Tuesday Timeout: Ask the Beat Writer
By The Daily Cardinal | Feb. 5, 2007Are the Badger's doing too much work?'
Are the Badger's doing too much work?'
'd like to use my space today to discuss one of the most pressing cultural and political debates of our time. No, this isn't nukes in Iran or troops in Iraq or global warming—I'm talking about something infinitely more important: Is the new Beatles compilation album, Love, worth your dime or isn't it?
Sunday was a monumental day. In the midst of Black History Month, two black coaches stared each other down across the sidelines. And though Tony Dungy and the Indianapolis Colts came out on top, not enough can be said about the job Lovie Smith did this year and the importance of his appearance in the championship game.
It would be reasonable to assume that the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team should be feeling a pressing sense of urgency at the moment. '
UW men's basketball head coach Bo Ryan was his usual off-beat self in Monday's press conference, answering an eclectic array of questions.'
The chicken hits the fan, or in this case a window.'
Minority applicants who are not admitted to UW-Madison competitively unfairly get another shot.'
According to Thursday's edition of the Milwakee Journal-Sentinel, junior defensive end Jamal Cooper has been dismissed from the UW football team because of academic violations.'
Serve your self some idealism in the morning and believe the impossible if just for a minute or two.'
YWCA will offer a much-needed transit service to Madison's underprivileged. Also, by teaming with SAFEride, the service provide some transportation for UW-Madison students.'
Freshman guard Tyra Grant led Penn State (5-6 Big Ten, 12-12 overall) with a game-high 28 points as it surged past the Wisconsin women's basketball team (5-6, 16-8) Sunday afternoon at the Bryce Jordan Center 70-61.
Humans have exacerbated global warming, according to the international report on global climate change released Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. '
I'm not much of a television watcher and never really have been. Saturday afternoons — when the mind and body have shut down — are those rare occasions I remain fixed on the couch to channel surf and eat bowl after bowl of Cinnamon Toast Cru'
Anyone who knows anything about Superman knows he's invulnerable to almost anything, except kryptonite. Seasoned video game players know his weaknesses also extend to game representations, with the Nintendo 64's ""Superman"" commonly proclaimed as one of the worst games of all time.
A three-story apartment complex at 116 N. Orchard caught fire at about 8 p.m. Saturday night and caused roughly $50,000 in damage.'
Enough of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association season remains that the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team can build some semblance of momentum for the postseason. But as another weekend passed, UW cannot say that process has begun.
UW-Madison physicists developed a new method of projecting possible shapes of extra dimensions, according to a study released Friday in Physical Review Letters.
A recent trip to Copps has brought a disturbing trend to my attention: There is now prime parking real estate reserved for the elderly and parents with small children. Considering the newly-expanded definition of ‘handicapped,' I propose that the colorblind be acknowledged as a disabled people.
When interviewed by People magazine last October about his portrayal of a Ugandan dictator, Forest Whitaker claimed after the movie wrapped, he had a difficult time ""trying to get the guy to leave me. I needed to wash those darker passions away.""
The Badger women's hockey team clinched their second consecutive WCHA regular season title Saturday night, defeating the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs 2-1 in overtime on a goal by junior forward Jinelle Zaugg.'