Athletes use the summer to improve their skills
Ah, summer. It’s a time to break away from the fast pace of the school-year sports and let kids be kids. While school is out, the young athletes aren’t taking a break. In fact, they may be working...
View ArticleIt’s time to start thinking football
The first round of Wisconsin high school football games will be played one month from today. And the National Football League will be starting shortly after. It is time to get into serious football...
View ArticleConfessions of a Vikings hater
Worse than cauliflower, liver and lima beans. Combined. That’s how I was raised, to hate the Minnesota Vikings more than any of the other hates I know. I have despised the Vikings since the late 1960s,...
View ArticleWhat have two weeks of Middle Border Conference football shown us?
Middle Border Conference football games begin Friday with four intriguing matchups. So, what have two weeks of non-conference games taught us about the eight MBC teams? For sure, it’s shown us that a...
View ArticleState football playoffs packed with intriguing games
Frost covers the car windows and snow flurries flutter through the air. The bright side of that forecast is that football playoffs arrive the same time as the inhospitable weather. This year’s WIAA...
View ArticleGive the gift of sports books for Christmas
Sports fans are, by nature, inquisitive souls. They want to know more about their teams, about their players, whether it’s from the present, past or future. I always hear that it difficult to find...
View ArticleNFL Draft has more questions than usual
There are no guarantees in the NFL Draft every year. But this year, some of the best players seem to carry the biggest question marks. It would be easy to claim that Jadaveon Clowney and Johnny Manziel...
View ArticleBye in Hall of Fame, MBC coaching changes, local NFL news
While the start of the 2014 high school football season is getting everyone back into the sports mode, there are a number of other sports topics that are taking center stage this week. Bye in Hall of...
View ArticleThe fantasy football fanaticism
It has been reported that more than half of the adult males in the United States play some version of fantasy football. Think about that for a minute. We can’t get that percentage of citizens to vote....
View ArticleFootball playoffs present some interesting matchups
This weekend’s WIAA football playoffs present some intriguing matchups. One of the most intriguing is the rematch between Somerset and Ellsworth in Division 4. Somerset won the Middle Border Conference...
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