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Rapids’ Biegel impresses
Tony Biolo, football coach at Wisconsin Rapids High School, remembers how the seventh-grader wasn’t intimidated despite training alongside players four and five years older. “When he started working out, there was no messing around,” Biolo said of Vince Biegel, now a 6-foot-3, 210-pound senior linebacker at Rapids. “He didn’t want to just do sit-ups and push-ups. He wanted to lift and do speed workouts. “He was more disciplined in doing those things than the normal kids … “He has had some pretty high goals for an awful long time.”More » -
Interim UW Chancellor Ward defends silence in Chadima case
Sources have told the State Journal the investigation stems from an incident in Los Angeles when the UW football team prepared to play in the Rose Bowl.. . -
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State of bliss: Brewers, Packers, Badgers go 4-for-4
Many fans are calling it the greatest weekend in Wisconsin sports history, a confluence of success by its three most popular sporting entities, achieved entirely on home soil, setting the stage for what could be an historic stretch.
The Big Three of the Brewers, Packers and University of Wisconsin football team combined for four commanding victories in a span of 30 hours, generating a synergistic electricity that spread from Milwaukee to Madison to Green Bay, with many fans going online to post photos of their tickets as proof of witnessing more than one in person.
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Brewers, Badgers send fans to sports nirvana
It was an autumn Saturday to savor, from Milwaukee to Madison to sporting magic.
And if you listened real close, you'd swear the roar of the crowd rolled right down I-94.
In the afternoon at Miller Park, the Brewers opened the National League Division Series with a thrilling 4-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
In the evening, under the lights at Camp Randall Stadium, Wisconsin gave a Big Ten football welcome to Nebraska in a blowout win, 48-17.
Brewer blue and Badger red, part of the lifeblood of Wisconsin sports, and part of what may be the state's greatest sports weekend.. . -
Brewers, Badgers, Packers: Some fans try for live trifecta
Dan Vaccaro has his tickets, his gear and his game plan and is ready for what he calls the Wisconsin Sports Trifecta.
From Milwaukee to Madison to Green Bay, Vaccaro will have a front-row seat - well, make that a few nosebleed seats - and bear witness to three big games and three storied teams in about 30 hours.
Brewers. Badgers. Packers.
Miller Park. Camp Randall. Lambeau Field.
Back-to-back-to-back.
"The best sports weekend in Wisconsin history," Vaccaro says.
And that's not an overstatement.More »
