Louis Nzegwu is losing more than a teammate with J.J. Watt?s decision to leave the University of Wisconsin football program with one year of eligibility remaining to enter the NFL draft. The former Platteville athlete and fellow Badgers defensive end is also losing a roommate. Nonetheless, Nzegwu supports Watt?s decision to forego his senior season, he wrote in a Twitter message today shortly after Watt?s announcement.
Most NFL mock drafts will be getting a serious overhaul over the next 24 hours with Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck?s decision to stay in school and play his senior season with the Cardinal. However, most mock drafts before Luck?s announcement Thursday projected University of Wisconsin defensive end J.J. Watt as a late first-round or early second-round selection in April?s NFL draft.
Though it certainly would have been fun to watch J.J. Watt play another year for the Badgers, it?s impossible to find fault with his decision to leave early. Most mock drafts have him going in the middle to late stages of the first round, though that is subject to change between now and the draft in April. Watt?s stock could conceivably rise a little higher if he had a great senior season, but it wouldn?t be enough to make the risk of playing another year of college football worth it. One injury or even a slight dip in performance and Watt could be out millions of dollars.
All-American defensive lineman J.J. Watt has decided to forego his senior season at the University of Wisconsin and enter the NFL draft. The Pewaukee native, who transferred to UW after spending his freshman year at Central Michigan as a tight end, served as an emotional leader of a team that earned the Badgers? first Big Ten Conference championship and Rose Bowl berth since 1999.
Vang Pao, a revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos who led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army during the Vietnam War, died Thursday. He was 81. In 2002, Madison dropped a plan to name a park in his honor after a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor cited published sources alleging that Vang Pao had ordered executions of his own followers, of enemy prisoners of war and of his political enemies.
Sixty-two Washington-area high school seniors were awarded more than $8 million in full-tuition scholarships to attend top colleges.
The institutions these excellent students will attend in the fall are Bucknell University, Grinnell College, Lafayette College, Pepperdine University, Sewanee: The University of the South and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
At Thursday night?s Dane County board meeting, county board chair Scott McDonell followed through with a Rose Bowl Bet.
There is no denying his connection to the Madison community and football teammates aren?t the only ones sad to see J.J. Watt go. He?s a fan favorite and his decision to go pro and leave the University of Wisconsin is one fans are already struggling with because of what he does both on and off the field.
University of Wisconsin Badgers defensive end J.J. Watt is leaving school early to enter the NFL draft.
Noted: In 2002, the city of Madison, Wis., dropped a plan to name a park in his honor after a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor cited published sources alleging that Vang Pao had ordered executions of his own followers, of enemy prisoners of war and of his political enemies.
Quoted: ?It?s a tough job. It?s a physically demanding job,? reminded Doug Reinemann, an agricultural engineer from UW-Madison Milking Research and Instruction Lab.
Quoted: According to Ken Mayer, a UW-Madison political science professor, a Voting Rights challenge is the most likely way for Democrats to have the GOP?s map disqualified.
Noted: Butler now teaches law at UW Madison. Also Tuesday, Obama appointed UW Madison law professor Victoria Nourse to the federal appeals court in Chicago for the second time. She would replace Terence Evans, who moved to a part-time senior status.
Cross off one potential suitor for the services of University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst.
When J.J. Watt, the University of Wisconsin?s relentless defensive end, declared his intentions to enter the NFL draft after his junior year Thursday, I couldn?t help but think of one name.
If you?re an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin, yesterday your social networks blew up with every old friend from college linking to this article on Time?s website. As the article states, the Global Language Monitor took it upon themselves to rank American universities by brand equity, or by what others? perceived value of the university is as represented on the Internet. As Time puts it, the formula used is a measurement of the universities? ?buzz? factor. Here are the top 10:
Since Jesus Sanchez was attacked in Puerto Rico, friends, co-workers and strangers have offered support, both to his family and that of his fiancée, who was transported to a Miami hospital Tuesday.
A Seattle woman is fighting for her life and four people are dead after an unhinged man set his family on fire using gasoline and a torch at a Puerto Rico dinner party.
