tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203149042024-03-13T05:03:40.197-05:00Cute SportsSports...from a chick's perspective. Covering Milwaukee Brewers, Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin Badgers and Marquette Golden Eagles since 2005.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.comBlogger2025125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-274223496965551292015-08-29T10:27:00.000-05:002015-08-29T10:27:28.322-05:00Hurricane Katrina 10 year anniversaryThis is horribly self-indulgent, but I'm a nostalgic and sentimental person, so it feel necessary to acknowledge this milestone in some way.<br />
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I'm a Katrina imposter. I left New Orleans over Memorial Day weekend 2005. (I'll get back to that part of the story.)<br />
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Let's go ahead and preface all of this to say that my story is not better or more important than those who were primarily impacted by Katrina. I lost nothing - not a belonging or a car or a house or a loved one - to the storm. I don't want to diminish or take away from anyone that has a "real" Katrina story to tell.<br />
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My story is Katrina-adjacent. It's a very small stitch in the fabric that makes up the story of how Katrina changed a city and hundreds of thousands of lives. My story is about how the storm changed the trajectory of my life forever. It just so happened that I was in New Orleans visiting friends in the days before Katrina made landfall. I'd gone through a lot in the months between leaving the city that had been my home for six years and returning to Milwaukee - a city I swore I'd never move back to when I left it at age 18. My mom sent me back to New Orleans to figure myself out and release me from the stress and depression of life in Milwaukee.<br />
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Almost three months to the day before Katrina made landfall, I was living in Metairie in a small one-bedroom apartment off an interstate service road. I had graduated college about 18 months earlier. I was freelance writing and working at Starbucks. I was in limbo. I was in a relationship I shouldn't have stayed in. We were absolutely no good for each other. We were volatile. We'd been together on and off for about three years. We'd broken up when he said something particularly painful to me, making me feel less than human. I held out for months, not going back to him because I knew it wasn't healthy. But I cracked and we got back together and got an apartment. I was young and dumb. I thought I was in love. Mostly I was just scared - of being alone, of the future, of who I was without him. I never gathered the strength to end it.<br />
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I got a phone call in late May from my mom. My dad has been diagnosed with leukemia. He had a history of heart problems. He'd had a stroke. The leukemia was advanced and they couldn't hit it with full strength chemotherapy because they didn't think his heart could handle it. The outlook was bleak.<br />
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There was no question for me. I was going back to Milwaukee. I had nothing keeping me in New Orleans.<br />
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In the immediate aftermath of that phone call, I didn't think about what that would mean about my relationship. I just knew I needed to go. I was packed and ready to leave town in less than two days. Even in the face of all of this and with the sort of push and excuse that I needed to break ties, I still didn't really officially break up with my ex. We sort of left a lot unsaid and acted as though we'd deal with it later.<br />
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The night before I was meant to leave, my ex came home from work as I finished packing my trailer. I was on my way to bed so I could get up early for the 16 hour drive back to Wisconsin. He picked a fight - as we did - and it escalated.<br />
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I had made bad money decisions in college and had difficulty opening a bank account, so I stupidly trusted him and we shared his. It was in his name. My checks were direct deposited into it. I had a debit card for the account. When he asked me about money that night, I told him I'd withdrawn half the account. He threatened to call the cops and say I was stealing. He physically tried to stop me from leaving the apartment. Looking back, it's amazing to me that the relationship had never become physical before that.<br />
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I hopped in my car, called a friend across town (coincidentally the one who I'd later be visiting when Katrina hit). When I got to his house, he'd arranged for parking for my car and trailer so they'd be hidden from street view. He and his friends met me outside with kitchen knives in hand. Turns out my friends hadn't shared how much they didn't like or trust my then-boyfriend. They were afraid he'd follow me and need to be threatened to leave me alone.<br />
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Oddly, this is a memory I will ALWAYS cherish. In the middle of a whole lot of chaos, the certainty of love and friendship from these boys was so endearing and reassuring and maybe the thing I needed most in the world in that moment. I don't keep in touch with a lot of people from my college years. Weeks and months can pass without talking, but the boy who's house I went to that night - the one who told me to come over and gathered reinforcements and who protected me from a situation he probably tried to warn me about 100 times, no questions asked - will always be one of my best friends. We aren't really in each other's lives much anymore as live across the country from each other, but he will forever have a little bit of my heart.<br />
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So I came home. I transferred Starbucks and I spent my mornings making coffee and the rest of the day in my dad's hospital room at the VA. I watched him waste away to almost unrecognizable from the guy who'd raised me. I watched a lot of women's college softball (there's not a lot on TV in early June) and played a lot of cribbage. And I waited.<br />
