Who would have thought that the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men’s basketball team could have turned around their sub-par season to sit in third place in the Horizon League after 3-7 start? The fans and Panthers head coach Rob Jeter acknowledges the hard road it took to get here.

“We have to say thanks for people coming and showing support,” said Jeter when explaining why they make a loop around the arena to shake fans’ hands after each home game. “It’s easy to not show your support, and there is a group of fans that have stuck with these guys and we want to show our support and appreciation.”

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UCLA and Memphis are off to great starts this season. Yes, they have great freshmen, but they also have a cast of other great athletes to pick up the slack if the newcomers don’t come to play.

With the new NBA rule that athletes must play one year in college, or a year post high school, we get to see some of these amazing talents before they make the jump. Freshmen that seal the fait of their team with each drive to the basket, three point basket or huge offensive rebound are those that have made the midseason all-fresh squad.

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Klotsche, home of the Panthers, saw the end of the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee’s five-game winning streak, with a 62-59 loss against the University of Illinois- Chicago Wednesday night.

The Flames, who have been 0-7 on the road this season, ended their losing streak. Although, UWM still reign’s 24-11 in overall wins against their Horizon League rival.

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Professional football is back in Milwaukee. In a state that breathes football for over half the year, they now can do it the entire year thanks to the return of indoor football compliments of the Milwaukee Bonecrushers, coached by none other than former Packer Gilbert “The Gravedigger” Brown. The Bonecrushers, a member of the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL), bring an exciting, fast-paced brand of football where offense is at a premium and the defense gets numerous opportunities to unleash bone crushing hits on hung-out-to-dry receivers and lead-footed quarterbacks.

The CIFL consists of 15 teams, with the Flint Phantoms and Fort Wayne Freedom joining Milwaukee as expansion teams, with two conferences and two divisions in each conference. The CIFL exists right below the Arena Football League (AFL) and features a similar style of football – seven players per side, with lineman eligible as pass receivers, playing on a 50-by-25 yard field, no punting and four 15-minute quarters with a running clock. Scoring remains parallel to the NFL except for drop-kick field goals count for four points rather than the customary three.

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When Laurence Tynes’ game-winning 47-yard field in overtime sailed through the Lambeau Field uprights in the NFC Championship on Jan. 20, Green Bay Packers fans were left shocked and very disappointed.

As one of the legendary franchise’s many dedicated fans, and not one of these bandwagon hoppers that only pay attention when they’re deep in the playoffs, the extreme pain felt will not go away anytime soon.

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Now that all meaningful football games have been played, unless I’m forgetting one – I can’t seem to think what I would be missing – oh of course! Let me re-phrase: Now that the NFL Pro Bowl is the only remaining football game of any importance whatsoever, nationwide attention turns to the NBA, where hundreds of meaningful games remain, or at least there’s a lot of amazing left to happen.

Since football has been the main focus of sports fans for the last few months, chances are that not everybody is completely up to speed with how the first half of orange-ball action transpired. For this reason, we present to you the 51st annual UWM Post NBA Mid-Season Awards.

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I understand that the pain of the Packers loss to the New York Giants is still fresh, but let’s put away the hate mail you are sending to Eli Manning and move on. After all, you can always watch pretty boy Tom Brady completely trounce the lesser Manning in Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz. on Feb. 3.

Next year maybe Brett Favre in his god-like greatness will manage to take this team of nobody’s into Tampa, Fla. for Super Bowl XLIII. But that’s neither here nor there.

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From Bart Starr plunging across the goal line on a fourth-and-goal in the Ice Bowl to win the NFL Championship to Al Harris intercepting Matt Hasselbeck in overtime to in the first round of the playoffs, Lambeau Field has always had an aura about it.

Built in 1957, Lambeau has been the home of the Packers after the team moved out of the old City Stadium. You can feel the presence of the stadium when you’re near it; when you walk into the bowl, you get the sense that you’re a part of history.

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Rob Jeter has done an incredible job since losing some major players earlier this season, but the Panthers have done an even better job climbing the standings in the Horizon League.

The men’s basketball team at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has turned a below average season into a potential Horizon League Championship year, but they still have two teams ahead of them to surpass in order to earn that honor, along with a line of teams looking to take their place.

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The Milwaukee Bucks are more than halfway through the season, and the playoffs seem to be far off in the distance and the NBA lottery is creeping up in the rear-view mirror.

The Bucks find themselves a considerable amount of games under .500 at this point in the season and have not had a winning streak of five or more games since November. The only way they can get within striking distance of the playoff race is to start putting some winning streaks together and start eliminating the lengthy losing streaks they have had up to this point in the season.

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Week 2 (Jan. 28-Feb. 3)

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We had seen this before.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's basketball team was deep into a tight game, the score within 5 with under two minutes remaining. Loyola would not go away.

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