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Spring time means one thing time for the Boston Red Sox to take the field and to make another run for the post season. There is a lot of hope for the team from Boston this year, many people think that this will be the year that they will go back to the World Series and reclaim their spot in baseball history.

There will be no World Series for the Red Sox if they do not keep their bullpen healthy, there key to the comeback for Boston lies with a healthy bullpen, This is the one rule that cannot be altered. There are several players that offer their experience on the field as an example of the amount that they can bring to the pitching rotation.

Boston has the potential to have one of the best bullpens in the league, the only real problem is that they will need to make sure that their starters are all healthy in order to make it to the top. There has been issues in the past with keeping the pitchers all healthy and ensuring that they are able to pitch for Boston. If this is accomplished, then the Bullpen will be the key to the team having success.  Read more...

The Wisconsin Badgers have, from the beginning, been a football program where success and failure have come in waves. Though the team’s overall 614-465 record is a positive one, it does not tell the entire story of Badger football – a tale that involves not only prolonged periods of success, but prolonged periods of failure as well. In the wake of their successful 1901 campaign, the Badgers went through a three and a half decade time of poor play that was only broken by their undefeated season in 1912. They nearly repeated that era of mediocrity with another after their defeat in the Rose Bowl of 1962 – another three decades of miserable results. However, the 1990 arrival of Barry Alvarez as Wisconsin’s Head Coach would signal the return of the Badgers to national prominence.

Alvarez’ coaching pedigree

Barry Alvarez had a strong pedigree in college football when he first arrived at Wisconsin. As a player in the 1960s, he was coached by the great Bob Devaney. He later tried his hand as a high school coach in both Nebraska and Iowa, until he was given an assistant coaching position at the University of Iowa under the legendary Hawkeye coach Hayden Fry. A brief tenure as an assistant at the University of Notre Dame completed the Alvarez journey to the Badgers’ front door. His arrival at the school in 1990 was to be the beginning of the Badger revival – though the first three seasons of play gave little indication of the outstanding results that would soon follow.  Read more...