The Badgers used big plays on offense and defense to score twice in the first 2 minutes of the game and completely out-schemed Nebraska?s proud defense throughout en route to a stunning 70-31 victory for their third consecutive Big Ten title, a first in the history of the program.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema would probably love the chance for his team?s fans to become tired of yearly trips to the Rose Bowl.But for now, Bielema doesn?t expect there to be any problem for Badgers fans getting excited about a third straight trip to Pasadena, Calif., and a game against No. 8 Stanford on Jan.
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares for another visit to Pasadena, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking a little more caution in planning what can be an expensive trip to California and buying their tickets to the Rose Bowl.Tickets to last year?s Rose Bowl sold out within 15 minutes of becoming available to student season ticket holders. The year before it had taken 20 minutes until the only place a student could find a ticket was from someone who had bought it at the original face value.
As Bret Bielema analyzed the challenge Wisconsin faces against Nebraska in the Big Ten Conference title game, he neither sounded nor looked like a coach whose team had lost three of its final four games, all in overtime.
Worn and worried? Hardly. Bielema appeared almost giddy because he believes UW is a healthier team today than the one that suffered a 30-27 loss at Nebraska in the teams? league opener Sept. 29.
Former Wisconsin fullback Cecil Martin will be Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game and also to help out at the Allstate Big Ten Good Works Day.
Fans and the Wisconsin Badger football team prepare for the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis on Saturday.
The Milwaukee Common Council voted Wednesday to support University of Wisconsin-Madison activist groups in urging Chancellor David Ward to terminate the university?s contract with adidas.
Organizers of the Big Ten Conference football championship game are facing third-and-long in their quest to fill Lucas Oil Stadium for Saturday night?s matchup in downtown Indianapolis.
Back in January, when UW-Madison announced plans to construct an “athletic village” at Camp Randall, consisting of a training center and academic facility on the north end of the stadium, associate athletic director Justin Doherty explained why in simple terms.
For an especially lucrative occupation, one might consider becoming a fired college football coach.
Wisconsin senior tailback Montee Ball on Wednesday was named to the American Football Coaches Association All-American team for the second consecutive season.
Sports Illustrated announced Tuesday that fans voted the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ?Jump Around? as the greatest in the nation, following a season-long campaign to find the best gameday tradition in college football. UW-Madison students and fans alike have celebrated the Badgers by ?jumping around? before the fourth quarter of every home football game since a 1998 game against Purdue.
The University of Washington and Rutgers University announced plans Tuesday to cut ties with adidas following allegations of labor violations from a factory contracted by the apparel company, a move some members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have encouraged Interim Chancellor David Ward to pursue. The issue began January 2011 when a factory contracted by adidas suddenly shut down without compensating over 2,700 workers. Since then, other colleges and universities, including Cornell and Oberlin, have cut ties with the company for violating contracts with the schools to ensure all workers are paid.
Pete Waite is no longer the University of Wisconsin volleyball coach, a move dictated by athletic department officials, multiple sources confirmed Monday. UW announced Waite had resigned after 14 seasons, a stint that included nine NCAA tournament appearances, Big Ten Conference championships in 2000 and ?01 and a runner-up finish in the national tournament in 2000. A three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, Waite said in the news release he was stepping down “to allow someone else the opportunity to take this program back to the top of the Big Ten.”
Montee Ball hasn?t been able to replicate the remarkable numbers he posted as a junior when he helped Wisconsin win the Big Ten Conference title and reach the Rose Bowl for the second consecutive season.
I want to take some time today and move away from the routine talk-about-something-that-happened-over-the-weekend column and discuss an issue on campus I believe is very important. This issue has the potential to affect everyone on campus, but for the most part has largely stayed out of discussing among students and faculty.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. ?Bud? Selig will give the keynote address for Ethics Week to Wisconsin School of Business students and faculty Tuesday, focusing on ethics and professionalism in the business world. The 1956 UW-Madison alumnus has served as the MLB Commissioner since 1988 and will discuss his efforts to build ethical principles within the Milwaukee Brewers organization and MLB?s headquarters.
