Dan Tierney
Those ’jeans’ don’t make you look fat...
By Dan Tierney | Dec. 8, 2005Last Friday I was really jonesin' for some episodes of 'Law and Order'; it had been a long week and I was anxious to get reacquainted with my bed for a marathon nap. Before I made it home, I ran into an old classmate. The following is an excerpt of our exchange:
CALLing out ’Tookie’ Williams
By Dan Tierney | Nov. 17, 2005The Crips have earned the dubious distinction as America's most publicized and successful street gang. Once a dysfunctional purse-snatching outfit based in south-central Los Angeles, the notorious group now operates in 42 states. While their founder, Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, awaits his execution, the recently formed UW-Madison organization Coalition Against Legal Lynching seeks to reverse his sentence.
Don’t sweat the Packer cold streaks
By Dan Tierney and Erin Schmidtke | Nov. 3, 2005It pains me to declare this bit of Badger State blasphemy, but I've got to admit it: I don't think the Packers are going to make it to the Super Bowl. I'm throwing in my green and gold towel and cashing my Bart Starr commemorative chips.