The Wisconsin Badger men?s basketball team is back in Madison with the NCAA West Regional trophy and a trip to the Final Four in Dallas. The team got a tumultuous reception from fans during a Kohl Center rally Sunday.
Around the country Thursday, coaches and administrators pondered the potential ramifications of the stunning decision by the National Labor Relations Board, which ruled the Northwestern football team ? up to now, referred to by the NCAA as student-athletes ? are actually university employees in everything but name. Therefore, they should be able to bargain collectively for their fair share of an industry worth billions.
Some Badgers fans left State Street Brats on Thursday night skipping, others with their arms thrust into the air in victory. They exited into a light rain still cheering or hugging, many going home or to another bar to continue the celebration.
There are certain givens for a team as it wends its way through the NCAA men?s basketball tournament.
No matter what happens to the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team over the next three weeks, it will go down as one of the most important teams in program history.
Not every fan could make the trip to California for the Sweet 16, so Badger fans held watch parties across Madison. The watch party at the Majestic Theater was packed thanks to some special guests.
The Badger Men?s Basketball team may be hundreds of miles from home, but there are still plenty of fans inside the Kohl Center.
Tarek Saleh used to wear Badger red, number 42 for the University of Wisconsin. After graduation, he played five years in the NFL. That makes four years on the field without a union, and five under that labor protection.
Football players at Northwestern University cleared a significant hurdle on Wednesday, as a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that they qualified as employees with the right to unionize.
In what could be a landmark case, a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday backed a bid by football players at Northwestern University to unionize.
Thomas Brown made a significant impact at running back in the 2005 Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla.
Monday, the UW Board of Regents approved an adjusted compensation package for head football coach Gary Andersen. The package calls for Andersen to make $2.2-million in 2014 and receive a $100,000 pay raise each year of the five-year deal.
MILWAUKEE ?The future of Marquette University basketball is still up in the air. WISN 12 News took the issue of Marquette’s uncertainty to University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez.
UW announced on Monday that the Board of Regents approved a new compensation package for Andersen, adding an additional $300,000 to his annual salary.
Coach Gary Andersen has a new deal at Wisconsin with about a 15 percent raise.
The Wisconsin Badgers take on Baylor on Thursday, March 27th in Anaheim ? in the NCAA Tournament?s Sweet 16. Badgers fans are excited, but that excitement isn?t translating into trips to the game in Anaheim.
Madison is still buzzing following the Badgers big win against the Oregon Ducks on Saturday night.
To reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005, the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will have to beat Baylor.
The joyous bus ride home was punctuated by messages of congratulations, which is what one would expect for members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team late Saturday night.
Now that the Badgers have moved on to the Sweet 16, they?re losing their home-court advantage.
Three University of Wisconsin wrestlers continued their push through the championship bracket and three more are still alive in the consolation rounds after their performances in Session II of the 2014 NCAA wrestling championships at the Chesapeake Energy Arena on Thursday night in Oklahoma City.
It might as well have been Madison?s Kohl Center Thursday ? thousands of Badgers fans cheering for the home team as the Wisconsin band blared “On Wisconsin.”
No one is likely to win the Warren Buffett-backed $1 billion prize offered by Yahoo and Quicken Loans to whoever can pick a perfect NCAA bracket. But there will still be big-dollar winners after this year?s tournament.
The Wisconsin Badgers beat American University on Thursday, 75 to 35. The UW men?s basketball team now advances to the Round of 32 and will play at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Saturday.
Hotels, restaurants and bars catering to the throngs of college basketball fans descending on Milwaukee are winners in the economic arena.
The Wisconsin basketball vibe has never been uptight, militaristic or stilted, but they have a reputation for being no-nonsense, efficient. Yet this UW team has more freethinkers and class clowns, and coach Bo Ryan’s approach has mellowed.
UW hasn?t exactly been a tournament bust during Ryan?s first 12 seasons. The Badgers have compiled a 16-12 record while making the field every year. They have reached five Sweet 16s and one Elite Eight. Still, it hasn?t been enough for some people.
Both Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke picked No. 2 seed Wisconsin to win the college men’s basketball national championship, which kicks into high gear Thursday.
Fox Sports has taken a different look at the NCAA Tournament.
When you cover any group of professional athletes for an extended amount of time, you get a sense of which ones are only living in the moment and which ones always have the gears turning in their heads with a look to the future.
The forgotten team in the Villanova-St. Joe?s-UConn pod is Milwaukee. Such oversights are common for 15-seeds with a schedule strength resembling the weight of an NBA power forward (230).