A regional labor relations board?s decision that Palermo?s did not violate workers? rights in firing a group of employees will likely not change student labor activists? approach to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ties with the pizza company, one activist said Sunday.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema sounded like a road-weary traveler on Sunday who might have taken a few wrong turns, gotten a little lost along the way, stubbornly refused to ask for directions, then happily tumbled out of the car at his final destination. No apologies and no regrets for the route taken, just thankful to end up in the right spot.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema ranks fifth in the Big Ten Conference in terms of total pay, according to USA Today?s annual survey of NCAA football coaches? compensation.
The response was the same whether you talked to a defensive lineman, a cornerback, a tailback or an offensive lineman.
Wisconsin?s players, mindful they suffered a 30-27 loss at Nebraska in the teams? Big Ten Conference opener in September, are grateful to have a rematch with quarterback Taylor Martinez and his teammates in the Big Ten title game Saturday in Indianapolis.
“I?m real excited,” junior defensive tackle Beau Allen said after UW?s overtime loss at Penn State. “I think it is a good challenge.”
Maryland regents approved the university?s move to the Big Ten Conference on Monday, but not all of them were happy about how the deal went down.
It seems that Rutgers University?s costly investment in big-time sports will pay dividends after all ? not just for athletes and fans, but potentially for the academic program, as well.
Rutgers University will benefit academically by switching to the Big Ten Conference, an athletics powerhouse, school officials say. Yet, that may depend on how it spends its new-found wealth.
Former University of Wisconsin star Michael Finley is putting his front-office career on hold in hopes of extending his playing career, according to sources with knowledge of his plans.Sources told ESPN on Thursday that Finley, after participating in NBA pickup games all summer, continues to work out vigorously in pursuit of a contract that would give him one more run as an NBA player before shifting his focus to front-office work.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said the latest expansion of the Big Ten Conference is more about preparing for the future than fortifying the present. It was announced Monday that Maryland will be leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference and joining the Big Ten beginning in 2014-15. It?s expected Rutgers will follow suit as early as Tuesday, bolting the Big East Conference to give the Big Ten 14 members spreading across 11 states.
Big Ten and Maryland officials tried to talk a good game on Monday. But what was the reaction from non-partisan voices? Here?s a sampling.
During his 16 seasons as Wisconsin?s head football coach, Barry Alvarez made recruiting the East Coast a priority.
UW landed many outstanding players from that region, including tailbacks Ron Dayne and Anthony Davis from talent-rich New Jersey and P.J. Hill from New York.
After straying from that area early on at UW, Bret Bielema has reasserted the Badgers? recruiting efforts in that region of the country.
Maryland is set to announce it is joining the Big Ten.
A Maryland sports website is reporting that the University of Maryland Board of Regents is going to recommend the university apply for admittance to the Big Ten Conference. InsideMDsports.com reported that “a source with knowledge of the situation” has confirmed the board?s decision to leave the Atlantic Coast Conference to become the 13th member school of the Big Ten.
Fifty years ago this fall, at the Northwestern game, members of the legendary 1912 Wisconsin Badgers football team were introduced. Then a player on the ?62 team, as I watched those old-timers file onto the field, I couldn?t believe such scrawny old guys had ever played Big Ten football. This fall the famous ?62 team will be remembered. Now, yet another 50 years later, with linemen another l00 pounds heavier, we are the scrawny old guys.
[A column by Dion Kempthorne, a member of the 1962 team.]
The last home game of the Wisconsin Badgers football season drew tens of thousands of fans to Camp Randall.
