Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle on Thursday proposed a $1.4 billion, two-year capital spending plan that he said will create 30,000 jobs in the state.
The plan has been approved by the Building Commission and must now be passed by the Joint Finance Committee to be included in the state budget bill, Doyle said in a statement.
It’s time to give the University of Wisconsin credit for more than beer, beer, brats, beer, a basketball team that scores 43 points, and the Godfather, Barry Alvarez.
There is some real genius at work, and it must be properly recognized.
It seems the school’s football players have figured out a way to use room and board money for way cooler things than chow and a place to sleep.
They diverted the money for mopeds.
The more I think about the situation involving the future of Wisconsin Badgers women’s basketball coach Lisa Stone, the more restless I become.
I have a nasty case of ambivalence and haven’t been able to shake it.
One day I’m convinced she should be replaced. Six years without a winning record in the Big Ten Conference is too long. Zero appearances in the NCAA tournament defines underachievement when you know that six conference schools have made multiple trips during that time. Then there’s the reality that per-game attendance has fallen from 6,300 per game to a little less than 4,900 since 2004.
To prove the power of touch, the researchers placed two products, a Slinky and a coffee mug, in front of 231 undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin. About half were told they could touch the products, while the other half were prohibited from fiddling with them. Students were then asked to express their sense of ownership of the products, and to indicate how much they money they were willing to pay for both the Slinky and coffee mug.
The results were clear: those who touched the items reported statistically significant higher levels of perceived ownership. They were also willing to pay more to purchase the products. “If you don’t want to spend more money, be careful what you touch,” says Joann Peck, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin’s business school and the study’s other co-author. Peck happily describes herself as an expert in haptics, the science of touch; she has published six other papers on the subject. “Touching something gives you that little sense of control,” she says, “and that alone can increase your feeling of ownership.”
A landmark Near East Side factory building has come back to life as a high-tech business incubator aimed at brewing the big ideas of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and faculty.
The Metro Innovation Center is open for business â?? a sleek set of 10 suites equipped with the latest voice and data technology as well as two conference rooms and a small kitchen.
Author and public radio host Garrison Keillor will play a benefit show May 6 at Overture Hall in Madison to honor his late brother and raise money for a new shelter at Tenney Park.
Details of the event, including ticket price, have not been worked out, but Keillor wants the show to be both entertaining and a meaningful tribute to his brother, said Doug Keillor of Madison, Garrison Keillorâ??s nephew and the son of John Philip (Phil) Keillor Jr., who died Feb. 27 in Madison at age 71.
Phil Keillor was a UW-Madison coastal engineer and one of the founders of a Madison homeless shelter that evolved into Porchlight Inc. Memorials from his funeral benefited the nonprofit organization.
Noted: Provider of riches, she is described as the â??capitalist deity par excellenceâ? by the showâ??s curator, John Henry Drewal, a professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and as such, sheâ??s a natural bailout savior for our time. But when assailed by qualms over ethics, she can cause trouble, sending Madoffian fortunes onto the rocks with the flick of a fin.
Wisconsin authorities improperly charged the federal government for rent on unused rooms, unlicensed foster care providers and college students ineligible for financial aid, auditors reported Thursday.
UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Oshkosh did not seek financial aid reimbursements from the federal government fast enough. The report estimated the state lost $183,000 in interest as a result of delays. UW-Madison also agreed to seek $6.7 million in outstanding reimbursements that should have been claimed sooner.
Each year around this time, I get emails wondering how likely we are to see baseball, dropped as a varsity sport in 1991, return to the UW-Madison campus. Athletic director Barry Alvarez has said this is something he’d like to see happen.
I wouldn’t count on it.
Title IX dictates that the university offer equal opportunities for men and women to compete in athletics. Adding a baseball team would require also adding another team sport for women â?? not likely in a challenging economic climate. College baseball is charming, but it doesn’t make money, and neither would any women’s team added to satisfy gender equity.
The Wisconsin Union Directorate voted Wednesday to decline sponsoring the 2009 Mifflin Block Party, citing a lack of time and money to properly host the event.
