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Rick Solem

Sports, news journalist since 2002. | Hometown: Greenville, Wis. | Avid noonball basketballer and sand volleyballer in La Crosse | Two-time Waupaca Boatride first-round playoff loser | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate | Cut from UW-SP's basketball team in 2000 on Midnight Madness as a junior walk-on | Went on to become UW-SP intramural basketball champion | Then UW-SP club lacrosse defenseman with two career goals (on two shots).

Big Dog, Bogut, Abdual-Jabbar … Embiid?

By RICK SOLEM Here are the odds for the NBA draft lottery tonight. Team     Percentage No. 1 Top 3 Milwaukee 25.0% 64.2% Philadelphia 19.9% 55.8% Orlando 15.6% 46.9% […]

Thunder have to get ridiculous to beat Spurs

By RICK SOLEM Serge Ibaka is out. The Oklahoma City Thunder find themselves in the middle of the playoffs, shorthanded. Again. But it doesn’t necessarily spell doom this time. Right […]

Thunder have to get ridiculous to beat Spurs

By RICK SOLEM Serge Ibaka is out. The Oklahoma City Thunder find themselves in the middle of the playoffs, shorthanded. Again. But it doesn’t necessarily spell doom this time. Right […]

Heat is on for Pacers to wake up

By RICK SOLEM LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh could all be free agents after this season. Up against the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, this could […]

Heat is on for Pacers to wake up

By RICK SOLEM LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh could all be free agents after this season. Up against the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, this could […]

Packers get their safety, Vikes get a QB

By RICK SOLEM Sometimes it’s not simply about speed. Ha Ha (Ha’Sean) Clinton-Dix wasn’t the fastest safety in the NFL draft. And, of the 24 first-round safeties taken since 1998, […]

Packers get their safety, Vikes get a QB

By RICK SOLEM Sometimes it’s not simply about speed. Ha Ha (Ha’Sean) Clinton-Dix wasn’t the fastest safety in the NFL draft. And, of the 24 first-round safeties taken since 1998, […]

NFL DRAFT: Packers should take …

… Johnny Manziel? By RICK SOLEM The NFL draft: football’s biggest tease. It’s one big waiting game followed by another. First we wait for each and every pick. Every where […]

NFL DRAFT: Packers should take …

… Johnny Manziel? By RICK SOLEM The NFL draft: football’s biggest tease. It’s one big waiting game followed by another. First we wait for each and every pick. Every where […]

NBA, Round 2 – Getting your groove back

By RICK SOLEM Six games into the second round of the playoffs and it’s a little baffling what’s happening. Every game but one has been a blowout. The first round […]

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