Sports

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

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...

11 famous skeletons the new Milwaukee Admirals logo resembles

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 16, 2015

Yesterday, lost in the noise of the Bucks arena vote and the news that Pabst will be relocating hundreds of jobs back to Milwaukee opening a microbrewery and restaurant, was a small but significant announcement...

Bandsketball 2015: First round results and second round matchups

Tyler Maas

July 13, 2015

Following an enjoyable and altogether successful inaugural year, Bandsketball is back. The band-based basketball tournament returned to the courts on Fratney and Center streets in Riverwest for a second session...

Off Base: Milwaukee Brewers mid-season awards

Tyler Maas

July 10, 2015

What an unforgettable season of Milwaukee Brewers baseball! After 87 games, numerous injuries, and two managers, the Brew Crew currently sits in last place in the National League Central and looking up at all b...

Here’s the Bandsketball 2015 bracket

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2015

Last year's inaugural Bandsketball tournament was nothing short of a rousing success. Musicians hailing from all corners of Milwaukee and a number of different genres came together in Riverwest on the courts at...

A-side/B-side: Why is it okay for Wisconsin to like the Chicago Blackhawks?

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 10, 2015

In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Tyler Maas: ...

Bucks arena deal, by the numbers

Matt Wild

June 5, 2015

Yesterday, Gov. Scott Walker formally announced a public financing plan for a new downtown Milwaukee Bucks arena, which, not unlike a forced ultrasound, sounds pretty cool. As expected, the plan calls for taxpa...

Off Base: 10 Brewers/Star Wars bobbleheads we’d like to see

Rob Wieland

May 28, 2015

Wisconsin’s recent run as a contender in various sports has been a refreshing change of pace. The Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks both made the playoffs last season, and are full of young talent. The Wisc...