According to Union President Jeff Rolling, WUD was originally interested in sponsoring the event after being approached by Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, in early March.
However, after further examining the full cost of the event and the timeframe they had to work with, he said WUD ultimately decided against it.
Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s new Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, unveiled last Tuesday to students, is designed to improve student services, access to core classes and increase the amount of need-based aid offered to University of Wisconsin students. Martin rightly assesses higher education funding by dividing it into four areas: federal, state and private dollars in addition to tuition money. As state support continues to slip, she is correct in turning to the two sources of money that are out of the hands of politicians and bureaucrats and rather largely in our control â?? tuition and private donations â?? in order to fund the initiative.
A UW student group launched a new campaign promoting the importance of consent in sexual situations.
PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment) is behind the Metro bus ads, that feature the tagline “Some things should never be blurry. Get consent every time.”
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and PAVE says they want to stress that while drinking might cause impaired judgement, “there’s no excuse for taking advantage of someone else … We want students to have a good time, but when they drink and hook up, there are simple things they can do to ensure that they’re engaging in safe, consensual sexual activity.”
The University of Wisconsin remembers one of its own, on the one year anniversary of her murder. Brittany Zimmerman’s family was present as the Carillon Tower bells on the Madison campus tolled 21 times in memory of the 21 year-old Marshfield woman who was murdered in her off campus apartment a year ago.
On April 2, 2008 UW Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered inside her West Doty Street apartment. Thursday, on the UW campus students, staff and faculty honored her life — exactly one year after it was taken.
On the above date at 12:20 in the afternoon. Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her West Doty Street Apartment. Exactly one year later, at 12:20, people gathered at the Carrilon Tower to honor her life and pay their respects.
“I have children who are about her age and I would be floored I would be crushed if something like this happened. It is just terrible. The injustice of it is terrible,” said Debbie Klimet who works at the university.
Her family and many others looked on with tears in their eyes.
One year ago, a slaying in downtown Madison sent shock waves through the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus community.
A year later, the campus paused Thursday to remember Brittany Zimmermann, 21, and also to remember that her killer hasn’t yet been brought to justice.
Out of the silence on the UW-Madison campus, the bell at Carillon Tower tolled. It started at 12:20 p.m., the approximate time of Zimmermann’s death. It rang 21 times — once for each year of Zimmermann’s young life.
Opening up yet another university e-mail, I was initially disappointed to find a hidden message from Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??weâ??re jacking up your tuition. They call it â??The Madison Initiative for Undergraduatesâ? when the initiative is to charge us more.
For obvious reasons, Martin does not want to frame her plan as what it isâ??an intentional tuition increase for students. There would be considerably more attentionâ??and outrageâ??if this idea were sold to us sans the glittery, wonderful-sounding name.
Despite the unnecessary marketing maneuver, this tuition hike will benefit every Badger.
Students from the state’s private colleges make their case at the capitol for more financial aid.
Jason Diaz is an Iraqi war veteran who currently studies nursing at Edgewood College. After being in the military for eight years, Diaz decided there’s no better job for him than nursing.
“It’s compassion, caring, you know, helping others when they can’t help themselves, I’m mean, that’s the very core of it and that’s why I think it’s a good fit for me.”
A UW-Madison athletics department official told 27 News verification the provision of a moped from the wife of UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez to a football player was a sale and not a gift will be produced.
After repeated requests from 27 News for verification of the transaction through a document such as the player’s cancelled check, associate athletic director Vince Sweeney said documents would be made available for inspection to 27 News.
The first time Kathy Peterson saw the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the six-page form that the government uses to assess student need, she felt overwhelmed.
“I just kept going from one screen to the next, wondering, ‘When is this going to end?'” said Ms. Peterson, an office manager for a telecommunications trade association, whose son will attend Old Dominion University in the fall.
Jerry James Armstrong, age 79, died on Sunday, March 29, 2009. At one point Jerry taught technical writing at the University of Wisconsin School of Civil Engineering.
For college-bound students, it’s time to make decisions â?? and to navigate a transformed landscape where acceptances and wait-list status might have different implications than they did just a year ago.
