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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).

Milwaukee Bucks new floor design

Rick Solemrick@580wkty.com Here’s a model of what the Milwaukee Bucks new floor will look like this season. To me, it kind of is a cross between Tetris and Pacman. No […]

HS Football: Logan takes the ark from Central

By RICK SOLEMricks@mwfbroadcasting.com Five points, 3 minutes, 67 yards, 3,000 fans and the 88th meeting for one ark – no problem. Call them the odd couple: a 5-foot-10, 155-pound quarterback […]

HS Football: Logan takes the ark from Central

By RICK SOLEMricks@mwfbroadcasting.com Five points, 3 minutes, 67 yards, 3,000 fans and the 88th meeting for one ark – no problem. Call them the odd couple: a 5-foot-10, 155-pound quarterback […]

Packers looked good, Seahawks looked better

Column: RICK SOLEMricks@mwfbroadcasting.com The Green Bay Packers looked like a Super Bowl bound team Sunday. The Washington Redskins were never in the mix and the 38-20 score is no indication […]

Packers looked good, Seahawks looked better

Column: RICK SOLEMricks@mwfbroadcasting.com The Green Bay Packers looked like a Super Bowl bound team Sunday. The Washington Redskins were never in the mix and the 38-20 score is no indication […]

UW-L FB: Walsh rumblin’ stumblin’

By RICK SOLEM ricks@mwfbroadcasting.com All the momentum had shifted. A crowd-oohing stick by UW-La Crosse senior Brett Benson forced a fumble. Teammate Andy Walsh, all 260 pounds of him, picked […]

UW-L FB: Walsh rumblin’ stumblin’

By RICK SOLEM ricks@mwfbroadcasting.com All the momentum had shifted. A crowd-oohing stick by UW-La Crosse senior Brett Benson forced a fumble. Teammate Andy Walsh, all 260 pounds of him, picked […]

UW-L FB can’t recover from slow start

By RICK SOLEMricks@mwfbroadcasting.com Sometimes, it looks like the first game of the season. For the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse football team, that was exactly the case – figuratively and literally. The […]

UW-L FB can’t recover from slow start

By RICK SOLEMricks@mwfbroadcasting.com Sometimes, it looks like the first game of the season. For the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse football team, that was exactly the case – figuratively and literally. The […]

NFL Playoff Predictions

Column: RICK SOLEMricks@mwfbroadcasting.com There may not be a more exciting game to kick off the 2013-14 NFL season. It’s the rematch of the AFC Divisional playoff between the Baltimore Ravens […]

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