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Column: New changes show College Football Playoff philosophy
By Grey Satterfield | Nov. 12, 2014The selection committee has handed down another fresh set of rankings from on high. Let’s eat it up.
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‘It’s Always Sunny’ finds lasting comic success where others fail
By Jake Smasal and Brittany Jones | Nov. 11, 2014Sustainability is one of the key elements of any television show. For comedies, it may be the most important element. Once a show stops being funny, it’s (normally) cancelled. Of course, the longer a show runs, the less likely it is to be cancelled regardless of quality (looking at you, “Family Guy”). And, obviously, the longer a comedy runs, the harder it is to come up with new, unique situations and the easier it is to fall back on what worked before. Rarely do you find a show that does not stagnate—even “Seinfeld” was not as good at the end. Yet, “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”—which borrows a lot from “Seinfeld”—is atop the short list of shows you still have to watch.
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Column: No frontrunners in Super Bowl race
By Jim Dayton | Nov. 11, 2014We’re just past the halfway point in the 2014 NFL season, and absolutely no team has separated themselves from the rest of the pack as the bona fide Super Bowl favorite.
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Moving through the course of a day in the literary life
By Maham Hasan | Nov. 11, 2014Recently, I watched the movie “Lucy,” a science fiction thriller depicting what happens if human beings can actually reach and utilize 100 percent—we’re purportedly using only 10 percent—of their cerebral capacity.
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Parsing the role of nostalgia in famous rock ’n’ roll bands
By Brian Weidy | Nov. 11, 2014Late last week, word came out that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, along with John Bonham’s son Jason, signed a contract that would’ve given them 500 million pounds (about $800 million) for the three of them (plus Robert Plant) to play 35 shows in three cities as Led Zeppelin.
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Column: Ranking college football's best coaches in the midseason Shad Poll
By Rushad Machhi | Nov. 10, 2014Guess who’s back, back again? The Shad Poll’s back, tell a friend!
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Heisman Watch: Week 11
By Jim Dayton | Nov. 6, 2014This is the eighth edition of the Heisman Watch, a weekly feature tracking the candidates for college football’s most prestigious award. For last week’s rankings, click here.
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‘Interstellar’ inspires awe and tears
By Austin Wellens | Nov. 5, 2014So here’s the thing. My original plan was to run out tonight, catch the first screening of Christopher Nolan’s newest work, “Interstellar,” collect my thoughts and calmly put down some words about the movie. However when I made these plans, I wasn’t expecting the film to be the full body spiritual gut punch experience that I just had (and am still kind of shaking from).
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Column: Night games rewarding for fans and the university
By Grey Satterfield | Nov. 5, 2014As you’re reading this, the chance of the Wisconsin Nebraska football game being played at 7:00 p.m. is about 1 percent. For argument’s sake, I’d say a 2:30 start is 50% and 11:00 is 49%.
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Holiday episodes spread no cheer
By Jake Smasal | Nov. 4, 2014Halloween has now come and gone and with it have gone the smattering of Halloween-related sitcom episodes that have graced both network and cable alike. Soon, Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes will usher us into the most wonderful time of the year. As such, I figured I would take this opportunity to break down the trope that is the “Holiday Episode.”
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Column: Koenig capable of replacing Brust as UW's star guard
By Rushad Machhi | Nov. 3, 2014As the weather outside gets frightful, the jumpers of Dekker and Kaminsky will be oh so delightful. That’s right folks, the college basketball season is a little over a week away from starting, and Wisconsin is near the top of the preseason rankings.
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Column: Tracking the Bucks' sad recent history
By Jim Dayton | Nov. 2, 2014The Milwaukee Bucks are coming off the worst record in franchise history, have had exactly one winning season in the past 11 years and are projected to top out at around 30 wins in 2014-’15.
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Heisman Watch: Week 10
By Jim Dayton | Oct. 30, 2014This is the seventh edition of the Heisman Watch, a weekly feature tracking the candidates for college football’s most prestigious award. For last week’s rankings, click here.
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All hail the sexual ambiguity of Kalinda Sharma
By Conor Murphy | Oct. 29, 2014I’ve recently started binge watching “The Good Wife,” one of CBS’ hour-long prime-time dramas. While I’d heard of the show before, it wasn’t until I saw Julianna Margulies’ speech after winning her second Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series that I thought I should give the show a try.
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BBC’s ‘Peaky Blinders’ perfectly melds crime with history in post-war era drama
By Jake Smasal | Oct. 28, 2014If there’s one thing television does not lack, it’s shows about criminals. If there’s one thing Netflix doesn’t lack, it’s acclaimed BBC dramas. “Peaky Blinders” fills both of these criteria. The BBC’s slow-burning drama about life for one gang in post-WWI Birmingham showcases life and criminality in what is undoubtedly one of the dirtiest cities I have ever seen (on television).
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Column: Impressions from the first College Football Playoff rankings
By Grey Satterfield | Oct. 28, 2014A new era of college football is finally upon us. Last night, the selection committee handed down its rankings from on high. Now, instead of complaining between who’s No. 2 and No. 3 we can complain about who’s No. 4 and No. 5. In a way, there’s a new paradigm in college football and, in another way, nothing has changed a bit.
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Following the development of horror over time
By Maham Hasan | Oct. 28, 2014Clive Barker once said that horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. It’s a curious thing to say, but it makes you wonder. Where did the need to scare come from? What caused the birth of horror literature? What would induce someone to wake up one day and concoct a milieu of elements designed to do nothing but inspire the existence of fear within the imagination of those who cross paths with it?
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Looking back at favorite bands from the tween years
By Brian Weidy and Ryan Weinkauf | Oct. 28, 2014In the late ’90s, I wasn’t old enough to use a second hand to count my age. With that being said, you may be wondering why that era’s rock music brings me back to my tweenage years. It all starts at camp, the place where my musical horizons expanded beyond the purview of 50 Cent and everyone else that can be generously lumped into the category of party rap.
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Column: Predicting the four teams of the College Football Playoff
By Negassi Tesfamichael and Rushad Machhi | Oct. 27, 2014Finally, it’s the moment we have all been waiting for, the first edition of Shad’s College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings of the season.
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