Decision letters being sent out this week reflect the worries of administrators, who fear admitted applicants may hesitate to commit in this climate of economic uncertainty.
At 10 a.m. on a frigid January, the lights automatically flicker on in a rat room at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison’s Research Park. Postdoc Erin Hanlon strolls in, still wearing her scarf from the trip to the lab, where she will spend the next hour or so with Telito, a rat. Telito’s cage is tucked away in a television cabinetâ??like enclosure.
Attorneys for a man convicted of murder in 1980 on Wednesday accused the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case 29 years ago of misconduct.
Ralph Armstrong was initially convicted in 1980 in the slaying of University of Wisconsin student Charise Kamps, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned that conviction in 2005, citing DNA evidence.
In a Dane County courtroom Wednesday, Armstrong’s attorneys accused former Dane County prosecutor John Norsetter of misconduct in the case.
The bells will toll Thursday for Brittany Zimmermann, UW-Madison student murdered on April 2, 2008.
University officials will conduct a memorial ceremony for Zimmermann on Thursday, with the carillon tower bells ringing 21 times, one ring for each of her 21 years, at 12:20 p.m., the approximate time of her death.
The bell tower is on campus at 1160 Observatory Drive.
It’s sort of like getting a bid in the NCAA basketball tournament, just a little lower-profile.
UW-Madison’s equestrian team is heading to the national collegiate championship at the end of April after winning its region over the weekend.
But unlike the basketball tournament – where 64 teams get spots – only 18 out of about 400 college teams make it to the horse riding championship in Tennessee.
What if I told you there was going to be a public forum on the world of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.
Would you show up?
What if I told you that many of the major decision-makers involved with UW sports â?? including director Barry Alvarez, his top aides, members of the Athletic Board, chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s office and the Board of Regents â?? would be on hand in the same campus lecture hall to outline key policies of the department. Would you be curious?
When Derek Jose enrolled in the University of Wisconsin’s Stephen L. Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis in September 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was racing to 14,000 and the program’s freshly minted grads were settling into investment jobs that paid an average of $84,000 plus bonuses.
Now, Jose is 28, newly married, burdened by $60,000 in student loans and on the cusp of graduating into an investment world shattered by a calamitous bear market.
Welcome to Wall Street, kid.
Immigrants bring many things to the U.S., but their lasting contribution to the country has always been their children. NPR’s series Immigrants’ Children looks at that legacy, telling the stories of those children and examining the issues they face.
QUoted: “In 1910,” says Joseph Salmons, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin, “a quarter of the population told the census taker they spoke only German and didn’t speak English â?? a quarter of the population.”
That fact stunned Salmons. When he set out to study the area’s census, church and court records, he had no idea the language had thrived for so long. The year 1910 was already a full generation after the mass migration had dropped off, yet Salmons discovered not only that many in Hustisford and other farm towns were still bilingual, but that a sizeable portion was monolingual.
The boundaries of the “Wisconsin Idea” will expand to include Iraq thanks to a new memorandum of understanding signed yesterday by U-W chancellor Biddy Martin and the president of Tikrit University. Gil Halsted reports. (Audio.)
A UW-Madison student landed an internship last summer that also landed her in the national spotlight. Every Sunday night on the Style Network, you can see Samantha DeZur on the show “Running in Heels.”
The docu-series goes behind the scenes of Marie Claire magazine, and often focuses on Samantha and two other interns, who were also her roommates. The internship ran from last August to this January.
During an interview on the U.W.-Madison campus DeZur said, “It was a huge, huge lifestyle change in every way possible. I mean, I had never been to New York City, I’ve never had an internship before, never dealt with that, and I’ve never–obviously–been on a TV show before.”
Sometimes, more is definitely better. One of the most popular art exhibitions in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union art galleries is the combined work of dozens of artists.
The UW-Madison Annual Juried Student Art Show, which opens with a reception on Friday, April 3, generally includes between 20 and 40 works of art from students in any major.
Q: How do weather conditions affect maple syrup harvesting?
