In an effort to foster discourse between Badger fans and University of Wisconsin officials about game days, the Athletic Department is collaborating with the first Fan Advisory Council, set to have its first meeting Monday.
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Badgers football: UW jumps to 15th in BCS rankings
During the past several weeks, University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen has refused to lobby in an effort to boost his team?s Bowl Championship Series profile.
Badgers football notes: Golden Gophers put up a fight after the game
Maybe Paul Bunyan?s Axe needs to come with instructions.
UW’s ax celebration causes sparks with Minnesota
The Border Battle between Wisconsin and Minnesota is a rivalry game and a trophy game at that. It’s expected that emotions run high and sometimes boil over. Even after the game has ended.
Badgers defense helps make case for a BCS berth
A victory over Penn State (6-5, 3-4) keeps alive UW’s hopes to secure a BCS at-large berth.
From Randall to TCF, frat runs for charity
When temperatures plunged as low as 10 degrees early Saturday morning, most people bundled up. But a few University of Minnesota students wore shorts and celebrated.
Mama Madison: Why I don’t like “the Chant”
Three-fifths of my family claim to be college football fans. Their team of choice, though, is not the Badgers. They, alas, are Sooners fans — my husband is Oklahoma born and bred. But regardless of the lack of UW-Madison sports allegiance in our home, four-fifths of us will dutifully attend at least one home football game every season.
Recruiting radar: Two new commits bring UW’s total to 20
The Badgers received commitments from South Carolina running back Caleb Kinlaw and Tennessee kicker Rafael Gaglianone as new members of the 2014 class.
UWGB basketball: No guarantee Phoenix will play Wisconsin next year
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men?s basketball team has played in-state rival Wisconsin each year since 1999. It remains to be seen if the streak will continue next season.
Andy Baggot: Think UW’s got a BCS gripe? If Auburn beats Alabama, chaos could ensue
Most everyone around here is fixated on the lower end of the Bowl Championship Series standings, which is understandable given how the University of Wisconsin football team has been sentenced ? quite unjustly ? to languish there week after week.
Suspend student section if chant doesn’t stop — Keith R. Nelson
As a Badger football season ticket owner, I have heard the obscene chant game after game for years — regardless of what university leaders do to try to stop it.
Treat chanting students like other offensive fans — Dave Edgerton
One solution I haven?t heard discussed regarding the chant at UW football games is the most obvious and probably the most effective one.
16 arrests, 40 ejections at UW football game : Wsj
MADISON ? UW-Madison police made 16 arrests, issued 16 citations and ejected 40 people during the Badgers? 51-3 rout of Indiana on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Badgers football: Offensive lineman Chris Gill is living a dream at UW
Chris Gill has managed to cram a lifetime of hopes and dreams into seven or eight plays this season for the University of Wisconsin football team.
Richter outlines UW athletic success during talk at Community Expo
Former UW-Madison athletic director and hall of fame member Pat Richter was the keynote speaker at last Thursday evening?s Community Expo.
Richter outlines UW athletic success during talk at Community Expo
Former UW-Madison athletic director and hall of fame member Pat Richter was the keynote speaker at last Thursday evening?s Community Expo.
Who gives a f*@& about a Badgers chant?
Last Thursday, the Wisconsin State Journal published a letter by Chancellor Becky Blank and Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez expressing their concern about a certain foul chant used in the UW student section at Badger home football games. Despite the fact that the student section has behaved like this for years and years, the chant has become a renewed controversy recently. I assume that?s because someone who had been in a coma for decades woke up and immediately decided to stop by Camp Randall.
Plain Talk: A fond remembrance of the colorful Portage Plumber
The Fall edition of the Badger Insider, one of the slick publications produced by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, has a great story about one of Badger football?s all-time legends, the Portage Plumber.
Game day citations and ejections center on alcohol
University Police released their statistics on arrests at the Badgers vs. Brigham Young University, including twenty three arrests, fourteen of them students.
UW leaders seek student input on controversial student section chant
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez are making another effort to address concerns regarding the sportsmanship of a student section chant at Badger football games.
