Bandsketball preps for second round
And then there were 17. After starting June 22 to accommodate bands embarking on tour, the opening round of the 32-band three-on-three Bandsketball MKE tournament is finally (almost) complete. Calamity Janes An...
Tracklist: 14+ instances of “LeBron-ing” in Wisconsin sports
Unless you rely on Milwaukee Record as your only source of sports-related news (which you shouldn’t do), you’ve surely learned of LeBron James’ somewhat surprising decision to opt out of his contract with the r...
First Impression: Fore! Milwaukee
In January 2013, former coach, noted southeast Wisconsin instructor, and scratch golfer Tim Grogan took a financial swing and tried to wedge an indoor golfing range into the Third Ward. Not 18 months later, the...
Deer Diary: Bucks make Jason Kidd head coach for some reason
Lately, the Milwaukee Bucks franchise has taken significant strides to move the last place, rudderless organization (that was perennially rumored to be an eventual candidate for relocation) in a positive direct...
Brewers bullpen stars in awful Will Smith medley
It’s a good time to be a Brewers fan. Milwaukee currently has the best record in the National League, and had the distinction of being the first team to 50 wins. The team’s shutdown bullpen has a lot to do with...
Off Base: A bevy of bad Brewers bobbleheads
People love bobbleheads. The Milwaukee Brewers were among the first teams in Major League Baseball to realize that an oversized, spring-mounted head propped atop a tiny body translated into butts in seats. For ...
Bandsketball courts 32 Milwaukee music acts
When it comes to music, the title of “best” is almost always subjective. Try as writers may to remain impartial, it’s only natural for at least some personal preference to trickle into record reviews and year-e...
Off Base: Carlos Gomez’s “hacktastic” plate approach pays off
The popular narrative of Carlos Gomez’s career can be traced out from the player comments in Baseball Prospectus’ annuals.
2007: He has great tools and succeeded at Double-A at age 20, but it’s still not cle...
Off Base: The worst of the Brewers team store
The Milwaukee Brewers are an altogether awesome organization. Miller Park is among the least expensive ballparks to see a Major League game. Even if fans don’t bring in their own food or plastic bottle non-alco...
Off Base: Will Smith lays fresh prints in Milwaukee
December 5, 2013 was a crazy time in the world. Latin music sensation Thalía was awarded a star on the lauded Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moviegoers were just eight days from celebrating A Madea Christmas, and Will...
Lakeshore Chinooks season preview
It’s safe to say that baseball season is in full swing. The Brewers are about a third of the way through the year. Rickie Weeks has already experienced his hot streak that inevitably precedes his season-ending ...
Brewers translator Jay Hsu speaks for himself
Currently nursing a 17.61 ERA that includes 15 earned runs off 19 hits (five of which were home runs) and five walks, the Milwaukee Brewers have kept the use of reliever Wei-Chung Wang to a minimum so far this ...
Deer Diary: 6 Milwaukee Bucks lottery losers
Following the worst season in franchise history and the sale of the team (which was approved this week, by the way!), the exciting new era of Milwaukee Bucks basketball begins with a game of chance. As one of 1...
Extra Points: 16 Ha Ha Clinton-Dix tweets
With the 21st pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers set out to improve its under-performing (and M.D. Jennings-less) secondary that dragged the team down to the 25th ranked defense last season by ta...
Off Base: 11 Milwaukee Brewers beer pairings
As Milwaukee Beer Week nears its bleary and drunken conclusion, it’s only natural to turn our attention to the obvious connection between beer and the Milwaukee Brewers. After all, unless the Philly Phanatic wh...
Nobody cares what you think about Ryan Braun
When Ryan Braun stepped to the plate for his first at-bat this season—his first Miller Park plate appearance since serving a 65-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s performance enhancing drug p...
Get up! Get up! Get out to Section 422 to see Bob Uecker’s new statue Friday
There hasn’t been a new statue at Miller Park in quite a while. What’s it been, two years already? Fresh off the team erecting a pet home in its sad perpetuation of some desperate dog gimmick, the Brewers are a...
Here’s Carlos Gomez’s bench-clearing brawl soundtracked by the Benny Hill song
There’s nothing better than a friendly game of baseball on Easter Sunday—especially if that friendly game isn’t friendly at all, and involves a bench-clearing, knock-down, drag-out brawl. Yes, yesterday’s Carlo...
Extra Points: A guide to GreenBayPackersLovers.com
Whether it comes after a 4-12 rebuilding year or a Super Bowl-winning season, that harsh portion of each year that rests between Green Bay’s final play and the team’s first pick of the NFL Draft is a lonely one...
Milwaukee Bucks’ end is just the beginning
It was like the last days of Rome…if the empire’s decline featured a t-shirt bazooka, a senior citizen dance squad, and Dippin’ Dots kiosks.
After a brutal 81-game stretch that already ensured the team would...