Author: Michael

Hideki Matsuyama walks down the 16th hole during the 2025 WM Phoenix Open. | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
The WM Phoenix Open offers more than a party-like atmosphere; it’s a model for every major event.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s 5 a.m. at TPC Scottsdale, and roughly 120 WM employees have arrived for their call time at the Sustainability Headquarters, a make-shift area perched beside the 13th green and the 14th tee. It’s cold and dark, and the golf course is not even visible.

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Barry Alvarez isn’t happy with the state of Wisconsin football.
Alvarez is the man responsible for making Wisconsin a national power. He won three Big Ten national titles in the 1990s, and led Wisconsin to three Rose Bowl victories before retiring after the 2005 season to focus on being the athletic director in Madison.
Prior to Alvarez’s arrival, Wisconsin was viewed as a joke. His arrival sparked a nearly three-decade run of many double-digit win seasons, Rose Bowls and Big Ten titles.
That all feels like a lifetime ago at this point.

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This needs to happen.
Sometimes things present themselves in sports that you just need to happen, even when you don’t have any skin in the game. Circumstances so hilarious, so brilliant, that you want to will them into existence. Now that Aaron Rodgers’ time in New York is officially done there’s only one place he needs to finish out his career.
Aaron Rodgers needs to become the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings.

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