The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Board unanimously endorsed an update to the drug testing policy that oversees student-athletes Friday, aiming to emphasize therapy before punishment and offer student-athletes additional protections from unwarranted testing.
The Big Ten Conference office announced football division alignments set to begin in 2014 and nine-game conference schedules set to start in 2016. The changes were unanimously recommended by conference directors of athletics and supported by the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors.
MADISON- Saturday thousands of people will take part in the Crazylegs Classic in Madison, but because of the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon there have been some changes made.
Marty Pomplun walked across the Crazylegs Classic finish line with a huge grin and prosthetic legs emblazoned with John Deere logos.
Concerns about security after the bombing of the Boston Marathon are prompting organizers of the Crazylegs Classic in Madison to change the Camp Randall carry-in policy for Saturday?s race.
University of Wisconsin Badgers football Coach Gary Andersen brought his staff to the EAA Museum on Tuesday to meet fans and give an update on the program?s transition.
A settlement is reportedly in the works in a dispute between Adidas ? which has a $2.5 million licensing and royalties deal with the University of Wisconsin-Madison ? and a union representing former workers of an Indonesian factory that produced apparel for the athletic wear giant.
If nothing else, the additions of Maryland and Rutgers forced the Big Ten Conference to reconsider its fabricated division alignments and nonsensical division names in football.
ATLANTA – Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan has received the 2013 Coaches vs. Cancer Champion Award.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board presented its annual report and budget for the 2011-12 academic year Monday at the UW Faculty Senate meeting.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Barry Alvarez has a new contract that will keep him as the athletic director of the University of Wisconsin for the next five years.
Basketball and hockey fans can pay to rent seat cushions starting next season at the Kohl Center, and football season ticket holders at Camp Randall Stadium can expect to pay more for the popular seat backs at Camp Randall under terms of a new contract with the company that provides them.
Basketball and hockey fans can pay to rent seat cushions starting next season at the Kohl Center, and football season ticket holders at Camp Randall Stadium can expect to pay more for the popular seat backs at Camp Randall under terms of a new contract with the company that provides them.
There is all the difference in the world in college softball between the have-not and have-not-yet. When Yvette Healy looked at the University of Wisconsin, a program most would have placed among the have-nots in the world of big-time college softball, she saw one that could have almost anything with a little work.
For most college soccer teams, the spring season is full of hard work and low-key exhibitions intended to prepare for the fall season ? hardly the stuff of memories.
Bob Teague, who joined WNBC-TV in New York in 1963 as one of the city?s first black television journalists and went on to work as a reporter, anchorman and producer for more than three decades, died on Thursday in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 84.
The Wisconsin mens hockey team will open the 2013 NCAA Tournament as the No. 4 seed in the Northeast Regional and face No. 1 seed UMass Lowell on Friday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m. CT in Manchester, N.H.
The University of Wisconsin has a long and checkered history with high-scoring guards in the NCAA men?s basketball tournament.
MADISON, Wis. — More than 100 student-athletes from several University of Wisconsin teams recently joined forces to row more than 700,000 meters to raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC).
It?s only a matter of hours before Wisconsin plays in the first round of the NCAA tournament, and Badger fans are as faithful as ever.
The NCAA matchup between 12th-seeded Mississippi and fifth-seeded Wisconsin will be a collision of style as much as will.
Just four months after Wisconsin voters gave President Obama 53 percent of the vote to give him 10 electoral votes in a crucial swing state and five months after he met the members of the Badgers men?s basketball team in a major campaign stop, the president picks the team to upset Gonzaga, the No. 1 seed in the west region of the NCAA tournament.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? Want to know what to expect from Mississippi shooting sensation Marshall Henderson in the NCAA men?s basketball tournament today?Allow Rebels coach Andy Kennedy to provide a scouting report on his brash junior guard, who has made himself ? by design, it turns out ? into a national curiosity with on-court antics that include gesturing, trash-talking and long-range shooting, often in triplicate.
It?s been a long and bruising fight to the NCAA Tournament for Wilkes University graduate and University of Wisconsin Badgers head coach Bo Ryan, every exhilarating victory and crushing loss leading to this moment in March.
Forty years ago Sunday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison men?s hockey team defeated Denver, 4-2, in Boston to win its first National Collegiate Athletic Association hockey title.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students won the Clean Snowmobile Challenge for the fifth time last week.The competition, hosted by the Society of Automotive Engineers, asked teams to reduce snowmobiles? emissions and noise, while still maintaining low costs and high performance. The competition included representatives from multiple universities.
We would like to express our sincere appreciation for sports fans and businesses in the greater Madison area that helped us roll out the red carpet for the visiting student athletes, families and fans in Madison recently for WIAA wrestling, hockey and boys basketball tournaments.
Senior forward Jared Berggren knows exactly what to expect from coach Bo Ryan when the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team returns to practice today to begin preparations for the Big Ten Conference tournament.
MADISON, Wis. — Football coach Gary Andersen has preached family since his arrival, and UW players are responding positively.
The changes in the University of Wisconsin football team?s first practice under Gary Andersen on Saturday could be seen and heard inside the McClain Center.
Navigating through downtown Thursday night was tougher than usual with thousands of fans heading to the Kohl Center for the boy?s state basketball tournament.