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And then my dad was cleared to come home. It was late July and he was in remission.<br />
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A few days later, his heart gave out and he died. He was 59. I had just turned 24.<br />
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The thing was - I went home assuming he was going to die. But he hung on and pulled through and we'd just been given the ray of hope that was remission. I'd just started to allow myself to believe. That was the cruelest part.<br />
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But as it does, life went on.<br />
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I sort of had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I had never planned to go back to Milwaukee, much less make a life there. But my mom has never had a license and her husband just died and I suddenly felt it was my job to care for her.<br />
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In mid-August, my mom told me to go visit New Orleans. I wasn't sure, really, what to make of the trip. Was I making plans to move back or just taking a much needed respite from "real life"?<br />
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Here's what I can tell you about the days leading up to Katrina. We'd had a spate of hurricane scares and evacuations between 2000 and 2005. There'd never been a mandatory evacuation, but my university had closed more than once. In 2005, even those of us that didn't have years of false alarms and hurricane experience under our belts were wary of the warnings and chatter. We didn't take it seriously.<br />
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BUT - there was a point where the tenor of the news reports and press conferences changed. I can't tell you what exactly it was that made start to take this one seriously, but two days before landfall, I just knew we needed to leave. In my limited experience, they'd never set up bus pick up points for moving people out of the city. They'd never done contraflow on the interstate. There was just a point where I watched the reports and said "this is for real."<br />
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The friend I was staying with didn't want to leave. He was from Denver and didn't have anywhere closer to go, so he thought it was silly to drive all the way home. He, like many, thought it was another false alarm.<br />
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I'll forever be grateful I was there to convince my friend we should go. My brother lives in Memphis and we headed out to stay with him. My friend packed almost nothing from his house, assuming we'd be back in a few days.<br />
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The thing about remembering what happened and how it went down is that it all takes on a very fuzzy, movie-like quality. Like even 10 years later I can't convince myself to reconcile the images I saw with the city I knew and loved.<br />
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Remember that the initial outlook after landfall wasn't so bad. Much like the false hope from my father's remission, we had some time where it seemed like Katrina had brought her worst and New Orleans did ok.<br />
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And then the levees broke.<br />
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None of it really sunk in or hit me right away. We were glued to the tv, barely sleeping, watching as it all happened, but there was a numbness and detachment that came with watching the early footage of the Ninth Ward. I'm a middle class white kid that went to a private Jesuit university in the richest neighborhood in town. I'd never been to the Ninth Ward and I didn't hang out in the Treme.<br />
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Pathetically, it was seeing footage of a mall parking lot near where I lived in Metairie that somehow broke through the detachment haze. The water in the two-story Target's parking lot was just about over the top of some school buses parked there.<br />
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I had been scheduled to fly from New Orleans back to Milwaukee on the now defunct Midwest Express airlines a few days later. The regional airline had limited hubs and did not fly out of Memphis, but did fly out of Nashville.<br />
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I placed a call to their customer service center, hoping to re-book my flight. The first response I got was "to just fly back out of New Orleans." I kept it together at first and explained that I was no longer in New Orleans and had no intention of returning in order to fly home. That a natural disaster had happened and I needed to be accommodated as the entire city had been evacuated. I kindly told the woman that there wouldn't be any flights out of New Orleans.<br />
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So she told me to just wait a few days and then fly out of New Orleans.<br />
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What very little chill I might possibly have had at that point flew out the window as I not so politely told the woman to turn on a television. I probably sounded pretty hysterical as I pointed out that no one was flying out of New Orleans any time soon and as a flight rep, she should probably figure that out and know she was going to be rescheduling a lot of flights.<br />
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In the end, they wouldn't get me a flight out of Memphis, but I rented a car and drove to Nashville, where I had a flight home a few days later.<br />
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As the days passed, it became increasingly clear the extent to which New Orleans had been damaged. You'll find when you're in a place so far away, there aren't a lot of people that know or understand or love New Orleans like anyone who's been or lived there has. While I experienced a ton of out-pouring from friends and even customers who knew I'd been in New Orleans, most people existed in a very detached plane away from the struggles that were happening in Louisiana.<br />
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It was a story, or a punchline, or, as time passed, a source of political arguments.<br />
It was people telling me that maybe they just shouldn't rebuild the city.<br />
