Sports - Oct. 22, 2009
Football, violence and dog fighting
What's got football on this basketball boy's mind today? Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point," has written one of the year's best pieces of sports journalism. It will make you think.
Tags: football, concussions, brain damage, gladwell, new yorker, dog fighting, tipping point

Bars & Clubs - Jan. 3, 2009
Get creative in the kitchen for the Super Bowl chili cookoff
The Packers have miffed their chances of participating in the play-offs this season, but that doesn't make the forthcoming Super Bowl any less exciting for football fans (well, maybe a little.)
Tags: bomb shelter, super bowl, chili, chili cookoff, packers, football

Sports - Dec. 7, 2008
Badgers go bowling against FSU Dec. 27 in Orlando
The University of Wisconsin has accepted an invitation to face Florida State in the Champs Sports Bowl Dec. 27 in Orlando. The Badgers (7-5), who make their fifth consecutive bowl appearance in the Sunshine State and third trip to Orlando in four years, square off against legendary coach Bobby Bowden and the Seminoles at 3:30 p.m. in a game televised on ESPN.
Tags: wisconsin, football, champs bowl, orlando, florida state, bobby bowden

Sports - Sept. 17, 2008
Pro football only looks simple on the surface
Checkers is simple. Football is not. To quote an irate Jim Mora, responding to a reporter trying to get some hard answers to certain things after a particularly hard loss: "You don't know ... and you'll never know!" He's right. The NFL is an unknowable beast that drains gamblers of their money like a sump pump year after year.
Tags: football, playbook, nfl, gamebook

Sports - Jan. 5, 2008
Get your fix with these football flicks
If the bowl games and the start of the NFL playoffs aren't enough to satisfy your hunger for pigskin, check out our list of football-themed movies.
Tags: football, movies, remember the titans, longest yard, friday night lights, we are marshall, any given sunday, varsity blues, all the right moves, school ties

Sports - Nov. 21, 2009
Show Down Saturday... The Fantasy
I’m going to give in and concede to myself that there will be no college football playoff. It’s tough, but I must be true to myself. With that said, it’s time to fix the broken down old car taking up valuable space in my football-watching driveway. I beg you not to think f...
Tags: college, football, playoff, Florida, Alabama

Sports - Nov. 21, 2009
Favre's Return
Brett Favre’s first NFL pass was intercepted and ran back for a touchdown. His last pass as a Green Bay Packer was intercepted. His first NFL completion was to, well himself. His last pass thrown in Lambeau Field, sent a dagger through the heart of his old team. Brett Favre does thin...
Tags: Packers, Brett, Favre, football, Green Bay

Sports - Sept. 15, 2009
Adding Injury to Insult
Following the Green Bay Packers thrilling 21-15 victory over the Bears Sunday night at Lambeau Field, Chicago recieved another low blow as LB Brian Urlacher suffered a season-ending wrist injury and will miss the rest of the 2009 season.  Urlacher was injured while making a tackle in the ...
Tags: Packers vs.Bears, sports, football

Politics - May 27, 2009
Sam Beer, Jack Kemp Set the Standard
Two influential names in American party politics have passed from the scene in recent days; each provides through his example valuable pragmatic lessons in a highly partisan time. Republican Jack Kemp is the more prominent, but Democrat Sam Beer is equally instructive.    &nbs...
Tags: Politics, Education, Football, Sports, Britain

Sports - Aug. 8, 2008
PLEASE write about the Packer's or nothing at all........
Does anyone in Wisconsin remember that we have this football team called The Green Bay Packers?  Well, I think most of the state would appreciate it if the sports writers would STOP writing about former players and concentrate on the current team.  I, for one, am very excited about the ...
Tags: sports, football, green bay, packers, favre