Badger News: It's On

Finally, college football is here. I don't know about you but I've been pretty impressed by the job Tim Brewster is doing at Minnesota. He's perfected sucking.

We'll have our BadgerFans.com predictions later today so be sure to check back.

Football

Jeff Potrykus writes that Gabe Carimi and John Moffitt are like an old married couple and that Bill Nagy has to be the mediator between them at times.

The Journal Sentinel's UW notes mention that Mike Taylor was close to missing the entire season but now is traveling with the team to Vegas and is expecting to play next week against San Jose State and that it's possible freshman TE Sherard Cadogan could redshirt.

The reason Cadogran could redshirt is the emergence of TE Rob Korslin, who was one of three walk-ons awarded with a scholarship this week. The other two are backup tackle Ricky Wagner and long snapper Kyle Wojta.

John Clay is getting some Heisman hype but also has a lot of doubters because of his physical conditioning. Clay's aware of the doubters and is motivated to prove them wrong.

Dave Heller at the Journal Sentinel rounds up a lot of the UW-UNLV predictions here and here. It's not a surprise that everyone is picking the Badgers.

Heller has also put together databases for every 100-yard rusher, 100-yard receiver, and 200-yard passer in Wisconsin history. He's going to have to add to them after Saturday night.

Adam Rittenberg predicts a 41-17 UW victory Saturday and also shares his observations from the UW preview show on the Big Ten Network.

Adam Hoge of Bucky's 5th Quarter has his game-by-game 2010 prediction. He has Wisconsin going 11-1 and heading to a BCS bowl.

The third installment of the the initial Badgers Roundtable on the Journal Sentinel Badgers blog finished up with season predictions from each of the Badger bloggers, including BadgerFans.com

Opinions on the new Big Ten divisions keeps coming in. Omaha.com recaps what others are saying. The Bucky Channel writes that Big Ten officials definitely didn't set up the divisions with Wisconsin in mind while We're Bucked says that the Badgers should like them. Meanwhile, The Daily Iowan is very happy with the new divisions.

Bielema thinks the new division alignment will strengthen UW's recruiting in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

GazzetteOnline takes an in-depth look at the death of a rivalry now that Iowa and Wisconsin won't play each other annually.

Jim Leonhard will be blogging this season.  He's got a well written post about training camp and the preseason.

Hoops

Hoops Marinara shares an update on Bo Ryan's search for an assistant coach to replace Howard Moore, who was recently named the head coach at UIC. An announcement is expected close to next Tuesday. Freddie Owens supposedly has an edge but isn't a clear cut leader.

Kirk Penney scored 25 points in New Zealand's win over France at the basketball world championships.

Comments

[Sanjay]

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