Madison -- Sports can be cruel. They can be agonizingly, inexplicably and gut-wrenchingly cruel.
Under the smoke-breathing temperatures and setting sun at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday afternoon, the events that unfolded epitomized this very notion: sports aren't subjective to your emotions or desires; they do as they so please.
Then they did again. They they didn't.
It was almost indescribable, really, the way in which the No. 25 Badgers (8-3, 5-2 Big Ten) fell 13-7 on Senior Day to the No. 20 Northwestern Wildcats (9-2, 5-2).
Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst gave it his best go.