When college students believe they understand more about life than adults with real responsibilities, mistakes are made. Learning from those mistakes is how children become adults. So it was in Madison when someone privy to a February meeting between Wisconsin Basketball coach Greg Gard and the seniors from his team surreptitiously recorded the proceedings and leaked […]
Bo Ryan won at Wisconsin. That’s all you need to know to measure Ryan’s greatness as a coach. Winning consistently at Wisconsin was thought to be impossible, but the coach who retired yesterday brought relentless excellence to a program that was an nothing more than an occasional irritant to Big Ten competition until his arrival. After […]
by Kent Sterling College basketball coaches have a weird combination of hope, anguish, impending doom, and the weight of the world on their shoulders every October. The odds are against them, their schedule sucks, players are refusing to learn at the preferred pace, and no one understands how difficult this season is going to be. […]
by Bert Beiswanger This may be a little belated, so forgive me. But I’m going to address it anyway. I was at the Pacers game Tuesday night with a friend and we were following the Indiana-Wisconsin game on ESPN Gamecast. When it appeared IU was going to win, I said to my friend, “They better […]