EAST LANSING, Mich. ? Maverick Darling was intent on improving his finishing position one spot over last year in the Big Ten Conference cross country championship on Sunday. That didn?t happen, but the University of Wisconsin senior left the Forest Akers East Course with a big smile and a fourth consecutive team championship.
UW-Madison Police issued 23 citations, made 22 arrests and ejected 141 people during the Badgers? 16-13 loss to Michigan State on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium. Among those cited and arrested, 16 were UW students, while 77 students were among those ejected.
Starting quarterback Joel Stave is out for the season after suffering a broken collarbone, his family confirmed to a Madison TV station, a damaging blow to the University of Wisconsin football team?s hopes for a third straight Big Ten Conference championship.
More than 1,600 students came together on the Kohl Center court to participate in an event supported by University of Wisconsin men?s basketball head coach Bo Ryan and his wife that ultimately raised $41,279 for cancer research.
University of Wisconsin-Madison men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan issued the Charity Stripe Challenge to UW-Madison students Thursday, and over 1600 responded to ?Make Bo Pay.?
Criminal charges will not be filed in connection with a fight at a July party that police say might have precipitated an attack on Badgers running back Montee Ball, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said.
Luke Wainwright didn?t get a chance to do a whole lot of celebrating last January when the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team won at Purdue for just the second time since 1972.
Henry Perez-Guerra, the athletic trainer for the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team, has some pretty good material the next time he goes in for his annual review. Badgers coach Bo Ryan was talking Tuesday about the gruesome injury senior forward Mike Bruesewitz suffered during a team workout Oct. 9, and it quickly became clear that Perez-Guerra, who?s in his 20th year as a trainer at UW, was the undisputed MVP that day.
Wisconsin men?s basketball head coach Bo Ryan and his wife, Kelly, will host the Charity Stripe Challenge, a fundraiser for Coaches vs. Cancer and The American Cancer Society, Thursday at the Kohl Center. The Ryans will donate $1 for every UW-Madison student who comes to the arena between 3 and 7 p.m., and each student will have the opportunity to shoot a free throw and a half-court shot on the Kohl Center floor. The Ryans will donate $10 for every free throw made and $1,000 for each half-court shot made, and students who connect from long distance will also win men?s basketball season tickets.
Freakfest, Madisons Halloween event, returns to State Street this weekend, and with the Badgers homecoming football game the same night, getting around the downtown area will be more difficult this year.
Wisconsin has never finished lower than fourth in the Big Ten Conference in 11 seasons under Bo Ryan. According to a panel of 24 writers who cover Big Ten men?s basketball, UW is projected to finish fifth this season.
It?s an outstanding year for linebackers in the Big Ten Conference, which was reflected in the 12 semifinalists named on Monday for the Butkus Award, given to the nation?s top linebacker. Four of the players are from the Big Ten ? but none from the University of Wisconsin. The Badgers had two worthy candidates in senior Mike Taylor and junior Chris Borland.
The scariest part of this year?s Freakfest could be the traffic congestion from some 80,000 fans leaving Saturday?s Badgers Homecoming football game at the same time Downtown streets are being closed for the annual Halloween celebration on State Street that?s expected to draw close to 45,000 revelers.
A University of Minnesota student was knocked unconscious after stepping between two people arguing over a sports-related topic, according to Madison police.
It wasn?t the script University of Wisconsin women?s hockey coach Mark Johnson would?ve penned for the opening weekend in the new LaBahn Arena, but at least the ending was a hit. Bemidji State scored an extra-attacker goal in the final minute of regulation Sunday and, after a scoreless overtime, the game ended in a 3-3 tie.
Riding a three-game winning streak, the University of Wisconsin football team moved into the USA Today coaches? poll and BCS standings at No. 25 and moved to the fringe of The Associated Press rankings. The Badgers (6-2) are one of just two Big Ten Conference teams ranked in the coaches? poll, with Michigan at No. 20 there and in the AP poll. Because it is serving a one-year bowl ban, Ohio State (8-0) is ineligible for that poll, although the Buckeyes check in at No. 9 in the AP poll. Wisconsin is the third team receiving votes in the media poll, the equivalent of being ranked No. 28.
