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UW takes Big Ten break against UIC
(04/18/06 6:00am)
Following an encouraging weekend split against Michigan State, the Wisconsin softball team (3-5 Big Ten, 17-16 overall) looks to build on that confidence as they head into the home stretch of their season. Before two huge series against Indiana and Purdue this weekend, however, the Badgers take on Illinois-Chicago (8-3 Horizon League, 17-25 overall) Wednesday.
Injuries continue to plague spring practice
(04/17/06 6:00am)
First-year head coach Bret Bielema watched from the sidelines last year as injuries took a toll on defensive unit he directed.
Run, Pudas, Run...to go see an arty foreign film
(04/17/06 6:00am)
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Badgers gear up for tough weekend
(04/13/06 6:00am)
Around this time last season, the UW softball team (2-4 Big Ten, 16-15 overall) was in the same position, hovering around .500 and generally disappointed with its play. However, if it wants to reel off 17 wins in 19 games again, it will have to start at the top of the Big Ten with Michigan State and No. 12 Michigan visiting Madison this weekend.
Badgers gear up for tough weekend
(04/13/06 6:00am)
Around this time last season, the UW softball team (2-4 Big Ten, 16-15 overall) was in the same position, hovering around .500 and generally disappointed with its play. However, if it wants to reel off 17 wins in 19 games again, it will have to start at the top of the Big Ten with Michigan State and No. 12 Michigan visiting Madison this weekend.
Lack of supporting cast dooms Badgers
(04/10/06 6:00am)
After snapping a four-match losing streak Saturday with a 6-1 win over Iowa, the UW men's tennis team fell short of an upset Sunday, losing to No. 40 Minnesota (5-1 Big Ten, 11-9 overall) 5-2 at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. The duel meet was the Badgers' first Big Ten match played outdoors during the spring season.
Disney classic brings out sensitive side
(04/10/06 6:00am)
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Badgers look to halt conference anguish
(04/06/06 6:00am)
The UW men's tennis team looks to snap a four-match losing streak this weekend against its two border rivals. The Badgers will face Iowa (0-4 Big Ten, 5-8 overall) Saturday and No. 40 Minnesota (3-1, 9-9) Sunday at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
Aruba native Hodgson earning cardinal and white
(04/04/06 6:00am)
It was not just an acclaimed new head coach, the players, a great campus or Big Ten competition that attracted Gian Hodgson to the UW men's tennis program.
Pudas runs down our generation's college cult classics
(04/03/06 6:00am)
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News of the Weird
(03/22/06 6:00am)
Giving it the ol' college (don't) tryHistory professor David Weale of Canada's University of Prince Edward Island offered B-minus grades to any students in his overcrowded class if they would just go away, and 20 of the 95 accepted. However, the administration found out, and Professor Weale, who had retired the previous year but returned to teach that one course, re-retired.
