Category: Athletics

For a second straight year a University of Wisconsin football player has been assaulted in downtown Madison.

The chain of events that led to Gary Andersen taking over the Wisconsin football program began on April 1, 2008.

No wonder why it?s so difficult for NFL quarterbacks to throw a pass over the hands of Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt.

Cody Byers didn?t spend much time thinking about concussions until the former linebacker for the University of Wisconsin football team sustained three in the span of about 13 months, forcing him to stop playing the sport he loves.

The University of Wisconsin has a new concessions vendor for its athletic events.

Sean Frazier is the new athletics director of NIU.

As an Olympic Gold Medalist in swimming, Carly Piper has a platform to talk to kids, like she recently did at the Greendale Village Club.

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Former Ohio State University President Gordon Gee took his time apologizing for remarks he made that were critical of the University of Notre Dame, Roman Catholics and Southeastern Conference schools, among several of his targets during off-the-cuff comments last year, records show.

The reins of the University of Wisconsin men?s track and field program will soon be turned over to a familiar character.

University of Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema is still looking to unload his 6,000-plus-SF home in Fitchburg, Wis.

Levy Restaurants has been chosen as the new food service provider for University of Wisconsin Athletic Department, according to sources.

Chris Maragos had access to pretty good scouting reports after Gary Andersen was named the head coach of the University of Wisconsin football team.

MADISON ? Russell Wilson played at the University of Wisconsin for 14 games during the 2011 season. In his short time of eligibility as a Badger Wilson led Wisconsin into the first ever Big Ten championship game ? and won. Students, Alumni, and fans will not soon forget the season that Wilson had here; the same way he won?t forget the city that helped make his dream a reality.

Four parties looking to secure the multimillion-dollar concessions contract for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department are scheduled to begin making presentations Thursday, according to multiple sources.

Unless you count some of his last-minute forays into training for Ironman triathlons, Mark Johnson is no masochist. But the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey coach would be happy if some pain came his way next week.

Former Badger football player JJ Watt visited Madison to raise money to help local kids get involved in athletics.

A torrent of emotions surged through John Clay?s head as he listened in shock to the news being delivered to him.

Nothing speaks to the solemn, enraptured spirit of a wedding day quite like a visit to ? Camp Randall Stadium?

MADISON – For the last four years he was one of the most recognizable college basketball players in the country. Mike Bruesewitz? iconic floppy red hair, bobbing up and down as he loped down the court in the Badgers? transition game.

Ed Nuttycombe?s favorite memory from 30 years as men?s track and field coach at the University of Wisconsin just so happens to be the ideal metaphor for his amazing career.

After 30 years, 26 Big Ten Conference championships and countless contributions to his sport, Ed Nuttycombe is retiring from his position as head coach of the Wisconsin men?s track and field program.

Ed Nuttycombe?s favorite memory from 30 years as men?s track and field coach at the University of Wisconsin just so happens to be the ideal metaphor for his amazing career.

The South Dakota State men?s basketball program has replaced one former area standout with another, hiring Joe Krabbenhoft on Thursday to take the assistant coaching job vacated by Austin Hansen.

Contrary to recent developments within the Big Ten Conference, there are no plans at the University of Wisconsin to add any sports.

The Big Ten is expected to announce an agreement on Monday with the Pinstripe Bowl played annually in Yankee Stadium in New York, according to reports Sunday.

When one writes about watching the Badgers play football at Camp Randall Stadium, there are two immediate perils.One is to veer into codger land, a way-back place where the bratwurst tasted better and when the ?Portage Plumber? ? a fellow in red-striped bib overalls who clownishly paraded around the mostly empty stadium ? was regarded as cool.

Yeah, this could be considered beating a dead horse, but it?s an offseason weekend. Indulge us.

They arrived on a warm spring Friday afternoon symbolically dressed for a funeral. Black hats. Cleats. Stirrups. Undershirts. The gesture, while futile in the big picture, represented a declaration of mourning. For history. And for themselves.

Jared Berggren decided to leave his native Minnesota to play basketball for Wisconsin before there was any chance for him to get recruited by the Gophers under Tubby Smith.

The Wisconsin Rugby Club returns to the USA Rugby DII Club semifinals looking to earn a National Championship that they missed out on last year.

Madison sports fans looking to discover a sport on the rise are fortunate to have the USA Ultimate College Championsips (PDF) at Reddan Park in Verona this weekend. Forty teams total — 20 women?s and 20 open — are competing for national titles beginning with pool play on Friday and Saturday with elimination rounds beginning Saturday evening. Quarter-finals are Sunday morning with semi-finals in the afternoon at Mansfield Stadium on the Madison Memorial High School campus.

Concession stands at University of Wisconsin sporting events could have a new look ? or at least a new group in control ? next season, and it could mean the end of a relationship that spans more than 50 years.

For an athlete valuing teamwork the way Beloit?s Margo Grover does, competitive crew ? rowing ? may well be the perfect collegiate sport.

Cristian Beasley, 12, of Splendora, Texas, suffers from leukemia. Because of his illness, he attends school via a robot he controls with his computer at home.

MADISON ? On Wednesday, May 15, fourteen-year-old Darien Moran of Madison received his wish to have a personalized bedroom makeover. The Make a Wish Foundation and members of the Wisconsin football team teamed up to give Darien a football themed room.

Noted: Hermann, 49, was most recently the senior associate athletic director at the University of Louisville. She was selected over University of Wisconsin deputy athletic director Sean Frazier, the Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey, reported, citing two unidentified people familiar with the situation.

The search for Rutgers? next athletic director, expected to end Tuesday tonight, will last at least another day.

It?s been a week or so since we?ve heard more regarding Wisconsin deputy athletic director Sean Frazier?s candidacy for the vacant Rutgers athletic director position. Tom Luicci of The Star-Ledger put forth some new information, however, with a Monday report not only confirming the pool of candidates has dwindled to two, but illuminating the fact that each one still has significant past issues to address.

ENGLEWOOD — Montee Ball no longer is the celebrity of State Street, the big man on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Regardless of whether Rutgers introduces Sean Frazier or Julie Hermann as its next athletic director later this week ? which the school appears bent on doing ? the person who replaces Tim Pernetti likely faces further scrutiny for one red flag in his or her past.

Who designs the flamboyant suits worn by UW Varsity Band Director Mike Leckrone during the band?s spring concerts?

When Bret Bielema left the state last year, the designation as Wisconsin?s highest-paid public employee shifted from its flagship school?s football coach to its men?s basketball coach.

The National Football Foundation announced Tuesday morning that University of Wisconsin great Ron Dayne will be immortalized as part of the College Football Hall of Fame Class of 2013.

Ron Dayne has been elected to the College Football Hall Of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

Ron Dayne becomes the 13th former Badgers? player or coach elected into the College Football Hall of Fame. Dayne was one of  14 announced on Tuesday to be enshrined as part of the 2013 class.

Former University of Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne was elected on Tuesday morning as part of the 2013 class for the College Football Hall of Fame.

If you stepped up your donation to the University of Wisconsin athletic department in hopes of winning one of a number of Badgers-themed prizes offered in a donor program, those in charge have a message for you:Sorry.

PARK RIDGE, ILL. ? No more ?Legends.? And no more ?Leaders.? The Big Ten is giving them the boot and following a more conventional route for its division names.

The possibility of a neutral-site game between the University of Wisconsin and Louisiana State football programs remains up in the air, along with any role the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field could play in it.