University of Wisconsin halfback Montee Ball might have undone some of the damage from his slow 40-yard dash time at the NFL scouting combine.
Rainey Briggs has held season tickets to University of Wisconsin men?s basketball games for the last six years.He hasn?t been to an exhibition or non-conference game in about five years even though they account for more than half of the home schedule.
A new UW-Madison alcohol policy would ban booze at events where less than two-thirds of guests are of legal drinking age and require a professional server at events with more than 50 people. It also would require that smaller events that feature booze be over in two hours and that all booze but beer be served in small, clear cups commonly used for serving wine.
A proposed University of Wisconsin alcohol policy change, which was spurred in part by a university-funded party at the center of an Athletics Department investigation last year, was met with concerns about its effect on academic department gatherings at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
Regardless of how her tryout goes, Lauren Silberman will make history Sunday at the NFL Regional Scouting Combine in Florham Park, N.J.
Lauren Silberman has scant chance at making the NFL.
Silberman never kicked anything more than a soccer ball in an organized game and she just started practicing long-range field goals.
INDIANAPOLIS ? Timberland High?s Montee Ball ran the 40-yard dash in 4.62 seconds Sunday at the NFL scouting combine. Sizzling? No.
Kevin Kluender humbly dismisses the notion that he coordinates one of the most prominent, enduring attractions in the state.Kluender is the assistant director for marketing and promotions for the University of Wisconsin athletic department, a role that puts him front and center for staging games and events involving all 23 sports.
Kevin Kluender humbly dismisses the notion that he coordinates one of the most prominent, enduring attractions in the state.Kluender is the assistant director for marketing and promotions for the University of Wisconsin athletic department
Recreational Sports representatives addressed a student government committee in a Monday meeting, with members saying the need for building repairs to outdated facilities are a critical part of their $2 million budget request for the 2013-2014 fiscal year.
We have discovered over the years that major college football coaches aren?t always the most warm and fuzzy, honest and ethical people.
CHICAGO ? The late Bob Johnson said it best many years ago, and it still rang true Sunday. “It was a great day for hockey,” said Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson, borrowing the legendary Wisconsin coach?s famous motto.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Board approved Friday a budget of more than $133 million for the university?s athletic department next year.The budget is a $19 million dollar increase from last year?s budget, which amounted to approximately $114 million dollars.
The University of Wisconsin?s Athletic Board approved an increased budget in their meeting Friday, in addition to announcing major changes to football scheduling for upcoming seasons.
It?s not often in college athletics the interests of schools and the interests of fans align, but that could be the case with Big Ten Conference football in the next few years.
Various maintenance repairs to University of Wisconsin?s recreational sports facilities will be required next year, causing an increase in student segregated fee funding, according to the Division of Recreational Sports.
Dave and Nancy Schultz left Madison in 1989 to live on an 800-acre estate west of Philadelphia devoted to the sport of wrestling.
When Barry Alvarez opened his mail one day last July, the University of Wisconsin athletic director came across a love letter.
A remarkable, and valuable, trio of basketball artifacts ? Lew Alcindor?s 1969-1971 game worn Milwaukee Bucks jersey (his last before becoming Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Oscar Robertson?s 1970-?71 NBA Championship Season game worn Milwaukee Bucks jersey and Kareem?s first set of game worn goggles, from 1974 ? are expected to bring more than $150,000 altogether at auction on Feb. 23 in New York as part of Heritage Auctions? Platinum Night Sports event. The pieces have been consigned by Dr. Patrick McBride, Dean of Students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Schools, who also holds the distinction ? which stands to this day ? of having been named the youngest Equipment Manager in the history of professional sports. McBride has kept the pieces in his closet for the last 40 years.
The University of Wisconsin?s football spring game will be held on April 20, with a 2 p.m. kickoff, at Camp Randall Stadium.Tickets will once again be $5 and proceeds this year will benefit the UW School of Pharmacy.
The University of Wisconsin is searching nationwide for a new Director of Recreational Sports to promote healthy lifestyles for students at UW.
Russell Wilson, the former University of Wisconsin star now playing quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, will appear in an American Family Insurance ad on Super Bowl Sunday.
Until further notice, this is the biggest upset to come out of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department this academic year:There won?t be a price hike for season tickets in football, men?s basketball or men?s hockey in 2013-14.
LAKE GENEVA ? When the position of head coach for the University of Wisconsin Badgers football team was vacant last month, the school posted the job on its human resources website like any other opening.
New Orleans – Scott Tolzien is trying to soak up as much knowledge as he can from QB Alex Smith because there?s a pretty good chance Sunday will be Smith?s last game with the 49ers.
In the second installment of a four-part series, the Diverse editors sought to recognize those current and former athletics directors across the country who have blazed the trails and opened doors for minorities in sports. Included: Sean Frazier. Promoted to deputy athletic director in 2011, Sean T. Frazier also served as senior associate athletic director for operations at the University of Wisconsin. Frazier came to Wisconsin in 2007 after serving as director of athletics at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass.
Milwaukee mutual fund manager and former University of Wisconsin basketball Hall of Famer Albert Nicholas announced Thursday he is establishing a $50 million scholarship fund for high school basketball players to attend UW System schools.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board introduced two new coaches, approved contracts for three coaches and discussed the student athlete alcohol policy during its monthly meeting Friday.