Gov. Scott Walker is predicting big things for the Badgers in the NCAA tournament.
Six members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team were honored Monday when the Big Ten Conference unveiled its inaugural all-league squad.
A prized University of Wisconsin football recruit was charged Monday with third-degree sexual assault for allegedly raping a woman in her dorm room on the UW-Madison campus in December.
An 18-year-old high school football player being recruited by the University of Wisconsin has been charged with third-degree sexual assault.
FOX6 News has learned a Mukwonago student-athlete has been charged with sexual assault. The alleged sexual assault incident occurred in December, 2013, when the Mukwonago student-athlete went to the UW-Madison campus.
A University of Wisconsin football recruit was charged Monday with the sexual assault of a woman in her dorm room on the Madison campus in December.
Mukwonago High School senior linebacker Dominic Cizauskas, expected to be a member of Wisconsin?s 2014 freshman class, has been charged with felony third-degree sexual assault by the Dane County District Attorneys? office.
Numerous scoring opportunities had come and gone in recent games for the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team.
When the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team opened the 2004 NCAA tournament in Milwaukee, Josh Gasser was a 12-year-old growing up in Port Washington, wishing he was at the Bradley Center to cheer on the Badgers.
It was a matter of the heart that led to Joel Rumpel walking down State Street, his arms weighed down with gifts for the girl in his life. Rumpel, a junior goaltender for the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team, carried a bouquet of flowers and a stuffed animal. He had some framed pictures and other items of affection. And he had a ride waiting to help him make a special delivery.
A former NFL football player who abruptly left the sport in November was arrested early Sunday after he allegedly punched another man at a Near North nightclub.
The NCAA Tournament venue should be familiar to Wisconsin?s players and coaching staff.
During Wisconsin?s 79-74 victory at Iowa last month, ESPN analyst Dan Dakich noted UW?s Frank Kaminsky was arguably the most improved player in the Big Ten.
MADISON, Wis. — During the nights when everything hurt most, when basketball felt like a chore and the voices in his head dredged up old insecurities insisting he wasn?t good enough, Traevon Jackson sunk deeper into despair.
Not only was Frank Kaminsky one of the most improved players in the Big Ten Conference this season, the junior center on the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team did enough to be considered one of the best players in the league.
In a room on the ground floor of the conferences sparkling new headquarters, the Big Ten is putting the final touches on its version of Cooperstown or Canton.
Ben Brust distinctly remembers the don?t-blink-or-you?ll-miss-it warning delivered by his upperclassman teammates on the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team when he was a freshman.
Justin Doherty, associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says he wants to set the record straight on the question of how much money UW Athletics does ? or does not ? pitch in to support the UW-Madison campus.
Johnson, a 6-foot-3 center playing her first season for the Badgers after transferring from UConn, was one of 11 players voted to the first team by the coaches. She is the first Badger to be named first-team All-Big Ten since Jolene Anderson in 2008, and 10th in program history.
While it?s foolish to expect the Badgers to win every game in a rout, there have been several times this season when a nice Sunday drive turns into a white-knuckle journey for UW.
Showalter has taken on a leading role with UW?s scout team while redshirting this season. Showalter and the other members of the scout team take their role seriously because they know it helps UW?s rotation players get ready for the next opponent.
It was announced Friday that Rumpel is one of 18 nominees for the inaugural Mike Richter Award, which will go to the most outstanding goaltender at the NCAA Division I level.
Dwindling attendance at sporting events is a growing concern across the college landscape. A wide range of topics were discussed at the first two meetings ? everything from the music played at men?s hockey games to the price of ice cream at the Kohl Center.
Because Oates knows there are others out there who consider coach Bo Ryan a failure because the Badgers haven?t reached an NCAA Final Four on his watch, he would like to review what Ryan has given UW fans in his 13 seasons.
The Big Ten doesn?t have a truly weak link, and its bottom tier of teams is the most competitive it has ever been. Meanwhile, the top tier has five teams that have been nationally ranked for much of the season, but it has produced no dominant team and remains suspect in terms of its potential for success in the NCAA men?s basketball tournament.
The TAA raised the question of athletics? contribution to the project last week when it blasted an email campus-wide urging students and staff to petition Athletics Director Barry Alvarez to have his department pay half the cost of the rebuild.
Knee injuries in professional sports are common. Big names in all of the major four sports have their share of horror stories about torn ligaments and blown knees.
A retired Mauston teacher who builds fishing rods recently had his work showcased at a benefit for the Wisconsin Badgers football team.
Ask any major college athletic administrator what his or her greatest long-term concern is and the answer is likely to be attendance at games.