MADISON, Wis.-The University of Wisconsin has reached a deal with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association to host state high school athletic competition for seven years. The WIAA will host state competition for high school boys basketball, football, golf, wrestling, and softball at UW facilities in Madison through the spring of 2020. State swimming, diving, and tennis tournaments will continue to be held on the UW campus but are not part of the new agreement.
The WIAA and University of Wisconsin have agreed to hold the state tournaments for football, boys basketball and three other sports in Madison through the spring of 2020, the organizations announced in a media conference Friday morning at Camp Randall Stadium.
Just a quick note to remind Wisconsin football fans that a total of 13 members of the program are to be honored during senior day Saturday before UW hosts Ohio State.
The active players are: tailback Montee Ball, safety Shelton Johnson, offensive lineman Robert Burge, cornerbacks Marcus Cromartie and Devin Smith, linebacker Mike Taylor, offensive tackle Rick Wagner, defensive end Brendan Kelly and quarterback Phillips.
Interim Chancellor David Ward released a statement Wednesday stating the University of Wisconsin-Madison will review its contracts with Palermo?s Pizza following a request by a university committee to cut ties with the pizza company….In the statement, Ward said he will review the committee?s request to cut ties, but the university currently has no plans to take action. Ward said while certain parties within the university, including the athletic department and the Wisconsin Union, have sponsorship agreements with Palermo?s, UW-Madison as an institution is not ?a party to this dispute.?
Because you can never be too careful these days, especially when it comes to children and sports, University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials took important action earlier this year. They adopted a policy, which went into effect April 1, whereby background checks are done on all persons involved with the various sports camps that are held annually on campus. According to Holly Weber, the human resources director for UW Athletics, more than 700 camp-related background checks have been run through her office since April.
UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said recently the background checks had altered the course of more than one hire this year. He declined to get into specifics, but the impact is clear. “They’re very important,” he said of the reviews.
The muscle of Bucky Badger could possibly get behind striking workers at Palermo?s Pizza. The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Labor Licensing Policy Committee is recommending that the university move toward terminating contracts valued at more than $200,000 annually with the Milwaukee frozen pizza maker, whose products are sold at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center. The contracts also allow for the use of the Bucky Badger logo on Palermo?s pizzas sold in grocery stores.
A season that started with a nightmare for running back Montee Ball still has a chance for a dream-come-true ending. Despite everything he has endured in a topsy-turvy senior season at the University of Wisconsin, Ball is just one touchdown shy of the NCAA career record going into the game against Ohio State on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium. Travis Prentice, who played at Miami (Ohio), holds the record with 78.
The muscle of Bucky Badger could possibly get behind striking workers at Palermo?s Pizza. The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Labor Licensing Policy Committee is recommending that the university move toward terminating contracts valued at more than $200,000 annually with the Milwaukee frozen pizza maker, whose products are sold at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center. The contracts also allow for the use of the Bucky Badger logo on Palermo?s pizzas sold in grocery stores.
Montreal Canadiens prospect Blake Geoffrion is out of intensive care and feeling well enough to provide an update on Twitter.
The room was quiet, his teammates hanging on his every word, when Montee Ball apologized for what he had not seen coming. Someone had called his name, he turned, saw a fist, then nothing. He awoke in a hospital bed with a concussion and a face swollen from five men kicking his head.
Peter Weiden grew up “in the heart of football Saturdays” in Madison. He lived near Edgewood College, and it was nearly impossible finding a parking spot near his house when the University of Wisconsin football team was playing at Camp Randall Stadium. Now, at age 29, he’s in his third year working for the Badgers football program, including his second as assistant director of football operations.
University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach Bobbie Kelsey knows how much Taylor Wurtz means to the team. ?We need her,? Kelsey said of Wurtz, the team?s leading scorer from last season who missed two weeks of practice and UW?s two exhibition victories due to a back injury. It appears Kelsey will have the 6-foot senior guard available for game action very soon.
