Category: Sports

Bob Uecker will call Brewers home opener, “take it one day at a time after that”

March 27, 2024

We're mere days away from the start of the Milwaukee Brewers' 2024 season (Friday, against the New York Mets in New York), and less than a week away from the home opener (April 2, against the Minnesota Twins). ...

Kenosha Kingfish to (temporarily) become Kenosha Kickers for July 6 game

Tyler Maas

March 25, 2024

A somewhat recent phenomenon in minor league, semi-professional, and summer league baseball has been the temporary team name transformation. It's a fun and effective way to bring fans out to the ballpark and se...

A guide to finding Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers on UFL rosters

Tyler Maas

March 19, 2024

In case you haven't heard, there's a brand new football league. Yes, the combination of FOX Corporation's financial capital, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's star power/influence, and America's need for year-round p...

Mandatory Milwaukee/Wisconsin: Disagreeing about who to root for (and against) in March Madness

Tyler Maas

March 13, 2024

Wisconsinites don't agree about everything, but when it comes to sports, we mostly seem to lean the same way. In general, we love the Green Bay Packers, cheer for the Milwaukee Brewers, and pull for the Milwauk...

The Milwaukee Admirals are on a heater right now

Tyler Maas

February 20, 2024

For those of you who have been distracted by the exciting/unexpected Packers playoff run, the flurry of Bucks coaching and player acquisitions, Marquette's impressive men's basketball campaign so far (minus las...

Milwaukee’s PBA League team has folded

Tyler Maas

February 5, 2024

Way back in early 2020, Milwaukee got its very own Professional Bowlers Association league team. Following thousands of mostly-beer-related name suggestions, Milwaukee’s PBA league team was officially dubbed th...

The Bucks needed to recombobulate

Dan Shafer

January 30, 2024

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Subscribe HERE. The Milwaukee Bucks are having a pretty weird season. The te...

Try your hand at competitive Rock Paper Scissors at Company Brewing

Matt Wild

January 30, 2024

Rock Paper Scissors: it's not just for children and for deciding who goes first in board games anymore. That's right, Milwaukee has its own competitive Rock Paper Scissors league! Looking to throw down and m...

10 premium Milwaukee Bucks games to be aired on local TV stations

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2024

Don't have cable? Sick of TNT cutting away to other games during Bucks blowouts? Think Bally Sports and its awful app are just the worst? If you answered yes to any of those questions and you live in the greate...

Happy birthday, Bob Uecker

Nick Olig

January 26, 2024

Updated from an original 2019 post. Happy birthday, Ueck! The ultimate Brewer happens to be Bob Uecker, which is kind of odd since he never played a game for the team. Sure, today's birthday boy drove in eig...

A look back at Milwaukee Bucks interim coaches throughout history

Tyler Maas

January 24, 2024

Wow. It's been a wild last 20-something hours in the world of Milwaukee Bucks basketball. On Tuesday afternoon, news the team had fired first-year coach Adrian Griffin broke, sending fans into a frenzy. Within ...

Let’s remember some Milwaukee hockey teams of yesteryear

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2024

Even though we've never had an NHL franchise (and probably never will, unfortunately), Milwaukee could, and by all means should, still be considered a certified hockey town. The city boasts an abundance of hock...

7 reasons it’s okay to root for the Detroit Lions (for a few weeks)

Tyler Maas

January 22, 2024

Despite being as fun, encouraging, exciting, and accomplished as it was, the Green Bay Packers season is now officially over. Yes, Saturday's loss to the heavily-favored 49ers was tough to swallow, but it's goi...

The 16 Tampa Bay Buccaneers starting quarterbacks of the last 20 years, ranked

Tyler Maas

December 15, 2023

What's there to say at this point? The Packers are hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this weekend, who have seen a fairly large number of starting quarterbacks duck under center over the past 20 seasons. Since w...

Here are some standout UW-Milwaukee and Marquette non-conference men’s basketball games

Kyle Lobner

November 6, 2023

November brings about college basketball season in Milwaukee, but some of the best games might not be where you’d expect this fall. It’s a golden era for basketball fans in the Cream City. In addition to the Bu...

Here’s the 2023-24 Bucks City Edition uniform, complete with an “abstract speckle pattern” of Deer District fans

Matt Wild

November 2, 2023

Yep, here it is. The 2023-24 Milwaukee Bucks City Edition uniform. It's Great Lakes Blue, just like it was in 2020-21 and 2022-23. However, this time it includes an "abstract speckle patter" that was "created f...

Here’s Flavor Flav singing the national anthem at a Bucks game, plus 3 random social media reactions for some reason

Matt Wild

October 30, 2023

Don't you just love those "Here's something that happened, plus some random reactions from random people on Twitter" stories? US TOO. This is one of those stories. So. Here's legendary Public Enemy hype man ...

10 Green Bay Packers with interesting post-football careers

Tyler Maas

October 27, 2023

While even the lowest-paid NFL player still makes more annually than the majority of the people reading this article, the average professional football player's career lasts only 3.3 years. With a high risk of ...

25 things to do during the Packers bye

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2023

It’s cruel, really. Our beloved Green Bay Packers are but five weeks into the regular season and we already have to take a week off from watching them—right after an 11-day span between Week 4 and Week 5, no le...

The 22 Raiders starting quarterbacks of the last 20 years, ranked

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2023

Coming off nine seasons with Derek Carr serving as the team's starting quarterback (and almost never missing a game), it might be surprising to learn the Raiders have actually needed a staggering 22 different s...