Panthers head coach Rob Jeter is now 3-0 all-time in home-openers after the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men’s basketball team controlled the pace of play against Division II Upper Iowa University for a 78-53 win.

The Panthers (1-0) were picked to finish in fourth place in the preseason Horizon League poll. Jeter has a wide array of talent, as displayed by 11 players who were on the court for more than 10 minutes. In all, 14 players saw time in the opener, the 15th being freshman Brad Carroll who Jeter claimed will be redshirting this season in order to have four years of eligibility starting in the 2008-09 season.

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He was standing outside, two storefronts looming over him. Joe Allen, a former high school basketball player at Whitnall High School in Greenfield, had run out of options. No college wanted him. He was at a crossroads, about to make arguably the biggest decision of his life since the time he figured it might be a good idea to come out of the womb.

Since finishing at Whitnall in June, Allen had no plan for his future. He was working at a liquor store to make money, but that’s no long-term career and, Joe knew it.

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Plenty of credit should go around for the tremendous 7-1 record of the Green Bay Packers.

There’s been the return to greatness by Brett Favre; the Packers have a receiving core of Donald Driver, Greg Jennings and James Jones that is entering the NFL’s elite; Donald Lee and Bubba Franks have made the tight end position relevant again; middle linebacker Nick Barnett is having a career year; cornerbacks Al Harris and Charles Woodson are getting recognized as the top duo in the league.

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Though the season is only two games underway, and both of those being exhibition games, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women’s basketball team looks prepared to take the Horizon League title back.

The Panthers have outscored their opponents by an average of 53 points. With junior leaders Traci Edwards, Turquoise McCain and Jody Crumble, they have dominated their exhibition opponents on offense and defense, and look to carry that into the regular season.

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A week into the season, the Milwaukee Bucks have shown one glaring problem: They don’t shoot the ball well on a consistent basis. If the Bucks are going to be a playoff team at the end of this season they had better start taking better shots and improving their team shooting percentage.

The Bucks are shooting a decent 45 percent from the field, but it’s only resulted in scores in the low 90s, game in and game out. The NBA is an offensive league, and with numbers like these you will find yourself at the losing end of the court on many nights.

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A single goal ruined the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men’s soccer team’s hopes of taking home all three trophies they play for, as they lost Tuesday night at Northern Illinois University, 1-0.

With the LeWang Cup, taken home by NIU last season, up for grabs, neither team found their niche in the first half, as both teams went to the locker room without having found the back of the net.

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The Milwaukee Brewers enter the offseason as one of the more intriguing storylines following the 2007 baseball season. With plenty of young talent mixed in with a couple of battle-tested veterans, overall the Brew Crew seems well-suited to make a playoff run, especially with one more year of experience under everyone’s belts.

With what is arguably the best young infield in baseball and unquestionably the best corner tandem in the league, a division title seems to shine on the horizon. Yet clearly holes exist, or else they would have at least met Boston in the World Series. Most of those shortcomings come in the area that every team seems to lack: starting pitching and middle relief.

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Since nobody else in the national media is paying any attention at all to the New England Patriots, we thought The UWM Post ought to be the first to thrust the 9-0 Pats into the national spotlight.

Did you know the Patriots could go undefeated this year? Did you know Tom Brady could break Peyton Manning’s touchdown record? Did you know Randy Moss is good again after two years of not really trying that hard?

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The University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin men and women’s swimming teams won three out of four match-ups against UIC, Butler and North Dakota in Chicago on Saturday. While the women strolled past UIC and Butler, the men split theirs meets, losing 161-138 to UIC and beating North Dakota 159-139.

The women, winning both of their match-ups by wide margins, saw leadership from the whole team. Juniors Molly Finn and Ashley Hall each won in their swimming and diving events. Finn won both the 400 IM and 200 butterfly and placed second in the 100 fly with her season best time, 0:59.17. Diving strong in both events, Hall won them both, something she has now done three times this season.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers prevailed at the women’s basketball opener against Chicago State Friday night, with an 88-76 victory.

After two tremendous preseason exhibition games against Beloit (102- 25), and Wisconsin AAU (76-47), they expected nothing less when playing against Chicago State.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women’s volleyball team claimed the Horizon League Regular season Championship outright this weekend, with wins over Wright State and Butler.

With the wins, the Panthers (25-2, 15-1) tied the school record for victories as well as extended their winning streak to 11. The Panthers have only lost one match since Aug. 24.

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