Dan Shanoff masterfully traces the saga of Brett Favre supposedly being up for a spot on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" on the Quickish sports tip site, and comes up with zero.
The source of all the jabbering is a comment from Kurt Warner suggesting that Favre might want to go on the show to rebuild his image.
Writes Shanoff:
"When you follow the trail back to its original source, it turns out it's just Kurt Warner's off-the-cuff opinion on some red carpet. It's not 'reports.' It's not 'rumors.'
"It's not anything but a fun topic of discussion with no more basis in reality than you sitting with your buddy Kurt Warner at a bar, throwing out ideas for who would be fun on 'Dancing With the Stars.'"
That's not to say that Favre won't ever follow Warner onto "Dancing." But there's no basis to the current story.
Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for OnMilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." He spent a couple years in the mean streets of his native Chicago, and then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today, before coming to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.
A general assignment reporter, Cuprisin traveled Eastern Europe on several projects, starting with a look at Poland after five years of martial law, and a tour of six countries in the region after the Berlin Wall opened and Communism fell. He spent six weeks traversing the lands of the former Yugoslavia in 1994, linking Milwaukee Serbs, Croats and Bosnians with their war-torn homeland.
In the fall of 1994, a lifetime of serious television viewing earned him a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (and, later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. For 15 years, he has chronicled the changes rocking broadcasting, both nationally and in Milwaukee, an effort he continues at OnMilwaukee.com.
When he's not watching TV, Cuprisin enjoys tending to his vegetable garden in the backyard of his home in Whitefish Bay, cooking and traveling.