It was racism and classism and north vs south jokes.<br />
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Much better writers than I have attempted to explain the pull and allure of New Orleans.<br />
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What I can tell you about my New Orleans is that it's the place where I learned how to become me. I found my writing voice, and my outspoken feminism and the beginnings of how to love me, regardless of whether anyone else did. It's where I learned to love my weird and met some of the most amazing, diverse people I've ever met. And though I had no idea at the time, it's where I learned about loving, sharing, cooking and enjoying food.<br />
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There's a possible argument that I'd have had that growth wherever I spent my college years and I can accept that to some point. But I'll forever contend that I found my heart - I found me - in New Orleans.<br />
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So I came home and tried to figure out where to go and what to do with my life. Clearly going back to New Orleans wasn't an option, but suddenly I was in a city too big for the small amount of writing experience I had and I floundered. I couldn't find a job in my field.<br />
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It's 10 years later and I've probably only really started to be on a track I'm happy with for the past year.<br />
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In September, a friend suggested I meet up and hang out with a mutual friend of ours from high school. Turned out he, too, had just moved back to the Milwaukee area. Like me, he hadn't kept in touch with many local people and was trying to find his way in a city he didn't plan to be in.<br />
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Andy and I went on our first date on September 17. We went to a bar and watched the Wisconsin football team play North Carolina.<br />
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We'll have our first wedding anniversary in five days and the tenth anniversary of our relationship two weeks later.<br />
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Job interviewers always want you to say where you see yourself in five or 10 years and I really struggled with that in the years after Katrina. I never came up with a good enough lie and the truth was that I never felt comfortable planning that far in advance anymore.<br />
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What the past 10 years have taught me was that I'd been very idealistic and very naive about how my life was going to turn out. In hindsight, I'm ok with that. I've ended up in a good spot and maybe this is exactly where I was supposed to be all along.<br />
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But that summer of 2005 taught me that I have no idea what's going to happen tomorrow or next week or next year. That thought doesn't stress me out anymore. But it isn't an answer potential employers really like to hear.<br />
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A lot changed for me in a very short time in the summer of 2005.<br />
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Katrina is both the biggest and smallest factor in the story. I think people in my life can't understand when I get maudlin or nostalgic this time of year. And I'm not sure what writing this all down accomplishes except for helping me to square some of my emotions and shake off what this anniversary is doing to my head.<br />
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Remember that ex from many, many paragraphs ago? A few months after my dad died I got an email from him. I'd had little to no contact with him in the intervening time. He was writing to let me know that he "was ready to be there for me now." He'd thought about it all and thought about how much his grandpa's passing had affected him and came to the conclusion that he was in a good place to support me.<br />
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Part of me wishes I still had that email but the response I sent back. Once I was over the initial anger - well not totally over, as I remember my hands shaking as I typed a response - I, as politely as I could manage, told him how incredibly condescending and self-centered that was of him and told him never to contact me again. I told him I didn't wish him an ill life, just that it was a life I never wanted to be a part of ever again.<br />
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-54418432963429944542015-01-19T22:16:00.000-06:002015-01-19T22:16:02.278-06:00What's the threshold for hits to the head?I guess I'm partly tongue in cheek on this, because there were a ton of awful calls and non-calls on both sides of the puck in the series on Jan 10-11 between the Minnesota and Wisconsin women's hockey teams.<br />
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But today we were informed that Wisconsin men's hockey player Eddie Wittchow will receive a two game suspension for his hit to the head in Saturday's game.<br />
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The quality of this video isn't great since, you know, women's hockey is never televised, but here you'll see Minnesota's Dani Cameranesi and Wisconsin's Mellissa Channell get tangled up and hit the ice. Then you'll see Cameraniesi deliver a cross-check to Channell's head. No penalty is called.<br />
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The sequence that follows this is that Channell is unable to get off the ice. She kind of stumbles around the ice and falls down two more times before actually tripping a Gopher and receiving a penalty of her own. That penalty needed to be served by a different Badger as Channell left the ice. She didn't return. She also didn't play in Wisconsin's two games this past weekend because she had a "head injury" (Read: concussion).<br />
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Now here's Wittchow (and the ensuing brawl)<br />
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The thing is, are they very different? Clearly both were intentional. The two biggest differences are that Cameranesi received no punishment of any kind and that Channell was injured on the play. The Minnesota player in Wittchow's exchange is not.<br />
