By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor BROWN COUNTY – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) alternate fall season is coming to an end. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic last fall, the WIAA gave schools the option to move their fall sports to this spring. Most of the Green Bay area schools did so, except for Seymour …
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By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor BROWN COUNTY – Now is the time for outdoor pickleball. Following my victory last December in the Frosty Pickle Pickleball Tournament, I was again recently victorious in an impromptu tournament, the 2021 April Cup Pickleball Challenge, set up by friend Jesse at Meadowbrook Park. This past summer, the Village of …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor If you recall from a previous Hot Corner article, the day after Thanksgiving last year, I stepped on the scale in my bathroom, and my eyes almost popped out of my head with the number I saw. I weighed 198 pounds, my clothes didn’t fit and I was grotesquely out …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor I first strapped on cross-country skis for real in 1997. To give me the motivation to stay in shape in the winter for my summer biking, I approached one of the teachers at the middle school where I taught in Rhinelander, Wayne Fish, who I knew was big into the …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor GREEN BAY – Sometimes, it’s the little things that make life tolerable. If you haven’t gotten a chance to read my Hot Corner article from the March 5 edition of The Press Times, you should check it out. I reminisced about how I got my start in journalism and discussed …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor I grew up wanting to be a teacher, because my mother, who passed away in 2006 from breast cancer, wanted an educator in the family. Being the second youngest of seven children, it was my youngest sister and I in the house in the late 1980s before graduating and deciding …
By Press Times Staff GREEN BAY – The Press Times recently won five awards from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation as part of the 2020 Better Newspaper Contest. “We are humbled by these five awards from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation,” said Patrick J. Wood, Press Times publisher. “This mix of news and sports awards …
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By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor GREEN BAY – Although it didn’t turn out like most of us wanted, it was still a fun ride. After not receiving photo credentials for the first round of the NFL playoffs two weekends ago, The Press Times was notified a few days before the NFC Championship Game Jan. 24 …
By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor GREEN BAY – I wouldn’t say 25-35 mph winds and freezing temperatures are all that fun, but that’s what I had to endure at the Green Bay Packers’ game Nov. 15 against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Lambeau Field. The Press Times received credentials for the second time this season, so …
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By Rich Palzewic Sports Editor I don’t force myself to do a commentary Hot Corner article every week. If there’s a topic worthy to write about, I whip something together. Last week, after interviewing two seniors for spotlights, I thought it would be a good idea to look back in time and reminisce about some …
