Milwaukee Memorial Day Parade 2013 Information

Milwaukee's 148^th Memorial Day Parade is set to get-underway on Monday. The annual event is one of the city's largest and most attended gatherings, lining thousands of spectators along the parade route.

Honoring the service men and women who have fallen during combat, this year's parade will feature a saluting of Milwaukee County Veteran of the Year Mike Malloy. The usual color guards, bands, military vehicles, and marching units will also be in procession, and an after ceremony will lay wreaths for POW-MIA soldiers. A special honor to service women from past and present will be the special theme of 2013's parade.

The Memorial Day Parade will begin at 2PM on Monday, May 27^th at the corner of 4^th Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The event will last approximately an hour-and-a-half, ending at the Veterans Park War Memorial Center at 3:30PM. The wreath-laying ceremony will begin immediately thereafter. Parking for the event will be most readily available at the Grand Avenue Mall parking structures on 2^nd and Michigan and 4^th and Wells.

Milwaukee Admirals Season Ends At Quarterfinals

The Milwaukee Admirals were kicked from the postseason last weekend, losing their opening five-game series to the Texas Stars three games to one. It is the team's second first-round loss in as many years, as they fell win-less against Abbotsford in 2012.

Milwaukee finished the season just two games short of a top-seed in the Midwest Division. Winning 41 games in 2012, the team continued a decade-long streak of 40-plus win seasons, though a Calder Cup has eluded the organization since 2003.

The number-one seed in the South, the Stars kept the Admirals scoreless for five consecutive periods at one point during the Western Conference Quarterfinal series. Kevin Henderson managed to save some face for the team late in Friday's game, breaking the drought with just 90 seconds left in the third. They couldn't come up with another, however, and goals from Texas Matt Fraser and Alex Chaiasson earlier in the night was enough to end the Admirals season.

Unlike the Bucks fortunes in their recent playoff appearance, nobody can claim the fire left the Admirals over the past two weeks. The team threw a volley of shots on Stars keeper Cristopher Nilstorp in the final period in Cedar Park, out-shooting the home team by ten in the last twenty-minutes.

Not even after dropping the first game of the series in a crushing overtime defensive dual that only saw a single goal did Milwaukee waver. They evened the series at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on April 27^th with an impressive shutout. Goalie Magnus Hellberg stopped twenty-three shots in the game, though his luck wouldn't last in Texas during the pair's third meeting and fourth meetings. Texas would put in four goals to the Admirals one on their home rink, handing Milwaukee a shutout of their own in game three.

The Stars move on to face division rival the Oklahoma City Barons in the semifinals. The Barons finished third in the South behind Texas and the Charlotte Checkers, though they swept Charlotte in their opening five-game series three games to none. 

Brewers Run Hot And Cold In 2013 | Will Fans Like The Bumpy Brewers Ride

This has been a rather interesting start to the 2013 season for the Brewers. After a bad first week, in which the bullpen couldn't be relied on for anything, the Brewers got hot, really hot, surged to the top of the National League standings, and everyone was happy. Here's the problem with that. As I've stated all off season, this team is not going to contend for 162 games. There is just simply not enough there for them to do so. But, so far, the Brewers season has been just as predicted by yours truly, up and down, and it looks as if it will remain that way.

The Brewers have cooled off since that hot streak having lost five in a row, and the powerhouse Texas Rangers come to town for a two-game series. Looking beyond the Rangers series, I don't see but maybe one win until they come back home. After the Rangers, they go to Cincinnati for three, they go to Pittsburgh for four, then St. Louis for three. By the time the Cardinals series is over, Milwaukee is looking at a potential 2-15 record in their last 17 games. It does get better after that, as a bunch of winnable series are up next for Milwaukee- Minnesota, Philadelphia, Miami, and Houston are all on the Brewers late-May and June schedule.

Brewers Fans Get Ready For Up And Down Season

Basically the Brewers will either be really, really hot or really, really cold for most of the season. If you are wondering how I was able to foresee this, it boils down to understanding how young teams like this play. If we use history as our guiding tool, this is how's it's always been. Young teams, because of their inexperience, aren't necessarily to confident in themselves, and that is where the cold streaks come in. But, when things are going right, young players start to believe that they are as good as anybody, and they play like it, hence the nine game winning streak earlier this season.