CHICAGO — Junior running back Lance Smith has been suspended from the University of Wisconsin football team, Badgers coach Bret Bielema announced Thursday.
“It has come to my attention that Lance has failed to meet certain requirements relating to the first-offender program he was placed in last fall,” Bielema, who is in Chicago for the Big Ten Conference preseason media event, said in a statement.
Smith was arrested in July 2007 after a dispute with his girlfriend. He pleaded guilty last October to misdemeanor charges of battery and disorderly conduct and was referred to Dane County’s first-offende