So many signs of Fickell just winging it at Wisconsin: Hiring an OC with a philosophy he had zero familiarity with, inconsistent gameday management, changing offensive and defensive philosophies and roster construction on the fly. I have no idea how he had so much success at Cincy.

Wisconsin starting quarterback Scared Baby Deer is on his 8th year of eligibility now

Again, everything Wisconsin did in the portal, in the weight room, in practice was geared toward making sure Iowa wouldn't do what it just did. It so, so over.

USC player with one of the nastiest spin moves I've ever seen

My John U Bacon-esque dissection of the Luke Fickell era will be titled "0th Percentile"

.337!!! How was he able to even operate a sandwich?!?

Score: Brewers through one inning: 1 Wisconsin Badgers football through one half: 0

It’s pronounced cyclist.

wetjen is very good but I need the announcers to calm down

Wisconsin's offensive line having a really strong start and defense has already forced a 3-and-out. Guess what Luke Fickell did on 4th-and-1 near midfield.

Fencing response from Kekahuna on that play. Ooof.

It’s freaky how good Indiana is. Just one of the most stunning things I’ve ever seen in this sport.

a Kadyn Proctor wildcat is maybe the only acceptable use of wildcat anymore

"Mansion Boy" is also good because Andrew Cuomo owned a $1.8 million, 4,000 sq ft house with its own pond until his divorce. (Reportedly it would have sold for much more but was not maintained well and was "in dire need of considerable work.") nypost.com/2021/03/03/a...

Wait holy shit what is this Penn State score

Wisconsin???????

Wisconsin is starting their disaster transfer left tackle from Week 1 at center, a position he has never played, against Michigan, a team that still has a very good defensive line. However bad that sounds, it’s going to be so, so much worse.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Bret Bielema with immaculate comic timing at the end of this Russell Wilson-Ciara wedding story

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tired: defensive walking wired: offensive walking

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Also in this post —i have no idea what the Giants are doing with Russ Wilson and Jaxson Dart —maybe it is a bad idea to have the two most prolific fumblers in the NFL in the same backfield —did Isaiah Rodgers play the best individual defensive game in NFL history

last night was a very cool win for dan campbell. ben johnson and AG deseredly got a lot of credit for their success the past few years, but wins like last night continue to show their world and success revolves around campbell. going back to when he spent half a season calling plays, he’s got it man

Do think I’ve had this much fun watching a football team since peak Melvin Gordon

The incentive for defenders to try to knock the ball out from Derrick Henry is so high, either you can throw your body under the wheels of a runaway truck or you can try to land one accurate punch

I’m hearing Lions

I’ve got the vapors

Some #advancedstats for you after the #Badgers game. Wisconsin has now been booed off the field at halftime in 66.6% of their home games this year.

“Watch Wisconsin football” time is now “Ride bicycle” time until further notice. Later.

On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin! Run into that line! Do it two more times again And punt on 4th and 9

Good punt Wisconsin.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

If Wisconsin gets blown out, man … Thought Fickell was safe for a Year 4, but four wins looks like the absolute ceiling and I don’t know how he even makes it to the end of the year like that.

Three strong runs. Creative play calling. Maryland D on its heels. High snap and 20-yard loss.

Backup QB no-look arm punting a 3rd-and-17 pass straight to a DB is the poster of the Fickell era.

I’ve never seen a team so good at falling on its face at the slightest hint of positive momentum as this year’s Wisconsin. The entire Fickell era really. This program is surrounded by rakes.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

"But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates for @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

This post also features a writeup of the mountain bike world championships, which featured a 7-hour event so brutal this fan brought a sign that says WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS

Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that. We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.

That dog leg through a little town in the Vuelta would have been tricky if I was riding by myself god dang

Jonas looks hilariously unbothered

everybody saying it is "a smart business decision" and "a good idea" to run a modern pentathlon newsletter on the first day of the NFL season

Oh, what’s this? (Cc @flaminghydra.com)

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

happy labor day

Morning how bout you read this before we have to focus and kick Long Island University’s ass channel-6.ghost.io/time-on-the-...

Wisconsin wheezed its way to 17 points against a MAC team and narrowly avoided a catastrophic injury to its starting quarterback, and fans are still talking about how much better they feel about the offense. Just in case you'd like to know how dark the Phil Longo era got.