About BadgerNews.Net

Corey Bennett

My name is Corey Bennett. I'm a lifelong Wisconsin Badgers fan, a lawyer by trade, and someone who has spent way too many hours thinking about these programs.

BadgerNews.Net is an independent editorial and opinion site with a primary focus on football and basketball. I want to be upfront about what that means and what it doesn't.

What This Is

One fan's informed opinion. I take publicly available reporting, data, financials, and records and apply my own analysis to tell you what I think it means. When I reference someone else's reporting, I'll say so. When I'm speculating, I'll say that too.

What This Isn't

I'm not credentialed media. I'm not at practice. I don't have sources inside the building. I don't break news. If you're looking for beat reporting, recruiting intel, or insider access, there are great people who do that work — support them.

What I bring is a perspective shaped by a legal career spent reading contracts, analyzing risk, and building arguments from evidence. That's how I approach Wisconsin sports: structurally, financially, and with the kind of directness that comes from caring too much about something to be polite about it.

If you agree with me, great. If you don't, tell me why — I'd rather be challenged than validated.

Editorial Process

I use AI — specifically Anthropic's Claude — as a core part of how I produce content for this site. I'm not going to be coy about that. Here's exactly how it works, step by step:

  1. I identify a topic I want to explore. The editorial direction, the argument, and the angle are mine.
  2. Claude conducts deep research based on my parameters. I define what to look for, where to look, and what questions to answer.
  3. If the data tells a story, I outline the piece. I give Claude a couple paragraphs describing how I want the article organized, the argument I'm making, and the specific data points I want hit — and how I want them hit.
  4. Claude produces a first draft with sources.
  5. I verify sourcing integrity. I ask Claude to confirm that all referenced material didn't originate behind a paywall that still exists. If it did, the claim gets pulled or re-sourced.
  6. I open every link and check every claim. If something was hallucinated — which happens — it gets cut.
  7. I proofread and edit. This means swapping out word choices, restructuring syntax where it doesn't sound like me, and fine-tuning the argument until it reads the way I'd say it.
  8. I publish with a full source list. Every article on this site shows its work.

I'm not perfect. I'll make mistakes. If someone flags a factual error, I'll correct it and note the correction. AI-generated image artifacts don't fall into that category — I don't care about those.

This process lets me produce well-researched, fully sourced editorial content while working a full-time legal career and raising two kids. That's the whole point. AI is the tool. The ideas, the arguments, and the editorial judgment are mine.

On Wisconsin.