Sports - Sept. 10, 2009
ESPN's Bill Simmons picks Packers to win it all
Dave Begel did it earlier this week. Today, my favorite national sports guy, Bill Simmons, has done it too. Simmons, in a 5,000-word column on ESPN.com, picks the Green Bay Packers to win the Super Bowl.
Tags: Packers, Favre, Rodgers, Begel, Super Bowl, pre season picks, ESPN, predictions, Sports Guy, BS Report

Sports - June 13, 2009
Saturday Scorecard: Brewers' bats show signs of life
With all the graduation parties, weddings (congratulations, Jason and Paula) and the White Sox in town, we will keep things short and sweet this week. Reading time, less than 3 minutes.
Tags: brewers, suppan, bucks, sessions, begel, the doorman

Sports - March 17, 2009
Hope springs eternal? Maybe, but so does dread...
With the Brewers' season opener just three weeks away, many fans already are daydreaming about pennant races and playoff tickets. Despite his history as an "eternal optimist," OnMilwaukee.com sports columnist Dave Begel can't help thinking dark thoughts about the Boys of Summer.
Tags: begel, brewers, macha, suppan, weeks, gallardo, parra, hardy

Sports - Nov. 18, 2008
The jury is still out on whether "A-Rodg" is "A-OK"
A good quarterback can lift a team. A great one can carry a team. A bad one can drag it down. A horrible one can sink a team. It's tough to say where Aaron Rodgers belongs on the scale, but many Packers fans -- not to mention the front office and coaching staff -- seem blind to the flaws he has shown as a first-year starter.
Tags: packers, rodgers, favre, mccarthy, thompson, begel

Sports - Nov. 11, 2008
Bucks need help from gym rats and junkyard dogs
It's too early to tell if it's a momentary blip or if there has been a tidal wave that could some day lead to a title, but the Bucks have some scrappy, "gym rat" players that are showing the type of intensity that has been missing from the Bradley Center in recent seasons.
Tags: begel, bucks, bogut, skiles, luke ridnour, luc mbah a moute

Sports - June 16, 2009
"Come in Moon Base Alpha" or My Response to Dave Begel's MMA Rant
My name is Scott Joffe and I am Duke's partner in Duke Roufus MMA Academy and Gladiators Fighting LLC (producers of live MMA events). I have to say at first I was upset when I read what Dave Begel had to say on OnMilwaukee.com about his first experience watching MMA on television (Really?? F...
Tags: sports, mma, mixed, martial, arts, roufus, joffe, milwaukee, academy, entertainment, begel, red, schefer, ufc, regulation, wisconsin