Playoff baseball returns to Milwaukee PREDICTIONS Last week: 7-4 Season: 56-19 Extra Special Major League Baseball Edition Games of the Week Colorado Rockies (91-72) at Milwaukee Brewers (96-67), Thursday, Friday at Miller Park, Sunday, Monday at Coors Field, Denver, Wednesday at Miller Park UPDATE: Since this […]
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FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS: Homecoming fails, and oh yeah, my job, too
This kind of stuff happens every year in the Southern Lakes Conference. A few football teams start out blazing hot, taking the world by storm and turning heads in the media and among local social circles. Waterford and Burlington were those teams this fall. But it’s been two months […]
Friday Night Lights takes on different meaning as football teams honor severely injured student
Michael Lois fresh in minds of entire conference By Chris Bennett Correspondent ([email protected]) The Sept. 21 Southern Lakes Conference matchup between Elkhorn Area and Waterford Union high schools lacked the feeling of raucous, innocent fun associated with the bright lights of football on a fall Friday night. The contest […]
FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS WEEK 6: It’s OK, I’m just a substitute teacher
For those of you that don’t know, I’m a substitute teacher. And a journalist. A dad, a brother and a son. Lately, the universe has pulled me in many different directions and asked me to wear whatever hat best suits that situation. Take Monday and Tuesday. With Coraline Rose […]
WEEK 5 FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS: Never forget, 9/11
– We are sharing personal stories from our 9/11 experience this week in honor of Tuesday’s 17th anniversary of 9/11. Here’s an excerpt from me, Sports Editor Mike Ramczyk I vividly recall waking about 10 a.m. to prepare to commute to UW-Waukesha my freshman year back in 2001, […]
FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS: Waterford’s title to lose? Not so fast
Thanks to a thumping of Lake Geneva Badger on live TV last Thursday, the Waterford Wolverines are going to win the Southern Lakes Conference, right? Let’s not go there just yet. While that epic rivalry tends to determine the league’s champion each year, school just started this week and […]
FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS: Webley’s dominance highlights huge Burlington win, Waterford-Badger epic battle tonight
Winner of tonight’s marquee matchup has best chance at SLC title Nick Webley is a beast The rumblings in the Burlington High School halls after Thursday night’s Burlington-Racine Horlick varsity football game kept mentioning one name – Nick Webley. And after a performance like the 6-foot-3 wide receiver displayed […]
FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS: Welcome back, oh, how they’ve missed you
Demons open home season tonight at BHS My favorite question to ask when analyzing high school football, just like any good student, is what did we learn? Week 1 has come and gone, and it told us a few very important things about the area. The most glaring is […]
Is this the year Southern Lakes football returns to Camp Randall?
Waterford, Lake Geneva Badger have best chance at new league’s first championship All day, I’ve been thinking of ideas for the return of my high school football predictions column. Should I mouth vomit more cliches about how excited I am for the season to start? No. Actually, an […]
SLN ALL AREA BASEBALL: All hail, Racine County as 3rd annual squad features stars from 15 schools
Southern Lakes Newspapers All Area Baseball 2018 Krause, Chapman, Wilmot trio lead largest 1st team By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] The 2018 area high school baseball season didn’t necessarily feature bona fide, blue chip superstar players. But what it did have was strong talent across the board, and our […]
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