Author: jnweaver

Finances are at the heart of a review by University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials of their performance bonus plan.

â??Everything I go to involves discussions on cost containment,â? UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said, referring to meetings on the local, Big Ten Conference and NCAA levels. â??That probably instigated it more than anything.â?

UW Athletic Board members heard Friday that all aspects of the policy will be weighed with recommendations from UW Athletic Department administrators coming up for a vote at the next board meeting June 12.

Paul Combs, who last season led the UW-Platteville menâ??s basketball program to its first NCAA Division III tournament berth in a decade, was named the coach at Wayne State College today.

….Candidates to replace Combs at Platteville could include his top assistant, Jeff Gard, the brother of Badgers lead assistant Greg Gard; and Will Ryan, an assistant coach at North Dakota State and the oldest son of Bo Ryan.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could grade your own term paper or perform your own job review?

In the fall of 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Athletic Board put together an “Ad Hoc Self Study Committee” to review how it conducts its work and the Board’s role within the athletic department.

This study, titled “Role of the Athletic Board,” was then unanimously approved by the Athletic Board on Feb. 20.

“You can not have any organization simply reviewing itself,” said UW-Madison history professor Jeremi Suri, who resigned his post on the Athletic Board last fall because he felt the group had become a rubber stamp of sorts for the wishes of the athletic department.

The University of Wisconsin ranks fifth in the Big Ten Conference in terms of players it has delivered to the National Football League draft in the modern era.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is returning to a first-come, first-served policy for student football tickets, the school announced Tuesday.

Dear Editor: This is the fourth year I’ve traveled from Minneapolis to Madison to run the Crazylegs Classic with my daughter at the University of Wisconsin. As always, this year was a lot of fun; the rain only made it more memorable.

I must add that whoever made the decision on the timing device this year made a major mistake.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three Wisconsin assistant football coaches have been admonished for violating NCAA rules by mistakenly visiting prospects during an off-limits recruiting period.

Defensive coordinator Dave Doeren, recruiting coordinator Randall McCray and wide receivers coach DelVaughn Alexander made the Jan. 4 trips during a “quiet period” in which no recruiting visits can be made.

Southern Illinois selected Missy Tiber as its new women’s basketball coach, bypassing Wisconsin Badgers assistant Kathi Bennett, who had interviewed for the job.

The offseason continues to be eventful and productive for the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program.

When Southern Illinois University officials on Thursday named Missy Tiber as their head women’s basketball coach, it meant UW assistant Kathi Bennett likely will remain with the Badgers for at least one more season.

Lois Gilmore canâ??t remember the last time she placed second in her age group in a footrace. Thatâ??s not a boast, she assures. Often, there simply arenâ??t many other runners her age.

“I think Iâ??ve eliminated a lot of the competition by now,” she says, laughing.

At 78, Gilmore, of Janesville, is often the oldest runner in a race. But what a runner. Running Times magazine just named her the fastest runner in the country for women ages 75-79. Saturday, she will attempt to win her age group for the sixth consecutive year at the 2009 Crazylegs Classic.