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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- They do football the old-fashioned way at Wisconsin. Remember huddles? Remember fullbacks? Old-fashioned might be too newfangled a descriptive for this offense.Archaic, head coach Paul Chryst said after his No. 11 Badgers humiliated No. 8 Michigan State 30-6 in both teams Big Ten Conference opener.The Badgers dont flip the ball to the official and run back to the line of scrimmage. They huddle until the 40-second clock has done half its work. They walk back to the line. Then they move the chains.In four games, their longest gain is 47 yards. They have one run of more than 35 yards. But they hold the ball for 37 minutes per game. They have 12 scoring drives of at least eight plays. In a fast-food world, the Badgers chew their opponents slowly before they swallow them.Its pretty straightforward, senior running back Corey Clement said. Theres not a lot of twists and turns in this offense. Defenses know what were going to do, and that makes it that much better when you can execute on a higher level.The truth is the Spartans played stingy defense Saturday. They held the Badgers to 317 total yards. What they didnt do was rattle redshirt freshman Alex Hornibrook. Making his first start on the road against the defending league champion, Hornibrook completed 16 of 26 passes for 195 yards with one touchdown and one interception.In the end, how the Michigan State defense played didnt matter because the Spartans offense and special teams proved generous to a fault. Wisconsin free safety Leo Musso returned a fumble by Michigan State tailback LJ Scott 66 yards for a touchdown. Spartans punter Jake Hartbarger mishandled a snap at his 5-yard line, and the Badgers needed one play to score a touchdown.But there was also the first of Michigan State quarterback?Tyler OConnors three interceptions, midway through the second quarter, which Badgers corner Sojourn Shelton returned 8 yards to the Spartans 28. The resulting touchdown drive describes the Wisconsin offense quite well. The Badgers went 28 yards in six plays and needed 2:40 to do so.By comparison, in No. 3 Louisvilles first three games, the Cardinals scored 19 of their 26 touchdowns in less time. Wisconsin might not quite be a team for leather helmets, but the Badgers, like No. 4 Michigan, their next opponent, and No. 7 Stanford, play a brand of football that would be recognizable to Bo Schembechler or John McKay or any other time traveler with a whistle around his neck.Wisconsin junior wide receiver Jazz Peavy grew up watching Wisconsin football. The school is the only place he ever wanted to play. He understands the appeal of the hurry-up spread offense.Its very fun to watch, exciting to watch, Peavy said. Those are teams that go, go, go, always pass, pass, pass. Its always exciting. But I love what I do here. This has got to be exciting to watch. Hard-nosed football, get your hands in the ground and go to work.Enjoyable, yes. Exciting? If you say so, Jazz. The truth is, grinding it out is as much a part of the Wisconsin identity as cheese curds and the bubbler (what the rest of us call a water fountain). When Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez resurrected the Badgers program from the dead in 1990, he said, Our hearts and minds will come from Wisconsin, but our hands and feet better come from somewhere else.Thats why the Badgers dont spread the field.Where are we going to get skilled guys to do that? Alvarez asked Saturday. We can get big linemen. Thats what we can get. So you gotta start with the running game. Youre going down to Florida and all these places, youre getting seconds. Ill tell you, if [the spread is] what you run, and youve got to prepare to play us, its hard. How do you prepare? Because [were] so physical.The Badgers find guys such as junior left tackle Ryan Ramczyk, who went to a technical college for one season, played two years at Division III Wisconsin-Stevens Point and, after a redshirt season, is protecting his quarterbacks blind side.I think it fits the players that we get, said Chryst, who coached eight seasons for Alvarez and Bret Bielema in Madison. I suppose once you get going, you look for those players. But it fits Wisconsin. Theres a formula, and it isnt the only one. But it does fit Wisconsin.This game had been billed as the first portion of a five-game marathon. Wisconsin plays at fourth-ranked Michigan next week and then, after a week off, plays No. 2 Ohio State, at Iowa and No. 20 Nebraska. Realists who predicted the Badgers would go 2-3 are changing their predictions. Suddenly, Wisconsins future doesnt look as ominous as what Michigan State is facing.Since taking a 36-7 lead in the third quarter last week at Notre Dame, the Spartans have been outscored 51-6. If you ignore the season-opening victory over FCS Furman, Michigan States game before that was the 38-0 playoff semifinal loss to Alabama last season.Wisconsin might be archaic, but the Badgers just made the Big Ten race a lot more interesting. Oscar Robertson Bucks Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. Sterling Brown Bucks Jersey . Miller reached right to deflect Mikhail Grabovskis attempt with just over 2 minutes remaining in regulation, and then made two more saves in the shootout Sunday to give the Sabres a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals. https://www.bucksrookiesshop.com/Luke-Maye-City-Edition-Jersey/ . 