Category: Athletics

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.

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.

Sophomore running back Melvin Gordon still regards it as one of the most difficult things he has ever had to do.

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.

MADISON – Barry Alvarez has spent nearly all of his adult life involved in college football. First as a player at Nebraska, then as a coach at a number of schools, and now as the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin. So when he was asked to be a member of the first College Football Playoff selection committee he knew it was something he wanted to be a part of.

The three quarters of a game spent without Abbrederis on the field was a glimpse into next season for the Badgers. They have spent the last season and a half trying to develop a No. 2 receiver. Pretty soon, they will be searching for a new No. 1.

First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree:Championship banners will no longer hang from the rafters at the Kohl Center, news that?s probably going to disappoint the traditionalists among University of Wisconsin basketball and hockey fans.

The state?s college football fans can officially begin planning to watch Wisconsin and Louisiana State meet at Lambeau Field.

The presidents of St. Norbert and Ripon colleges recently wrote a column, ?True student-athletes are in Division III,? extolling the virtues of NCAA Division III student-athletes who are ?students first, athletes second.?

Madison may be home for the first time this year for University of Wisconsin Badgers head football coach Gary Andersen, but he gets the significance of football and homecoming weekend as Wisconsin faces Top 20 Northwestern on Saturday.

Mark Zengerle is on pace to be one of the most prolific playmakers in University of Wisconsin men?s hockey history, but the senior center vividly recalls being skittish about that role.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Thursday will discuss a proposed contract between UW, LSU and the Green Bay Packers in connection with a scheduled football game at Lambeau Field in 2016.

This campaign to enhance the fan experience at University of Wisconsin athletic events has focused largely on what you eat and drink.

The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department will get $3 million to stage its 2016 football season opener at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

Dominic Raiola says he?s sorry. And, the Detroit Lions center is apparently putting his money where his mouth is.

By now, you?ve probably heard the inflammatory comments made by Lions center Dominic Raiola to the UW marching band at Sunday?s game. On Monday, the Detroit Lions said they were investigating the matter. And on Tuesday, Raiola issued an apology and will made a donation to the band.

Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, all along considered a candidate for the first College Football Playoff selection committee, is expected to be named to that group.

As much as he tries to ignore it, University of Wisconsin backup quarterback Curt Phillips admittedly can hear the clock ticking in the back of his head.

The University of Wisconsin men?s hockey program has long been known for churning out elite goaltenders and now that reputation has been validated in a unique way.

Most kids just want an opportunity to meet some of their favorite University of Wisconsin football players and a maybe get an autograph. For a few special patients at the American Family Children?s Hospital, they?ll also have a chance to shave the heads of a number of players as part of an event to raise awareness and funding for childhood cancer research.

University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Aranda was no different than a lot of defensive coaches when the read-option started making its way into college football.

Not only was it a shorter-than-normal offseason for Bo Ryan, the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach also had to deal with a loss that was far more painful than any buzzer-beater or season-ender could be.

A heartwarming military reunion college football fans won?t forget.

Sixty band students from Wausau East participated this year in a massed band at the University of Wisconsin Madison, along with 2,800 students from other high schools around the state.

13-year-old Bella Lund thought she was on the field during a University of Wisconsin-Madison football game as part of the team?s tradition of honoring a military family of the game during home games.

The excuse is sitting there, right in front of him, waiting to be plucked like a ripe piece of fruit. But University of Wisconsin sophomore quarterback Joel Stave wants no part of it, no matter how tantalizing it might look.

When Army Captain Jane Renee “J.R.” Lund returned home from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan, she surprised her 13-year-old daughter, Bella, in big way at a University of Wisconsin-Madison football game.

Arguably one of the most emotional videos taken at Camp Randall Stadium has nothing to do with a football game, and now it?s going viral.

TAMPA ? The University of Wisconsin has put in three bids to host the NCAA men?s hockey championship but nowhere near the school?s Madison, Wis., campus.

University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen said during the Big Ten Conference football coaches? teleconference he is ?moving forward,? following the controversial ending to the game at Arizona State on Saturday night.

It is the fervent hope of University of Wisconsin senior defensive end Ethan Hemer that all of the heartache he has experienced over four seasons will amount to something.

Kelly Sheffield had a tough act to follow Monday. The University of Wisconsin volleyball coach was next up at the athletic department?s weekly news conference, taking the microphone from Gary Andersen after UW?s first-year football coach had spent nearly a half-hour fielding questions about the officiating debacle that likely cost the Badgers a victory Saturday night at Arizona State.

Barry Alvarez was still steaming on Monday, two days after the University of Wisconsin football team?s controversial 32-30 loss to Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz.

University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen and his players were looking for two things Monday in the wake of the controversial ending to the 32-30 loss at Arizona State on Saturday night: accountability and closure.

The Pacific 12s decision Monday to reprimand the officials who worked Wisconsins two-point loss to Arizona State and admit the crew mishandled the final 18 seconds of the game did not surprise the UW players.

When it was over, or at least when the officials said it was over, the University of Wisconsin football players lingered on the field at Sun Devil Stadium.

We have long associated football with military combat, which helps explain how blitzes, bombs and trenches have become part of our gameday vocabulary … So it wasn?t a surprise to read the following quote from Arizona State coach Todd Graham heading into a non-conference meeting Saturday night with the University of Wisconsin: ?It?s going to be a war.?

Wisconsin?s staff likely won?t know until later in the week whether fullback Derek Watt will be ready to play Saturday at Arizona State.