MADISON ? UW-Madison Police issued 24 citations and made 23 arrests while ejecting 47 people during the Badgers? 38-13 victory over Minnesota on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board shared its excitement for the grand opening of the school?s women?s hockey team home arena during their meeting Friday, hoping the new facility will positively affect both the team and the sport.
The college basketball season is right around the corner! On Thursday, Oct. 25, UW-Madison students will have the opportunity to team up with the Wisconsin men?s basketball team and Coaches vs. Cancer to take a shot at fighting the world?s deadliest disease.
Nothing like a big party, complete with presents, family and old friends, to tamp out the ache of disappointment. The University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team will christen its beautiful new home, LaBahn Arena, before a sellout crowd Friday night when it opens a Western Collegiate Hockey Association series with Bemidji State.
It has not been the easiest of coaching journeys for Kevin Cosgrove since his successful tenure as the defensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of three coaching staffs that were fired ? at Nebraska, Minnesota and Akron ? before landing a job this year as inside linebackers coach at New Mexico. But no matter what he might go through in his professional life, Cosgrove insists he never has a bad day. He has his son, Connor, to thank for that.
A typical Badger home game experience includes walking with throngs of people through the Camp Randall arch, singing ?Varsity? with thousands of other Badger fans, and shaking the stadium during ?Jump Around.? But this year?s sudden enforcement of an assigned seating policy is leading to more students being ejected from one of their most anticipated traditions.
Just before Whitney Hite conducted his first practice as the men?s and women?s swimming and diving coach at the University of Wisconsin, he took grease pen in hand and scrawled his code for life on a white board for his charges to see. “Entitled to nothing, grateful for everything,” he wrote. “If you can live your life with that motto,” he told them, “then life becomes a heck of a lot more fun and a heck of a lot more enjoyable.” That sentiment is meant to be applied 24/7, but there are moments when its ring is a bit truer.
Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at UW-Madison and the University of Minnesota are running for the Red Cross.
The Gophers are wearing No. 51 patches on their uniforms to honor linebacker Gary Tinsley, a senior last season who died last April of an enlarged heart. In addition, one player will wear No. 51 every game, and an award, exemplifying Tinsley?s underdog mentality, will be given out after the season.
For those of you who can?t read enough about the Jerry Sandusky serial-child-rape scandal that rocked Penn State, I highly suggest checking out this lengthy piece by a PSU professor who explains his decision to resign his post as the Paterno chair in literature at the university.
When Wisconsin welcomes Minnesota to Camp Randall Saturday, the Badgers will be focused on winning Paul Bunyan?s Axe for a ninth straight year.
Even with increased focus on concussions, football remains by far the most popular high school sport. In Wisconsin, 29,807 football players compete at about 420 schools in Wisconsin ? nearly double the number of track and basketball players. But greater awareness of the effects of head injuries has prompted much conjecture about the viability of the game, said Dr. David T. Bernhardt, a pediatrician in primary care sports medicine at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
A fellow named Bob Drane of Madison had a letter to the editor published in the Wisconsin State Journal earlier this week that hit the nail on the head. Drane said he observed a small sample of the ?money gouging tactics? that average sports fans ?find disheartening.?….One of the foibles of turning old is that you remember times when things weren?t so tethered to the almighty dollar.
Gust Vergetis played in the 1953 Rose Bowl for the University of Wisconsin, played minor-league baseball as a catcher with the Oklahoma City Indians and was a dedicated educator. His wife, Mary Ann – they were high school sweethearts – wants you to know all that, but the main thing is this:”I was just crazy about him.”
When Madison mayor Paul Soglin attended the University of Wisconsin during the 1960s, he wasn?t a big Badger football fan.
