Category: Athletics

FAYETTEVILLE ? Bret Bielema?s first official Arkansas Razorbacks hire is the coach coordinating Bielema?s last two defenses at Wisconsin.

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Mel Tucker has no interest ?at this time? in becoming the next head football coach at the University of Wisconsin.

MADISON AP – Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will earn $118,500 for returning to the sidelines to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl and a win against Stanford will mean a $50,000 bonus.

Barry Alvarez will earn $118,500 for returning to the sidelines to coach Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.

When Lauren Carlini comes to the University of Wisconsin to play volleyball next fall, the West Aurora, Ill., standout will do so as the 2012 winner of the Gatorade National Player of the Year. Carlini learned of the honor during a scheduled news conference this morning at her school where pro beach volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist April Ross surprised her by giving out the award. Ross won the Gatorade award herself during the 1999-2000 season.

MADISON, Wis. ? University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez will receive additional compensation of $118,500 for taking on Rose Bowl coaching responsibilities, under a plan approved by the Executive Committee of the UW System Board of Regents today. The funds will come from former coach Bret Bielema?s $1-million contract buy-out, to be paid to UW-Madison by the University of Arkansas.

As he talked about his desire to finish out his first season at Wisconsin with a victory in the Rose Bowl, wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni acknowledged he has to monitor opening at other schools. “Absolutely you?re putting feelers out,” he said. “You?ve got to feed your family.”

Mel Tucker, who played defensive back at Wisconsin and is the defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars, told reporters Monday he has spoken with UW athletic director Barry Alvarez about the Badgers? vacant head-coaching position.

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Mel Tucker has no interest “at this time” in becoming the next head football coach at the University of Wisconsin. Tucker, a former Badgers defensive back, said on Monday he spoke to UW athletic director Barry Alvarez on Friday, but insisted “there?s really no news there.”

Pulling off a great dangle that sends a defenseman to the ice like a first-time skater is one thing. Pulling off two in a row and finishing with a goal is a whole other matter.

Class and pornography are pretty much the same thing. As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said about pornography, “I have trouble defining it but I know it when I see it.”

A fourth suspect involved in the assault on Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball in August could soon be arrested by Madison police. Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain told Madison.com on Monday that detectives working the case have either identified or are in the process of identifying the fourth suspect, and that suspect would be arrested.

The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board convened Friday and expressed its excitement over the search for the next head coach for the football program.

I was hoping for more drama at University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez?s press conference Thursday morning. With the news that he had accepted a request from some senior football players to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl already broken on Wednesday evening, I was looking for even more of a return to the golden era of Wisconsin football.

It?s clear this hire will be handled much differently than the last time Barry Alvarez hired a football coach at the University of Wisconsin.

Yes, Mike Eaves has noticed the growing number of empty seats at the Kohl Center and, of course, the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach has some theories on the phenomenon.

Seven years ago, Bret Bielema walked into his first Big Ten head coach?s meeting. In the room were Joe Paterno, Lloyd Carr, Jim Tressel and Joe Tiller.

It may not have been the Heisman Trophy many expected before his senior campaign, but the Doak Walker Award served as a decent consolation prize for Wisconsin running back Montee Ball Thursday night.

While a third straight trip to the Rose Bowl might not bring out record numbers of fans, Barry Alvarez could bring a bigger crowd to Pasadena than expected.

Making it to the Rose Bowl is always a big deal, but for Badger fans it?s started to be kind of a regular thing.

Cross Pitt coach and former Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst off the list of candidates for the Badgers job.

Montee Ball?s season of resurgence continued Thursday night.

The victim of a brutal assault less than a week before the opening of preseason camp in August, Wisconsin?s senior tailback struggled early in the season and eventually fell out of the race for the Heisman Trophy.

On Thursday, five days after being named the MVP of the Big Ten Conference title game, Ball won the 2012 Doak Walker Award, given annually to the top running back in the nation.

Less than four days removed from winning a third-straight Big Ten title with Wisconsin, Bret Bielema sported a tie with a slightly darker shade of red as the University of Arkansas officially introduced him as its new head coach Wednesday afternoon.

