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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Jack Baer


FOOTBALL

Barrett, in expanded quarterback role, returns to elite form

Ohio State has been a bit of a disappointment this year. Sure, they’re still undefeated and No. 1 in both rankings, but a worrying number of games in which they failed to pull away early has created a sense that they are this year’s Florida State, a defending champ sleepwalking through the regular season and waiting to get exposed by a plucky upstart in the College Football Playoff. The most visible reason for this iffy play is at quarterback, the position considered the Buckeyes’ greatest asset in preseason.

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SPORTS

Amid an offense plagued by inconsistency, Stave is hardly the chief concern

It’s the sequence that some Wisconsin fans have visualized since the 2013 season: Joel Stave is forced out of the game, Bart Houston enters and the highly recruited quarterback from the Class of 2012 starts making it rain while the former walk-on stews on the bench. That’s what plenty of Wisconsin fans saw last Saturday against Illinois. It’s not really what happened, but it’s what people saw.

BASKETBALL

How far we’ve come: UW’s last 25 years

As the Wisconsin basketball team celebrated earning the first NCAA Tournament 1-seed in program history, unaware of the thrills, laughs and, ultimately, tragedy they would encounter, they were unknowingly cheering another achievement. A far more enduring, and impressive, accomplishment.

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COLUMNS

Big MLB contracts are not automatically disastrous

Obvious statement: the Angels regret giving Josh Hamilton $125 million. They paid a king’s ransom for three mediocre, injury-plagued seasons and a whole lot of (semi-deserved) bad press. Pro tip to Arte Moreno: Don’t “Mean Girls” a recovering drug addict while trying to use a contract clause that doesn’t exist to recoup money you freely gave to him knowing the risk associated. You’d think they’d teach that in billionaire class.

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Traevon Jackson

Junior guard Traevon Jackson misses the first of three free-throw attempts at the end of Wisconsin's Final Four matchup against Kentucky, the only free throw missed by UW in 20 attempts.

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Traevon Jackson

Junior guard Traevon Jackson misses the first of three free-throw attempts at the end of Wisconsin's Final Four matchup against Kentucky, the only free throw missed by UW in 20 attempts.

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