Surveillance video photos of two more suspects in the Montee Ball assault case have been released, courtesy of the Madison Police Department and Madison Area Crime Stoppers.Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain told Madison.com the department is seeking the two suspects shown in the photos in connection with the early morning beating of the Badgers running back on University Avenue on Aug. 1.
The Madison Police Department and Madison Area Crime Stoppers need your help in identifying additional suspects in the battery of Badgers football star Montee Ball.
MADISON (WKOW) — The Madison Police Department and Madison Area Crime Stoppers need your help in identifying additional suspects in the battery of Badger football star Montee Ball. Madison police say on August 1 at around 2:15 a.m., Montee Ball was attacked while walking on the 500 block of University Avenue. According to police, witnesses told them a group of five individuals where involved in the assault.
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Labor Licensing Policy Committee expressed concern Wednesday after adidas announced its plan to host a summit abroad to address the issue of companies? failure to pay severance in the global garment industry. Over the past year, LLPC has urged Chancellor Ward to cut licensing and sponsorship ties with adidas, the university?s primary licensing partner, after the company failed to pay more than 2,700 Indonesian workers due severance pay after a PT Kizone factory contracted by adidas abruptly shut down in January 2011.
GREEN BAY ? If you thought Russell-mania was sweeping Seattle, you haven?t seen anything yet. J.J. Watt fever is reaching epidemic proportions in Houston, if not the entire NFL. In spearheading the Texans? 5-0 start going into Sunday night?s game against the Green Bay Packers, Watt, the second-year defensive end with the compelling career path and a heart as big as Texas, is the early leader for NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors.
An initial “no” from Alabama football coach Nick Saban wasn?t enough to stop University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez from pursuing a non-conference game against the Crimson Tide. Neither, apparently, was the whuppin? that ?Bama put on Big Ten compatriot Michigan in the season opener at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Alvarez took his campaign to the heart of Dixie on Monday night, telling attendees at a function in Mobile, Ala., that he wants the Badgers and Crimson Tide to kick off the 2015 season ? and hinting that it?s a real possibility.
If you watch the Big Ten Network documentary “Big Ten Elite” on Tuesday night, about the 1993 Wisconsin football season, you?ll be reminded about how weird that season really was.
Weird not because the Badgers returned to the Rose Bowl after an absence of 31 years. Weird because the season included a game the Badgers had to win against Michigan State, played in Tokyo of all places.
Laura Bly?s job has taken her to 85 countries and every state except Kentucky, but she was still happy for the rush of memory that came with eating a red bratwurst last weekend at State Street Brats….It was work that brought Bly back to her hometown. She had a good time even though she was working. It’s hard not to have fun on a home Badger football weekend in Madison, which was the whole point of Bly’s being here. Bly coordinated USA Today’s late summer feature contest in which the newspaper set out to name the best college football town in America.
Fourteen Big Ten Conference athletes are among the Top 100 men?s basketball players in the country, according to a list put together by CBSSports.com. None of them are Badgers.
The University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team could lose high-profile freshman winger Nic Kerdiles to what one school official said was an extraordinary case involving NCAA amateurism rules. UW coach Mike Eaves announced Monday that the school is appealing a NCAA decision to make Kerdiles ineligible for the upcoming season.
For the second time in the last three games at Camp Randall Stadium, fans have rained boos on the University of Wisconsin football team as it heads to the locker room at halftime. Depending on your perspective, that could be interpreted two ways….The bottom line: For a team that has been a work in progress and probably will ride a rollercoaster the rest of the way, it’s obviously not an easy audience.
When Barry Alvarez became athletic director at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, his wife suggested his role model should be Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley.
Before a child sex abuse scandal and coverup rocked Penn State, cost Curley and other top administrators their jobs, and tainted the Big Ten school and its football program, “all of us looked at Penn State as a model,” Alvarez told the UW System Board of Regents during a meeting Thursday at UW-Stout in Menomonie.
