Sports

3-D Bud Selig hologram, “Selig Experience” coming to Miller Park in 2015

December 15, 2014

The Milwaukee Brewers’ 2015 season may be approximately 8,000 years away, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream of green grass, golden-brown hot dogs, and the dulcet tones of Robert G. Uecker calling the game. H...

Extra Points: The Green Bay-Buffalo connection

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2014

On paper, the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills couldn't be more different. One franchise owns four Lombardi Trophies, as the other is best known for losing four consecutive Super Bowls. Since the Brett Favre...

Look on the Pat McCurdy bobblehead, ye Mighty, and despair

Matt Wild

December 8, 2014

We just released our list of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2014, and sadly, tireless local comedic songwriter Pat McCurdy and his stunning 1992 album, Pat In Person, didn’t make the cut. But in a year that sa...

Extra Points: 5 more Aaron Rodgers post-game beverages

Tyler Maas

November 28, 2014

Last Sunday’s 24-21 Packers victory over the Vikings in Minneapolis was a rather unexciting affair compared to the two consecutive routes in which Green Bay scored more than 50 points. One of the few highlights...

Brewers Double-A affiliate gets new name and logo, loses everyone’s respect

Tyler Maas

November 25, 2014

Following 30 seasons as the Huntsville Stars (that past 15 of those as the Milwaukee Brewers Double-A affiliate), the Southern League franchise was sold in January and was promptly uprooted from the Alabama spa...

Extra Points: 15 Wisconsin athletes turned awful actors

Tyler Maas

November 21, 2014

If you were anywhere within the Wisconsin state border yesterday and had access to a computer, radio or television, you almost certainly learned the Hollywood gossip about Green Bay Packers players Clay Matthew...

Help save the Frosty Mug

Tyler Maas

November 21, 2014

Since early 2008, the Frosty Mug has been an everyday part of each weekday for a sizable segment of Brewers fans. But without some help, the trusted daily treasure trove of Brew Crew news could cease by year's ...

This Milwaukee Bucks/Rocky IV mashup will break you

Matt Wild

November 18, 2014

If there’s one thing more protracted and arduous than the drama surrounding the Milwaukee Bucks—terrible teams, new owners, new arenas, terrible teams—it’s the endless montage scenes in Rocky IV. Chief among th...

Man catches extra point: The Mike Pantazis story

Tyler Maas

November 7, 2014

The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears have one of the longest and most iconic rivalries in all of professional sports. Over the years, the match-up has yielded no shortage of memorable occurrences. Just looki...

Extra Points: Milwaukee Record’s completely arbitrary NFL city rankings

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2014

Despite their differing performance, the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints have been two very similar organizations this season. Each are perennial NFC favorites who usually rely on their Hall Of Fame-ca...

Milwaukee bikers gear up for winter, cyclocross season

Leah Wynalek

October 22, 2014

The warm, beer-filled nights of underwear rides and bike-in movies have come to an end, but that doesn't mean your fixed gear has to go into hibernation. The most hardcore cyclists pedal through frigid fall rai...

Brett Favre congratulates Peyton Manning on touchdown record, gets burned by Jenn Sterger

Matt Wild

October 20, 2014

History was made last night during the Denver Broncos-San Francisco 49ers game when Broncos quarterback/Papa John BFF Peyton Manning threw his 509th (and later, 510th) career touchdown pass, surpassing the prev...

Extra Points: The ups and downs of a cheesehead in the land of Bears

Erik Niewiarowski

September 26, 2014

Recently, I celebrated my fourth anniversary of being a Milwaukee expat living in Chicago. I really do miss living in my beloved Milwaukee and her many treasures. I grew up in Waukesha, and lived in the 414 are...

Off Base: John Axford’s career, as told through 7 movies

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2014

It’s hard to stop loving John Axford. Even after a messy exodus from his perch as Brewers closer and the fact that he has twice pitched for division rivals (though both came as the result of trades), the Ax-Man...

Ladies: Let WTMJ help you treat your man’s “football psychosis”

Tyler Maas

September 17, 2014

It’s that time of year again. Football is back, which means it’s also time for at least one Milwaukee media outlet to inevitably decide to fill time and bandwidth with an antiquated guide to help its female lis...

Gotham’s green and gold: Where NYC backs the Pack

Kate Briquelet

September 12, 2014

It's a green and gold beacon shining for New York's weary cheeseheads. Every good Wisconsin expat finds his or herself there at one time or another—maybe for the beer, the summer sausage, cheddar cheese and cra...

Drop kicks, dancing girls, and dangerous bands: A beginner’s guide to Mondo Lucha

Matt Wild

September 3, 2014

Since 2008, Milwaukee’s Mondo Lucha has whipped the city’s wrestling nerds (and closet wrestling nerds) into the turnbuckles with over-the-top, high-flying, masked lucha libre wrestling extravaganzas. The homeg...

Extra Points: What the Packer on your fantasy team says about you

Tyler Maas

September 3, 2014

Thursday’s regular season opener between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks marks the true beginning of the NFL season. As exciting as the return of football makes millions of people, a significant port...

Deadspin’s Drew Magary elaborates on why the Packers suck

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2014

By now you’ve likely read the latest Packers-pummeling installment of Deadspin’s second annual “Why Your Team Sucks” series. Like it or lump it, the mean-spirited and brutally honest written roast has quickly b...

Extra Points: Why this week is the worst of the NFL season

Tyler Maas

August 22, 2014

Let’s just come right out and say it. This is the worst week of the entire NFL season that happens between the preseason-starting Pro Football Hall Of Fame Game and Super Bowl Sunday. Even during your favorite ...