Neither Rutgers University nor the University of Maryland has been considered a traditional football powerhouse. In the last decade, though, both have invested heavily in coaches and facilities in the hope of competing with the likes of Ohio State and Alabama. On the field, the outcomes have been mixed. Financially, the results have been dismal.
Basketball has always been at the heart of the Paige family.
Of all the achievements ascribed to the 26 seniors on the University of Wisconsin football team, one speaks louder to me than all the others.
The door to a new era is supposed to swing open here this weekend, but don?t tell that to members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team.
Gary Andersen is fine with you not using your ticket for this week?s game against Penn State, just as long as you give it to someone who will. The University of Wisconsin coach is asking anyone that won?t be able to get to Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday ? whether it?s a student home for the holiday or a family that went to visit relatives ? to get that ticket into the hands of somebody that can and will show up for Senior Day.
WTMJ-AM (620), which has carried Wisconsin Badgers football and men?s basketball games for decades, has declined to continue as an affiliate of the Badger Sports network beyond the teams? current seasons.
Mark Burish may have had his doubt about being a hockey parent, but much to the benefit of University of Wisconsin athletes, he eventually warmed up to the idea.
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.
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.
Maybe Paul Bunyan?s Axe needs to come with instructions.
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.
A victory over Penn State (6-5, 3-4) keeps alive UW’s hopes to secure a BCS at-large berth.
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.
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.
The Badgers received commitments from South Carolina running back Caleb Kinlaw and Tennessee kicker Rafael Gaglianone as new members of the 2014 class.
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.
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.
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.
One solution I haven?t heard discussed regarding the chant at UW football games is the most obvious and probably the most effective one.
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.
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.
Former UW-Madison athletic director and hall of fame member Pat Richter was the keynote speaker at last Thursday evening?s 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.
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.
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.
University Police released their statistics on arrests at the Badgers vs. Brigham Young University, including twenty three arrests, fourteen of them students.
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.
The University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin are renewing their decades-long hockey rivalry.
When Gary Andersen was the football coach at Utah State, the Aggies played BYU every year in the battle for the “Old Wagon Wheel.”
he one-on-one games were intense and sometimes left Sam Dekker in tears.
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.
Barry Davis scoffed at the notion that he?s now the longest-tenure coach at the University of Wisconsin.
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.
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.
A plan to revamp recreational sports may include downsized changes to the Natatorium in response to student feedback.
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 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.
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.
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.
For three years, he?s been the most physical defender in the nation?s most physical conference.
University of Wisconsin running backs Melvin Gordon and James White have combined this season for 1,684 rushing yards and 19 touchdowns.
Running back James White has some unfinished business in Iowa City, Iowa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to offer a day of Paralympic sports and activities this weekend.
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.
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.
How well do you need to know someone before you?ll step forward and fully vouch for them?
Being captain of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team is an honorary appointment that comes with a lot of responsibilities and stress.
When it comes to football gate revenues, the Big Ten Conference takes from the rich to give to the poor.
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.
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.
Three cheers for last Monday?s editorial, ?Hey, Bucky: Find a new chant.?
Brittany Ammerman recently embarked on two life-altering journeys. In one, her eyes were constantly closed. In the other, they were wide open.
The list of 20 secondary violations submitted by the University of Wisconsin to the NCAA for 2012-13 includes two references to social media.
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.
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.
Before Kelly Sheffield agreed to become the University of Wisconsin volleyball coach last December, he had an important phone call to make.
