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Soup’s Troops

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Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jeff Suppan and his team are giving a little bit to U.S. troops:
The right-hander on Monday helped introduce Soup’s Troops, a partnership with the team and the USO of Wisconsin to benefit the men and women of the U.S. military during the final 75 Brewers home games at Miller Park. The Brewers […]

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Lawmakers Want Investigation of BCS

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Because it’s obvious Congress doesn’t have enough to do three lawmakers want an investigation of college football’s BCS:
Forget government corruption or corporate fraud. Three members of Congress want the Justice Department to investigate whether college football’s Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise.
Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, are introducing […]

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2008 Green Bay Packers Schedule

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The all-important 2008 Green Bay Packers schedule is out. The Pack gets four nationally-televised games including a Sunday night match-up with the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field.

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Brewers Sweep Giants

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Ben Sheets’ complete game shut out gave the Milwaukee Brewers a three-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants. The National League Central leading Brewers are now 5-1 after the first week of the season.
[picture via brewers19]

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Fans Boo President Bush

Classless: That describes all those who booed President Bush at the Washington Nationals’ opening game tonight.

The Breitbart video is much better.
[via Hot Air]

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Merkel Boycotting Olympic Opening Ceremony

France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy threatened last week to boycott the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing in response to China’s crackdown of unrest in Tibet, but Germany’s Angela Merkel will do it:
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, yesterday became the first world leader to decide not to attend the Olympics in Beijing.
As pressure built for concerted western […]

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Ted Thompson: Executive of the Year

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With all the griping and complaining I heard from some Packers fans over the years I’m rolling over in laugher now that general manager Ted Thompson has been named NFL GM of the Year:
Ted Thompson, the Green Bay Packers’ general manager, has been named NFL executive of the year by Sporting News.
Thompson’s three-year effort to […]

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Baseball Player Can Jump

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Joey Gathright: baseball player and leaper over anything.

[via Mahalo]

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Final Four Predictions

Brian Fraley asked,
1) How many wins for UW?
2) How soon before Marquette gets bounced?
3) Your biggest upset of the tourney?
4) Who are your final four teams?
5) Who wins it all?
and I answered. I want to post them before the March Madness games start today:

Three wins for the Badgers before Kansas knocks them out in […]

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Ned Yost No Fan of Weblogs

Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost has a unique way of dealing with weblogs:
I’ve decided that from now on when NASCAR is on the docket, I’m going to pull a “Yost,’’ or react the same way he does when the subject of blogs are brought up.
See, the manager is not a big fan of blogs, which […]

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Brett Favre Retires

#4 has called it quits. Here’s Green Bay Packers General Manager Ted Thompson:
Brett Favre has informed us of his intention to retire from the Green Bay Packers and the NFL. He has had one of the greatest careers in the history of the National Football League, and he is able to walk away from the […]

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Brewers Spring Training Starts Saturday

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Milwaukee Brewers’ pitchers and catchers report to Phoenix AZ Saturday to start preparing for the upcoming baseball season. I’m a little sad. For the past five years my father and I went down to Arizona to soak in the sun, escape Wisconsin’s winter, and get a sneak preview of how the Brewers would do.
Last year, […]

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Giant Killers

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The New York Giants pull off the biggest upset in Super Bowl history. They defeated the supposedly invincible New England Patriots.
The play of the game–no the play of the year–was Eli Manning wiggling his way out of a sure sack to throw a pass to David Tyree who caught it off his helmet. The Giants […]

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Twittering the Super Bowl

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I’ll be Twittering the Super Bowl…assuming Twitter’s servers can take it.
UPDATE: Since Fox has only gotten to the “pre-kick show” I have time to make a prediction: New England Patriots 38, New York Giants 24.
UPDATE II: We’re just getting to the National Anthem. So I can let you know Ed Morrissey is liveblogging and Hot […]

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Jump Around

Here’s a new weblog find: Jumping in Art Museums. [Via David All] Fine as long as they don’t break anything.
It’s cool, but not as cool as Camp Randall Stadium after the third quarter of a Badgers game.

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