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Look, there will always be inconsistencies in refereeing and I try my best not to use them as an excuse to complain too much. But this is a glaring gulf and it led to a player having brain issues, so it feels like it should be addressed.<br />
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There's a ref just feet from Cameranesi and Channell. What was he watching? What purpose does he serve if not to make sure that players aren't receiving checks to the back of their heads?<br />
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(To be clear, I'm not picking on Cameranesi here - there were plenty of other plays on both sides of this game that weren't clean and should have been called. I don't think she's dirty and I don't want this to be about her specifically.)<br />
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The only reason this at all becomes any sort of men's versus women's issue is that the lack of experienced refs in women's college hockey is a long, exhausted argument. They aren't trained, developed and honed in the way that they are on the men's side. Is that why this play was missed? I don't know. But I know that Wittchow's hit was reviewed and he was charged appropriately.<br />
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No one can go back and call a penalty in Channell's case, but I find it disappointing that the WCHA didn't review anything after a player was too injured to serve her own penalty. Why wasn't that a red flag?<br />
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I was told WCHA officials were in the house for that series. I hope they were as appalled by the refs as we all were and then highly embarrassed.<br />
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<br />Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-83159304770226650852015-01-19T08:01:00.001-06:002015-01-19T08:01:19.916-06:00Was Sochi seminal for women's hockey like 1999 was for women's soccer?I have this not-fully-fleshed-out theory that in a few years we'll look back at 2014 as a seminal year in women's hockey.<br />
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Had Team USA won the gold medal, I think we'd talk about 2014 like we do the 1999 World Cup. Even though that didn't happen, I think that when you're talking to high school and college aged hockey players in 10-15 years, they'll tell you they remember watching Sochi the way that the current crop of players talk about watching the 1998 Olympics (the first time women's hockey competed).<br />
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In 2014, Hilary Knight, Meghan Duggan and Julie Chu became household names. Collegiate hockey games were televised. We had the first NCAA winner from outside the WCHA. Shannon Szabados and Noora Raty continued to forge the way for women to play at the highest levels as they played in men's leagues in the US and Finland. Knight practiced with the Anaheim Ducks and it was a media sensation. The CWHL was formed, had the All-Star game and became a part of the sports landscape.<br />
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The online stream of the Olympic gold medal game was NBC Sports second most-watched stream, behind the 2012 Super Bowl. They say 1.2 million unique users watched the game. A Google search will bring you YouTube reactions from across the globe. A friend who was playing professional soccer in the Netherlands tells me she watched it with her teammates. That game crossed all sports, fan and country boundaries.<br />
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And social media made accounts from national team players from all countries gave us unprecedented acccess. From pre-Olympic silliness with the Lamoureux Twins to Swiss goalie Florence Schelling getting wheeled between venues. From Raty's post-Olympic blast of the lack of opportunities to Hilary Knight's Instagram, we've been allowed into the players' lives and been able to connect with them in a way that makes being a fan even more personal.<br />
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If there's a single moment, it's Kelli Stack's empty net shot that hit the post late in the game. It's no Miracle on Ice or Brandi Chastain on her knees, but that single image of the puck glancing off is one that will remain.<br />
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But instead of one seminal moment, I think instead we'll look back at a combination of all these things and see that this influx of women's hockey in the general consciousness brought more little girls to the ice, made it easier for little girls to play, helped form more teams of girls and generally brought an influx of players in a way that nothing else has done before it.<br />
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And maybe that's not anything ground-breaking. And maybe it was inevitable. But it doesn't happen without the correct collection of people/personalities. And it doesn't happen without the spectacular product that was put on the ice.<br />
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That gold medal game was heart-breaking, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be talking about Sochi in 20 years. The collection of pure talent that was on the ice in these games will be difficult to match and the way that I was invested in every shift, every face-off and every goal was personal.<br />
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Maybe that's the new normal. Maybe we'll always have that, but it's too soon to tell, so instead I'm going to cherish it and anoint 2014 as special.<br />
