Sports - Oct. 20, 2009
High school football season hits the home stretch
Area high school football fans are digging in for a wild and busy week. The wilder and busier it is, the better it is for the teams involved. After the last score is reported Thursday night, WIAA officials will pull a good old all-nighter in their headquarters just south of Stevens Point. They have to seed the teams and create the pairings while coaches, players and fans hit their refresh buttons.
Tags: wiaa football, playoffs, matchups

Milwaukee Buzz - Oct. 12, 2009
Monday muses, revisited: Fall follow-up edition
What a difference a week can make. Looking back on a blog of random thoughts I published exactly one week ago, I realize that I have a few more additional points to make on each of my musings.
Tags: the office, al's run, fall, playoffs, brett favre

Sports - Oct. 1, 2009
What a difference a year makes
With the Brewers in the running for the playoffs, last fall's work day included plenty of Brewers talk and field trips to the Palomino to watch the games.
Tags: brewers, playoffs, palomino

Sports - Aug. 7, 2009
Brewers slide into a critical stretch of the season
The Brewers enter tonight's game in Houston 54-54 with 54 games left to play, the first 22 against teams with losing records.
Tags: brewers, astros, playoffs, stretch run

Sports - May 12, 2009
Congress should leave college football, BCS alone
The only thing worse than having sports columnists, talk-radio hosts and fans argue about whether college football needs a playoff system is allowing politicians to weigh in on the debate. Congress is actually spending time, money and brainpower figuring out how it can force college football mucky-mucks to have a playoff system. One congressman from Texas, Joe Barton, has introduced legislation that would make it illegal for the NCAA to call a game a national championship unless it was the result of a playoff.
Tags: bcs championship, playoffs, college football, congress, barack obama

Sports - Oct. 5, 2008
My First Playoff game... pt. 1
So, after buying tickets from Stub Hub and forking several hundred dollar over for some pretty sweet seats, I found myself in the thick of the largest sports related party in Wisconsin.  First, the parking situation brought me down.  I was never notified or saw what the parking situatio...
Tags: Brewers, sports, playoffs, baseball, Milwaukee