Jim Polzin
Columnist at Wisconsin State Journal
Columnist at BadgerExtra
Columnist for @BadgerExtra, @madisondotcom and @wistatejournal, covering the #Badgers, #Packers and other Wisconsin sports.
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1 week ago |
badgerextra.com | Jim Polzin
There have been times this offseason when Aaron Witt has entered the University of Wisconsin football team’s locker room with a smile that instantly disappears from his face. His good day will turn into a rotten one with one look at a bare trophy case. It’s hard to have a glass-is-half-full outlook when what’s behind the glass is full of emptiness.
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2 weeks ago |
badgerextra.com | Jim Polzin
Howard Moore Sr. worked at a foundry for 20 years — and as a machinist at other businesses before that — before deciding to retire in 2014. His wife, Trennis, joined him at that splendid stage of life about four years later after climbing the ladder for more than three decades at a water reclamation plant. The couple was born and raised in Chicago. They’d raised their two boys near the intersection of N. Ridgeway Avenue and W.
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3 weeks ago |
lakegenevanews.net | Jim Polzin
John Witkowski, a numbers guy, acknowledges up front that the math doesn’t add up in this instance. There were 351 NCAA Division I men’s basketball programs when he came up with the plan years ago to attend a game in every one of their home arenas. Hence, the name of something Witkowski refers to as a project: Mission 351. All these years later, there are now 364 Division I programs. “So it’s kind of a never-ending target to some extent,” Witkowski said.
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3 weeks ago |
madison.com | Jim Polzin
John Witkowski, a numbers guy, acknowledges up front that the math doesn’t add up in this instance. There were 351 NCAA Division I men’s basketball programs when he came up with the plan years ago to attend a game in every one of their home arenas. Hence, the name of something Witkowski refers to as a project: Mission 351. All these years later, there are now 364 Division I programs. “So it’s kind of a never-ending target to some extent,” Witkowski said.
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3 weeks ago |
kenoshanews.com | Jim Polzin
Robin Pingeton would have preferred to wing it at the news conference officially introducing her as the new University of Wisconsin women's basketball coach. Reading from prepared notes apparently isn't typically how she rolls. But Pingeton has been so busy trying to build a roster over the past week that she figured it was best to put some thoughts down on paper.
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