North Dakota, Wisconsin to renew hockey rivalry
The University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin are renewing their decades-long hockey rivalry.
Badgers football: UW fans challenged by BYU to a ‘Like War’ on Facebook
When Gary Andersen was the football coach at Utah State, the Aggies played BYU every year in the battle for the “Old Wagon Wheel.”
Badgers men’s basketball: Under spotlight, Sam Dekker eyes improvement
he one-on-one games were intense and sometimes left Sam Dekker in tears.
Doug Moe: Skylar Stecker’s triumphant return
Stecker will sing the national anthem at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday prior to the Wisconsin-Brigham Young game. It figures to be her largest audience yet. Tuesday night, she?ll be back at the Kohl Center, doing the anthem before the Badgers play Florida.
Andy Baggot: Veteran coach Barry Davis has Badgers wrestling team on the rise
Barry Davis scoffed at the notion that he?s now the longest-tenure coach at the University of Wisconsin.
Badgers women’s basketball: Taylor Wurtz’s return gives UW a boost
A year ago at this time, about the only thing causing Taylor Wurtz more agony than her aching back was the idea of not playing basketball.
Rec Sports opts to downsize Nat facility in master plan
Attempts to address space shortages with a new master plan from University of Wisconsin Recreational Sports may fall flat following student feedback, as recent changes downsizing the Natatorium could possibly prevent the university from meeting fitness standards.
Natatorium changes may be reduced in rec sports plan
A plan to revamp recreational sports may include downsized changes to the Natatorium in response to student feedback.
Badgers cross country: Malachy Schrobilgen wins Big Ten title, but UW’s 14-year reign comes to an end
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ? With as dominant as the University of Wisconsin men?s cross country team has been in the Big Ten Conference over the past few decades, it would take the Badgers not winning a league championship to make headlines.
Jeff Sauer finds another coaching opportunity with U.S. sled hockey team : Ct
Jeff Sauer retired from coaching hockey at the University of Wisconsin-Madison almost 12 years ago, talking about how other opportunities were out there for him in the hockey world after 20 seasons and two national championships with the Badgers.
Badgers men’s hockey: Nic Kerdiles scores with his move to center
Nic Kerdiles is working on one of the most prolific offensive streaks in University of Wisconsin men?s hockey history, but the sophomore center is focused on other things.
Badgers women’s basketball: UW coach Bobbie Kelsey irked by Badgers’ snub
It was no big upset that the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team wasn?t among the top three teams in the preseason polls released Thursday at the Big Ten Conference?s annual media day.
Tom Oates: Rules to aid the offense in college basketball won’t help Big Ten’s elite
For three years, he?s been the most physical defender in the nation?s most physical conference.
Wisconsin running backs’ dance moves go viral
University of Wisconsin running backs Melvin Gordon and James White have combined this season for 1,684 rushing yards and 19 touchdowns.
Badgers football: UW running back James White has unfinished business at Iowa
Running back James White has some unfinished business in Iowa City, Iowa.
Andy Baggot: Badgers men’s cross country team has something to prove at Big Ten meet
Wearing a straight face for the local media earlier this week, Mick Byrne said he doesn?t pay attention to what?s being said on the Internet about him and his University of Wisconsin cross country and track teams.
Former UW student shares memories of stampede at Camp Randall
20 years ago, 70 people were taken to the hospital after a stampede at Camp Randall. A woman in the student section at the time says she still gets nervous when she sees crowds trying to rush the field.
Stadium ?crush? prompts lasting safety changes
When the Badgers play football at Camp Randall Stadium, over 80,000 fans pack the stadium, but 20 years ago the fan experience was shaken to the core.
Badgers men’s basketball: Gard brothers to hold court at Kohl Center
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team had just lost three games during the 2011-12 season to dig itself into an early hole in the Big Ten Conference standings, and Badgers associate head coach Greg Gard needed someone to listen to him vent.
UW-Madison to host Paralympic games
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to offer a day of Paralympic sports and activities this weekend.
