Why the Bucks won last night

As Andrew Bogut might say...That's not a mascot. THAT'S a mascot!



Click here to see it in all it's majesty.

And here is a fan's eye view of the stunt.

Yes, I really did that.

I am in the Right Field Bleachers Bracket Challenge.

As usual, I made did my work with no thought...That's why I have a Final Four of Kansas, Butler, West Virginia, and Duke.

Oh, Gehrig, that is going to be laughed off the internet.

I'm going mad

It's March. Brackets are set. Looking for a little contest. Don't come here. Go there. and follow the instructions. There being Sportsbubbler.com's contest.

You may need a Sports Bubbler account to sign up for the bracket...but, it's free...and you might win something.

Can you do better than someone who has watched maybe 20 minutes of college basketball this season?

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"He lost two teeth"

Interesting game last night for Time Warner Cable Sports. Green Bay East against Green Bay Notre Dame Academy.

NDA had an 18-4 lead after the first quarter on the way to a nice win. Despite Teven Taylor scoring 19 for East.

During the second quarter, Kevin McKenzie dove for a loose ball and when he got off the floor there was something missing...Parts of his two front teeth.

The camera crew got some decent shots of him showing the damage off to his teammates after he came back to the bench. McKenzie would get back in the game and play pretty well.

Game should be on Channel 32 at some point next week and might be on the in-demand Channel 1111 before the weekend.

That was interesting

Last night, the Time Warner Cable Sports 32 high school basketball road show was in Freedom for the girls' game between the Lady Irish and Wrightstown.

Freedom won 70-24. But, that wasn't the main story. Cory Jennerjohn of the Post-Crescent picks up the story.

With basketball being the common denominator, I wouldn't be surprised if a wedding buzzer replaced the customary wedding bells next summer.

Freedom girls' basketball coach Mike Vander Loop and Wrightstown girls' basketball coach Jen Drobnick met a couple of years ago at the WIAA girls' state basketball tournament, to change their annual nonconference meeting from an early-season tilt to a game around Christmas.

"I thought Freedom would be hard-butts about it," Drobnick said.

After accepting Wrightstown's offer, Vander Loop took Drobnick to one of the most unlikely places for a first date. But watching the NCAA men's basketball tournament at Buffalo Wild Wings was just fine with her.

"That was totally my style," Drobnick said. "I was really nervous and I had been out of (dating) for so long. He wasn't the kind of person that wanted to go someplace fancy and you can't go wrong with wings and beer, right?"

"I guess we kind of clicked from the beginning," said Vander Loop, who explained that the big day will be next summer, but the date hasn't been set yet. "

Click on the link for the rest of the story and a photo gallery from Dan Powers.

Other sports

The Wisconsin-Florida State game turned out...poorly for the Badgers.

The Journal-Sentinel headline captures the feeling pretty well.

Merciless conclusion
Another crushing defeat ends forgettable season

Pffft!

So this is how the University of Wisconsin's third season under Bret Bielema ended Saturday in the Champs Sports Bowl.

With a whimper.

With an offense incapable of scoring touchdowns when it mattered and culpable for two touchdowns on fumble returns.

With a defense that sagged and allowed a 16-play, 85-yard touchdown drive in the third quarter with the outcome still in doubt.

With an ugly 42-13 loss to a solid but unspectacular Florida State team, a defeat that will do nothing to silence the growing number of UW fans murmuring that Bielema is in over his head and dragging the UW program into the ground.

On a positive note, my Tonbridge Angels defeated Hastings 1-0 on the road yesterday and are settling into a playoff spot in the Ryman Premier League.

On a bitterly cold day at the south coast Tonbridge beat Hastings by a solitary Lewis Hamilton goal 3 minutes before the break.

Picture from Angels Online.

The Packers play the Lions today at Lambeau...Lions 0-15...Packers have lost five straight...Moving on...

I'm a bit hesitant to put up this item, because the last time I mentioned a basketball team at #1 they lost their next game. But, what the heck...

For the first time in more than nine years, the Team of the '90s is back on top.

UW-Platteville, which won the Division III national championship in 1991, 1995, 1998 and 1999, received 13 No. 1 votes and stands atop the latest D3hoops.com Top 25. Former No. 1 and defending national champion Wash U. lost at No. 10 Elmhurst on Saturday and slipped three spots to No. 4.

The Pioneers were last in the top spot in the poll taken through games of Dec. 12, 1999.

Hey! According to this schedule, the Pioneers are playing in a tournament hosted by St. Norbert tomorrow and Tuesday. My alma mater plays Carthage tomorrow at 5:00pm.

Other WIAC schools in the Top 25 are UW-Stevens Point at #5 and UW-Whitewater at #6.

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