President Barack Obama has again nominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler for a federal judgeship. Butler now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin quarterback Scott Tolzien has accepted an invitation to play in the 86th East-West Shrine Game, UW officials announced Wednesday.
Mentions that Louis Butler is now an adjunct law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: She remembers the same eco-conscious sibling all the way to his first teaching job at the University of Wisconsin. In Madison, he lived on a rural hill by the campus where he taught rural sociology and kept his car parked in neutral.
The Badgers may have lost the Rose Bowl Saturday, but they can still boast that they?re the coolest school in America. The University of Wisconsin at Madison beat out the University of Chicago and Harvard to be the top national university by internet brand equity, according to the Global Language Monitor?s 2011 TrendTopper MediaBuzz internet rankings.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are the other four-year System schools that don?t have a freshman residency requirement, although UW-Milwaukee recently has discussed adding one. Preliminary discussions have taken place at UWGB, Gray said.
Quoted: “In the old days, they said, ?Sit down, shut up and vote.? But those days in the Senate are long gone,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student suffered serious burns in a blowtorch attack in Puerto Rico.
While the Wisconsin Badgers didn?t win the Rose Bowl game, UW-Madison officials said that beyond athletics, the game was a major victory.
In the aftermath of a football academic scandal at Auburn in 2006 that caused two department heads to step down and the N.C.A.A. to investigate, university officials are no longer bragging ? or even talking ? about the team?s once-stellar scholastic record.
Pittsburgh has begun interviews to replace former coach Mike Haywood, a source close to the search said, adding it?s not expected that Rich Rodriguez will be a candidate. Rodriguez was fired Wednesday after three seasons as Michigan?s coach. According to the source, among those who are strong candidates at Pittsburgh include Alabama associate head coach Sal Sunseri, Tulsa coach Todd Graham, Penn State defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst and former Florida defensive coordinator Teryl Austin.
The Badgers may have lost the Rose Bowl Saturday, but they can still boast that they?re the coolest school in America.The University of Wisconsin at Madison beat out the University of Chicago and Harvard to be the top national university by internet brand equity, according to the Global Language Monitor?s 2011 TrendTopper MediaBuzz internet rankings.
Virent last year opened a pilot-scale refinery in Madison to develop “green” gasoline in conjunction with a key funder and partner, Shell, to create gasoline from plant sugars. The company was formed in 2002 to deploy technological innovations developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Start over in Texas or continue nurturing what you have built during the last six seasons at Wisconsin? That appears to be the question facing Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst.
Immediately after the Rose Bowl ended, Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said he didn?t see anything that would set the program back heading into next season.
Former Madison Ald. Noel Radomski,a UW-Madison administrator who served one term on the City Council from 2005-07, has dropped out of the race for mayor.
Mark Woulf, a member of the city?s Alcohol License Review Committee, was named the city?s alcohol policy coordinator Tuesday by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. Woulf, a graduate of UW-Madison, will take the position that is jointly funded by the city and the university to address alcohol-related problems on campus and in the community, according to a statement from Cieslewicz?s office. He will start Monday. As a student, Woulf served on the university?s Alcohol and Other Drug Task Force and has represented the UW-Madison student government as a voting member on the ALRC since January 2010. Woulf has degrees in political science and sociology.
Noted: A preliminary report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison veterinary lab says the death of a horse in Deerfield last month probably was not caused by an animal attack.
On a day that saw the University of Wisconsin ranked in the top ten among U-S colleges for value and graduating corporate CEOs, the UW also received the nation?s top ranking for “brand equity” on the Internet.
A new national survey ranks UW-Madison in the top ten nationally when it comes to value.
Talk show host Montel Williams was ticketed after authorities found him with drug paraphernalia at General Mitchell International Airport.
Individual human brain cells can be savvy shoppers, tuning their behavior to precisely reflect the worth of a candy bar, finds a study published January 5 in The Journal of Neuroscience. Evaluating objects is ?something we all do on a moment-to-moment basis,? says study coauthor Rick Jenison of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, but just how the human brain tallies up value isn?t clear.