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"I went through a lot," said Wade, whos now a three-time NBA champion. "But Im at peace now." Wade also received platelet-rich plasma therapy late in the regular season to combat three bone bruises around his right knee, which was his biggest source of frustration and pain during the playoffs. Wade said two of the bruises healed, but a third -- directly under the kneecap -- remained a big problem, especially since that area was also affected by tendinitis. Wade underwent an MRI to rule out additional problems during the East finals against Indiana, and said he was driving into a meeting with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra before Game 7 of that series -- not long after saying in the immediate aftermath of the Game 6 loss to the Pacers that he needed the ball more -- to tell him that he felt he should only play short minutes because his ineffectiveness was hurting the team. Spoelstra had other ideas, and Wade decided to scrap his plan. "I felt like if I was going to be playing the way I was playing, and hurting the way I was hurting, I wasnt going to be able to help us move on to the next round," Wade said. "I was going to say play me short minutes only, and give Mike Miller and guys other opportunities. But I came into the meeting, and all Spo was about was giving me more opportunities and getting me ways to be more successful. So I was like, Well, changed my mind." Following the MRI that was done late in the Indiana series, Wade said the teams athletic trainers amended his treatment plan slightly, and he started seeing immediate improvement. He scored 21 points in the East-clincher against the Pacers, then scored a total of 57 points -- by far his best two-game stretch of the playoffs -- in Games 4 and 5 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs. But early in Game 6 of the title series, Wades collided with the Spurs Manu Ginobili. Before long, Wades surgically repaired left knee, which kept him out of last summers London Olympics, had swollen up "like a coconut." He needed treatment during the game, even missing the start of the second half. Wade got a large amounnt of fluid drained from the knee on Wednesday, then got more than three hours of treatment at the arena Thursday morning and about 4 1/2 more hours of work done in the afternoon, going almost all the way up to the moment the Heat took the floor to warm up for Game 7.dddddddddddd Wade played 39 minutes in the finale, scoring 23 points on 11 for 21 shooting. "We know what he was dealing with," Spoelstra said after Game 7. "Really, he should be commended for being out there and doing whatever it takes, putting himself out there for criticism, possible criticism, because he wasnt 100 per cent. And he just helped us win. That was the bottom line. It was a selfless effort for two months. And some players probably wouldnt have played." Wade said the right knee pain was at times the second-worst thing hes dealt with, injury-wise, in his 10-year career, behind only the shoulder he dislocated in 2007 in an awkward collision with then-Houston forward and current Heat teammate Shane Battier. The late-season knee problems took some shine off a year where Wade averaged 21.2 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.1 assists on a career-best 52 per cent shooting, yet still had his skills often questioned. Only Heat teammate LeBron James, Oklahoma Citys Russell Westbrook and the Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant averaged as much in all three of those categories this season as Wade did. "The toughest part of it is, you work all season to get healthy coming off of knee surgery," Wade said. "And when I finally got the way, everybody saw in my play that I was playing great, some of the best basketball in the role I have on this team. Then I get the bone bruises, and something I worked hard for was getting taken away, and I dealt with it for three months. It was disappointing, frustrating. It hurt. I was able to mask it some nights. Some nights, not." In the end, it was all worthwhile. Wade will soon be getting his third ring -- "3 for No. 3," as the shirts many of his friends wore amid the Heat celebration pointed out. "Selfishly, Im going to say we won this one for me," Wade said. "Because of the way my career has gone and the things Ive dealt with personally, I wanted this third one. In my mind, it validates the player Ive become in this league. When you change your position, going from being talked about as one of the three best players in this game to people questioning your ability, I needed this one to validate that what I did was the right thing. I can be at peace with anything going forward." ' ' '