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.
When Gary Andersen was the head football coach at Utah State, he had a knack for uncovering unheralded recruits and turning them into good players.
Last spring, Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz was asked to size up the Legends Division of the Big Ten Conference.?Heh, I have no idea!? Ferentz said. ?Are we in the Legends??
A former UW-Madison basketball player has endowed a $50 million scholarship fund that will offer up to 250 Wisconsin high school hoopsters per year a major financial boost to attend college in Wisconsin, it was announced Thursday.
When Bill Busch left the University of Wisconsin to accept his first full-time football coaching job at Northern Arizona prior to the 1995 season, he was met at the airport by Gary Andersen.
It?d be one thing if its horrid performance at the free throw line was the only thing that plagued the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team during a 49-47 loss to Michigan State on Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.
New University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen was slightly taken aback the first time he met Bill Hahn, the executive director of the Mendota Gridiron Club.”I think we overwhelmed him a little bit,” Hahn said of the 90-minute meeting.
Barry Alvarez wants you to think the wound is healed all while peeling back a blood-stained bandage.The University of Wisconsin athletic director is a couple weeks removed from an emotional, tumultuous month in which he held down two demanding jobs and made one of the most important personnel decisions of his career.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday approved the contracts for football coach Gary Andersen and his two coordinators. As previously reported, Andersen has a five-year deal that will pay him $1.8 million his first year (with a $400,000 base) and go up $100,000 the next four years. That means he will be paid $2.2 million in his fifth year.
When he was introduced as Arkansas head coach last month, Bret Bielema explained one of the reasons he left Wisconsin was the inability to adequately compensate assistant coaches. UW athletic director Barry Alvarez argued otherwise.
Based on the developments Friday, the assistants on Gary Andersen?s first UW staff will be paid well.The UW Board of Regents on Friday approved the contracts of Andersen, offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig and defensive coordinator Dave Aranda.
A little less than a month after being named Wisconsin?s new head coach, Gary Andersen has a new contract. Provided he signs it, that is.
There were mornings when Peter Konz would pull into the Atlanta Falcons practice facility and just sit in his car.
Browns Pro Bowl offensive left tackle Joe Thomas is a finalist for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, the league announced tonight.
Young Badger fans got the opportunity to meet the University of Wisconsin?s women?s hockey team Sunday.
One of the suspects charged in the attack on Montee Ball will be sentenced Friday.
The University of Wisconsin football team suddenly finds itself with a surplus of quarterbacks.
A fourth person is charged in an attack on Wisconsin star running back Montee Ball last summer.
An arrest warrant was issued for a fourth person who police believe was involved in the attack on Montee Ball.
ESPN had not yet signed off its telecast from Bloomington, Ind., when my iPhone pinged, pinged again, then again. Bo Ryan?s Badgers had just stunned the national college basketball world by closing out the heavily favored Indiana Hoosiers, a team ranked second in the nation, before 17,472 raucous fans at Assembly Hall.
DELAVAN ? They warmed up with a third consecutive appearance in the Tournament of Roses parade and performed at halftime of the University of Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl game loss to Stanford.
Barry Alvarez wants you to think the wound is healed all while peeling back a blood-stained bandage.
A fourth person was charged Wednesday in the August attack on University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball.
The Big Ten men?s basketball race is unfolding just as every analyst predicted: Unranked Wisconsin is alone in first place four games into the season.
Prince Moody, the coordinator for UW-Madison?s Beyond the Game, lived in a bubble his whole life because he was part of the crème de la crème of athletics. As a college student athlete, his world revolved around athletics and academics and he could easily hide out in that world and not really deal with the world that surrounded that bubble.
Gary Andersen?s plan for building his first coaching staff at Wisconsin was a two-step process.
It?s quite an experience to walk out onto the Rose Bowl field in front of 93,359 screaming fans, especially under the leadership of your school?s most-decorated football coach of all-time.
A man with ties to Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison has been identified as the fourth suspect in the attack of UW-Madison football player Montee Ball last Aug. 1.
There haven?t been many dynasties in the long history of University of Wisconsin athletics. Some good ? even great ? teams, to be sure. But dynasties?
University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen is close to filling the final two openings on his coaching staff.
Gary Andersen is close to completing his first coaching staff at Wisconsin. A UW source confirmed Tuesday that Jay Boulware, the tight ends coach/special teams coordinator at Auburn from 2009 through last season, will coach UW?s tight ends.
A Madison police official says a fugitive in a battery case is also wanted for questioning about his possible role in last summers attack on Badger football star Montee Ball.
