"Wisconsin Against the World"
Some of you probably know perfectly well what this teaser in this morning's New York Times refers to. I did not.1 As it turns out, Wisconsin's college basketball team has a lot of in-state players, and the team they're playing in tonight's NCAA game, Davidson,2 has more national and international players.
The Times goes on to say, "[t]hat Wisconsin’s team is more homegrown than its cheese is no accident," which leads me to believe that the folks at the New York Times have no idea how cheese is produced.
Anyway, I was curious where the 11 Wisconsinites on the UW team are from, so I found out:
Milwaukee (3)
Madison (2)
Glendale
Verona
Oshkosh
Appleton
Randolph
Wisconsin Dells
I have to be honest here, I was really hoping for some Osseo, Wauwatosa, Peshtigo, Minong or Jim Falls-style representation.
Anyway, I'd also just like to point out that as I write this, students from Middlebury College are teaching Amherst students how to play Quidditch on the main quad,3 which is I guess what happens at Division III schools.
1 As has been made clear in these pages before, I don't really give a crap about sports.
2 A school I'd barely even heard of, but now I know an awful lot about their dirty laundry.
3 Yes, it is a made-up sport from the Harry Potter novels that involves flying, so I'm not really sure how they're going about it.
The Times goes on to say, "[t]hat Wisconsin’s team is more homegrown than its cheese is no accident," which leads me to believe that the folks at the New York Times have no idea how cheese is produced.
Anyway, I was curious where the 11 Wisconsinites on the UW team are from, so I found out:
Milwaukee (3)
Madison (2)
Glendale
Verona
Oshkosh
Appleton
Randolph
Wisconsin Dells
I have to be honest here, I was really hoping for some Osseo, Wauwatosa, Peshtigo, Minong or Jim Falls-style representation.
Anyway, I'd also just like to point out that as I write this, students from Middlebury College are teaching Amherst students how to play Quidditch on the main quad,3 which is I guess what happens at Division III schools.
1 As has been made clear in these pages before, I don't really give a crap about sports.
2 A school I'd barely even heard of, but now I know an awful lot about their dirty laundry.
3 Yes, it is a made-up sport from the Harry Potter novels that involves flying, so I'm not really sure how they're going about it.
Labels: Wisconsin represent.
posted by SJB at 9:10 AM
3 Comments:
As a guy who has toured about 20 Wisconsin cheese plants in last two months, I can vouch for the fact that it's pretty damn home-grown. You don't want your milk to travel far, and, by a happy coincidence, we have a ton of cows going on.
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My point is more that cheese doesn't grow like, say, soybeans, so it seems like a weird image.
The New York Times counts Travon Hughes in that list of 11. But the New York Post reminds readers that he's really from Queens, N.Y., and thus knows to prefer pizza from J&S to Godfather's Pizza — unlike the rest of his Wisconsin teammates "who don't know any better."
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