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Your guide to NXT’s best entrance songs

December 3, 2018

NXT returns to Milwaukee this Thursday for the first time in over a year. As always, it's going to be a show you won't want to miss. This show sold out Turner Hall weeks ago, just as it did with a far different...

15 years ago, a Cardinals receiver became a Wisconsin sports hero: Remembering Nathan Poole

Tyler Maas

November 30, 2018

You might not remember Nathan Poole.That's more than fair if you don't. After all, the wide receiver only played parts of four seasons in the NFL. More importantly, Poole never played a game for the Green B...

This is your favorite Green Bay Packer now

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2018

There hasn't been much for Packers fans to be happy about this year. It's still November and the team is already teetering on the edge of postseason elimination. Mike McCarthy's job is in jeopardy, injuries are...

8 reasons you should jump on the Milwaukee Bucks bandwagon

Dan Shafer

November 27, 2018

As recently as a few years ago, if you wandered into a Milwaukee bar between October and April with the hopes of watching the local professional basketball team, you’d probably have had to ask the bartender, “h...

Just for old times’ sake, let’s see how Kato Kaelin felt about last night’s Packers game

Matt Wild

November 26, 2018

Last night's Green Bay Packers game. Ugh. Losing to the Minnesota Vikings 24-17. Ugh. The fact that the score suggests a closer, less depressing game than the one that actually occurred. Ugh. The 2018 Packers s...

Requiem for a reluctant deer hunter

Matt Wild

November 21, 2018

2014 I've been in my tree stand for an hour when a deer walks out in front of me. It appears from nowhere, absurd in its size, absurd in its very presence. It ambles its way to the dead center of my field of v...

Jake “The Snake” Roberts talks career, addiction, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Dirty Details Tour

Vince Morales

November 21, 2018

There are few names in professional wrestling that carry as much weight as Jake "The Snake" Roberts. From his all-time great finishing move to his pet snake and his classic soft-talking interviews, Roberts is o...

Brewers minor league affiliate should’ve put s’more thought into new mascot “Toasty Vibes”

Tyler Maas

November 20, 2018

Yesterday, the Milwaukee Brewers' new Pioneer League club announced its team name. The Colorado Springs-based Rookie-level affiliate will officially be known as the...Rocky Mountain Vibes.Back in July, the ...

Remembering the time, in 1985, when Milwaukee went nuts for free Channel 4 golf balls

Matt Wild

November 14, 2018

Milwaukee media history is littered with promotional stunts that set the city abuzz. The radio DJ who camped out on a 21st story ledge to get The Who to play Milwaukee. The year Reitman and Mueller claimed a B-...

Remembering (and re-experiencing) Burger King’s “Gilbertburger”

Tyler Maas

November 9, 2018

Sunday, a listless and banged-up 3-4-1 Packers team that's lost two straight will host the 5-4 Miami Dolphins. A loss this week could all but guarantee Green Bay will miss the playoffs for the second consecutiv...

MCTS will temporarily rename its Route 22 bus line the “Yelich Line”

Matt Wild

November 7, 2018

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich is awesome. The Milwaukee County Transit System is awesome. What happens when you combine these two awesome Milwaukee things a week before Yelich may or may not be ...

Bernie Brewer without a mustache is pretty terrifying, wonderful

Tyler Maas

November 6, 2018

Remember when you were a kid and your dad came home from a weekend up north without the mustache he's had your entire life because his friends shaved it off when he passed out? No? Just us? Okay, well, remember...

Manitowoc Minute’s Charlie Berens gives us da Packers mid-season report

Tyler Maas

November 2, 2018

Though he currently calls Los Angeles home, actor, comedian, Emmy-winning host, and Elm Grove native Charlie Berens hasn't forgotten his Wisconsin roots. Berens introduced millions of viewers to his home state ...

Gareth Reynolds of ‘The Dollop’ talks about being a Packers fan in Los Angeles

Tyler Maas

October 25, 2018

Brown Deer, Wisconsin native and ComedySportz alum Gareth Reynolds is best known as the co-host of The Dollop, a popular American history podcast that’s landed him a book deal and has brought him to perform in ...

The most memorable moments of the 2018 Milwaukee Brewers season: Part 2 (post-All-Star Game to NLCS)

Kyle Lobner

October 23, 2018

The Brewers’ 2018 season may be over, but it provided no shortage of memorable moments. What follows is Part 2 of the list of items, good, bad or just weird, that I added to my “Today In Brewers History” calend...

25 bullshit things you can do during the Packers bye

Tyler Maas

October 19, 2018

After an exciting come-from-behind win against the dreadful Niners on Monday, the injury-depleted Packers will get a week off. This Sunday, Aaron Rodgers and his underperforming Green Bay teammates will get a c...

2018-19 Milwaukee Bucks promotional giveaways, ranked

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2018

With Packers season in full swing and the Brewers fighting for National League supremacy, it’s hard to believe that another Milwaukee Bucks season is already here. Yes, the young franchise’s 2018-19 campaign wi...

Let this “Madden Mondays” documentary take you back to River Horse in 2005

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2018

Before it took its current form as High Dive and prior to its stint as Impala Lounge, 701 E. Center Street was home to a neighborhood haunt known as River Horse. Though High Dive's interior still bears a strong...

George Webb will hand out free burgers October 18 to celebrate Brewers’ 12-game winning streak

Matt Wild

October 12, 2018

You know the story: Venerable Wisconsin restaurant chain George Webb has a longstanding promise to hand out free burgers if the Milwaukee Brewers win 12 games in a row. The prediction/promotion has come to pass...

Meet Milo, the undefeated Brewers baby

Nick Olig

October 12, 2018

As if fans of the Milwaukee Brewers needed any more reason to feel the magic of this postseason run, consider that the team has a fan who has never seen them lose. Born Sunday, September 23 at 9:07 a.m. with a ...