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And know that when I talk to college girls in 2025, they'll be telling me how it changed their lives to meet Meghan Duggan and watch her on screen. There isn't a doubt in my mind that more little girls had the confidence to pursue women's hockey because of Duggan, Poulin, Knight and Szabados et, al.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-25522407126356557022011-03-19T13:01:00.001-05:002011-03-19T13:01:55.315-05:00Meghan Duggan wins Patty Kaz!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGAJi3JdCV7LFvpUUX9eFiOcJn1AsgFNHQI1xtWxmj5OGJl44zwQZz2vxgTIu0QWXPSIFl7_Su21SoPRBTTT7QLwVNFVbFw6aAIKKRiB1rWMfAo5x6q6O5kGW-TQ7_xIZQ6Oj/s1600/WHKY_DUGGAN_winner.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGAJi3JdCV7LFvpUUX9eFiOcJn1AsgFNHQI1xtWxmj5OGJl44zwQZz2vxgTIu0QWXPSIFl7_Su21SoPRBTTT7QLwVNFVbFw6aAIKKRiB1rWMfAo5x6q6O5kGW-TQ7_xIZQ6Oj/s320/WHKY_DUGGAN_winner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585852834240557538" border="0" /></a>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-58903624623619002372011-03-10T08:47:00.000-06:002011-03-10T08:48:06.340-06:00Marquette on front page of ESPN.com<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdkWZpSQTmifd3s93dqzRofxA0YmMxe5NkfAmGsyMLSJ0FyOnVQNsMzN5a21MxnJw2GtXVP0666tEvhWeS1Yskac8uVvbwlRfpyEh8DuNvN_wY7AdrtMWvYyDPT39ThcExmqxe/s1600/untitled.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582463052155648034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 282px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdkWZpSQTmifd3s93dqzRofxA0YmMxe5NkfAmGsyMLSJ0FyOnVQNsMzN5a21MxnJw2GtXVP0666tEvhWeS1Yskac8uVvbwlRfpyEh8DuNvN_wY7AdrtMWvYyDPT39ThcExmqxe/s320/untitled.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>And the picture is too good not to share. </div>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-51893442209511288422011-02-07T10:36:00.000-06:002011-02-07T10:37:05.757-06:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTUJOfedEpd6YQPxSleZbtsrCsfFLDg3kFUvZT8IOtvb8lQZJKqtxsmNuAE7PnQfKl9tZnmRofvCh72-jOQ4apVW8x5THhPJe-6K1CuxWFxOeJzgaITyN6axNT1qVVY0Vs47G/s1600/Rodgers+Matthews+belt.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570987569999299666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTUJOfedEpd6YQPxSleZbtsrCsfFLDg3kFUvZT8IOtvb8lQZJKqtxsmNuAE7PnQfKl9tZnmRofvCh72-jOQ4apVW8x5THhPJe-6K1CuxWFxOeJzgaITyN6axNT1qVVY0Vs47G/s320/Rodgers+Matthews+belt.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-62457944266850948922011-01-19T14:26:00.000-06:002011-01-19T14:27:20.289-06:00Unafraid to admit I'm a little afraid of the Bears<p>As a Packer fan, I’m not thrilled about playing the Bears. When it comes to rivalries as old as this one, it’s not as simple as who is the better team. I love how well the Packers have been playing and I think they can win, but you never know what can happen in a Bears/Packers game. One of the teams could be horrible the rest of the season but come out with a victory in this game. There's pride and history on the line - that's so much more important that just a simple win or loss.</p><p><br />Aaron Rodgers was so effective against Atlanta due to his ability to hit some pinpoint passes. I don’t think he’ll be able to do that as effectively in the cold in Chicago. Footing was a huge issue in the Bears/Seahawks game and though they seem to have found a running game recently, the Packers have had problems on the ground all season and the likely-sloppy conditions aren’t going to help. The Bears didn't seem to have the same footing problems as the Seahawks, so it is to be hoped that the Packers can figure out the "secret."</p><p><br />One of the Packers biggest negatives is Special Teams. It's so depressing to watch, really. When was the last time the Packers were a threat to break a run-back for points? There's just no threat of the Packers getting major yardage on kickoff and punt returns. That's a completely missed opportunity on McCarthy's part. This potent offense would have been even better if the Packers could have won the field position battle at any point this season.</p><p><br />They’re going to have to hope they can keep Devin Hester in check and not give the Bears a short field the whole game.</p><p><br />That being said, the Packers are going to be UP for this game. Cutler managed a whole games against the Seahawks without being Jay Cutler and I can’t imagine that will last for another 60 minutes, especially against the Packers secondary. </p>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-5897404893875609552011-01-03T09:15:00.000-06:002011-01-03T09:16:13.597-06:00Rose Bowl Route<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVjY289NRevtv0jHwrU9ZmJVtHm_0YHLDhQn5kim69Yyn2TSzKx_NnK-pmkgwTKFteJJkrNF75Sz9BuYv6WQ1316HpIMRk33BbFXYLm1Mmp_M4qahFSgropd2DiAE0xzG2__6b/s1600/map.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557978677749712818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 420px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVjY289NRevtv0jHwrU9ZmJVtHm_0YHLDhQn5kim69Yyn2TSzKx_NnK-pmkgwTKFteJJkrNF75Sz9BuYv6WQ1316HpIMRk33BbFXYLm1Mmp_M4qahFSgropd2DiAE0xzG2__6b/s320/map.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-78900952984193925862010-11-02T14:30:00.003-05:002010-11-02T14:59:56.218-05:00Rumor Mill: Brewers hire Roenicke<p>UPDATE: Tom Haudricourt says the rumor has been confimed by someone close to the situation at the Brewers. Ron Roenicke is the Brewers' new manager</p><p>It's the third time in about a month that we have a rumor that the Brewers have hired a manager.</p><br /><p>This time the source is a writer for a Chicago newspaper who's last claim to fame was a Twitter meltdown on all things Minnesotan.</p><br /><p>Once again it's sources saying the hire has been made, so take it with a grain of salt.</p><br /><p>Roenicke has been with the Angels for the past 11 seasons and has never managed at the major league level. He did mange in the minors and has spent the past five years as the Angels bench coach.</p><br /><p>The Chicago media is interested in the Brewers hiring situation because White Sox bench coach Joey Cora is one of the finalists. <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5756598">ESPN.com</a> is reporting that Cora was told today that he finished second in the decision-making process. </p><br /><p></p>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-70461636153635301672010-10-11T09:09:00.000-05:002010-10-11T09:10:41.425-05:00Stepan makes a splash with major league debutDerek Stepan left Wisconsin after two years and there was some question as to whether he was NHL-ready, or if he'd spend time in the minors before joining the NY Rangers. <br /><br />After leading his team in pre-season scoring, Stepan made the team out of camp and made a huge debut on Saturday. <br /><br />He became just the fourth person ever to record a hat trick in his first NHL game. <br /><br />The first goal came as a shot deflected off his stick into a defensive player and in to the net. The second and third goals came when Stepan scored twice 3:12 apart late in the second period to complete the hat trick and put the Rangers ahead 4-1.