A: Weather is a crucial factor for a good harvest of maple syrup. Tapping trees occurs in late winter and early spring. In Wisconsin, March is a prime month for tapping sugar maple trees as that is when the sap is sweetest. But only about 2 percent of the sap is sugar, which is why it needs to be boiled down in order to remove the water and increase the sugar concentration.
Tough recipes for tough times. Except in academia.
When Gov. Jim Doyle proposed a leaner budget for state operations, it included cuts of $63.4 million for the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the next two years.
That seemed in line with cuts to state agencies and the idea that in difficult economic times, there has to be some belt-tightening across the board.
But UW-Madison wants to take a few notches off that scrimping with a new plan called the â??Madison Initiative for Undergraduates.â?
Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the slaying of University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann, and those working on solving the said they’re confident justice will be served.
Zimmermann, 21, had goals of studying immunology and finding cures for the world’s diseases. But on April 2, 2008, she was found stabbed to death in her downtown Madison apartment.
Authorities said an investigation into the death later revealed that Zimmermann called 911 for help, but the call was dropped and no police officers were dispatched.
â??From each according to ability, to each according to needâ? was Karl Marxâ??s maxim and socialismâ??s guiding principle. UW-Madisonâ??s â??Madison Initiative for Undergraduatesâ? describes the same principle like this:
â??This Madison Initiative for undergraduates will increase tuitionâ?¦ in order to help provide a significant fund for need-based financial aidâ?¦ Students with demonstrated need from families earning $80,000 or less will be held harmless from this Madison-specific increaseâ?¦â? In other words, tuition should flow from each student according to ability to each student according to need.
Tuition in 2000 for a freshman at UW-Madison was $1885. In 2008 it is $3,785, rising 5-6 percent more next year. It seems, as with most things these days, that the cost of education is increasing at a rate faster than the average family and student can keep pace with. Add up all the academic year living costs and the result looks something like this: $7,570 (tuition), $4,050 (rent & utilities), $600 (books), $2,700 (groceries) and $1,500 (SHIP insurance) equals around $16,500. Assuming you qualify for the Stafford Loan program, you are eligible to receive up to $12,500 per year. You are still out $4,000, not to mention any money needed for extraneous spending, like travel, weekends out, a special date, etc.
When Chancellor Biddy Martin introduced her new Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, she did so in front of dozens of University of Wisconsin student leaders, including members of this editorial board. Instead of holding a press conference with solely university administrators, legislative leaders and other supporters, Martin opened the doors of her home to hold informal roundtable discussions on her innovative plan.
This signaled an important part of Martinâ??s plan â?? incorporating students, answering their questions, hearing their praise and receiving their critiques. She fielded initial support and resistance from students at the dinner and devoted herself to listening more.
27 News uncovered the wife of UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez provided a moped to a Badger football player, with the terms of the exchange of the vehicle unclear.
27 News discovered Cindy Alvarez’s actions as it investigated the use of university scholarship funds by players to purchase mopeds and in some cases, cars.
UW-Madison associate athletic director Vince Sweeney acknowledged to 27 News a gift of something of the value of a moped from Alvarez to a player would constitute a violation of NCAA rules. But Sweeney said no rules were broken.
UW football players used scholarship funds earmarked for housing and food to purchase mopeds, and in some cases, cars.
Senior Jonathan Casillas told 27 News the practice of ciphoning money from room and board uses made sense.
“Once you get to your second, third year, you start learning what’s cheap (housing), what’s expensive. Maybe live with somebody and split the rent. And hopefully you can get a moped, or maybe even a car. Some people got cars.”
Casillas told 27 News he bought his moped from a housing scholarship stipend. Casillas was also arrested on that moped for alleged first offense drunk driving. Casillas has a plea hearing scheduled for April 22.
Pamela Kay Pletsch, age 59, of Middleton, passed away on Sunday, March 29, 2009. She was a faculty member at the UW-Madison School of Nursing. Pam was principal investigator of a multi-million dollar federal grant uniting teams from UW-Madison and Duke University to address problems of smoking and smoking cessation among pregnant women.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison history department has hired a professor in American military history, finally realizing a dream of the best-selling author Stephen Ambrose, who donated money for the position more than a decade ago.
