Category: Sports

Want Red Arrow Park to be a roller rink in summer? Attend a free skate party, rally this Saturday

August 22, 2022

In case you missed it, there's been a lot of chatter lately about turning Red Arrow Park (920 N. Water St.) into a roller skating rink during the summer. The park is an ice skating rink in the winter, after all...

The fastest game at Irish Fest: it’s not curling, it’s hurling

Paul Bestul

August 18, 2022

Visit the Milwaukee Hurling Club tent at Milwaukee Irish Fest, August 18-21, to learn more. The MHC holds matches most Sundays between June and August at Brown Deer Park; the 2022 championship game is August 28...

Here’s the Milwaukee Record Halftime Show lineup

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 18, 2022

Football is coming back and we’re thrilled to announce that our Milwaukee Record Halftime Show concert series is also returning for another year. This season, we’ve assembled a stacked roster of 16 performers t...

Watch a Dodgers reporter slide down Bernie’s Slide, get messed up

Matt Wild

August 17, 2022

Who among us hasn't dreamed of sliding down Bernie's Slide at American Family Field? Los Angeles Dodgers on-field reporter David Vassegh sure has. With the Dodgers in town for a four-game series against the Mil...

Fiserv Forum to host NHL preseason game October 2

Tyler Maas

August 3, 2022

Though it still seems very unlikely that Milwaukee will ever get an NHL franchise, the city will be hosting a professional hockey game this fall. On Sunday, October 2, Fiserv Forum will feature a preseason meet...

Revisiting the brief, brilliant history of the Milwaukee Chicks baseball team

Tyler Maas

July 26, 2022

On July 27, Milwaukee Record will host a screening of A League Of Their Own at Avalon Theater. If you're somehow unfamiliar, this classic 1992 sports film chronicles the Rockford Peaches during the inaugural se...

Milwaukee’s PBA League team changed its name

Tyler Maas

July 21, 2022

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...

Watch some flights, crashes, and splashes from Milwaukee’s first-ever Red Bull Flugtag

Matt Wild

July 16, 2022

More than 50,000 people packed into Milwaukee's Veterans Park on Saturday to witness the city's first-ever Red Bull Flugtag. The event featured 34 (mostly) local teams pushing their zany, hand-crafted, human-po...

Re-watch Game 6 of the 2021 NBA Finals at The Cooperage on July 20

Tyler Maas

July 15, 2022

July 20, 2021 is a date Milwaukee will always remember. That night, the Bucks won Game 6 of the NBA Finals and, in doing so, became world champions. Even though Giannis Antetokounmpo and company were unable to ...

Malakai Black talks NXT, Forbidden Door, mist, and heavy metal before AEW’s Milwaukee show

Vince Morales

June 20, 2022

A lot has changed in the world of All Elite Wrestling since the last time they came to Milwaukee. UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena was the last stop before AEW's All Out in Chicago. That show featured the AEW in-ring...

Stuff We Missed: Brewers unveil City Connect uniforms! Basketball coming to AmFam Field?

Matt Wild

June 17, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: • Do you like alternate sports uniforms? Do you like alternate spor...

Milwaukee edition of Red Bull Flugtag will feature flying bratwurst, giant KN95 mask, more

Matt Wild

June 15, 2022

In case you missed it, Red Bull's long-running Flugtag event—in which folks construct their own ridiculous "flying" machines and "fly" them off a ramp into a body of water—is set to make its Wisconsin/Milwaukee...

A guide to finding former Bucks players on BIG3 rosters

Tyler Maas

June 14, 2022

If you're anything like us, you haven't watched a second of basketball since the Milwaukee Bucks were unceremoniously ousted from the NBA playoffs by the infuriatingly annoying Boston Celtics a few weeks ago. I...

John Carpenter’s ‘Milwaukee Bucks’

Rick Katschke

May 12, 2022

John Carpenter is a national treasure who seems to have the perfect life. He collects royalties, plays video games, makes music when he feels like it, and enjoys NBA basketball all the time. That last part incl...

Hardy Boyz Final Run comes to Wisconsin

Vince Morales

April 28, 2022

If there is one lesson to be learned from the most recent WrestleMania, it's that nobody is ever truly gone in professional wrestling. The event was highlighted by Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling his first...

Rollie Fingers, Minions, and bobbleheads: Your 2022 Lakeshore Chinooks promo schedule

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2022

Though baseball season is already underway in Milwaukee and the Brewers currently sit in first place a few weeks into the season, there’s another team in the region that’s getting ready to take the field. Yes, ...

Giannis and his family were the subjects of yesterday’s Final Jeopardy

Matt Wild

April 27, 2022

Another day, another Wisconsin-related reference on Jeopardy! Yes, mere days after the Culver's cheese curds popped up on the popular quiz show (we prefer the curds at Cousins' tbh), none other than Milwauke...

The Bucks have given us a new Milwaukee tradition. Let’s not take it for granted

Dan Shafer

April 19, 2022

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe. Sometimes I still can't believe it all really happened...

Nearly a year later, Milwaukee is still responding to ESPN’s “terrible city” remark

Matt Wild

April 18, 2022

Way back in June 2021, in the midst of the 2021 NBA playoffs, the hosts of ESPN's First Take casually talked smack against Milwaukee. "You really want to be in Milwaukee? Is that where you want to be? Milwauke...

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

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2022

Remember the United States Football League? Well, the short-lived professional football league—which folded in 1986 after Donald Trump drove it into the ground in a foolish attempt to force a merger with the NF...