By Adam Roberts – 2/2/2021 In the early days of quarantine, with limited out-of-home entertainment options available my former roommate and I became fixated on the phenomenon of Coach Duggs. For those out of the loop, Barstool’s Big Cat would regularly play NCAA Football ’14 as the fictitious rotund head coach guiding a plethora of…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 2/2/2021 Fans got their wish over the weekend, with the firing of defensive coordinator Mike Pettine. While the firing likely goes deeper than the failures exhibited in the NFC Championship Game, certainly back-to-back awful performances and at times schemes in the conference’s biggest game were certainly a factor. Whomever takes over…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 2/1/2021 Baseball notably suffered a lot at the start of the pandemic to get their season going. Spring training was ended fairly early on, and the abridged 2020 season didn’t ultimately start until late July. While a proposal by Major League Baseball wants to delay the start of the 2021 season…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 2/1/2021 The news first broke on Friday evening that the La Crosse Center, fresh off hosting a full-day of high school basketball at the Midwest Players Classic, would be getting another big prep basketball event on its floor in about a month with three WIAA basketball divisions making the Coulee Region…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 2/1/2021 This morning, the talk of national sports radio is the Los Angeles Rams acquiring Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford and dealing Jared Goff to Detroit (the trade won’t be official until next month when the new league year starts but it’s safe to say it’s going through). But reportedly, an even…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 1/29/2021 Despite no Bi-State at the La Crosse Center to showcase to the masses our area’s high school wrestling talent, the Coulee Region’s best grapplers will take to the mats this weekend with state on their minds. The schedule for this Saturday’s competition looks like this: DIVISION 1 Holmen Regional (Holmen,…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 1/29/2021 Currently, individuals age 65 or older can apply for a COVID-19 vaccine along with people in certain positions such as front-line health care workers, first responders, police, and firefighters. That apparently also includes Bucks executives. Alex Lasry, son of co-owner Marc Lasry, was reportedly able to receive a COVID vaccine…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 1/29/2021 In a week of our area NFL teams promoting from within to coordinator positions, yesterday the Brewers followed suit. Milwaukee has promoted Sara Goodrum to minor league hitting coordinator. Brewers vice president of minor league operations Tom Flanagan says that “to our knowledge, she would be the first” woman to…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 1/28/2021 Within the past hour, our two area NFL teams replaced the hold at the special teams coordinator position. Earlier, the Vikings promoted Ryan Ficken to the spot in place of Marwan Maalouf, and now the Packers have followed suit, moving up Maurice Drayton from the assistant special teams coach to…… Continue Reading »
By Adam Roberts – 1/28/2021 A longtime Minnesota Vikings assistant will be getting a shot at running special teams. Assistant Ryan Ficken has been promoted to special teams coordinator today, taking the place of Marwan Maalouf, whose contract head coach Mike Zimmer allowed to expire after this season. Ficken has been the assistant special teams…… Continue Reading »