The Ambrose-Hesseltine chair in American history will be filled by John Hall, a major in the U.S. Army with a doctorate in history from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said history department chairman David McDonald. He will begin teaching in September.
The post generated controversy three years ago when a magazine accused the university of intentionally leaving the position vacant.
Former Wisconsin Badgers running back P.J. Hill wonâ??t face criminal charges for a March 14 incident in which he allegedly led police on a short chase while driving drunk.
Hill, 22, the third-leading rusher in Badgers history, instead was ticketed Tuesday for first-offense drunken driving, reckless driving, refusing to take a Breathalyzer test and driving without headlights.
Even in an intensely watched setting like the UW-Madison campus, information technology staff discovered 20 computers infected with Conficker. “Twenty out of 40,000 isn’t too bad,” said UW IT spokesperson Meg McCall.
“What we then do is cut those machines off immedately from network access, encourage them to work with out help desk or do other maintenance to remove that,” said McCall.
McCall said UW constantly encourages students to pick up free security upgrades on CD. A more directed warning went out back in October, she said.
To help keep the thousands of private student laptops clean as well, anyone later discovered to have Conficker, will also be unplugged from UW’s network.
Gov. Jim Doyle is proposing a $1.4 billion spending plan for state buildings that includes construction of several new research laboratories and a first-time state subsidy for the Bradley Center.
Doyleâ??s plan includes a major expansion at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, new energy and medical research buildings at UW-Madison and a new state public health laboratory in Madison. His plan also would spend $5 million over 10 years on maintenance at the Bradley Center, home of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Noted: The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen the number of companies coming to campus shrink by approximately 15 percent as compared to 2008, according to Steve Schroeder. Heâ??s the assistant dean of that universityâ??s undergraduate program and the director of the career center at the school.
â??Students are getting fewer job offers and some companies have unfortunately rescinded some offers. In 2008, a typical student probably had three to five job offers. In 2009, students are excited to get one or two offers. There is general uncertainty and nervousness from recruiters as well as students,â? said Schroeder in an e-mail to Challenger researchers.
This week marks one year since University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her off campus apartment.
The case sent shockwaves through the Madison community because of its brutal nature and the fact that Zimmermann placed a 911 call for help. Police were never sent.
“The truth is that the heartache we feel today is even worse than that of a year ago,” Zimmermann’s family said in a statement.
Quoted: Along the Jordan River, which is now 90 percent diverted by Israel, Syria and Jordan, the countries are indeed facing scarcity. But just what that means for different groups of people, especially the Israelis and Palestinians, is not always clear. “I think scarcity is a political framework in which people work,” said Samer Alatout, an expert on Israeli/Palestinian water issues and a professor in the department of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin. “If you have a general assumption about what scarcity is, for instance less than 500 cubic meters per year per person, that does not really mean anything because you are not asking the question of who gets how much water and when.”
University of Wisconsin officials are planning to honor slain student Brittany Zimmermann with a ceremony at the campus bell tower on the anniversary of her death.
Thursday, April 2 marks one year since Zimmermann was murdered at her downtown home. Her killer has never been found.
To observe the day, the Carillon Tower bells will toll 21 times, one chime for each year of her life, beginning at 12:20 p.m., the approximate time of her death.
For nearly 40 years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Trace Research and Development Center has developed technology used around the world, with the goal of making technology accessible to as many people as possible, no matter their age or disability.
The effort that began in the early 1970s by a group of UW-Madison engineering students has grown into a center with a worldwide impact.
The goal then was to help a child with cerebral palsy communicate better.
Today, the work is having a broad impact on the lives of people with disabilities and the elderly worldwide.
At first glance it may seem like Jon Liebherr is busy studying for an upcoming exam.
“No. Definitely not.”
But he actually isn’t.
He’s working.
” Like if I am in the building I am working.”
Quoted: “I think the news media are inadvertently or necessarily adding to some of the gloom, some of the panic,” said Stephen Ward, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor said. “But it can’t be avoided.”
Ward said that, for the most part, the people working at the presses and in TV newsrooms are doing a fair job. He said it would be a disservice not to talk about the bad things going on.