The leader of Wisconsin?s state employees says labor is not ?rolling over? for Governor Scott Walker. AFSCME Council 24 Executive Director Marty Beil says labor in Wisconsin will be watching Governor Scott Walker closely, particularly when it comes to his goal of producing 250,000 new jobs
The Wisconsin State Journal’s list includes Russell Panczenko. 2011 will mark a milestone for the Chazen Museum of Art, the UW-Madison institution Panczenko has headed since 1984, and which even in tough economic times is virtually doubling in size and enhancing its cultural presence on University Avenue.
The first day of the 100th session of the Wisconsin State Legislature was more about ceremony than anything else; the most significant measure that passed in the Senate was the legislative calendar.
Wisconsin Republicans promised the next two years would be all about jobs, jobs and more jobs. But they kicked off their first day in complete control of state government Monday by circulating bills on voter registration, all-terrain vehicles, stem cells and self-defense.
A source inside the University of Wisconsin athletic department said prior to the Rose Bowl that the Dallas Cowboys loomed as a bigger threat to hire away Badgers offensive coordinator Paul Chryst than the Texas Longhorns.
Vowing to tackle the state?s economic woes, Republican Scott Walker was sworn in as Wisconsin?s 45th governor at an inauguration ceremony in the state Capitol Rotunda on Monday.
Gov. Scott Walker has released more details about what he wants Wisconsin lawmakers to do in a special session he?s calling that will officially begin on Tuesday.
Quoted: “Research shows that when couples are having fun together, it helps them feel positive about each other and improves their relationship satisfaction,” said Linda Roberts, a program specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension and professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Walker is a Republican. Both the state Senate and Assembly flipped to the GOP in November. That change will make it easier for Walker to manage Wisconsin?s budget, compared to Democrat Doyle, according to John Witte. He?s part of UW-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature are ready for a special session on jobs and the economy ? and beyond. Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald says ?the silent majority? spoke at the polls November Second, and now it?s time for the legislature to deliver.
Noted: I always tell young journalists that nothing should ever surprise them, and there is no such thing as a dumb question, especially if you don?t know the answer. I?ll be saying it again in a few weeks when I head out to the University of Wisconsin to teach a course in sports journalism. That will truly be another labor of love, and so too has been the one and only full-time job I?ve ever held in my adult life. For that, many thanks to Washington Post Chairman Donald Graham, once a brilliant sports editor himself.
Noted: Jet-lagged and grouchy Badger fans will spend the rest of the week grumbling about that missed field goal or the botched two-point conversion in the Rose Bowl?s final minutes, but to avoid busting a stress blood vessel, try to hold on to the magic little moments that make the whole Rose Bowl experience worthwhile, win or loss.
Every table at Buckets Pub, save one, was filled during the Rose Bowl.That table, also the only one with a table cloth, was reserved for someone who could only be at the game in spirit. Alfred “Bucky” Hudec sat there every away game. If the team was at Camp Randall, so was Hudec. The longtime Badger fan hadn?t missed a home football game since 1952.
Noted: David Williamson Shaffer, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the departments of Educational Psychology and Curriculum and Instruction, makes video games that help people learn while they play, called epistemic games.
UW-Madison ranks 4th in the number of Fortune 500 CEOs as graduates.
Wisconsin stood out among its state school peers, granting 17 degrees to the CEOs, which put the school fourth overall, despite having an average U.S. News rank of 33 for the school?s undergraduate, business, and law programs. In the Fortune analysis, Wisconsin finished ahead of highly ranked schools like Stanford University, Dartmouth College, and Northwestern University.
Quoted: “When you look at the all-time box-office leaders and see how many of them are sequels, theres no sign being sent to Hollywood that audiences have had too much, or at least not in a language that Hollywood cares to understand,” said Dr Jonathan Gray, a professor of cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Richard J. Davidson, director, UW-Madison Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, “practice acts of kindness.”
Quoted: Tim Gattenby, coordinator of adapted fitness and personal training in the UW-Madison kinesiology department.
Not everyone could make it to Pasadena, but they could still be among hyped-up Badger fans. About 350 people in red clothes and Mardi Gras beads packed State Street Brats.
