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What is it about…Basketball?
MARCH
What is it about March Madness basketball?
The answer is right there in the question: It’s the
madness of it all.
From filling out your bracket to seeing if you can
look like you really know what you are doing, it’s
madness.
Can you impress your peers? Or how about the
person who just got plain lucky in their pick
because he or she thought the mascot looked cool?
It’s rooting for the underdog to take down the
bigger school, and watching and hoping one of
your state schools, the one you may have attended,
makes it to the final four.
It’s sitting on the edge of your seat praying
that the team you picked to win the tournament
doesn’t lose in the first round, busting your bracket,
and putting you in jeopardy of receiving an
infamous traveling trophy known throughout
the Plenco community.
This time of year, sports fans need the tourna-
ment to get us through that rough spot between
the end of football season and the beginning of
baseball season.
For me, this is the best sporting event of the year
to watch; second best, of course, if my Steelers go
to the Super Bowl.
So for those of you who got out those high-
lighters and marked those winners on your bracket,
I hope the March Madness gods smiled upon you.
There’s always next year for 57 days between
football and baseball!
‘March Madness’ is just
that: Madness
!
By Chonon Ramos (BMC)
Between 1936 and 1938, Enzo Jels took on the Harlem
Globetrotters, New York Celtics, and Chicago Duffy
Florals. By 1938, their reputation earned them admission
to the NBL, and a local dentist, Edwin “Doc” Schulte,
became their coach.
After winning their only NBL title, the Red Skins
continued as one of the strongest teams in pro basketball,
playing championship games in 1944, ‘45 and ‘46. The team
remained among the NBL elites, scoring play-off berths in
1947 and 1949.
Kenny Suesens became a player-head coach in 1948 for
one season, but even after he stopped playing, he made a
name for himself as head coach of the Red Skins from
1948 to 1951. Under Suesens, they would go 1–2 in the
playoffs. Suesens went on to be golf pro at Pine Hills
Country Club, where he became a sophisticated sportsman
in Sheboygan society.
In the last season of the NBL, in 1949, the Red Skins
unveiled a fresh group of stars from Kentucky, Indiana,
Texas, Washington, Iowa and Wisconsin.
From the pinnacle, the trip was all downhill for the Red
Skins. They withdrew from the NBL in 1950 and joined
the National Professional Basketball League that folded
after only one season. Sheboygan investment financier
Magnus Brinkman led an effort to save the Red Skins, but
to no avail.
The Red Skins, despite their class and elite status, played
only one more season, in 1950-51, before hanging it up.
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