None of us looks forward to tuition hikes, especially since all too often the benefits appear intangible or altogether nonexistent.
Tuition will rise this coming year, that much is a given regardless of which UW System university you attend. At UW-Madison, tuition will rise even with a supplemental charge under Chancellor Martinâ??s recently proposed Madison Initiative for Undergraduates.
The initiative, which would increase tuition by an additional $250 per year for in-state students and $750 per year for out-of-state students and would also be matched dollar for dollar by private fundraising, is pitched as a â??pledge to quality, value and affordability.â? Many probably react with the same instinctive question upon hearing the initiative: â??Just how does a tuition hike equate to affordability again?â?
Starting today, it will start cost smokers more to light up. That’s because a 61-cent increase in the cigarette tax took effect Wednesday morning.
Doctor Pat Remington of the UW School of Medicine expects the higher price will start convincing more people to quit smoking. He says the higher price will make many smokers think about the impact the habit has on their wallet.
Cold cases and unsolved murders are making the news these days, but today marks the anniversary of one Madison’s more bizarre cases. March 31st, 2004, five years ago this afternoon, a U-W co-ed’s story of abduction hadn’t yet started to unravel.
A state lawmaker says the UW-Madison is trying to “soak” students with a proposed tuition surcharge.
State Representative Scott Suder says the plan to charge students an extra $250 a year, if their family makes more than $80,000 a year, amounts to a tax on students. He says it’s not fair to raise the expectations of what students have to pay, after they’ve already started attending the school.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison might be called a victim of its own successes. The stateâ??s flagship institution has recruited prominent faculty, but has been forced to enter bidding wars with wealthy private institutions just to retain them. On top of that challenge, budget cuts and cost increases have made it difficult for the university to fill positions vacated by retiring baby boomers, leaving faculty lines open and forcing the university to cut course offerings.
The challenges facing Wisconsin are systemic, and they have only been exacerbated by the economic downturn, according to Biddy Martin, who was named chancellor a little more than six months ago.
â??The traditional revenue sources havenâ??t been able to keep pace with the cost of higher education, certainly not at a major research university,â? Martin said.
Dr. Ronald H. Laessig, PhD, age 68, died peacefully at his home on Sunday, March 29, 2009. Ronald graduated from U.W. Stevens Point in 1962 Magna Cum Laude and then attended U.W. Madison where he received his doctorate in chemistry. After completing his doctorate, he did his post doctoral work at Princeton. In January of 1966, he was united in marriage to Joan Spreda at St. Stephens Catholic Church in Stevens Point. He worked for 20 years as the director of the State Laboratory of Hygiene and as a professor at U.W. Madison in the department of pathology and preventive medicine.
Quoted: “Sometimes the biggest scientific achievements are the simplest,” says James Stein of the University of Wisconsin. “It’s a pill for the masses.”
Do your legs feel tingly? Do you suffer from mood swings before your period? Would you take a mind-altering drug to quit smoking?
If so, the pharmaceutical industry and the University of Wisconsin-Madison want to teach your doctor a lesson.
Drug companies have largely taken over the field of doctor education, in part by bankrolling physician education courses at medical schools.
Critics say the practice increases medical costs by encouraging doctors to write prescriptions for expensive brand-name drugs and by exaggerating the frequency and prevalence of rare conditions. It also promotes the use of drugs not approved for the ailments.
A Journal Sentinel investigation found that industry-funded doctor education courses offered at UW often present a slanted view by favoring prescription medications over non-drug therapies and by failing to mention important side effects.
Move over, Chapel Hill. Make room, Louisville. Quit hogging the spotlight, Villanova. There’s another basketball powerhouse town that’s big-footing the rest: Juba, Southern Sudan, otherwise known as “land of a million giants.”
Every March, when it comes time to predict the NCAA Championship team, it behooves a fan to place at least one loyalty bet on the hometown boys and girls. In college ball, heart can go the distance.
Duany Duany knows. He helped take the University of Wisconsin to the Final Four in 2000 before playing professionally in Europe and the Philippines. But during this and every March Madness, Duany bets on Juba â?? never mind that the town has only one basketball court.