<br /><br />Stepan was just the second Ranger to score three goals in his debut. Ron Murphy did it in 1955Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-12466152877753774232010-10-06T11:36:00.002-05:002010-10-06T11:39:07.858-05:00Doug Melvin squelches Brenly rumorFrom Journal-Sentinel's Tom Haudricourt's Twitter:<br /><br />"Brewers GM Doug Melvin just denied the report that Bob Brenly will be the next manger. Said he hasn't interviewed anybody. So false alarm."<br /><br />"Melvin had this to say about Brenly rumor: 'Unless somebody else has been doing the hiring process, that's not true.'"<br /><br />"'Just another rumor to squelch' Melvin said..."Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-17489420056395645662010-10-06T11:26:00.002-05:002010-10-06T11:30:48.372-05:00Brewers looking at BrenlyCan't link Twitter from work, but 1250 AM's Doug Russell is reporting that a source says "Bob Brenly is close to agreeing to become the next Brewers Manager."<br /><br />Brenly in the past has compared Miller Park to minor league stadiums and two seasons ago openly advocated a pitcher throwing at Ryan Braun. <br /><br />When one of Macha's main problems was his inability to be close to Braun and Fielder, I'm thinking this is not a step in the right direction. While more fiery than Macha (who isn't?), this feels like another over-compensation. The pendulum swung from Yost to Macha (fiesty to asleep) and now it looks like Doug Melvin is letting it go way past center again.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-58945556462223685752010-10-06T11:22:00.001-05:002010-10-06T11:24:24.855-05:00Badger Hockey #13 in preseason pollsUSA TODAY/USA Hockey men's preseason poll<br /><br />Sept. 27, 2010<br /><br /><br />Rank School (first-place votes) 2009-10 record Points Final 2009-10 ranking <br /> <br />1 Boston College (28) 29-10-3 504 1 <br /> <br />2 Notre Dame (4) 25-13-5 462 7 <br /> <br />3 Miami (Ohio) (2) 29-8-7 437 3 <br /> <br />4 Michigan 26-18-1 383 8 <br /> <br />5 Yale 21-10-3 334 6 <br /> <br />6 St. Cloud State 24-14-5 308 5 <br /> <br />7 Maine 19-17-3 281 NR <br /> <br />8 New Hampshire 18-14-7 206 11 <br /> <br />9 Minnesota Duluth 22-17-1 195 NR <br /> <br />10 Cornell 21-9-4 162 9 <br /> <br />11 Denver 27-10-4 146 4 <br /> <br />12 Alaska 18-12-9 125 15 <br /> <br />13 Wisconsin 28-11-14 115 2 <br /> <br />14 Boston University 18-17-3 69 NR <br /> <br />15 Minnesota 18-19-2 50 NR <br /> <br /><br />Others receiving votes: University of Notre Dame, 43; Rochester Institute of Technology, 38; Bemidji State University, 36; Ferris State University, 36; Union College, 34; University of Vermont, 28; Michigan State University, 21; Northern Michigan University, 18; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 16; Colorado College, 14; Northeastern University, 14; University of Nebraska at Omaha, 3; Merrimack College, 2. <br /><br />*** <br /><br />USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll<br />October 4, 2010<br /><br /> Team (First Place Votes) Record Points Last Poll <br />1 Boston College (45) 29-10-3 993 3 <br />2 North Dakota ( 3) 25-13-5 935 4 <br />3 Miami ( 2) 29- 8-7 892 1 <br />4 St. Cloud State 24-14-5 749 7 <br />5 Michigan 26-18-1 741 11 <br />6 Yale 21-10-3 719 8 <br />7 Maine 19-17-3 639 18 <br />8 Minnesota-Duluth 22-17-1 618 14 <br />9 Denver 27-10-4 534 2 <br />10 New Hampshire 18-14-7 510 12 <br />11 Cornell 21- 9-4 509 6 <br />12 Alaska 18-12-9 435 17 <br />13 Wisconsin 28-11-4 295 5 <br />14 Boston University 18-17-3 280 NR <br />15 Minnesota 18-19-2 271 NR <br />16 Michigan State 19-13-6 191 19 <br />17 Notre Dame 13-17-8 156 NR <br />18 RIT 28-12-1 152 20 <br />19 Union 21-12-6 136 16 <br />20 Colorado College 19-17-3 127 NR <br />Others Receiving Votes: Vermont 105, Bemidji State 101, Northern Michigan 96, Ferris State 83, Nebraska-Omaha 49, Northeastern 39, Rensselaer 32, Mercyhurst 31, Quinnipiac 18, Merrimack 15, Ohio State 13, Colgate 9, St. Lawrence 5, Air Force 4, Mass.-Lowell 2, Robert Morris 1 <br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/?data=uscho1m&week=poll#ixzz11b3ByLVhNicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-90300946330419513152010-10-06T11:20:00.002-05:002010-10-06T11:22:43.085-05:00Former Badger Stepan Makes RangersFormer Badger Derek Stepan made the NY Rangers final roster this week and will start the season in the NHL. <br /><br />Stepan, 20, left Wisconsin early after his sophomore year. <br /><br />Teammate Ryan McDonogh was left off the Rangers final roster and will start the season in the AHL.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-79003354618096317742010-10-06T11:18:00.000-05:002010-10-06T11:19:17.595-05:00Badger Hockey TV Schedule Released(Dates and times subject to change)<br /><br />DAY DATE OPPONENT All Times Central TV (Internet)<br /><br /><br />ICE BREAKER TOURNAMENT (St. Louis)<br /><br />Friday Oct. 8 Boston University 8:30 p.m.<br /><br />Sunday Oct. 10 Notre Dame/Holy Cross 3 p.m./Noon<br /><br />FRIDAY OCT. 15 ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE 7 P.M. FSN/WC<br /><br />SUNDAY OCT. 17 ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE 1 P.M. (Bigtennetwork.com)<br /><br />Friday Oct. 22 at Denver* 8:30 p.m. FSN<br /><br />Saturday Oct. 23 at Denver* 8 p.m.<br /><br />FRIDAY OCT. 29 MICHIGAN TECH* 7 P.M. (UWBadgers.com)<br /><br />SATURDAY OCT. 30 MICHIGAN TECH* 7 P.M. WISC/Charter/TWar/WC<br /><br />Friday Nov. 5 at Minnesota* 7 p.m. FSN<br /><br />Saturday Nov. 6 at Minnesota* 7 p.m. BTN<br /><br />FRIDAY NOV. 12 NORTH DAKOTA* 7 P.M. FSN/WC<br /><br />SATURDAY NOV. 13 NORTH DAKOTA* 7 P.M. TVW/Charter/TWar/WC<br /><br />FRIDAY NOV. 19 MINNESOTA DULUTH* 7 P.M. FSN/WC<br /><br />SATURDAY NOV. 20 MINNESOTA DULUTH* 7 P.M. WISC/Charter/TWar/WC<br /><br />COLLEGE HOCKEY SHOWCASE FRIDAY<br /><br />NOV. 26 MICHIGAN 7 P.M. (Bigtennetwork.com)<br /><br />SATURDAY NOV. 27 MICHIGAN STATE 7 P.M. (Bigtennetwork.com)<br /><br />Friday Dec. 3 at Alaska Anchorage* 10 p.m.<br /><br />Saturday Dec. 4 at Alaska Anchorage* 10 p.m.<br /><br />FRIDAY DEC. 10 BEMIDJI STATE* 7 P.M. TVW/Charter/TWar/WPT<br /><br />SATURDAY DEC. 11 BEMIDJI STATE* 7 P.M. FSN/WPT<br /><br />THURSDAY DEC. 30 MASSACHUSETTS 7 P.M. FSN/WPT F<br /><br />RIDAY DEC. 31 MASSACHUSETTS 7 P.M. FSN/WPT<br /><br />FRIDAY JAN. 7 CANISIUS 7 P.M. (Bigtennetwork.com)<br /><br />SATURDAY JAN. 8 CANISIUS 7 P.M. (Bigtennetwork.com)<br /><br />Friday Jan. 14 at Minnesota Duluth* 7 p.m.