UW Athletic Board chairman Dale Bjorling tells 27 News board members will be involved in the hiring process for a replacement for departed Badgers head football coach Bret Bielema.

Aside from the coaching vacancy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, former football coach Bret Bielema is also leaving a hole in the community.

UW Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez confirmed Thursday morning that he will coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl.

ormer Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema says he wont coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl. He has an idea who might, however.

University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will coach the football team in the Rose Bowl, the State Journal has confirmed. A source close to the UW football program said the team?s captains reached out to Alvarez and asked him to coach the team. Alvarez said he would be “honored” to do so.

Bret Bielema will collect a base salary of $3.2 million in his new job at Arkansas, with $700,000 in incentives available yearly plus extra unspecified payouts arranged in a separate contract between the coach and a booster group, The Razorback Foundation, Inc.

MADISON – University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez will coach the Rose Bowl, TODAY?S TMJ4/NBC26?s Lance Allan is reporting.

Just a day after news broke that Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema will leave Madison to coach at Arkansas, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that he hasn?t ruled out the possibility of coaching the Badger football team in the Rose Bowl against Stanford on Jan. 1. Alvarez, in New York for his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame and to raise funds for a new student-athlete facility, said he will make an official announcement of his decision at a press conference Thursday in Wisconsin.

O.K., let?s see if we?ve got this straight: Bret Bielema spends much of his six-season tenure as Wisconsin?s football coach bashing the Southeastern Conference for being slimy and unfair and just plain mean. He does this to try to make his dwindling Big Ten neighborhood look more spiffy by comparison, to gloss over the fact that Jim Delany?s kingdom would love to crack the slimy, underhanded market.

UW Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez has released a statement on Head Coach Bret Bielema accepting position at Arkansas

Bret Bielema is taking his brand of power football to Arkansas, leaving Wisconsin after seven seasons.

Some of the people closest to Bret Bielema had absolutely no idea before the news broke on Tuesday afternoon that the University of Wisconsin football coach was leaving for Arkansas. The news stunned not only Badgers fans but several people in Bielema?s inner circle.

On Tuesday night, three days after Bret Bielema guided UW to its third consecutive Big Ten title, he was named head coach at Arkansas of the powerful Southeastern Conference, hired away from UW by athletic director Jeff Long.

Speculation has been flying all afternoon since it became public that Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema would be taking the Arkansas head coaching job. It only seemed logical that Paul Chryst would be at least a candidate to succeed Bielema at his alma mater. Chryst was the tight ends coach at Wisconsin in 2002, and served as the Badgers? offensive coordinator from 2005-2011. Chryst released the following statement tonight:

On Tuesday the only two job openings in the SEC West were both filled when Auburn announced it had hired former offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn and Arkansas surprised everybody by hiring Wisconsin?s Bret Bielema.

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Pittsburgh football coach Paul Chryst says he?s committed to sticking with the Panthers.

MADISON ? The University of Arkansas has confirmed Wisconsin?s Bret Bielema will be the next head football coach for the Razorbacks. 

It?s been a mixture of emotions from Badger fans, who are responding to the news that Bret Bielema will be leaving Wisconsin to coach for Arkansas.

Badger fans wasted no time grabbing up tickets to the Rose Bowl. Tickets went on sale to the general public Monday morning and the Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Office was busy most of the day.

Students used to struggling for a seat at a Badger bowl game are finding a surplus of tickets.

MADISON (WKOW) — Thousands of fans got back into town Sunday afternoon after a surprise blowout against Nebraska. And many of them are already making plans to attend the Rose Bowl, to watch the Badgers play in that game for a third straight year. “I think nobody believed in the team and we?re for real,” says Badger fan John Haas.

MADISON, Wis. -The Wisconsin Badgers? lopsided victory and a Rose Bowl berth that seemed unlikely one week ago was enough to convince some fans to make travel plans for the Tuesday, Jan. 1 game. The Badgers beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 70-31, in the Big Ten Championship game Saturday in Indianapolis. The team will make its third-straight appearance in the Rose Bowl for the first time in school history.