It was the biggest issue about former University of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson heading into the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. It was still the biggest issue going into UW?s pro timing day. And it remains the biggest issue with the start of the NFL draft two weeks away. “The only issue with Russell Wilson is his height,” ESPN and “Monday Night Football” analyst Jon Gruden said Wednesday.
Jon Gruden, now the sole “Monday Night Football” game analyst, was asked about the height of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson, who measured 5-10 and five-eighths at the combine.
The NCAA put the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on two years of probation on Wednesday for financial aid violations, deciding against a ban on postseason play. In its announcement, the NCAA said the case involves “violations of basic, longstanding financial aid rules” for Division III schools.
Bud Selig, by his own admission, is a newspaper kind of guy in a Twitter world. As such, he believes he?s been well-positioned to help shepherd Major League Baseball into the 21st century, and all the societal and technological changes that have occurred in his 20 years as the sport?s commissioner.
Bud Selig gave a guest lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his alma mater, on Tuesday. The commissioner established a history chair there two years ago and has often talked of doing the professor thing once he retires from baseball. If he ever retires, that is.
Tessa Cichy, a 5-foot-10 guard from Hill-Murray High School in Maplewood, Minn., will join the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball program as a preferred walk-on. Cichy, who averaged 22 points in leading the Pioneers to a 21-8 record, was named to the Associated Press all-state second team and the Minneapolis Star Tribune?s all-metro first team.
UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez apologized in a letter last week for comments that a Dane County Board Supervisor said were ?mocking and belittling? to a sexual assault victim.
Two headline moments in University of Wisconsin men?s hockey history will be revisited when the NHL playoffs begin Wednesday. First-round matchups in the Stanley Cup postseason will pit standouts from the 2006 national championship team and two of a school-record three first-round NHL draft picks in 2007.
City planning officials approved further construction to Camp Randall Stadium and remodeling of the neighboring McClain Center student athletic facility Monday.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez apologized for comments he made about allegations surrounding former Associate Athletic Director John Chadima after a Dane County official called on him to retract his statements.
According to The Sporting News, UW officials accused Meyer of having former Ohio State players currently in the NFL call recruits. Such calls would be an NCAA violation.
In addition, UW officials accused Meyer and other Ohio State coaches of “bumping into” offensive line recruit Kyle Dodson during mandated dead periods. That would also be an NCAA violation. Dodson, from Cleveland, backed out of a commitment to UW and signed with the Buckeyes.
UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez apologized in a letter to a Dane County supervisor who complained he mocked and belittled the alleged victim of sexual harassment in a State Journal article.
The University of Wisconsin softball team completed its largest comeback in program history while earning its sixth straight victory.
The football world is abuzz because the Wisconsin Badgers were able to reel in quarterback Danny O?Brien, who is currently at the University of Maryland.If you want to know about O?Brien, there isn?t a better source than 1990 St. Croix Central graduate Todd Willert. Willert was O?Brien?s coach at East Forsyth High School in Kernersville, N.C. Willert has been the head coach at East Forsyth since 2004.
Since playing in the national title game in 2010, the Badgers have twice failed to make the 16-team NCAA tournament field. In addition, they have finished in the lower half of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings the last two seasons and seen attendance at the Kohl Center fall from 13,226 per game to 11,772, which is their lowest average since 2003-04 (11,701).But UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said recently that he has no concerns about the work of Eaves and his staff. “I’ve coached long enough to know that (when) you lose the players we’ve lost, you’re going to have a dip,” Alvarez, the former Badgers football coach, said. “You can’t depend on just freshmen and that’s a fine line in hockey.”
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema was struggling at a recent news conference to come up with linebacker Derek Watt?s first name. “I?ve got too many Watts in my head,” Bielema joked. Indeed, the memory of J.J. Watt still looms large and fresh, after he left early a year ago following his junior season and was a first-round draft pick of the Houston Texans.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team finished at No. 12 in the final ESPN/USA Today coaches poll released Tuesday, moving up one spot after reaching the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament for the second straight year. The Associated Press doesn?t conduct a post-tournament poll. The Badgers (26-10) were ranked No. 14 in the final poll on March 12.
Oh Danny boy, the fans, the fans are cheering. From dorm to dorm, and up to Bascom Hall. The summer?s gone, and all the fans are clamoring. Tis you, ?tis you must play and make the call….
Thank you to the University of Wisconsin women?s tennis team. You served it up well! The team and its coach, Brian Fleishman, organized their first drill March 18 to beat breast cancer.
The text message from Danny O?Brien over the weekend was short, sweet and crammed with humility. How does one obtain a college degree in three years all while playing a major role in an ultra-demanding sport? “Nothing special,” he wrote. “Just work and focus.”
