Senior second baseman Jesse Hart hit two home runs in back-to-back at bats in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, but the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team could only split the two games resulting in a series loss after dropping the first game on Friday to Valparaiso.

It was a decent pitching battle through the first three innings in the first of two games on Saturday. The score was set at 2-1 after Hart hit his first of two homers, giving Milwaukee (16-29, 7-12 Horizon) the lead but that was just the start for UWM against Valparaiso (16-28, 7-9 Horizon).

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The 2008 NFL Draft is in the books and with the calendar turning to May, Training Camp is right around the corner. Here’s a look at what talent the Green Bay Packers and general manager Ted Thompson acquired and how those players will fit into the 53-man roster that will break camp at the end of August.

Round 2, 36th Overall: WR Jordy Nelson-Kansas State (6’3, 217 lbs.)

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The NBA has a habit of young stars eliminating the stars of the past in the playoffs, and this season is no different.

In the past it was Larry Bird and Magic Johnson that took over for aging stars like Moses Malone and Julius Erving. There have also been players like Michael Jordan who ascended after the dominance of Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas’ Bad Boy Pistons light flickered out.

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Few people will ever know what it feels like to run out of a tunnel, the bright lights of an arena beaming down on you or the roar of thousands of fans cheering for you. To step up on the hardwood and know that by simply playing Division I basketball you are one of the best basketball players in the country. Next year, incoming freshman Ryan Haggerty will know that feeling.

The road to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Division I basketball is never an easy one, but this senior from Benet Academy handled it with class and persistence. Haggerty had set a goal for himself, “D-I or bust,” even after his junior campaign when many scouting services had projected him as Division III talent.

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Let me be very candid about my four year experience with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee athletics: I have held nothing more than a mild interest in any of them and, for the majority of them, remain completely oblivious.

I played baseball, basketball and football throughout my life and anything outside that realm I do not maintain a high interest in, or have extensive knowledge of. With that being said, I will attempt to chronicle my experience with UWM sports from my first semester here in the fall of 2004 to spring semester 2008, the final semester before I graduate, assuming, of course, that I pass Weight Training I. It is difficult, I swear.

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If you are reading this column, you probably have no other options.

You’re probably sitting in the library, dreading the moment in which you’ll eventually have to read your textbooks for the first time all semester in preparation for finals. You’ve now resorted to the UWM Post as a last-ditch effort to delay the work ahead of you, due to the lack of alternative procrastination tools in sight.

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