Ted Perry
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@ThrowbackHoops The only thing I didn't love about that night were those ridiculous uniforms. They looked like cumberbunds.
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School closings for Monday are pouring into our newsroom tonight. Parents, how are you coping?
#fox6weather #marchblizzard
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@NickCoit @RIIL_sports Just like that young man, you had to hit just the right spot....and you did. Well done. Thanks for making me tear up in the newsroom.
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We witnessed one of the most amazing moments you'll ever see at a high school event tonight at Schneider Arena.
Colin Dorgan, who lost his mother, brother & grandfather in the Lynch Arena shooting last month, scores a 2OT game-winner to send his team to the @RIIL_sports D-II championship game.
Incredible resilience from this young man & this BVS team.
Fortunate to call this emotional moment with Marty Crowley tonight on the NFHS Network.
@SRASaints @PCDAthletics @Fic27
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Not gonna lie...got me a little choked up. What a nice moment for the Gards.
Wisconsin Basketball@BadgerMBB
Grew up in this gym. Made memories in this gym.
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@backcracker33 @TheMonologist "Rubbin' is racin', Cole". Underappreciated role of his, I agree.
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@TheMonologist He was awesome in Days of Thunder also. Anything he starred in was good really.
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Would have been 62 today. Damn, he was funny.
Blake R. Weiner@BlakeWeiner
Thinking about Chris Farley today. Wisconsin legend.
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@Stokum @TedPerryFox6
Sure, someone was born today 110 years ago, and it WASN'T Mary Stoker Smith.
(it was my grandmother)

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@ChuckCulpepper1 You and your colleagues are handling this with more class and perspective than I could possibly muster. You're a great writer and have always enjoyed you on Tony K's show. Best to you.
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So on the 4,167th and final day of a job so exhilarating that I'd swear at least 4,000 of the days qualified as very good or better, the coffee came with whooshing thoughts of the 11 years and the four months and the 27 days.
The brain tore through the datelines from 17 countries and 43 states, the three World Cups, the four Olympics, the 10 tennis majors, the 20 golf majors, the 11 men's Finals Four, the 28 College Football Playoff games, the 10 Kentucky Derbys, the tour of Jordan-Oman-Kuwait-United Arab Emirates, the 46 days in the peerless Australia -- I mean, come on, really? -- the depth of the beauty of South Koreans, and those times when I looked in the mirror (briefly) and saw a lunatic.
Maybe the looniest would be covering a game in Seattle on a Friday night, then a game in Clemson on that Saturday night (with Lamar Jackson on the field looking even more dizzying than usual). Or was it the Boise on a Friday night, the students swimming into the frigid river for a goal-post chunk after midnight, then the one hour of sleep, then the Indianapolis on a Saturday night? No, wait, wait, it had to be this: Novak Djokovic winning the French Open in Paris on Sunday early evening, then U.S. Open golf preparations starting on Tuesday . . .
. . . in Los Angeles.
Non-deranged people might find such a sequence unfair; for whatever metabolic reason, I just kept giggling.
Well, something surpassed all of that, somehow. To be part of the Washington Post Sports department was to be a part of an exemplary human experience, a rarefied collegiality, a beacon of collaboration and a near-bewildering scarcity of envy. For just one thing, I never, ever thought, way back last century, that I'd inhabit a world and a staff where everyone would treat my husband as one of the group, where a deputy sports editor would say, in a kitchen, near the end of a holiday party, "Alfonso! Come over here and hug me!" All of it reinforced that on the medal stand of life, human collaboration deserves a spot and maybe even the gold, for its curious capacity to bolster seemingly all 35 trillion of our cells.
I love these forever teammates all so much it probably annoys them, and they call to mind a relic of a show always worth unearthing. It's Episode 168 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," the episode she titled, "The Last Show," when the WJM newsroom staff works a final news show and has a last group hug, and Mary wishes to emote, and Lou wishes not to emote, but then Mary gives a stirring speech and then the ever-gruff Lou relents and, in a quaking voice, says something resonant all the way clear into February 2026:
"I treasure you people."

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@KarlWinterTV "Yeah, I'll let you on the team...but you're sharing a number."
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@Fran_Tarkenton Grew up a Bears fan in the 70's in Chicago but when it came time to play backyard football we ALL called dibs on being Fran Tarkenton. Best to you...you are an inspiration to keep scrambling!!
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The very funny @DavidSpade and I chatted for a bit today. I enjoyed it...hope you do too.
youtube.com/watch?v=b8-fKl…

YouTube
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The great @DavidSpade joins me at 2:35 on The Wisconsin Live Desk on Fox Local. He's playing two shows in Wisconsin this weekend.
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@AdamSpencer4 Love the combination of QB/Best Actor/Actress and my Badgers finally make a list!!
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Schools to produce both a Super Bowl-winning QB and a Best Actor/Actress Oscar winner:
- Cal (Aaron Rodgers, Gregory Peck)
- Wisconsin (Russell Wilson, Fredric March)
- FSU (Brad Johnson, Faye Dunaway)
- Stanford (Jim Plunkett/John Elway, Reese Witherspoon)
- UCLA (Troy Aikman, Helen Hunt/Nicolas Cage
Either USC (John Wayne/Forest Whitaker) or UNC (Louise Fletcher) will join the list this year.
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@PennStateFball That's MR fricken Wisconsin Badger to you. Good bit, well done.
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NEW: Since yesterday's deadly shooting in MN, I've talked to more than half a dozen federal sources involved immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions, who all tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy & frustrated w/ some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting.
Specifically, I'm told there is extreme frustration with DHS officials going on TV and putting out statements claiming that Alex Pretti was intending to conduct a "massacre" of federal agents or wanted to carry out "maximum damage", even after numerous videos appeared to show those claims were inaccurate. While they say it was a terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself into a federal law enforcement operation, there is no indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement, as videos appear to show he never drew his holstered firearm.
These sources say this messaging from DHS officials has been catastrophic from a PR and morale perspective, as it is eroding trust and credibility - comparing it to when Democrats falsely claimed the border was closed or that Haitians were being whipped at the border.
Some of these sources have described DHS’ response to the shooting as “a case study on how not to do crisis PR”, one said they are so “fed up” that they wish they could retire, another said “DHS is making the situation worse”, and another added that “DHS is wrong” and “we are losing this war, we are losing the base and the narrative."
These sources all believe this is going to end up being what they call a “bad shoot”, a “shitty” situation that happened in seconds where agents likely heard “gun!”, then the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot. The agents do not have the luxury of multiple slow motion angles - and had to make split second decisions.
All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is being carried out and the messaging that comes with it. Many of the sources have expressed frustration that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency.
I reached out to DHS for comment on concerns that their rhetoric and comments have damaged their credibility.
DHS provided the following statement to @FoxNews:
“We have seen a highly coordinated campaign of violence against our law enforcement. This individual committed a federal crime while armed as he obstructed an active law enforcement operation. As with any situation that is evolving, we work to give swift, accurate information to the American people as more information becomes available."
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@kendallbaker This is one of my favorite trivia questions....the other is: Two colleges have produced three (different) Super Bowl winning colleges. Name those two.
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