We sat facing a sweet Saturday sun, wearing our festive red gear and pondering our place in this fickle universe. Was it right to settle in and enjoy a college football game in Wisconsin while a huge, snarling hurricane ripped through the Caribbean and bore down on Florida? Especially since the rightful holder of our [...]
It seems appropriate that more than 80,000 people will be on hand tomorrow to celebrate my sister Kathy's birthday. There will be beer toasts and brat fries, an F-16 flyover and a chicken dance. The whole Badger band will be at the shindig. I'm told there will be a football game as well. And, in [...]
When the New Year dawns so cold that an icy crust forms on our lovely snow and the frigid air steals our breath, we like to distract ourselves with a little Wisconsin tradition we call the Rose Bowl. With its twin themes of celebration and football, the Rose Bowl serves as the perfect party incentive [...]