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A difficult road to a repeat

By Max Hooker | Aug. 29, 2006

The Badger men's hockey team enters the 2006-'07 season as the defending national champions. But as the team begins its campaign to repeat, it will have to do so with a new look and will need scoring from several new faces.  

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Trip to Italy a success

By Sam Pepper | Aug. 29, 2006

Although the UW men's basketball team's trip to Italy was not completely about basketball, they took care of business on the court, winning all five exhibition games. '

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The summer’s best, worst and weirdest

By The Daily Cardinal Arts Desk | Aug. 29, 2006

A summer of laughs, tears and the mutant X gene has come and gone, and now it's time for you to return to your boring life at what's not even the nation's No. 1 party school any more. Here's a fond remembrance of those happier times. Can it really have been just a week ago? Or was it all just a dream...? Most Pathetic, Self-Indulgent Swipe at Critics Disguised as a Movie: ""Lady in the Water"" ""Lady in the Water"" is stupid enough to begin with, with nefarious grass creatures that can only be seen in a mirror's reflection and a little boy who becomes suddenly clairvoyant after reading cereal boxes. (You have to see it to believe it.) But it gets worse when it becomes clear that ""Lady in the Water"" is nothing more than a childish jab at the critics who assailed ""The Village."" Shyamalan's hubris has been growing exponentially since ""The Sixth Sense,"" but this is the first time it has manifested itself so completely into one of his movies. Shyamalan takes special glee in the scene in which the villainous movie critic character gets viciously killed by a grass creature, despite the fact that, even more than the rest of this mess of a movie, it doesn't make any logical sense. ""Lady in the Water"" is a baffling, astonishing failure that even the ample talents of Paul Giamatti can't salvage, and is certainly the worst movie of this lackluster summer. —Joe Pudas Most Inspired Typecasting: Patrick Stewart and Kelsey Grammer in ""X-Men 3"" In an effort to make their film more imaginative and daring than their previous entries, the producers in charge of ""X3"" made the ""risky"" choice of Kelsey Grammer, most famous for playing an intellectual, verbose, up-tight psychiatrist to play the role of Henry ""The Beast"" McCoy, an intellectual, verbose, up-tight mutant. But paired with Patrick Stewart, famous for playing ""Star Trek's"" Captain Picard, playing another humanity-lauding chief in charge of a group of unique humans and quasi-humans. The chance taken by casting these two untried actors in risky roles no doubt contributed to making an excellent film. —Brad Boron Best Summer Songs You Never Want To Hear Again: ""Promiscuous"" by Nelly Furtado and ""Hips Don't Lie"" by Shakira There have been two songs fighting for the title of ""the"" summer song this year: Nelly Furtado's surprising comeback ""Promiscuous,"" featuring producer Timbaland, and Shakira's ""Hips Don't Lie,"" a retooled version of Wyclef Jean's ""Dance Like This"" (first heard in the film classic ""Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights""). Both were equally catchy, sexy pop tunes with tons of energy, making them infinitely danceable and thoroughly enjoyable. But, as fall rolls around, it has become obvious that these infectious songs are now a plague on radio and music TV stations, taking up more airtime than quite possibly all other songs combined. For music that claims to be about the beauty of a one-night affair, the two songs have become more like a summer fling now pleading for commitment. It's time to cut the strings and bring the ""Sexyback"" to the airwaves. —Kristin Czubkowski Song That Should Have Caused the End of the World But Ended Up Only Sucking Mildly: ""Stars Are Blind"" by Paris Hilton Let's get one thing straight: Paris Hilton's summer hit ""Stars Are Blind"" is a bad song. Combining teen pop, reggae-lite and soulless vocals, ""Stars Are Blind"" is so lightweight it floats by without making any lasting impressions. It is too fluffy to function even as pleasant diversion. But make no mistake—this makes the song a resounding triumph for Paris. As an American aristocrat famous for nothing more than being filthy rich and being well, just plain filthy, everyone expected her singing career to be an embarrassment of Shatner-Nimoy proportions. But ""Stars Are Blind"" isn't a miserable way to spend four minutes—it isn't interesting, fun or diverting, either—but it is thankfully so soft and mechanized that it's hard to pay attention to the song for more than thirty seconds at a time. Which is probably why the record label decided to make the music video look like an outtake from ""1 Night in Paris."" —Joe Lynch

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Minus Bairu, men’s cross country runs on

By Nate Carey | Aug. 29, 2006

The Wisconsin men's cross country team has established its dominance in the sport throughout the country over the last 10 years, and all that hard work finally paid off with a triumphant victory in the 2005 NCAA National Championship.  

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College tries texting letters of admission

By Lexie Clinton | Jun. 1, 2006

What keeps your fingers awake during power lectures and connected to your friends at bar time is catching on with college admissions officers. Nationwide, universities are communicating with admissions candidates ' ¦

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While hockey teams look to repeat, men’s basketball has own NCAA title hopes

By Nate Carey | Jun. 1, 2006

College is all about new experiences and having a good time. Sure school is important, and that's why everyone is here. But when it comes to a Saturday evening or any weeknight, students need a place to go and forget about school for a couple of hours, and watch something that really matters... sports. For you freshmen that may not know much about Badger athletics, or didn't even realize that Wisconsin has an athletic department until now, here is a little refresher course on what to watch for. 

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Field guide to the away message

By Justin Zyduck | Jun. 1, 2006

If you're thinking about school, between writing papers, cramming for tests and weeping silently into bowls of ramen, most students are not likely to be spending much free time in ' ¦'

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Thomas healing, hype increasing

By Zach Kukkonen | Jun. 1, 2006

One of the biggest question marks of the upcoming football season is the health of senior offensive tackle Joe Thomas. Although he is already racking up preseason accolades and awards, ' ¦

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