Before examining his resemblance to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — kind of, sort of, if you squint — let?s begin with a text message from Nebraska?s new athletic director.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents heard details for a new proposal Thursday that would increase the transparency between the board and its universities in regards to ethical and legal issues regarding campus athletics.
The impact on President Barack Obama in Madison varied widely, depending on what you were doing on Thursday.
Former University of Wisconsin athletic department official Shawn Eichorst left his job as athletic director at scandal-ridden Miami on Thursday and accepted a five-year contract to succeed Tom Osborne at Nebraska.
The University of Nebraska has been investigating counterfeit tickets sold for last Saturday?s football game between Nebraska and Wisconsin. The Lincoln Journal Star reported that at least 16 fake tickets have been turned in to the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office.
In the midst of the excitement surrounding President Barack Obama?s visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday, the Badger men?s basketball team was working hard to convince the president to meet them on the court. Redshirt junior forward Zach Bohannon led the effort to reach out to Obama and persuade him to play a pick-up game with the team.
Shawn Eichorst, in his second year as athletic director at the University of Miami and a former deputy athletic director at UW-Madison, will be named the next A.D. at Nebraska, a source told the Lincoln Journal Star.
Three men charged with attacking Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball, leaving him unconscious and with a concussion, were ordered to stand trial on felony battery charges Tuesday.
A Dane County judge ruled Tuesday three University of Wisconsin-Madison students accused of attacking Badger running back Montee Ball could stand trial on felony battery charges. UW-Madison seniors Wendell Venerable and Deonte Wilson and junior Robert Wilks allegedly attacked Ball at approximately 2 a.m. Aug. 1 as he was walking along University Avenue with friends, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.
MADISON (WKOW) — A Dane County Court commissioner bound over three UW-Madison students for trial on felony charges in the attack on Badger football star Montee Ball. Commissioner Todd Meuer said Tuesday evidence from witnesses and surveillance video established probable cause that Wendell Venerable, Robert Wilks, and Deonte Wilson attacked Ball as he walked home in downtown Madison on August 1.
The three UW-Madison students charged with attacking Badgers running back Montee Ball in August will appear in court Tuesday morning for a preliminary hearing.
UW-Madison students visited the office of Chancellor David Ward Monday to ask the university to stop the sale of Palermo?s pizza ? the target of a national boycott by labor unions — at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center. The pizzas are sold with a Bucky logo and billed as ?the official pizza of the Badgers,? students say in a letter delivered to Ward by members of the Student Labor Action Coalition.
An intriguing proposal recently came across the desk of University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez. Someone was pitching the idea of having the Badgers play a non-league football game against California, a Pac-12 Conference school, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. “I don?t know if it?s possible,?? Alvarez said. “I?d have to look at schedules.??
Junior defensive end David Gilbert will not start for the University of Wisconsin football team at Nebraska on Saturday night, due to comments he made about Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez. Bielema did not elaborate on how long Gilbert?s banishment to the sidelines will be, but it could be brief.
Wisconsin defensive end David Gilbert missed the 2011 Big Ten Conference opener against Nebraska because of a broken foot. Gilbert will be held out of the starting lineup for the 2012 Big Ten opener Saturday at Nebraska because, in the opinion of his coaches, he put his foot in his mouth.
It?s a remarkable streak that University of Wisconsin women?s hockey coach Mark Johnson would no doubt like to have continue. Since 2006, Johnson and the Badgers have appeared together in six consecutive NCAA title games, winning in ?06, ?07, ?09 and ?11. The second-ranked Badgers begin another season Friday and Saturday when they open Western Collegiate Hockey Association play at Minnesota State-Mankato.
At first glance, Bobbie Kelsey is a laid-back Southern girl who reels people in with her down-home charm. But spend a chunk of time with the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach and you?ll discover a ferocious intensity that knows no bounds.
