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Wait, did Marlon Wayans convince Greg Monroe to sign with the Bucks?

October 15, 2015

Yesterday, ESPN.com posted an article by Brian Windhorst called "How the Bucks landed Greg Monroe" that detailed, well, how the Bucks landed Greg Monroe. The piece is a great insider's glimpse into the NBA's fr...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 5: Brenner Brewing Company

Maggie Iken

October 12, 2015

In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, We...

Extra Points: Who is the better Jake Ryan?

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2015

Entering Week 5 of the Green Bay Packers season, there isn't much to be lodged in the way of complaints. The team is off to a 4-0 start. Aaron Rodgers remains the best quarterback in the universe. The oft-diffi...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 4: Company Brewing

Maggie Iken

October 5, 2015

In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, an...

South America’s Team?: A Q&A with Packers Brasil founder Marcus Rovere

Tyler Maas

October 2, 2015

Every NFL season, an ongoing dispute rages between fans of teams like the Packers, Steelers, Cowboys, Patriots, and (lately) Seahawks about which franchise holds the impossible-to-confirm title of "America's Te...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 3: Frank’s Power Plant

Maggie Iken

September 29, 2015

In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1 and Week 2....

Extra Points: 5 reasons Aaron Ripkowski will be your new favorite Packer

Tyler Maas

September 25, 2015

If you missed his four combined tackles and his three-yard reception in the preseason, or you didn't pay attention to the Packers special teamer who covered up a kickoff for no gain against the Bears in week on...

Old Milwaukee: The 40-day strike that created Bernie Brewer

Erin TerBeek

September 23, 2015

// Fireworks explode! The crowd cheers! Get up! Get up! Get outta here! Gone! These are the familiar sounds after a Milwaukee Brewers home run at Miller Park. For fans, this is a time to celebrate and have...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 2: High Dive

Maggie Iken

September 21, 2015

After a strong showing last week by Cactus Club, I decided Riverwest needed some love, too. The obvious choice was the neighborhood’s newest bar, High Dive. I figured longtime Riverwest bartender and recent bar...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 1: Cactus Club

Maggie Iken

September 14, 2015

// Growing up in Green Bay, my earliest sports memory is my mom going downtown in her Starter jacket for the Super Bowl XXXI parade. When the Packers win Super Bowls (note the plurality, Bears fans), the stat...

Mondo Lucha plays with pro wrestling’s pillars

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2015

// At this point, Mondo Lucha is one of those distinctly Milwaukee events. Though some may struggle to recall a time before Turner Hall was transformed into a wrestling and variety show facility, the local bl...

SAFS Crew wins 2015 Bandsketball championship

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2015

// The second annual Bandsketball has been waging in Riverwest since the beginning of July. Starting with 32 acts, the music scene-wide basketball tournament whittled down to just two teams. On Saturday after...

The Brewers need to call up Tim Dillard

Tyler Maas

September 3, 2015

In case Milwaukee being on its second manager since April, the team's general manager resigning (or "transitioning to a new role"), a trade that sent the face of the franchise to Houston for a batch of promisin...

Small ball: 5 European soccer clubs Milwaukeeans should support

Kevin Mueller

August 28, 2015

As Milwaukeeans, we’re stuck with local sports teams constructed under limited budgets and narrow windows for success. The plight of a small market team is an irritating and continuous struggle, fraught with de...

Tracklist: 10 totally reasonable reactions to Jordy Nelson’s season-ending injury

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 24, 2015

// Sunday afternoon, Green Bay Packers star wide receiver Jordy Nelson reportedly tore his ACL during a preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. A lot can be said when the No. 1 wideout on a team fav...

Brew City Wrestling brings WWE vets, hopefuls to Wisconsin State Fair

Vince Morales

August 5, 2015

Picture it. It's a hot August afternoon inside the Exposition Center at the Jeffery Scott Activity Stage, and the heat is accentuated by the smell of human sweat and a whiff of violence. It's a double header of...

Bandsketball 2015 reaches the finals

Tyler Maas

August 3, 2015

The second annual Bandsketball tournament has waged since the beginning of July. What started with 32 Milwaukee bands, rap collectives, or solo artists who found friends to play on their team has reduced to jus...

I tented out inside Miller Park and it was fun and weird

Matt Wild

July 28, 2015

I have a shameful confession to make: I haven’t been to a single Brewers game this year. Yes, the team is mostly a mess and the season is a lost cause, but Miller Park is one of my favorite Milwaukee destinatio...

Bandsketball 2015: Second round results and quarterfinal matchups

Tyler Maas

July 22, 2015

Following a spirited opening round of Bandsketball, the field of 32 teams was cut in half. Saturday's sweet 16 saw bands, rap crews, and solo artists who were able to scrounge up a couple friends returning to t...

We uploaded some Bob Uecker photos to Google’s “Deep Dream” network

Tyler Maas

July 20, 2015

Last month, Google announced a research team was experimenting with "training" artificial neural networks. They called it, "Inceptionism" and, um, we don't really understand it entirely beyond that. (Gizmodo do...