<br /><br />Saturday Jan. 15 at Minnesota Duluth* 7 p.m.<br /><br />FRIDAY JAN. 21 MINNESOTA STATE* 7 P.M. (Bigtennetwork.com)<br /><br />SATURDAY JAN. 22 MINNESOTA STATE* 7 P.M. WISC/Charter/TWar/WPT<br /><br /> Friday Jan. 28 at Michigan Tech* 6 p.m.<br /><br />Saturday Jan. 29 at Michigan Tech* 6 p.m.<br /><br /> Friday Feb. 11 at Nebraska Omaha* 7:30 p.m.<br /><br />Saturday Feb. 12 at Nebraska Omaha* 7 p.m.<br /><br />FRIDAY FEB 18 MINNESOTA* 7 P.M. BTN<br /><br />SATURDAY FEB. 19 MINNESOTA* 8 P.M. FSN<br /><br />Friday Feb. 25 at St. Cloud State* 7 p.m. Charter<br /><br />Saturday Feb. 26 at St. Cloud State* 7 p.m. Charter<br /><br />FRIDAY MARCH 4 COLORADO COLLEGE* 7 P.M. TVW/Charter/TWar/WPT<br /><br />SATURDAY MARCH 5 COLORADO COLLEGE* 7 P.M. FSN/WPT<br /><br />Fri.-Sun. March 11-13 WCHA Playoffs (Campus Sites)<br /><br />Thur.-Sat. March 17-19 WCHA Final Five (St. Paul, Minn.) FSN<br /><br />Fri.-Sat. March 25-26 NCAA East and West Regionals (Bridgeport, Conn., and St Louis)<br /><br />Sat.-Sun. March 26-27 NCAA Northeast and Midwest Regionals (Manchester, N.H., and Green Bay, Wis.)<br /><br />Thur.-Sat. April 7-9 NCAA Frozen Four (St. Paul, Minn.)<br /><br /> * - WCHA league games Home games listed in BOLD CAPS. All times Central. FSN- Fox Sports Wisconsin; BTN - Big Ten Network; WISC - WISC-TV; TVW - TVW 14; Charter - Charter Extra; TWar - Time Warner Sports; WC - Wisconsin Channel (delayed); WPT - Wisconsin Public Television or Wisconsin Channel (delayed)Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-46052526554538526512010-10-06T11:17:00.000-05:002010-10-06T11:18:14.854-05:00Geoffrion to start season with AdmiralsAP writer Colin Fly noted on Twitter that the Predators sent Blake Geoffrion to Milwaukee and that he will be with the team when training camp opens.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-43415255258957898632010-10-06T11:16:00.000-05:002010-10-06T11:17:31.985-05:00Badger Hockey FacilityPlans for a dedicated hockey facility that had been on hold due to lack of donations are back on track.<br /><br /><br />The facility will be used for both men's and women's hockey practices and would be a dedicated facility to host women's home games.<br /><br /> <br /><br />From the Wisconsin State Journal:<br /><br />"A plan to build a $27.8 million practice facility for the University of Wisconsin hockey programs has been revived.<br /><br />Six months after shelving the project, saying he was uncomfortable with the lack of private donations, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said Friday that a "very good'' surge of gift funds has put it back on track."<br /><br /> <br /><br />This facility would be a huge boon for the program. The women's team seems a little lost in the size of the Kohl Center and would benefit from having their own ice.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-57035854310930409032010-07-13T23:59:00.001-05:002010-07-13T23:59:14.808-05:00what the Brewers are asking for HartFrom MLBTradeRumors.com via Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle the Brewers asked for either Madison Bumgarner or Jonathan Sanchez in exchange for Hart.<br /><br />Both are young pitchers under team control for some years.<br /><br />The Brewers faced each of the young pitches during the Giants recent four-game stint at Miller Park and were able to muster just one run each day.<br /><br />According to the rumor, the Giants' manager was unwilling to part with either arm.<br /><br /><br />Brewer fans should be happy that GM Doug Melvin is reaching for the moon with this trade.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-22720312090252939112010-06-22T19:23:00.002-05:002010-06-22T19:26:37.369-05:00TimberRattler Davis wins single A Home Run DerbyThe single A All Star Game is happening in Fort Wayne this week and Brewer prospect and current T Rat Khris Davis rep-ed the team well by <a href="http://brewersbeat.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/06/davis_wins_midwest_league_hr_d.html">winning the Home Run Derby last night. </a><br /><br />Davis hit a total of 25 home runs over three rounds to take the title.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-71181981045888972612010-06-22T19:20:00.001-05:002010-06-22T19:22:43.543-05:00Badger Trio gets high marks.From <a href="http://www.uwbadgers.com/blog/2010/06/badger-trio-ranked-ninth-by-rivals.html">UWBadgers.com</a>, "<br />Rivals.com put up a story earlier this month ranking the top "triplets" in college football, meaning the team with the best combination of quarterback, running back and wide receiver.<br /><br />The Badger trio of QB Scott Tolzien, RB John Clay and WR Nick Toon came in at No. 9 in the top-15 poll."<br /><br />Here's what Rivals.com said about the Badgers' trio:<br />"The Badgers' trio isn't as flashy as some others on this list, but Tolzien, Clay and Toon get the job done. As usual at Wisconsin, a bruising running back is the centerpiece. Defenses know the 248-pound Clay will get plenty of work, but he still averages 5.4 yards per carry for his career. Although Wisconsin retains its run-first style, the Badgers are opening up the offense. Tolzien became the first Badgers quarterback to complete more than 200 passes in a season. In recent seasons, Wisconsin has relied extensively on its tight end in the passing game, but Toon figures to change that this season. He had 54 catches for 805 yards and four TDs last season."Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-84983217800958169602010-06-22T19:16:00.001-05:002010-06-22T19:18:12.929-05:00Brewers Prospect Lawrie to play in MLB ASG Futures gameFor the second straight year, <a href="http://twitter.com/Haudricourt/status/16797122893">Brett Lawrie will represent Canada</a> on the World team during the All Star Game futures game. <br /><br />Congrats BrettNicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-51916990565629757412010-06-10T22:00:00.002-05:002010-06-10T22:02:28.299-05:00Brewers win on walk-off sac buntIn case you didn't see it, tonight the Brewers had a bit of a stolen base/hit and run on with Carlos Gomez on first base. He never slowed and took third when the ball was fielded and thrown to first for the out. The ball was then thrown to third to try and get Gomez out, but was overthrown and Gomez came home on the error. <br /><br />Make sense?