Bob CollinsThe longest high school football losing streak — 39 games — ended Friday with a 24-to-14 win over Frazee, which probably is making for a pretty lousy Monday in Frazee. Read more →
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It’s back to the cubicle wars. Monday, perhaps, is the day you wonder whether you should pursue that bucket list item instead.
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A pretty nice moment wrapped up a pretty awful week last night.
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In South Milwaukee, Jordan Schroeder,16, would like to be playing for the South Milwaukee Rockets football team tonight when it hosts West Allis Hale. Read more →
North Dakota State University is becoming just the second NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision university to pay its athletes. Read more →
The league has tried for years to get the domain, but the fellas won’t sell. Why? Partly because the twins — the Minnesota Twins — have never asked. Read more →
Which is worse? An ex-NFL player advising rookies to always have a “fall guy” if they got into legal trouble? Or a sportswriter who sat on Cris Carter’s 2014 comments at an NFL rookies symposium? Read more →
The Freedom From Religion Foundation this week called on 25 public universities — including the University of Wisconsin — to take a step toward disconnecting religion from the sport. Read more →
If you’re looking for some easy money, be a search firm.
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The NCAA has reportedly told the University of North Dakota not to let fans of the former Fighting Sioux mess with the end of the National Anthem. Read more →
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison is renewing the debate after vowing on Saturday to force his six- and eight-year-old sons to send back trophies they received for participating in school athletics. Read more →
Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch offers no names in his column today detailing just how common it is for female sportswriters to be sexually harassed by the men they cover.
Some of the players in incidents he details required the willful assistance of officials of the teams for which the athlete played. Read more →
Woodbury has installed lightning detection systems to protect golfers and youth athletes and spectators. Read more →
The walk in baseball is running out of steam. For debatable reasons, fewer batters are drawing walks this year, continuing a trend, while the number of strikeouts is soaring, according to CNBC. A lot of baseball fans focus on strikeouts. But one expert — Ed Feng –offers a novel analysis. “In Moneyball, we learned about Read more →
In Cleveland last night, the twin four-year-old daughters of player Mike Aviles threw out the first pitch in the Indians’ game against the Yankees.
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