Mission Possible: Cruise censors 'South Park'
(03/21/06 6:00am)
Snap, Crackle, Pudas!When it comes to trenchant political and social satire, there is no better current source than South Park,\ which is far and away my favorite television show. Since its humble beginnings 10 years ago, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's crudely animated show has assaulted everything from easy targets (David Caruso, Barbara Streisand) to the fattest of sacred cows (the Catholic faith), encountering controversy and debate with every jest. But last week, Comedy Central finally caved in to outside pressure and refused to air a repeat of one of the show's funniest episodes: a hysterical lampoon of the Church of Scientology, with a special emphasis on mocking Tom Cruise, entitled ""Trapped in the Closet.""This has been quite a week for ""South Park,"" as the backlash over the episode—which originally aired back in November—resulted in the departure of avowed Scientologist Isaac Hayes, who was previously the voice of Chef. Cruise already had the episode banned in the UK, where libel laws are markedly stricter. Even though his anonymous spokespeople denied he exerted his influence to have last Wednesday's repeat pulled, he most likely did. In fact, Cruise supposedly threatened to yank advertisements for ""Mission: Impossible 3"" if the episode aired again, which would have caused substantial problems for Paramount and Comedy Central's parent company Viacom. Now I know that everybody hates Cruise after his couch-jumping escapades and passionately boneheaded comments about postpartum depression (""I know the history of psychiatry, Matt!""), but this is something different entirely. Cruise has now suppressed freedom of speech, albeit legally (corporate prior restraint, as disgusting as it is, is not against the law), and that goes way behind his history of being an incorrigible poor sport. If you support freedom of speech under the First Amendment, you have to be willing to defend and tolerate the rights of others to speak out and criticize, even if their words are aimed squarely at you. This same old problem has come up time and time again, from John Adams to Jerry Falwell, and Cruise's bullying brand of censorship is equally unacceptable. Considering that Hayes picked last week to quit the show, Scientologists must be scared of the impact the episode has and will continue to have. Even though secretive details of the Scientologist mythology have been revealed in various newspapers for a few years, ""Trapped in the Closet"" may actually inform more people than before about their wacky beliefs. In fact, the Scientologist story of evil lord Xenu trapping spiritual Thetans in human bodies provided the most hilarious material for ""Trapped in the Closet"" (Parker and Stone memorably placed a large subtitle, ""This is what Scientologists actually believe"" over the sequence); this scene was perhaps even funnier than each appearance from a gun-toting, commentating R. Kelly.
Awarding the absolute worst
(03/06/06 6:00am)
Snap, Crackle, Pudas!As of today, the movie awards season is officially over. Most of the awards shows are congratulatory affairs that encourage you to see the highest-touted films of the year, which are oftentimes under-seen by the general populace. It's kind of ironic how similarly little press coverage is given to the various awards ceremonies for bad movies, such as the Golden Raspberry Awards and Stinker Bad Movie Awards, which disparage some films that, unfortunately, have made significantly more money than the Oscar nominees for Best Picture.
UW reaps reward of home ice in playoffs
(03/06/06 6:00am)
When the Wisconsin men's hockey team begins post season play this weekend, the benefit of a top-five finish in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association should immediately become loud and clear.
Elliott allows just one goal in UW sweep of Huskies
(03/06/06 6:00am)
A familiar style of impenetrable defensive play resurfaced for the Badger men's hockey team over the weekend. The team allowed just one goal in the two-game series against St. Cloud State.
Izzo’s East Lansing lair awaits Badgers
(03/02/06 6:00am)
Amidst one of the toughest battles for the Big Ten title in recent history, the UW men's basketball team (9-5 Big Ten, 19-8 overall) needs to finish strong to bring some momentum into the Big Ten Tournament and ultimately, the NCAA tournament. Completing the season on the road against an angry Michigan State (7-7, 19-9) Thursday and Iowa Saturday will not make that task easy.
Containing Spartan big three key for Badgers
(03/01/06 6:00am)
Wisconsin will head into East Lansing, Mich., this Thursday with one thing in mind: stopping Michigan State's big three of Maurice Ager, Shannon Brown and Paul Davis.
Oscar darling deserves to crash and burn
(02/27/06 6:00am)
This year, the Academy got the Oscar nominations surprisingly right for the most part, giving well-deserved nods to ballsy dramas ('Good Night and Good Luck,' 'Munich') and even a gay love story. Even 'Capote,' a film I found skillful but often tedious, is a smaller film with sincere artistic intentions. But there's a whirling controversy over 'Crash,' Canadian writer-director Paul Haggis' racially fueled ensemble drama, and for this Oscar race, I'm going to have to shoot down the little indie that could.
Pudas is a man outside his time
(02/20/06 6:00am)
\As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.' This is the most famous line of Scorsese's 'GoodFellas,' which is, and will always remain my favorite movie, and it generally sums up how I feel. It's not because I absolutely love organized crime (or at least the cinematic depiction of it), but rather because gangsters thrived in the most fascinating, tumultuous historical periods in the United States. In short, I feel as if I was born in the wrong decade'this era of hip-hop, blogging and 'Halo''and my preferences in music and especially movies reflect it.
