The world gets smaller, a little crazier and a lot more interesting every day. For instance, yesterday I had lunch with a woman I only know through our respective writing. Carolotta Schmittgen lives in North Carolina and writes a great blog called Lotta Sports. (If you just left this blog to check out hers, I [...]
Thirty-five years ago, I wrote an article encouraging Brewer and Packer-obsessed Wisconsin sports fans to follow the Milwaukee Bucks. Headlined "It's too soon to pass the Bucks", the column argued that an Alton Lister slam dunk from a Sidney Moncrief alley-oop was at least as exciting as a nine-inning baseball game, and suggested that a [...]
Congratulations to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. As a Packer fan, I know a thing or two about great quarterbacks and our big three -- Bart Starr, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers -- own their special place in history. But, Tom Brady has won six Super Bowls and lost three. Nine Super Bowl [...]
We've had better sports weekends here in Wisconsin. Our Badgers lost 38-13 at Michigan, our Brewers lost 4-3 to the Dodgers, and we lost a Hall of Fame Packer running back Jim Taylor, who died Saturday morning in Baton Rouge. But, here's the thing about sports and the athletes who play them: their legacy lives [...]
I remember exactly where I was on October 10, 1982 and, if you were a Milwaukee Brewer fan back then, I bet you do too. I was watching the final game of the American League Championship Series with my friends on the communal TV in Marquette University’s O’Donnell Hall. We jumped to our feet multiple [...]