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By Bill Plaschke [ http://tinyurl.com/9fu2wr6 ] who seems a fair-minded columnist. Not sure entirely about some of those others on the sports page of the LA Times.

I laughed aloud when I saw this, Chicago Outsider. One of the CardBoard originals who has drifted away, Oasis, used to go frothing mad at any mention of Plaschke, who he referred to as the Minister of Propaganda at the U.S. version of Pravda. I thought Oasis was possibly a bit overboard on the subject, but Plaschke did produce some unduly harsh columns about Stanford in run-up to the 2000 Rose Bowl. And he wrote a downright stupid one the day after the game, which he portrayed as an easy Wisconsin victory over a hapless Stanford team that had no answer for Ron Dayne.

Dayne did gouge us for 200 yards, but that was about the only offense Wisconsin produced. They won 17-9, but we had the ball at the end and were driving for a TD that might have sent the game into overtime before Todd Husak slipped on a fourth-down play on a muddy field. It didn't look like all that easy a victory to me.

And it might be the case that that post of mine wasn't the only one that made you laugh out loud. I know you took offense to something I wrote a while back about the '99 Rose Bowl team which I apologized for, although not for my essential point, so I will stay out of that. I'm certain you have good reason for your perspective but his article on the U.SC overtime game last year was certainly fair and made a lot of U.SC-centric readers upset. I searched for it but couldn't find it (however I did happen to print to PDF at the time so do have it).

[ChicagoCard]

By Bill Plaschke [ http://tinyurl.com/9fu2wr6 ] who seems a fair-minded columnist. Not sure entirely about some of those others on the sports page of the LA Times.

I laughed aloud when I saw this, Chicago Outsider. One of the CardBoard originals who has drifted away, Oasis, used to go frothing mad at any mention of Plaschke, who he referred to as the Minister of Propaganda at the U.S. version of Pravda. I thought Oasis was possibly a bit overboard on the subject, but Plaschke did produce some unduly harsh columns about Stanford in run-up to the 2000 Rose Bowl. And he wrote a downright stupid one the day after the game, which he portrayed as an easy Wisconsin victory over a hapless Stanford team that had no answer for Ron Dayne.

Dayne did gouge us for 200 yards, but that was about the only offense Wisconsin produced. They won 17-9, but we had the ball at the end and were driving for a TD that might have sent the game into overtime before Todd Husak slipped on a fourth-down play on a muddy field. It didn't look like all that easy a victory to me.

And it might be the case that that post of mine wasn't the only one that made you laugh out loud. I know you took offense to something I wrote a while back about the '99 Rose Bowl team which I apologized for, although not for my essential point, so I will stay out of that. I'm certain you have good reason for your perspective but his article on the U.SC overtime game last year was certainly fair and made a lot of U.SC-centric readers upset. I searched for it but couldn't find it (however I did happen to print to PDF at the time so do have it).