<br /><br />If not, Disciples of Uecker broke down the play with diagrams to analyze the Cubs' defense of the situation. Check it out <a href="http://disciplesofuecker.com/brewers-5-cubs-4-analyzing-the-final-play/">here</a>.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-90930469076551819722010-06-10T20:18:00.002-05:002010-06-10T20:28:45.034-05:00The World Cup is Here!The World Cup starts tomorrow with a 900 am CST match between host country South Africa and Mexico. That will be followed by Uruguay and France at 130 pm CST<br /><br />Of course, all Americans should be ready to watch the US face England on Saturday at 130 CST on Saturday. <br /><br />Also playing on Saturday are South Korea and Greece at 6 am and Argentina v. Nigeria<br />at 9 am. <br /><br />The Nomad on Brady Street is having a block party and will be showing all games, as will Brocach, who's sign says they'll be open at 6 am and serving breakfast. <br /><br />The Highbury Pub on Linclon and KK will be open for all games, as well. <br /><br />Make sure you check out <a href="http://ladiesdotdotdot.wordpress.com/">Ladies... </a>for all your Group Hotties. <br />And former Lady, The Starter Wife, is doing amazing things with Group themed food on her blog, <a href="http://blackandgoldtchotchkes.com/">Black and Gold Tchotchkes.</a>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-3330515635180410772010-06-07T14:31:00.003-05:002010-06-07T14:47:33.666-05:00Brewers finally release Jeff SuppanWith his $10 million contract hanging around our necks, Doug Melvin and Mark Attanasio seemed to be hoping for a miracle resurgence from Jeff Suppan this season. When it didn't happen, they didn't seem to know what to do with themselves - or him. Already stuck paying for Braden Looper and Bill Hall's contract while they're no longer on the team, the Brewers seemed loathe to admit to another wrong contract. <br /><br />But with the emergence of Kameron Loe, Zach Braddock and John Axford, the Brewers could no longer make excuses for trotting Suppan out in low-leverage situations while he wasted a roster spot and we constantly had to shuffle to make room for arms that are performing better. <br /><br />Melvin was a bit defensive about the Suppan signing, rattling off the contracts of all the other FA pitchers that were signed during the same off-season. <br /><br />Adam McCalvy has all of Melvin's comments <a href="http://brewersbeat.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/06/melvin_on_suppan_release.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><br />From J-S' Tom Haudricourt's Brewers Blog, Suppan's statement:<br />As I expected, Jeff Suppan did not want to do interviews with reporters about his release by the Brewers today.<br /><br />Instead, Suppan released the following statement:<br /><br />"I want to thank Mark Attanasio and Doug Melvin for all they have done for my family and me, especially how they handled this situation. I"ve played with a number of organizations and the Brewers are one of the classiest.<br /><br />"When I signed in 2007, I was committed to winning and to this day I still am. Nobody is more disappointed with how things have turned out. I enjoyed my time here in Milwaukee, as both a player and a member of the community. As such, I will continue my involvement with the Brewers Charities for the remainder of the 2010 season. My commitment to this cause and the people it serves is unwavering.<br /><br />"I wish the current organization, its fans and especially my teammates all the best."Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20314904.post-34129164313199535442010-06-03T14:52:00.002-05:002010-06-03T15:00:12.585-05:00Johnny Jolly could see lengthy jail timeThe prosecution is saying Johnny Jolly "bought, sold, funded, transported and aided in the buying, selling, funding and transportation of illegal narcotics including cocaine and marijuana" in Harris County from 2006 through May 2008.<br /><br />It seems as though this may be an unfortunate side effect of Jolly's looking to not receive any punishment from the league by pleading guilty to any lesser charges. <br /><br /><br />Per Greg A. Bedard from the Journal-Sentinel, "Jolly has had – and I’m pretty sure still does – multiple opportunities to plead his codeine charge out for much lesser charges but has chosen not to do so at every turn. Likely because Jolly knew he’d get suspended if he pled guilty to anything under the personal conduct policy. Jolly rolled the dice but not making this thing go away quickly, taking his medicine from Roger Goodell and just getting on with his career. By going to trial, Jolly risked other things coming up as the prosecution prepared for trial. Whether these allegations are true or not, Jolly evidently lost on that gamble because if he would have pled out, the only thing most people would think about Jolly is that he made a stupid decision two years. Now he’s viewed in a whole new light."<br /><br />Bedard answers all kinds of questions surrounding the case <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/95532714.html">here</a>, but the most important one is this:<br />Q: Did the Packers have any clue that allegations of drug dealing could be connected to Jolly?<br /><br />A: This, I think, is a huge and very important question. If the Packers knew about these allegations and thought they had any merit, why is Jolly still a member of the team let alone receiving a first-round tender at $2.5 million? If the Packers did know, did they just turn the other way and hope no one found out so their on-field team would be better?<br /><br />I don’t know and I’m not sure we’ll ever know.<br /><br />Circumstantial evidence – the drafting of Mike Neal and C.J. Wilson, and moving Ryan Pickett to left end – could be taken as a sign the Packers thought they could be without Jolly for sometime.<br /><br />But I talked with eight veterans in the locker room on Wednesday and seven said they had never heard a single rumor about Jolly and drugs. If most of his teammates didn’t know, how could the Packers? That is entirely possible. But the Packers, like every other team, employ security personnel that are at least supposed to have some idea about what their players are up to off the field.<br /><br />One player said he had heard the rumors and thought the Packers had to have some clue.<br /><br />So, like I said, we don’t know, and I’m not sure we’ll ever know.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062799595408709354noreply@blogger.com0