What a time to be a Badger fan . I remember time in the 70's when it was easy to get a seat to almost every Badger sport. Wisconsin athletics was a mess, w ith the exception of mens hockey under Bob Johnson. Now look at what's happening. The football team is unbeaten and rolling over every opponent so far. They have a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate and a number of other players that could be vying for awards. If they can find a way to beat the Buckeyes in Columbus in two weeks they would vault themselves into the playoff conversation. And thats not all. Mark Johnson earned his 500th career victory as coach of the womens hockey team on Saturday. The Badger women are ranked #1 again this season and unbeaten so far. The mens hockey team has started 1-1 but are expecting big things from the most talented freshman class in school history led by Stevens Point native Cole Caufield. Caufield had four goals in his first two games and the Badgers scored 11 on Saturday. The volleyball team beat Minnesota yesterday for the first time since 2014 and are unbeaten and alone in first place in the Big Ten. They have taken down 3 ranked teams this week alone. And the mens basketball team is expected to be improved this season and hope to return to top of the Big Ten which has been a regular occurence in the last couple of decades. Jump Around indeed!
Congrats to Wausau West hockey coach BJ Brandt who ran and finished the Chicago Marathon over the weekend!
Packer Game Day begins at 5pm tonight on WSAU.
Found this in the archives over the weekend. Back when AM radio still played the hits!
Lots of one-hit wonders on that list…Alan O'Day, David Soul, Peter McCann, Marlene Delaney, Hot, Kenny Nolan, Dean Friedman, Paul Nicholas, Stankey-Brown Band (I've never heard of them), Smokie.
Covers Of The Day
Donald Trump and PACs for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, and Lindsey Graham accepted $7.35mill in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of 2 of Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs & a Russian government bank.
https://dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08…
Quotes Of The Day
“If you are someone who has raised concerns about Hunter Biden and don’t also raise big concerns about the Trump children, then you fundamentally lack inegrity and don’t really care about building a more moral and less corrupt world.”-Matthew Dowd
“In one swift move Donald Trump has just un-defeated ISIS”-Ed Solomon
“An ISIS flag has – literally – been raised again in the Syrian countryside. The ISIS flag. Flying again.Can you Trump supporters get it *yet*? Can you admit your god king doesn’t know what he is doing? If not, when deaths start here again, we will point at you as responsible.”-Kurt Eichenwald
“Kurdish journalists report that a Kurdish politician, a 35-year old woman, was raped & stoned to death by advancing Turkish forces. What’s happening in Syria is due to Trump taking an unstaffed call with Erdogan & caving to his Turkish business allies.”-Joyce Alene
“Who wanted Trump to withdraw U.S. troops and abandon the Kurds? Not the Defense or the State Department. Not the foreign policy establishment or the American people. Not Republicans or Democrats.
Who wanted Trump to abandon the Kurds and withdraw U.S. troops? Erdogan. And Putin.”-Bill Kristol
“And this is why House needs to see those Trump tax returns. Trump has green-lit a new Middle Eastern war by a dictator who controls some unknown percent of Trump's global licensing income. We cannot begin to assess US Middle East policy without knowing who's paying what to Trump”-David Frum
“To a prosecuters eye, this really looks increasingly like one big scheme, overseen by Trump and Giuliani, to obtain illegal assistance from Ukraine in the 2020 election.”-Harry Litman
“Explain to me under what legal theory does Donald Trump not have an indictment waiting for him when he leaves office?”-Rep Eric Swalwell
“The exploding evidence of corruption in the Trump White House is simply incredible. A constant revelation of incompetent sleaze. Trump lies like a grade-schooler in teh face of obvious facts to the contrary. We are in great danger.”-General Barry McCaffrey
“Shortly before the 2018 election, Ivanka Trump got Chinese trademarks on voting machines. We'd love to hear her father explain that one.”-Citizens for Ethics
“Now that Trump has unleashed genocide by betraying our allies in Syria, it’s time to stop thinking of him as a petty grifter from Queens who bumbled his way into the presidency with Russia’s help. The GOP is propping up a Kremlin asset who is committing crimes against humanity.”-Steve Silberman
“Everything Donald Trump touches turns to shit. Everything.”-Harry Turtledove
“Mike Pompeo is not serving as Secretary of State. He is acting as Trump’s fixer, blocking testimony that is required as part of the #ImpeachmentInquiry.Pompeo is attacking the system of checks and balances. The House should penalize him. Immediately.”-John Nichols
“For Mattis & Mueller, we are seeing moral cowardice hiding behind a rigid view of military chain of command. Neither is in the military. They should first and foremost now be American citizens using their moral authority to speak out against traitorous presidential conduct.”-Norman Ornstein
“BREAKING: In a video shown at Trump’s resort to his supporters, a fake Trump pulls a gun out of his suit jacket pocket and “begins a graphic rampage. As the parishioners try to flee, the president fires at them. He shoots Black Lives Matter in the head…”
The video is so incredibly graphic and disturbing that I’m not posting it here, but to see it go over to
@yashar
’s timeline. I wonder if this is the kind of video
@NRA
-beholden lawmakers are referring to when they blame entertainment for causing America’s gun violence crisis?”-Shannon Watts
“If Barr is right about mental illness & drug abuse rising because we’re a less Christian society, shouldn’t people in countries that are predominantly Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or Jewish be totally bonkers and eternally stoned?
Or maybe he’s an idiot.”-Clyde Haberman
“Does William Barr spend any part of the day doing his actual job.”-Seth Abramson
“James Madison thought the president could, and should be impeached for “wantonly firing meritorious officers.” You ant claim to revere the Founders' design and simply ignore that they believed it necessary to impeach a president who abused the public trust.”-Ezra Klein
“Back in 2010 Charlie Sykes encouraged Ron Johnson to run for US Senate and promoted his candidacy. Today Sykes compares Johnson to Joe McCarthy.”-Daniel Bice
“When conservatives criticize Facebook, Facebook’s corporate response is appeasement. When progressives criticize Facebook, Facebook’s corporate response is disingenuous counterpunching. Unrelatedly, when Republicans win elections they deliver massive tax cuts to Facebook.”-Matthew Yglesias
“Our allies in the Middle East are being slaughtered because the stupidest president in history didnt understand the situation at the Syrian/Turkish border, & as women and children die, he tweets about his polls and TV news. The rage I feel for the Republican support of this is endless.”-Kurt Eichenwald.
