitlin Clark. She has set scoring records, lead her Iowa team to the national championship game, twice, and brought a lot of new fans to women’s basketball. Yesterday she was selected as the first…
What About That Public Funding Of Am Fam Field: aka where the Milwaukee Brewers Play Baseball.
Apparently American Family field needs some upgrades and the Milwaukee Brewers are looking for help from the public sector again. Originally Governor Evers came up with a modest plan but the Republicans, out of pure animus toward the governor, shot it down. And then they came up with a bigger…
WI GOP Wants To Give Packers $2 Million To Host NFL Draft! NO Scheisse.
Unfortunately the Republican elected officials in Madison aren’t particularly astute businessmen and can’t actually determine what is and what isn’t a good investment, i.e. Foxconn. And of course, what is one of the most profitable businesses in the United States? Well, the National Football League which holds near religious or…
If Herschel Walker Were Worth A Thing
he would have been a football analyst on ESPN or Fox Sports…not running for the US Senate.
Hey, Can Ron Johnson Use His Kremlin Connections To Bring Brittney Griner Home??
No, not an original concept. Stole it from someone on Twitter and told him I was going to steal it…but not sure if he’d want me to share his identity here. OTOH: why is the imprisonment of WNBA player Brittney Griner such a seeming low priority? And maybe it isn’t…
Op Ed From The Blogging Blue Sports Desk
Borrowed from Twitter: apologies for original poster’s spelling.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett asks MLB to bring All-Star game to Milwaukee
In response to a new Georgia law that has civil rights groups concerned about its potential to restrict voting access for people of color Major League Baseball has announced it is moving the 2021 MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta to a location to be determined. In response to the decision…
The Superbowl Sex Trafficking Panic
Every year the media reports, falsely, that the Superbowl produces a precipitous rise in sex trafficking. Every year the statistics just don’t bear that out. A number of studies have debunked the myth that large sporting events like the Superbowl see a sharp rise in sex trafficking, but the myth…
U of WI Big Ten Football: Second Game Canceled As A Result of Positive Cases Among Players
So, once again, it’s seems to have been folly to hold the 2020 Big Ten Football season. Considering professional athletes couldn’t keep themselves safe with millions of their own dollars on the line, why would we expect young student athletes to be more successful? Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst and his…
How Can You Expect Young People To Comply When Their Leaders Violate The Rules
As schools and universities reopened for in person schooling and Wisconsin watched as positive tests spiked and set daily records (new record today at over 2,800 positive cases) and are now seeing the daily death numbers set records as well (a record 21 today)…a lot of blame has fallen on…
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