Rivalries define the Big Ten. Flashback to Oct. 29th last year. Under the lights in Columbus, Ohio, quarterback Braxton Miller heaves a forty-yard bomb with 20 seconds left in the game.
China’s Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last Thursday to the consternation of Bob Dylan fans, but more on that later.
It’s 2012. Technology has expanded to the point where there are innovations in nearly every facet of our lives to make things easier and more convenient. We have voice-controlled phones. We have watches that can monitor our health levels. We put a freaking rover on Mars. So why can’t we have instant replay in baseball?
The Badgers have all but booked their trip to Indianapolis with a dominating 38-14 road win at Purdue Saturday. Of the eligible teams in the Leaders Division, Wisconsin controls a two-game lead in the standings and is the only team to win a conference game so far this season.
I will say right now that I am a better literature student than I am an English student. I lacquer up the cracks in my spare time with books, and if I’m not reading, I’m merely taking a break from reading. In my dorm, I’ve got a shelf full of books brought from home, a shelf of library books above my desk and a host of books waiting for me at Steenbock Library.
For as long as football has existed, the game has been predicated on one team or one person imposing their will on their opponents. It is a show of power, of force, that is unlike almost any other organized team sport. The toughness and physicality of the game is what draws so many fans to football. But when a player is knocked out of a game, and his own hometown crowd starts to cheer, it’s hard not to think that we’ve gone too far.
I think we can all agree that, for the most part, movies are primarily a visual medium, right? Wrong!
There are sports that have just become a sort of filler for when there is nothing else to watch. Baseball is one such sport that fits this description.
To the horror of peers and piss-scented dudes alike, my friend and I recently embarked on a journey to an EDM show in Madison… sober. For many readers, this may never be a possibility to consider, but allow me to enlighten you: It is an option that is as doable as it is enjoyable. I wrote this guide for people like us: the lone wolf of the Zach Galifianakis-led wolf pack that does not happen to partake in certain substances, legal or not, when attending music events. Since arriving to college, I have planted the soles of several pairs of tattered shoes upon the hardwood floors of many events, all of which I have attended sober. (Save the “You’re better than I am…” speech for someone who isn’t human.) While this mental hitchhike occurred through genres trap, indie, and the like, I discovered a formulaic approach to surviving every DJ set and underwhelming moshpit one may encounter through their time in Madison or anywhere else on the planet, no PBR necessary.
America has a thing about war movies. Specifically, World War II movies.
Lost in the thick of the regular NFL refs returning and a slew of wild college football games this weekend was a significant development in college basketball: Kansas head coach Bill Self extended his contract with the school through the 2021-’22 season.
Precedent can be unkind to the young. Art, history, generations—these can be unseemly hanger-ons. And they are, to the extent that we buy into their more depraved aspects.
As far as games have advanced in storytelling and acutely/creepily detailed facial animations, there’s an implicit joy in shooting hordes of enemies that will probably never fade away. The first “Borderlands” was built around this almost carnal activity, but its success depended on the utilization of an intuitive co-op system and the addicting search for superior loot.
Defense wins championships. This antiquated cliché and go-to slogan for mediocre sports commentators is believed to still be relevant in today’s NCAA, but if you watched any college football last weekend, you saw that offense has taken over.
If you’re reading this column, you must possess an understanding of the glimmering piece of art that glows in the limelight of strip-clubs and on-campus apartments nationwide (and potentially worldwide). It is this minimalist megahit that involves money, a type of territory and how they flow in an effortless tangent of twerkable genius.
If you walk into a bookstore, a few things should be readily apparent to you. Firstly, you will see the obligatory table set up with the latest hardcover and bestsellers, foisted right at wallet level. Then you will notice rows and rows of general fiction, and that should be the largest section in the store besides all the cheap mysteries, romances and nonfiction. A good litmus test: if you walk into a bookstore that doesn’t have at least one copy of “The Great Gatsby,” you’re either in an airport or not in a bookstore.
It’s been one of golf’s top stories in some capacity since early 2010: Tiger’s comeback. He was in contention at the 2010 Masters—his first event since news broke of his extensive affair—and analysts couldn’t help but presume Tiger would soon be back to his major-championship-winning ways.
Coaches don’t get fired after two games. It just doesn’t happen. Excuses are made, scapegoats are blamed, but no one loses his job after just two games. Right?
I had zero idea that I would end up in the middle of Dance Motherf*cker at Union South with Gabe Herrera spinning last May. He moved seamlessly between hip hop and electronic vibes and I found myself thoroughly enjoying the mix and pondering why I never came to DMF. Eventually, by my request, Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like” boomed menacingly in a room containing me and about 20 others. I leapt in some sort of graceless aggression with my friend Ian while watching the rest awkwardly performing a verbal tiptoe around the infamous N-word war-chant chorus.
College football is here, and one of the sport’s traditional powerhouses, the University of Southern California, is among the national title favorites. In fact, it was ranked the preseason No. 1 team in the nation over defending national champion Alabama. Normally this contender status wouldn’t come as a surprise, but USC was issued severe sanctions just two years ago—including a two-year postseason ban and a loss of 30 scholarships over three years—for illegal benefits given by sports marketers to its former Heisman-trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush.
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