The long-awaited first start for University of Wisconsin senior quarterback Curt Phillips will happen on Saturday at Indiana in a game that could decide the Leaders Division representative in the Big Ten Conference championship game. A source close to the UW program on Wednesday confirmed Phillips has gotten most of the work with the No. 1 offense this week in practices and is expected to start over junior Danny O?Brien.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison labor licensing committee plans to send a letter to Chancellor David Ward early next week urging him to give Palermo?s Pizza, a sponsor of UW-Madison athletics, a 30-day ultimatum to meet the requests of the company?s striking workers, which include union recognition and priority rehiring.
Zach Bohannon considers himself a staunch Republican. His beliefs are rock-solid and one day he hopes to become President.
Bret Bielema couldn?t help but laugh. Asked to look back on some of the great practice battles between J.J. Watt and Gabe Carimi at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers head coach chuckled before painting a very competitive picture.
Marion native Zach Bohannon was profiled in a recent Gazette story for his political ambitions to be the youngest Republican president. But the story behind how he met the current president is much more interesting.
Even though a decision likely won?t be made until after the season, University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema made it clear he is leaning toward keeping Bart Miller as the team?s offensive line coach. Bielema was asked about Miller on Tuesday during the Big Ten Conference football coaches? teleconference by a reporter from Omaha, Neb., which is Miller?s hometown.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema didn?t shed any light on who the team?s starting quarterback will be this week against Indiana during his weekly news conference on Monday. But Bielema did lay out some of the things he?s looking for in a starter ? and it?s not necessarily the same things as when three quarterbacks were fighting for the job during preseason camp.
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, a rising star in the NFL, remembers going to Disney World when he was a kid and bringing home a souvenir of his image superimposed on the cover of Sports Illustrated. This week, it happened for real.
(CNN) – Former Penn State President Graham Spanier has been charged with several counts in the Jerry Sandusky child rape scandal at the university, including obstruction of justice, perjury, conspiracy, endangering the welfare of children and failure to report allegations of child abuse. Additional charges also were filed Thursday against two other former university officials -? former Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and ex-Vice President Gary Schultz. The three men now face the same five charges.
There are seven letters, two words, and one phrase that no athlete, but more specifically, no basketball player, ever wants to hear over his entire career: Torn ACL.
MADISON (WKOW) — Friday night will be a special one at the Kohl Center. The Badger men?s hockey team hosts Colorado College in its home opener, and the team will unveil the new Bob Johnson rink. The ice sheet at the Kohl Center is being named for the legendary coach, ?Badger Bob? Johnson. He led the Badgers to seven NCAA tournaments and won three championships. It?s been more than 20 years since Badger Bob lost his battle with brain cancer in 1991.
Jared Berggren, a senior center for the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team, is one of five Big Ten Conference players named as candidates for the 2012-13 men?s basketball Senior CLASS Award.
For the fifth time in as many seasons at the University of Wisconsin, Mick Byrne has been named Big Ten Conference men?s cross country coach of the year.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema has never hidden his fondness for senior quarterback Curt Phillips. It was on display again Monday when Bielema addressed UW?s future at quarterback after confirming redshirt freshman starter Joel Stave will miss eight weeks with a broken left collarbone. There?s an outside chance Stave could be back for a bowl game, but until then the Badgers will have to choose between junior Danny O?Brien and Phillips at quarterback.
The Badger men?s basketball team suffers a major blow before the season even begins. Point guard Josh Gasser, a junior, tore his anterior cruciate ligament Saturday at Badgers? practice. He?ll redshirt this season and undergo surgery in the upcoming days, according to the school, which did not specify the ACL in question (left or right).
The University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team is still recording many firsts at the new LaBahn Arena. Scratch a shutout off the list. Senior forward Brianna Decker and freshman defenseman Courtney Burke each enjoyed three-point games, and junior goaltender Alex Rigsby made 21 saves as the Badgers rolled to a 5-0 win over New Hampshire before 1,367 spectators on Sunday.