The owner of Milwaukee?s newest all-sports station WOKY-AM (920) has no plans to pursue the play-by-play contracts for the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks, but does not rule out the possibility of seeking the Wisconsin Badgers.
An academic has put together a list of what each Football Bowl Subdivision program is worth, and the University of Wisconsin program is valued at $296.1 million.
Although he lost offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig to the University of Wisconsin, San Diego State football coach Rocky Long is happy with the way new Badgers coach Gary Andersen went about the process.
Two of the highest-paid athletic coaches in the University of Wisconsin System during the 2011-12 school year have already left for better-paying jobs elsewhere.
Jared Abbrederis is returning to the University of Wisconsin for his senior year, a source close to the wide receiver said Saturday night.
For the second straight year, the University of Wisconsin football team is losing its starting center a year early to the NFL draft.
Sure Stanford Cardinal squeaked out a Rose Bowl victory over the Wisconsin Badgers Tuesday at the Rose Bowl, but when it came to a tailgating challenge before the game, Bucky came out on top.
Ryan Groy and Ethan Hemer didn?t need to peruse the Wisconsin depth chart to understand that the Badgers should be stronger in 2013 despite a second consecutive year of wholesale staff changes.
“I think we?re going to be one of the better teams we have had here in the last couple years,” said Groy, a redshirt junior offensive lineman who is expected to return for his fifth year. “I think we?re going to be a pretty special team to be honest. We?ll have an unbelievable senior class. There are a lot of leaders in it.”
Badgers fans watched the game on 21 color televisions arrayed around the tavern as Club Paragon waitresses delivered buckets of beer to tables. A Bloody Mary bar featured a Badgers helmet filled with lemons and limes while a Packers helmet was stuffed with celery stalks and olives.
Barry Alvarez and the Wisconsin players no doubt earned respect with their gritty performance in the 99th Rose Bowl against favored Stanford.
Yet as they had too many times during the 2012 season, the Badgers failed to make the plays they needed in the closing minutes and failed to steal a victory that was within reach.
Apparently there are badgers at the South Pole.
And they?re football fans.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a long and storied history of exploration and science in Antarctica, but when scientists aren?t busy taking core samples, measuring glaciers and looking for subatomic particles, they?re cheering on their football team.
There will be no alcohol on Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl-bound equipment truck this year.
Sarah Wiskow admits she?s spoiled. In her third year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 2010 Port Washington High School graduate will make her third trip to Pasadena, Calif., next week to see the Badgers play in the Rose Bowl on New Year?s Day.
About 100 Stanford and Wisconsin fans met at Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles in Van Nuys to package food for Los Angeles-area needy.
By 4 p.m., Ashland?s Neighborly Bar looked like a University of Wisconsin alumni meeting: Badgers sweatshirts and headwear were everywhere.
JANESVILLE ? Stephen Erlien?s standard garb on the Stanford University campus is a ragged, old UW-Madison Badgers hat and a Stanford jersey.
PASADENA, Calif. ? The view was still a sight to behold, the same as it has been for 99 years: the sun setting on the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance as the Rose Bowl champion was about to be decided. But this year?s meeting devolved into something familiar for Barry Alvarez: brawn, bruises and punts. A lot of punts.
For the 1,500 or so Badgers fans gathered Tuesday night at Union South, a nostalgic sense built up over 57 minutes and 30 seconds of football that Hall of Fame Coach Barry Alvarez could pull out one last Rose Bowl victory.
Trademarked University of Wisconsin merchandise is flying off store shelves. Figures released today show the products set a sales record in the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Gross royalties received at UW-Madison topped $3.7 million ? $400,000 more than the year before. Half of that money is earmarked for financial aid to undergraduate students.
When new Wisconsin head coach Gary Andersen was asked Friday where he was going to take the Badgers? football program next, athletic director Barry Alvarez couldn?t help but chuckle.
Sales of Bucky Badger gear set a new record in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, generating $3.75 million in royalties, half of which provides financial aid to University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
As you pull on your jersey or take a sip from your favorite UW mug in preparation for the 2013 Rose Bowl, remember every Bucky Badger and Motion W has a grand purpose: real need-based financial aid for UW-Madison students.
The success of University of Wisconsin athletics is driving record sales of UW merchandise, according to Cindy Van Matre, UW trademark and licensing director.
The jersey gauntlet has been thrown down for the Rose Bowl.Incoming Dane County Board Chair John Hendrick and Ken Yeager, Hendrick?s counterpart in Santa Clara County, have a friendly wager on the 2013 Rose Bowl, with the loser having to wear the jersey of the winner?s team.
