One tourney to rule them all -- seeding the best 32 boys teams in Wisconsin
JP and JR return for a one-day-only engagement on the cusp of the 2018 boys basketball tournament, with some thoughts about the forthcoming...
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Initial Reaction with JR Radcliffe and JP Cadorin
Each week, Lake Country/NOW sports director JR Radcliffe and Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's JP Cadorin chat about the Wisconsin sports scene, with an emphasis on Milwaukee-area preps.
Episodes
20 of 128 episodesEpisode 126: The Final Episode of Initial Reaction
JP and JR bid farewell to their listeners with one last episode of Initial Reaction, then discuss the early impressions from the 2017 high-s...
Episode 125: Football has begun! A look at our top area prep football storylines
JP and JR chat about the official start of the 2017 high-school football season and storylines to watch, from the individual star power of F...
Episode 124: The pitch-count conundrum in high-school baseball playoffs
JP and JR take a look at the dilemma facing high-school baseball coaches as they try to work around pitch-count restrictions in the playoffs...
Episode 123: Re-living the top Brewers moments from the first half and a look ahead to WIAA baseball postseason
Andrew Gruman joins JR to "draft" the best moments from the first half of the 2017 Milwaukee Brewers season, a delightful stretch that sees...
Episode 122: Is a shot clock good for high-school basketball? WIAA announces several big changes
In this special edition of the podcast, John Casper from the Winona Daily News and La Crosse Tribune stops by to chat about a monster series...
Episode 121: Big Bucks week, was US Open really a massive hit and Franklin alumnus and Cardinals draft pick Evan Kruczynski
Evan Kruczynski, who was taken by the St. Louis #Cardinals in the ninth round of the Major League Baseball Draft and originally hails from F...
Epsisode 120: Jordan Niebrugge readies for U.S. Open and Catholic Memorial AD Greg Gamalski
Jordan Niebrugge, formerly of Homestead High School, chats with JR in anticipation of his first U.S. Open, which will be his first and take...
Episode 119: Five things JR got wrong about the Brewers, plus WIAA spring postseason
JR and JP discuss the five things JR got totally wrong about the Milwaukee Brewers (22:30), which remain in first place in the National Leag...
Episode 118: Looking back at the 2016-17 high-school sports season
In the hours before the inaugural Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sports Awards, Andrew Gruman and JR discuss the highlights from the 2016-17 ath...
Episode 117: Greg Malling, new football coach at Oconomowoc
Former Arrowhead coach Greg Malling, who led the program to four straight appearances in the state title game before coaching in Minnesota d...
Episode 116: Talking Vince Biegel with Wisconsin Rapids football coach Tony Biolo
Wisconsin Rapids football coach Tony Biolo swings by (15:00) to chat about one of his former pupils, former Wisconsin Defensive Player of th...
Episode 115: Joe Schobert of Cleveland Browns and Rob Reischel on Packers NFL Draft
Rob Reischel of Packers Plus swings by to talk about the Packers and the NFL Draft, including where the criticism of general manager Ted Tho...
Episode 114: Bucks, Gary D'Amato on golf and WNBA draftee Mehryn Kraker
JP and JR are psyched for the Milwaukee Bucks playoff battle at home Thursday, with the series against the Toronto Raptors tied at 1-1. Is t...
Episode 113: Brianna Decker of U.S. women's hockey team
Dousman native Brianna Decker swings by (19:30) to talk about the U.S. Women's Hockey Team's battle with USA Hockey for equal treatment, fol...
Episode 112: Steve Showalter on his son's big moment and more, plus a Brewers preview with Opening Day upon us
Steve Showalter coached both his sons when he won three state championships at Germantown High School, but he was a heavily invested fan liv...
Epsiode 111: Area natives part of successful women's hockey labor standoff
Nicole Haase, a Milwaukeean who covers women's hockey extensively at USCHO.com and elsewhere, stops by to talk about the circumstances surro...
Episode 110: The future of Badgers basketball hoists a trophy at the Kohl Center
Benjamin Worgull of The Badger Nation stops by (16:30) to talk about the Sweet 16-bound Wisconsin Badgers team, specifically the next wave o...
Episode 109: The best boys basketball programs in WIAA history
Now Newspapers scribe Steven L. Tietz stops by to talk about the best programs in state boys basketball history, from the recent (Stevens Po...
Episode 108: Horizon Hysteria with Paul Oren and WIAA winter postseason
Paul Oren, who covers the Horizon League, stops by to talk about the insanity of the league tournament, where UW-Milwaukee (seeded 10th) is...