The UWM Post

Usually a perfect game is in reference to a pitcher having a flawless nine innings on the baseball diamond. On Saturday, it was about a center having a flawless performance on the basketball court.

In a tight game, the University of Wisconsin took the lead in the second half to defeat the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's basketball team 79-59 in Madison on Tuesday night.

The Milwaukee Bucks have been like a roller coaster ride at Six Flags Great America. Their level of play has been up and down and no one really knows where this team may be headed. The Bucks have been the kind of team where you don’t know what to expect from them.

Sure, they lost to Loyola, Marquette, Northern Iowa, Sam Houston State and Drake, but that’s not the point. The fact is that the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men’s basketball team has its biggest home game of the season coming up.

Last Thursday, when the Packers fell to the Cowboys, a strange feeling rushed over me.

Before you grab your pitchforks and torches to come murder me, read the entire article and think about it; then you can chase me down.

When Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson hired Mike McCarthy to be the franchise’s 14th head coach in January of 2006, many fans’ anxiety levels only grew, including that of this humble columnist.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee dropped their Horizon League opener Thursday to the University of Illinois-Chicago 91-73 at the UIC Pavilion.

In 1776, Boston gave birth to a nation. Now it just gives playoff berths to professional sports franchises: the Patriots, Celtics and Red Sox. Being the nice teams they are, the franchises also give something back to Boston in the form of illustrious, rare hardware with odd names like Lombardi or Commissioner’s Trophy.

In the past, when fans went to exhibition games they expected to see highlight reel dunks, amazing passes and a blow out win against a mid-major. Now the games have grown to be more of a struggle for teams in bigger conferences. This new phenomenon started back a few years ago when Gonzaga burst onto the scene as that mid-major who did not quite fit the profile. When Gonzaga started “shocking” teams in the NCAA tournament, sometime around the year 2000, people started to question who was actually a mid-major.

Did that just happen? Did the Detroit Tigers really just pull off a blockbuster deal?