What we’re reading on this Monday morning.
- Germany defeated Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win the World Cup. Mario Götze scored the winning goal. Grantland’s recap looks at at Götze and four more “important characters” from the match.
- Epic Systems Corp. has reportedly added 600 jobs since February. The Madison area electronic health records giant has grown from 4,200 employees in 2011 to 7,200 employees now.
- Eight-year-old Caleb Teisl from Make-A-Wish Wisconsin threw a perfect strike with the first pitch at Miller Park on Sunday.
- Today marks 15 years since “Big Blue” collapsed during the construction of Miller Park. Three ironworkers — Jeffrey Wischer, William DeGrave, and Jerome Starr — died in the June 14, 1999, accident.
- 28-year-old Wisconsin native Wil Lewis, a photographer, was shot and killed in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on Saturday in what’s being called “a case of mistaken identity.”
