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• Brewers: At the quarterpole

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED May. 20, 2013

  We're are a little more than one-quarter of the way into the season and while there's plenty of games to play the Brewers may find themselves out of the running before too long. 43 games in, it's pretty clear that the Brewers have been plagued by both a lack of consistency and opportunity.

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• Brewers: It's no longer early

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED May. 16, 2013

  We like to say that the baseball season is still early until Mother's Day. So this road trip is a perfect time to size up what is wrong with the Brewers and what can be fixed.

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• Brewers: What to do with Rickie Weeks?

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED May. 8, 2013

  Unquestionably the biggest source of frustration for Brewers fans thus far is Rickie Weeks. For a second year in a row Weeks is mired in a deep slump early in the season. Last year's slump could be attributed to his lingering ankle injury from 2011. But this year Weeks is healthy. So what is the issue?

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• Top 25 2014 NFL Draft prospects

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED May. 2, 2013

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The 2013 NFL Draft is in the books and yes it is already time to start looking ahead to 2014. Here's a quick primer of the best 25 prospects heading into the summer:

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• Brewers: One wild month

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 30, 2013

  In case you forgot here's a quick recap of the Brewers first month of the season: 2-8 start, followed by nine game winning streak, followed by .500 road trip, followed by two straight wins over Pittsburgh. I guess you could say the Brewers are trending upward as the month comes to a close. By beating the Pirates twice the Brewers surged in the tightly-knit NL Central standings and now find themselves just a half game out of first place.

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• NFL Draft: Packers trade down, select Eddie Lacy, then trade down again

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 26, 2013

  The Packers entered day two of the NFL Draft with one pick in both the second and third rounds followed by five more picks on Saturday. They left day two with a lot more than that.

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• NFL Draft: Best available players for Round Three

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 26, 2013

  1. Keenan Allen, WR, Cal

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• NFL Draft: Best available players for Round Two

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 26, 2013

  1. Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia

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• NFL Draft: Packers select Datone Jones

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 25, 2013

  UCLA defensive end Datone Jones is the newest Packer and he should make an immediate impact along a defensive line that struggled late in the season.

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• NFL Draft: What will the Packers do?

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 24, 2013

  We know this much about Packers general manger Ted Thompson: when it comes to the NFL Draft he is the ultimate wild card. Who knows what he's going to do? This leads to rampant speculation as to what the Packers will do with the 26th pick. So at the very least we can narrow it down to three possibilities, in order of least likely to most likely:

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• 17 intriguing games on the NFL schedule

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 21, 2013

  Week 1: Atlanta at New Orleans Without coach Sean Payton the Saints stumbled to an 0-4 start to open the 2012 season. Now Payton is back for a full season and the Saints are poised for a rebound but to do that they must beat the defending divisional champs.

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• Brewers: Jean Segura steals second then gets caught stealing second in the same inning

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 19, 2013

  If you missed the Brewers 5-4 win over the Cubs you missed one of the most bizarre plays you'll ever see in baseball. In the bottom of the eighth Jean Segura led off with a single then with Ryan Braun up Segura stole second. Braun subsequently walked.

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• The Packers schedule: The early bye could be trouble

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 19, 2013

  I'm not a believer in trying to predict wins and losses in April but there are a few takeaways from the release of the 2013 NFL schedule.

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• Blake Lalli becomes everyone's favorite Brewer

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 17, 2013

  If the Brewers want to get back to .500 sooner rather than later, they'll need guys like Blake Lalli to do what he did Wednesday night. Lalli, a minor league callup with 26 career at bats under his belt, delivered a game winning pinch hit RBI single in the 9th. It was yet another chapter in what is already a roller coaster 2013 season. We already know nothing is going to come easy for this Brewers team. That means guys like Lalli and Yuniesky Betancourt are going to have deliver a lot more that initially expected.

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• Packers: Schedule predictions

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 16, 2013

  The NFL announced today that the 2013 schedule will be unveiled on Thursday. Greg Matzek & I decided that, for the the first time, we'll make our predictions as to what the Packers schedule will look like. I'll be honest, this is a big step forward from our usual Kickoff Thursday/Thanksgiving predictions, where we have a pretty good idea of who will play.

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• NFL Draft: Top 133 prospects

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 10, 2013

  With the NFL Draft a little more than two weeks away it's time to start stacking up the draft board so here's my list of the top prospects. This doesn't necessarily represent what a mock draft would look like so there may be some disconnect between where a player is stacked on the board and where he may actually get picked. You may ask yourself, why 133? Well I'm shooting for symmetry as it will take 133 picks to get through the first four rounds so why stop at just 100?

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• The craptacular, early version of "One Shining Moment"

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 8, 2013

  The year is 1983, college basketball is peaking and March Madness had just begun taking off as the best sporting event in the country. CBS began broadcasting the tournament the year before and much like the tournament itself the network was still honing its style.

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• Brewers: The Kyle Lohse debut

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 5, 2013

  If Friday night was any indication Kyle Lohse will end up looking like a steal for the Brewers. In his first outing of the season Lohse struck out five of the first six batters he faced and kept Arizona off balance in six innings of work.

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• Packers preseason schedule released

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 4, 2013

  The NFL released the preseason schedule today and here are the four opponents the Packers will face:

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• Brewers: Early thoughts 19 innings into the 2013 season

  By Jeff Falconio CREATED Apr. 2, 2013

  As would be expected with a 1-1 record we've seen good baseball and bad baseball with the Brewers. Yes, it's early. Very early. But one trend has emerged with starters Yovani Gallardo and Marco Estrada each going five innings in their respective starts. Sure there's an off day on Thursday but with Wily Peralta slated to pitch on Wednesday and Kyle Lohse expected to go on Friday (we'll get a better idea of what his workload will be later in the week) the bullpen is getting a lot of early work.

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