Today is an august day in Southwest Wisconsin.

Four of Southwest Wisconsin’s football teams are playing in the WIAA Football Championships at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison. Black Hawk, of the Six Rivers Conference, will play defending Division 7 champion Glenwood City at 10 a.m. Darlington, of the Southwest Wisconsin Activities League, will play Shiocton for the Division 6 title at 1 p.m. Lancaster, Mrs. Presteblog’s alma mater, will play Stanley–Boyd (the team, not a person) for the Division 5 title at 4 p.m.

And then, at 7 p.m., Platteville, with a 9–4 record, will play Winneconne, with an 8–5 record, for the Division 4 championship, at 7 p.m. in what someone has already called the Cinderella Bowl. That’s the game I get to announce, one week after this two-hour-long heart attack.

All of the games will be on wglr.com, and I assume there will actually be no non-football programming between the Black Hawk pregame 9:30-ish and the end of the Platteville game around 10 p.m. WGLR should stand for something like Wisconsin Gridiron Live Radio or something like that.

(More thoughts on the subject here.)

Then, 13 hours after kickoff, I’ll be on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Joy Cardin Week in Review segment Friday at 8 a.m.

Wisconsin Public Radio’s Ideas Network can be heard on WHA (970 AM) in Madison, WLBL (930 AM) in Auburndale, WHID (88.1 FM) in Green Bay, WHWC (88.3 FM) in Menomonie, WRFW (88.7 FM) in River Falls, WEPS (88.9 FM) in Elgin, Ill., WHAA (89.1 FM) in Adams, WHBM (90.3 FM) in Park Falls, WHLA (90.3 FM) in La Crosse, WRST (90.3 FM) in Oshkosh, WHAD (90.7 FM) in Delafield, W215AQ (90.9 FM) in Middleton, KUWS (91.3 FM) in Superior, WHHI (91.3 FM) in Highland, WSHS (91.7 FM) in Sheboygan, WHDI (91.9 FM) in Sister Bay, WLBL (91.9 FM) in Wausau, W275AF (102.9 FM) in Ashland, W300BM (107.9 FM) in Madison, and of course online at www.wpr.org.

This is the second time this year that I’ve done a WGLR/WPR doubleheader. The first one, though in reverse order, ended in a Platteville win. So perhaps that’s a portent of tonight.