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Poise. Pain. Passion.

The room was almost silent, completely absent of all sounds typical of a university classroom setting. There were no backpack zippers. No dropping lecture trays. No papers shuffling. Instead the instructor's sole voice at the front of the room was h'


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Landry sparkles in midst of team’s poor shooting night

A No. 1 ranking put a very large target on the back of the UW men's basketball team, and it showed Tuesday night, as the Badgers fell to Michigan State 64-55 at the Breslin Center. Wisconsin kept it nip-and-tuck for 37 minutes, but went cold at precisely the wrong time to notch only their second road loss of the season. 


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Reader of the Day: Dan Kiefer

Dan is the kind of guy who believes he can physically take down anyone. The funny part is that it's probably true. With a black belt in Karate and training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Dan plans to one day fight in a mixed martial arts competition. But, '


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Wis. drunken driving laws unjustly lenient

The drunken driving laws in Wisconsin are notoriously lax. Until recently, the legal-limit blood-alcohol level was .10 compared to the common .08 nationwide, and Wisconsin is the only state in which a first DUI is not a criminal offense. '


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Scalzo berates film reviews: Part I of the ‘Critics Suck’ trilogy

I hate reading film reviews. I feel hypocritical and sort of sleazy as I divulge this to you now, but let's be honest—so many of them say the same thing. They tell me, the reader, exactly what the critic knows (which is far more than I know, of course) and then assume a condescending tone which tells me exactly how I should feel when exiting the theater.  


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Men’s tennis wins two matches

Behind stellar performances from its trio of talented freshmen, the No. 50 UW men's tennis team edged out No. 51 Penn State (7-1 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) 4-3 in their Big Ten conference opener Sunday at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. 


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WE’RE NO. 1

What a week for the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team. After breaking the school record for wins, the Associated Press ranked UW No. 1 in the country for the first time in school history. 


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Last season’s problems are miles away

About this time last year, things were not going so well for Wisconsin basketball. They had lost Greg Stiemsma and Marcus Landry to academic ineligibility and DeAaron Williams was no longer on the team. UW also suffered the biggest upset of the season when they lost to North Dakota State at home.  



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