By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor ASHWAUBENON – For the first time since March 12, I was able to take in a live game. The Green Bay Booyah baseball team opened its season July 1 at Capital Credit Union Park in Ashwaubenon, and what a joy it was to be there. About 1,000 fans socially distanced …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor With the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) recently releasing the guidelines for summertime activities to begin July 1, it’s a positive step forward for local high schools. Although not a guarantee a fall season will occur, I feel allowing athletes back on campus this summer is needed as a first …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor Having dreams and reminiscing makes life tolerable. I can’t remember the exact moment I thought of riding my bicycle across the country, but it was sometime during the summer of 1999 teaching summer school in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. I’d been putting on tons of miles for years and knew the timing …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor BROWN COUNTY – I’ve never been much a golfer, but in the last few years, I’ve taken up the sport to diversify my activity. I used to golf some when I was in high school at Indian Hills Golf Course in Stephenson, Michigan. It was a nine-hole course affectionately called …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor BROWN COUNTY – As I sit typing this, the summer and warmer weather is fast approaching. Unlike any other summer I’ve experienced, it will be anything but normal. I’m used to covering Green Bay Booyah baseball, Green Bay Glory women’s soccer and Legion baseball, but it’s all been affected by …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor BROWN COUNTY – If you’re old enough to recall the 1977 movie, “The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training,” there’s a scene where the Bears are playing a baseball game in the Houston Astrodome. Late in the contest, the umpires threatened to end the action early due to time restraints, …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor BROWN COUNTY – The COVID-19 virus has disrupted the sports world, but it hasn’t impacted people’s ability to get outside and exercise. With area gyms closed for the foreseeable future, your choices to increase your heart rate are limited to home gyms and outdoor activities. On an afternoon bike ride …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor SUAMICO – It’s one thing to play for a state championship and lose, but it’s another to not even get the chance. Such was the case with the Bay Port girls’ basketball team March 13-14 at the Resch Center in Green Bay. The Pirates, the defending WIAA Division 1 state …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor GREEN BAY – As I sit and write this, I am still sore a few days after completing the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at Lambeau Field with hundreds of others Sept. 7. The stair climb, the largest of its kind in the country, attracted about 2,000 adventure-seeking souls looking to …
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By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor The latter part of August is a time of sadness for many parents. I’m specifically talking about those who had graduating high school seniors in 2019 now off to college. In many cases, the student-athletes make their parents “empty nesters,” meaning there are no other kids at home. My 9-year-old …
