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The Milwaukee Bucs head coach suffers another defeat to go 17 wins and 19 losses since he’s been with the team.
The former coach only lasted 37 games but went 30 wins to only 7 losses, thereby putting the Bucs in the playoffs in spite of River’s truly pitiful performance. The former coach’s record proved beyond a doubt that the Bucs were championship material. The only difference between his run as head coach and Rivers is…Rivers. Rumors abounded about how the former coach could not get along with the top stars of the team. Rivers came in as their best friend. How did that work for the team as a whole? Apparently, if those rumors have merit, not too well. Big star players generally are that and only that, not coach material in almost any way. They are about being stars themselves, and not necessarily the team being the star of having much of a part in the fame of that. Both Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers managed to prove that as their stardom was built upon the success of the Packers team, and then their stardom gave them the power to make believe that they knew better than the coaching staff how to run the team. The rest is history, now being repeated with the Bucs for all to see. The results, and conclusions anyone can draw from them, are rather.
The Milwaukee Brewers honored a Walworth County Sheriff’s deputy who nearly died in 2021.
Wayne Blanchard was hit by a car and seriously injured while on duty. Blanchard was working on third-shift patrol when a pursuit of a drunk driver began. He was called to help stop the chase and was deploying stopsticks when the fleeing vehicle hit both a guardrail and the deputy. “The last known speed was 113 miles an hour,” Blanchard said. Blanchard woke up two weeks later with broken bones all over his body. He has undergone more than 55 surgeries and will likely have more. Friday night, he was April’s “Hometown Hero” and threw out the ceremonial first pitch at American Family Field. He is this month’s recipient of the Brewers Hometown Champion Award, an award that recognizes the courage, commitment, and sacrifices of the men and women in the fire rescue service, law enforcement, emergency medical services, and first responder roles across Wisconsin. A ballpark of fans, including family who flew in to surprise him, cheered as Blanchard stepped to the mound with his service dog. Blanchard now shares his story to help other law enforcement members who have been seriously injured in the line of duty.
