Three of the marquee games from college basketball’s opening weekend were scheduled outdoors on aircraft carriers. These games are scheduled right around Veterans Day and fittingly aim to honor the United States’ Armed Forces.
Most writing has a geographic locus—unless you’re reading Samuel Beckett, in which case, have fun crawling through the mud or shutting yourself up in a funeral urn or some other abstraction of the human condition. And even if the author steadfastly refuses to name locations, a story that takes place in some huge metropolis or sleepy village will always have some bearing on a real- life location.
It’s getting late in the college football season, and we’re reaching that point again where pundits and columnists (sadly, myself included) begin to fixate on breaking down the final stretch of the Heisman-trophy race. This is the time when players have to separate themselves from the pack in an attempt to transcend the sport.
I, like all Badger fans must be, am extremely happy with the outcome of Saturday’s game against Indiana. And who would not be?
Saturday, Oct. 27 may have felt like the end of the world to the Badger faithful. At virtually the same moment (5:26 p.m.), UW lost its lead on Michigan State and lost junior guard Josh Gasser to an ACL tear.
I have 40.5 days, 95.22 gigabytes, of music in my iTunes library—and that’s only what iTunes has accounted for.
Between Midnight Madness, the preseason poll and the first official practice, one could argue a few different dates signify the start of the college hoops season. However, this Friday the actual, count-toward-your-record games begin.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would a book by any other name read as well? Could you imagine “The Great Gatsby” retaining its charms if it were named “Trimalchio” or “Under the Red, White and Blue?” Fitzgerald could’ve. He wanted to call it one of those two, or maybe even “Gold-Hatted Gatsby” or “The High-Bouncing Lover.”
Tradition is at the heart and soul of college football and it is embodied across the country in the student sections of different schools. Watching raucous crowds at Notre Dame and LSU try to will their teams to victory last weekend (to varying degrees of success) is what Saturday football is all about. But sadly, here in Madison, this has taken a turn for the worse.
When I heard thousands of runners turned out Sunday morning in Central Park despite the cancellation of the New York City Marathon, I could not have been more proud of the sporting community.
In the Wisconsin football team’s ninth game last season, it lost a heartbreaker in Columbus, Ohio. Not only did freshman quarterback Braxton Miller throw the game-winning touchdown with 40 seconds left, but the Badgers had lost on a Hail Mary just seven days earlier to Michigan State.
Symbolism. God, that’s a big topic to cover. I mean, how do you even go about it? What’s the peppy, prepared angle on this topic? Without it dissolving into some kind of tract or tirade I mean. I do my best, week in and week out, to avoid either of those modes.
It wasn’t the best weekend for Wisconsin sports fans. Joel Stave and Josh Gasser suffered season-ending injuries, and the Badgers lost a game to Michigan State they didn’t trail until the final play of the game.
Whether you love ‘em or hate ‘em, it looks like Notre Dame football is finally back.
I thank whichever higher power exists for the Internet. But God knows I can despise the people on it. I also thank the aforementioned higher power for not having the Internet explode in popularity in the 1990s. Not in the overall user sense, but a musical one; I am so happy hip-hop was not the way it is currently in the 1990s.
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team held its local media day Tuesday, which means—if its first day of practice Oct. 13 doesn’t count—the college hoops season has officially begun (cue boner).
If you actually do something on Halloween night—if school isn’t crushing your soul at the moment—you might decide to do something topical. And topical on Halloween means something scary.
If you’ve watched even five minutes of just about any sports or news network in the last few weeks, then you have seen that Lance Armstrong is in some hot water.
Saturday turned out to be a perfect day in Madison. The weather was beautiful—a welcome change from the week where it rained nearly every day—and Badger football fans flocked to Camp Randall Stadium with a universal feeling of excitement.
Marcus Lee, a highly regarded basketball recruit out of California, verbally committed Wednesday to play for Kentucky beginning in the fall of 2013.
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