The Wisconsin Badgers football team offered Elijah Littlejohn, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound class of 2026 edge rusher from Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday. The sophomore at West Charlotte High School has started to rack up offers even though he’s still two years away from potentially making the leap to the collegiate level.

To this point, Littlejohn has now picked up 11 Division 1 offers, including Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin from within the Big Ten while North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas A&M have also extended scholarships.

His overall size at his age is rather impressive and if he continues to grow and progress as an athlete, there’s no doubt that he’ll have the ability to attend pretty much any school in the country.

Wisconsin had a disappointing 2023 campaign and under head coach Luke Fickell, there has been an emphasis on adding size to the defense moving forward. So far in the class of 2026, Wisconsin has yet to receive any commitments while offering 16 edge rushers through April.

Blessed to receive an offer from university of Wisconsin @Coachleerose @WCLionsRecruits @McNamaraRivals pic.twitter.com/puAWtA8bn5

— Elijah Littlejohn (@elijahthrowed) April 30, 2024

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) – Small business owners in western Wisconsin had the chance to grow and network today.

The Wisconsin Small Business Academy took place at 11 places around the state, including at the Pablo Center.

It’s a four-day event that wrapped up with a half-day program this morning.

Organizers said the program focuses on providing the region’s entrepreneurs an opportunity to connect with financial and technical resource providers.

“For small businesses, knowing your resources is really going to help them succeed, because oftentimes starting a small business is really stressful, challenging and there’s a lot of things you don’t know, so that’s where knowing your resources is really valuable,” said Harlie Juedes, Interim Director of the Small Business Development Center.

Organizers said around 50 people attended today’s in-person session and there are more virtual sessions throughout the week.

You can learn more about the academy here.

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If you’re not willing to pay Pfister prices, you’re not going to get a Pfister-quality hotel.

And that, GOP sources say, is why the Wisconsin delegation to the Republican National Convention almost ended up staying in Racine.

The state party confirmed to WisPolitics that Wisconsin delegates are now slated to stay in the just-reopened Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Milwaukee for the July 15-18 convention. The party was otherwise mum on how the delegation ended up there.

But multiple GOP sources told WisPolitics the hotel odyssey was a result of what the Wisconsin delegation was willing to pay for its hotel.

According to the sources:

*The RNC assigns hotels to delegations by a price structure. Every delegation is asked what it is willing to pay for its rooms, which are covered by the delegates themselves, and then states are slotted accordingly. None of the top hotels in downtown Milwaukee were going for less than $550 a night, and the Wisconsin delegation’s original price point was well below that.

*There aren’t enough hotels in Milwaukee to host all the delegates, media and others who will be in Milwaukee for the convention, as well as the national committee meetings the week before. That resulted in the RNC slating Wisconsin to stay in Racine before someone objected to the optics of the home-state delegation staying outside the host city.

*The next step was the Hampton Inn, which has faced financial troubles over the past five years. It closed last year and was transferred to its lender last year in lieu of foreclosure, but recently opened again. The Wisconsin delegation will be there for the convention, about six blocks away from the Fiserv Forum.   

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