Attribution: elisfkc from Orlando, FL, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark O., Mark M., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Several stories caught my eye lately. Here’s a sampling: Hope you’re all doing well, getting outdoors half as much as Mamerow and keeping sunscreen on your …
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Category:Sports
Cycling Through
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Every year during the last week of July, the Milwaukee Riverwest neighborhood, an eclectic enclave of artists, musicians, families, and working folks, hosts the Riverwest 24, a twenty-four-hour bicycle race that runs along the neighborhood streets. According to the Riverwest 24 website, the event came about because of efforts by …
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Kickass and Satch All-Stars
Bowman Gum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating yet one more All-Star game day by remembering the one 70 years ago in Cincinnati when he and a friend, both just back from Korea, became impromptu members of an RKO Movie News crew with pre-game …
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Kickass Takes on Football
B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the saturation of football in American culture is little improvement over the collective coliseum days of Rome, and in some respects is justifiably compared to dog and cock fighting as organized spectator sports. Structured by billionaire overlord …
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Kickass is Not a Coach
Apyanac, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, waits while the keeper recalculates what his life might have been had he chose to go into coaching and then had the good fortune to rise to the top collegiate and professional ranks: As per recent UW news, he would have a …
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The Hall of Shame
MN National Guard, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons I grew up in Wisconsin. One of my first childhood memories is sitting in the living room in front of an eighteen-inch television set watching the 1967 NFL Championship Game, better known as the Ice Bowl. I saw the final play of the game, Bart Starr’s winning …
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Kickass and Fired Coach
Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in running down the rumor that, in keeping with the current trend of denying reality, particularly if it involves rejection by official means, Paul Chryst is refusing to accept his firing as UW football coach and will be …
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Kickass and Feeling Sorry for Self
David Marranis; LBJ Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, cannot control the keeper’s inclination to feel sorry for himself which was on prominent display recently when he was prevented by health circumstances from attending the Madison Library event that offered three of the major “must-attend” ingredients: Something free—a book, invigorating discussion, …
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Dialogues on Victory Dancing: Letters from the End Zone
Tennessee Titans, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter ‘bots: A break from the heavy things our conscious requires us to report on. Probably not on your radar, but I’ve been following the US team—Rose Lavelle continues to excel (UW grad)—a …
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Kickass and All-Star Pitchers
SD Dirk on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was impressed with the interaction of star pitcher Clayton Kershaw and the boy who visited him yesterday at the Allstar game press conference on behalf of a deceased grandfather who, the boy said, was a …
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Kickass and Cemetery Golf Course
Attribution: kevin higgins / Graveyard and golf course Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in skirting some area golf courses to entertain Phyllis’s visiting golfer brother-in-law Bill, did not push his-the keeper’s plan for converting tomb-stone covered cemeteries into golf courses in the interest of updating the …
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Kickass and Phyllis Watching Hockey
Phwayne, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not impressed as the keeper tries to make something out of Canada’s women’s hockey team beating the US team 3-2 to win Olympic gold by using former UW players in a game that the keeper’s Canadian-born wife Phyllis stayed up past …
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