Tyler Bucholz’s track and field resume continues to grow as he broke the school record in the outdoor 400m this weekend with a time of 47.93.

Bucholz has run a sub-48.00 in three straight meets dating back to indoor conference, where he became the first Panther to accomplish the feat.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team traveled to South Bend, Indiana Wednesday to face off against Notre Dame, where they lost 14-3 to the Fighting Irish. South Bend was the first stop in a four-game road trip through Indiana.

The Panthers (3-15), losers of five straight, sent right-hander Jordan Herbert (0-3, 9.85 ERA) to the mound against the Irish (12-7-1). Notre Dame, who started freshman right-hander Ryan Sharpley (1-1, 2.70 ERA), were fresh off a Tuesday win over Ball State and a weekend sweep of Georgetown. They looked to extend the all-time series lead over Milwaukee, which stood at 9-3 going into the game.

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With the departure of men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl and men’s soccer coach Louis Bennett in successive years, many University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fans believed the Golden Age of Panther athletics to be over.

Guess what. Like the Reel Big Fish song, we’ve got a good thing going.

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It had to happen sooner or later. We knew he wasn’t going to play forever. Yet, as much as we tried to prepare ourselves for the day he finally called it quits, we knew we would never be fully prepared.

Even now that it’s official, it’s still hard to believe. It’s hard not to think that maybe we took him for granted while he was around. He was always just sort of there, ready to play, every Sunday. For some Packer fans, he’s the only player they’ve ever known in his position.

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Okay, so you’re moving on from the Brett Favre retirement news and have picked up the pieces in your life.

Now, how do you go about replacing a quarterback with 275 consecutive starts and every record in the book? What’s more, he was the most beloved player in the entire league at or near the top of his game in leading the upstart Green Bay Packers to a 14-4 record with a surprising appearance in the NFC title game.

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With the McDonald’s All-American game in Milwaukee Wednesday, the incoming freshmen talent for the 2008-09 season in the NCAA don’t look like they will have to worry about leaving college after one year for the National Basketball Association draft, something this year’s freshmen certainly will have to do.

Michael Beasley, O.J. Mayo and Eric Gordon are just a few of the 2007-08 freshmen who are expected to leave college basketball and enter the NBA draft after stellar freshmen seasons. After the 2008 All-American game, very few of the entering freshmen look as if they could do the same a year from now.

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I bet with two words I can make you forget everything else going on in your life right now. You won’t remember that crumpled up piece of paper you once called your NCAA bracket. You won’t have to pretend to be interested in the NBA until playoff time (if even then). You’ll even lose all memory of that sunburnt spring break you already only remember bits and pieces of.

What are these magic words you ask? Play ball!

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1. Where will Barry Bonds end up? As of right now, he still remains unsigned, and even though he carries more emotional and legal baggage than Britney Spears, the old man can still hit. Players’ Union head Donald Fehr will begin investigating whether the owners have colluded against Bonds in their refusal to sign him, another storyline to monitor and yet another chapter in the career of Barroid Bonds.

2. The Pittsburgh Pirates have a chance to break a record in 2008. Yes, that sentence is correct; it contains both the word Pirates and the word record. From 1933 to 1948, the Phillies did not post a winning record, a concept baseball fans from Milwaukee are all too familiar with. The Pirates have not had a winning season since 1993 and only won 68 games last year. If they possess a winning record at the end of this year, some one should notify the pope because that will constitute a true miracle. Turning the Pirates into a winning team is just as impressive as turning water into wine.

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