Camp Randall crush remembered as frightening call for stadium changes
Twenty years ago Wednesday, a UW-Madison freshman and sophomore, sisters from New Jersey and second-generation Badgers, got ready to storm the field with thousands of others to celebrate an epic University of Wisconsin football victory over Michigan.
From sunrise to sunset: the life of a student-athlete
The alarm clock went off at 5 a.m. last Wednesday, about 12 hours since Tuesday night?s football practice ended in the McClain Center. In less than two hours, Derek Watt would be back inside McClain for an early morning practice, the first of its kind this season.
Andy Baggot: Gary Andersen unique in coaching business
How well do you need to know someone before you?ll step forward and fully vouch for them?
Badgers men’s hockey: Five good minutes with Frankie Simonelli
Being captain of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team is an honorary appointment that comes with a lot of responsibilities and stress.
Report: Football ticket revenue sharing cost Badgers more than $950,000 in 2012
When it comes to football gate revenues, the Big Ten Conference takes from the rich to give to the poor.
New labor complaint against UW-Madison sponsor Palermo’s pizza
There?s trouble again at Palermo?s, the frozen pizza maker and UW-Madison Athletic Department sponsor and licensee whose labor practices fueled a sit-in at the UW-Madison chancellor?s office last spring.
UW football dismisses Nick Hill for violating team rules
Linebacker Nick Hill, who joined the Wisconsin football program as a walk-on in 2009 and was awarded a scholarship in August, recently was dismissed from the team after violating team rules, according to a source.
UW students should prove they’re ‘better that this’
Three cheers for last Monday?s editorial, ?Hey, Bucky: Find a new chant.?
Badgers women’s hockey: Changed Brittany Ammerman makes successful return after concussion
Brittany Ammerman recently embarked on two life-altering journeys. In one, her eyes were constantly closed. In the other, they were wide open.
Andy Baggot: Use of social media presents new NCAA compliance challenges
The list of 20 secondary violations submitted by the University of Wisconsin to the NCAA for 2012-13 includes two references to social media.
Badgers men’s basketball: UW freshmen find their way together
Their bond began to form through messages exchanged both on Twitter and their cell phones, and it only grew stronger once they officially met upon arriving in Madison in June.
Recreational Sports to propose building new SERF, Natatorium
University of Wisconsin-Madison Recreational Sports Director John Horn presented preliminary ideas for an estimated $260 million overhaul of three Rec Sports facilities at a Badgers for Recreational Reform meeting Tuesday.
Badgers volleyball: Top recruit Lauren Carlini ready to lead UW revival
Before Kelly Sheffield agreed to become the University of Wisconsin volleyball coach last December, he had an important phone call to make.
Badgers men’s hockey: No panic from Mike Eaves, players after lost weekend in Boston
History suggests it would be foolish to get all panicky in light of the latest outings by the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team.
Tom Oates: Impact of loss to Arizona State still being felt
The national debate lasted seven days, or until another weekend of college football games turned the Debacle in the Desert into just another final score to be fed into the BCS computers.
Badgers football: Melvin Gordon glad he decided to stay in state ? and not go away to Iowa
Sophomore running back Melvin Gordon still regards it as one of the most difficult things he has ever had to do.
Andy Baggot: ‘Jump Around’ should live or die based on crowd profanities
Several people, all much smarter than me, have come forth with a reasonable solution to the irreverent cheer from students at University of Wisconsin football games.
UW-Madison students “make Bo pay” at Shooting Down Cancer event
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan signed a check for $66,130 to be donated toward Coaches vs. Cancer at his Shooting Down Cancer event Thursday.
Badgers men’s basketball: Bo Ryan, UW students team up to raise over $66K in fight against cancer
University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan?s arm was a little sore after spending five hours shaking hands and posing for pictures with the 2,090 students who showed up for Thursday?s ?Shooting Down Cancer? event at the Kohl Center.
Barry Alvarez picked for national playoff panel
Knowing that football has been a fundamental part of his life for more than five decades, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez wasnt about to turn down the opportunity to be part of college footballs first ever playoff committee.