The Wisconsin Sportscast

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Wisconsin Men’s Basketball has continued to be on a roll in recent weeks (minus a loss to UCLA last week). Lucas and Oates decide to look back a bit and ask: where are Wisconsin's big name transfers from last year now? The big one they tackle first is AJ Storr, who left the Badgers for a big money contract in Kansas. Since his big move thou...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas and Oates remember one of the biggest figures in Wisconsin sports: Mr. Baseball himself Bob Uecker. Uecker was the man who could laugh at himself and made a career out of it. Sure, he was known before he became the voice of the Brewers, but you’ll be hard to hear an argument from anyone that he wasn’t one of the best baseball an...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas and Oates start with some breaking news out of college sports as the NCAA proposes to reduce the transfer windows into a single transfer window. Under the proposal, there would be just one 10 transfer window in January. No more players checking out before the bowl games! Lucas says hey, progress is progress. Oates is not so sure. Not that h...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, it’s a Packers playoff preview as they take on the Eagles this Sunday with some losses on both sides of the ball. Jaire Alexander is still out on the defense, and Christian Watson went down with a no-contact injury against the Bears on Sunday. Looking at the NFL today though, they should be considered lucky they haven’t lost more top...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas and Oates prepare to hibernate for the winter (episodes will return on 1/08/2025) with an end of year special that sounds suspiciously like every other episode… This week, it’s time for the college football championship. With the first weekend complete the games have been, so far, underwhelming. Some people have blamed the seed...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, the Badgers football team seems to be taking on their biggest rival yet: the transfer portal. Both Tyler Van Dyke and Braedyn Locke (not to mention his brother Landyn) are out of the Badgers, as are a slew of other players. In their place, however, are a handful of battle tested quarterbacks, namely San Diego’s Danny O’Neil and Maryla...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Willy Adames is heading to the bank with a new contract with the San Francisco Giants for $182 million over 7 years. It was bound to happen sooner or later this offseason, there’s just no way the Brewers would be able to afford that price tag. Yes, he was the lynchpin of the team, and did lots of good for Milwaukee. But with that kind of mo...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Badger Football has come to a fizzling end, as they fell to the Gophers Friday. By the end of the game, only Gopher fans were still in Camp Randall in another dreary performance by the Badgers. After 22 years, the Badgers won’t be going to a bowl game this year. So what comes next? Luke Fickell isn’t going anywhere, and after two year...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, it’s Axe Week in Madison as the Badgers prepare to take on the Minnesota Gophers on Black Friday. But this week, Luke Fickell did not have to defend (or not defend) any axings after the Badger’s big loss against Nebraska this weekend. Maybe he should have had to defend an axing after that performance. Lucas and Oates are at a loss for...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas and Oates aren’t talking about the Badger Football Team’s formidable fight against Oregon, or the Badgers Men’s Basketball Team’s big upset win, or even the Packers questionable win against the Bears. Okay, maybe they talk about those big moments a little bit, but that’s not their focus. No, something more conc...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, there’s a big, exciting weekend ahead for fans of Badgers sports. Starting on Friday night, the men’s basketball team will be taking on Arizona at the Kohl’s Center in what will likely be a great game for fans. Not only will it be Bo Ryan night, with the raising of a banner in his name with a few of his final four players in att...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Jordan Love is beginning to show a pattern for the season so far: big game making mistakes. This time while taking on the Lions in Green Bay, a pick 6 at the end of the first half, putting a dour mood over the rest of the game. Yes, Detroit played very well, and yes the weather was terrible, but that’s not an excuse. The Packers outdrove th...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, laryngitis can’t keep Lucas down as he and Oates take a look at the highly anticipated matchup between the Packers and the Lions this Sunday. It’s a shame that both teams are facing some big injuries, but even with the Lions’ dominant victory this weekend, Oates says the Packers still have a chance. The Packers are a good team,...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Tony Bennett has announced that he is retiring as head coach of the University of Virginia basketball team. His reasons? The same complaints that Lucas and Oates have been making: NIL is changing the game, and not in a good way. Or as he put it in a press conference last week, he’s become a square peg for a circle hole. Most college coaches...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Bo Ryan is added to another hall of fame in the Naismith Hall of Fame, to a very warm audience. He even gave a great speech, says Lucas! At least for Bo Ryan it was a great speech. He was gracious, he was humble, he was even emotional at times. But that makes Lucas ask the question: who was Bo Ryan the coach? Oates says that Bo Ryan, to him, mean...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, the Brewers deliver their yearly postseason gut punch with a last minute loss to the Mets. There was a lot of chatter about Devin Williams and Pat Murphy’s choice to use Williams as a closer, but what was he supposed to do? Williams might not have had it in him in game 3 against the Mets, but if you’ll forgive the cliche, that’s...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Love had his big comeback on Sunday in a tight loss to the Vikings, and he played about as Lucas and Oates expected. Well, other than the picks at least. He did limp a little bit here and there, but overall he looked like a guy who’s played one game this season and has been out for weeks. Should he have waited another week to come back, and...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas and Oates are feeling the buzz for this Sunday’s Packers game against the Viking. Did anyone expect this game to be so anticipated before the season? Nobody was expecting the Vikings to be great, and now they are a truly formidable team, thanks to both a great coaching staff and good players on the field. While people thought the Pack...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, the boys start the episode the same way they started last week with an injured quarterback. Tyler Van Dyke went down in the game against Alabama. Van Dyke suffered a torn ACL in what Oates thought was a nasty no-contact injury. He’ll be out the rest of the season, which is a blow to everyone. It’s a blow to Van Dyke, who’s going...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, it’s hard to lead with anything other than Jordan Love’s injury. In the final seconds of the Packers opening game in Brazil on Friday, Love went down that Oates and everyone else thought looked like a horrible leg injury. But LeFleur says he has an MCL sprain, meaning he’s only expected to be out for 3-6 games. LeFleur is even l...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas brings up an uncomfortable question: can the Brewers keep Willy Adames?  Probably not, says Oates. He’s playing great baseball, and every home run he hits helps the Brewers grow their divisional lead. But those home runs are also driving up his price point. While he’s a great fit for the Brewers, both in terms of athletic a...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, it’s cut down day for the Packers, and while one big name player isn’t cut, he is out for the season. The team announced that AJ Dillon is out for the season due to a neck injury. That’s a blow to the Packers, especially since this might mean Dillon is done not just for the season, but for the Packers.  The green and gold s...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas and Oates look back at what they said last week about what LeFleur said about wanting to vomit, and wonder if Packers fans are feeling about the same this week. After last weekend’s exhibition nightmare, Oates thinks it’s about time that Packers fans got a bit humbled. For months, people have been heaping a little bit too much p...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, the Packers had their first preseason game this past weekend, and Lucas and Oates have a lot of thoughts. But no questions about the Packers’ Number One WR, or LaFleur might vomit. He says he’s sick of that question, and there’s little question why. One of the few issues Aaron Rodgers had when he was still with the Packers was t...

In this week's episode of The Wisconsin Sportscast, Lucas and Oates spend a little bit of time having old man flashbacks before tackling a big question everyone watching the beginning of the NFL season: what’s going on with these new kickoff rules? They’ll be tested out for a one-year basis, but they are very confusing. Onside kicks are only allowed in the fourth quarter, and only if t...