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Tamara Flarup sits at the press table at a UW Badgers game.

Hard-won battles for new UW Athletic Hall of Fame inductee

Doug Moe,

She earned her spot after a 40-year career at UW Athletics, but the early days weren't easy for women in sports.

Why 'The Queen's Gambit' rang a bell and helped launch a career

Doug Moe,

When he heard the popular Netflix series was based on a novel of the same name, Doug Moe remembered he'd reviewed it for a newspaper nearly 40 years ago.

Roach: Goodbye, old friend

John Roach,

The past year will be remembered as one of loss.

Mary Gooze smiling and flexing muscles in a wet suit in front of a Madison lake

Woman with stage 4 cancer swims toward a new goal for her 70th birthday

Doug Moe,

With a June event, Mary Gooze hopes to raise $70,000 for metastatic breast cancer research at UW Carbone Cancer Center, where she has already helped raise $1.5 million.

Editor's note: It’s about the stories

Andrea Behling,

There’s power in good storytelling, and it’s a responsibility and an honor to get to do it.

A panoramic shot of the interior of a new exhibit at Baltusrol Golf Club

Madison designer helps reinvigorate legendary golf clubhouse

Doug Moe,

ZEBRADOG's founder and "golf nut" Mark Schmitz was tapped to dazzle and modernize the historic Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey.

a perhaps 1970s-era photo of the band called Dr Bop And The Headliners, lined up in black and red suits with lead singer Al Craven in a white jacket in the center.

Golden anniversary approaches for the ultimate bar band

Doug Moe,

It's been nearly 50 years since Dr. Bop and the Headliners featuring The White Raven played its first gig at Nitty Gritty.

Side by side images with author Shanna Greene Benjamin on the left and her book about Nellie McKay on the right

New book brings Nellie McKay out of the shadows

Doug Moe,

Author Shanna Greene Benjamin describes how the late UW–Madison professor’s work illuminated literature by Black women while she kept her own life private.

Roach: Better Man

John Roach,

The world has been dormant for a year. Life as we knew it has been on hold since last March. But in the midst of this latency period, someone has been working. And his name is Kaleem Caire.

Editor's note: Welcome to the ’20s

Andrea Behling,

We aren’t roaring — we’re roaming. And ruminating. And reflecting. We are being reborn, more curious, more aware and more humble than we were before.

An outdoor shot of the Wonder Bar by night, with its iconic red sign glowing above the entrance and reflected onto the pavement below.

Wonder Bar tales will live on

Doug Moe,

A proposed development to demolish the Wonder Bar has me recalling one of my favorite Jim Harrison lines: “Death steals everything except our stories.”

Patrick Mcbride is shown both decades ago and today, now wearing a 1971 warmup jacket from Lew Alcindor (better known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

Patrick McBride says he was 'The Luckiest Boy in the World'

Doug Moe,

Retired physician Patrick McBride's real-life teenage experiences were the stuff of sports fans' dreams, detailed in an as-of-yet unpublished manuscript.

Black, white and blue watercolor illustration of Ernest Hemingway from the shoulders up next to an older looking red copy of the book called Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Larry Phillips

Southern Wisconsin's connection to Ernest Hemingway

Doug Moe,

40 years ago, Monroe native Larry W. Phillips had an idea that resulted in sharing a copyright with Ernest Hemingway’s widow.

A flatbed truck loaded with wood is parked outside the Forest Products Laboratory building in Madison, Wisconsin

Forest Products Laboratory's wood expert answers the call

Doug Moe,

After Capitol insurrectionists destroyed historical wooden artifacts and objects, the U.S. Army tapped Madison research engineer Robert Ross for help.

Roach: The boomers are coming

John Roach,

Although COVID-19 and its variants have not been extinguished from our lives, we can now see a time when the vicious interloper will no longer be hovering over our shoulder.