The University of Wisconsin made it 3-for-3 with the sons of John and Connie Watt. Pewaukee tight end T.J. Watt, the youngest of their three boys, gave an oral commitment to the Badgers on Sunday before the family left on a week-long cruise over spring break.
A surprise off the court for Badgers basketball player Rob Wilson.
Dane County Board Supv. Carousel Andrea Bayrd was incensed by Alvarez?s comments. She wrote a letter to him and interim UW Chancellor David Ward, complaining about Alvarez?s attitude.
Imagine yourself in this situation: You’re visiting your alma mater one weekend to take in a football game and catch up with old friends. At a school-sponsored party on campus, drinks are flowing and everyone is having a good time.
Danny O?Brien is not Russell Wilson. O?Brien, a transfer quarterback from Maryland, made that clear after his signing with the University of Wisconsin was announced on Wednesday. College football fans can point to the obvious similarities: O?Brien left a school from the Atlantic Coast Conference and will be able to play right away in 2012, because he will graduate in mid-May. Wilson came to UW last summer from North Carolina State and led UW to the Rose Bowl in his only season.
Dane County Board Supervisor Carousel Andrea Bayrd is asking Barry Alvarez to ?apologize for mocking and belittling an alleged sexual assault victim? following comments the UW athletic director reportedly made to the Wisconsin State Journal. Bayrd, herself the survivor of a date rape attempt as a high school student in Los Angeles two decades ago, mailed a letter Monday to Alvarez and UW-Madison interim Chancellor David Ward expressing disappointment with Alvarez?s comments about an alleged victim of John Chadima, the former UW senior associate athletic director who resigned early this year after being accused of sexual assault at a pre-Rose Bowl party in Los Angeles.
Dear Editor: The student population at UW-Madison has a justifiable concern about sweatshops and feudal factories employed to make clothes and other gear for the UW. At the same time, taking Chancellor David Ward to task for these abuses, or violating the terms of a contract with Adidas, will not get compensation to those laid-off Indonesian workers, who deserve to be paid for their efforts. The real problem is that these practices cannot be adequately monitored by UW-Madison.
….the Badgers are going through spring practices with only two healthy quarterbacks: sophomore Joe Brennan and redshirt freshman Joel Stave.Yet UW coach Bret Bielema said on Monday he will not alter the team?s recruiting strategy of signing only one quarterback in each class.
University of Wisconsin quarterback Jon Budmayr was not made available to reporters during offensive player interviews on Saturday, but spoke with UWBadgers.com and said he would know more about his injury situation after spring break. The junior-to-be visited a specialist in Michigan last week and was scheduled to visit the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., on Monday.
Former UW-Madison and NFL cornerback Troy Vincent has been named a 2012 national recipient of the Jefferson Award for his community outreach work.
A Los Angeles police detective confirmed Friday that the department is conducting an investigation into an allegation that John Chadima, a former University of Wisconsin senior associate athletic director, sexually assaulted a male student employee at a Los Angeles hotel while the football team and traveling party were in town for the Rose Bowl game.
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating former University of Wisconsin associate athletic director John Chadima following allegations he sexually assaulted a male student employee during the Badgers trip to the Rose Bowl in December.
The Los Angeles Police Department has started a criminal investigation into the allegations that John Chadima, former UW-Madison Senior Associate Athletic Director, sexually assaulted a student Athletic Department employee while in a Los Angeles hotel during the Rose Bowl Weekend. The LAPD initially stated they would not conduct a formal investigation into the incident. However, the department confirmed Friday that a criminal investigation is in the works, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
Puzzled by the sight of empty seats in the student section at University of Wisconsin men?s basketball games, athletic director Barry Alvarez is considering a change in how season tickets are allocated starting in 2012-13. He?s thinking about a return to the format where all 2,100 student season tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis and they encompass all of the games at the Kohl Center.
And so ended the season for the fourth-seeded Badgers, (26-10), who likely will replay this game over and over for weeks and realize they could have defeated Syracuse (34-2).
In every way, Wisconsin brought all it had to the Sweet 16.
The Wisconsin Badgers put their best foot forward, but senior Jordan Taylor missed what would have been his sixth 3-pointer of the game with seconds left as the Badgers fell to No. 1-seeded Syracuse 64-63 on Thursday night in the East Regional Semifinals of the NCAA Tourament.
The first spring practice for the University of Wisconsin football team on Thursday was notable for who was missing, or not taking part. Given the way the offseason has gone so far for the Badgers, that was only fitting. UW lost six assistant coaches during the five weeks after the Rose Bowl and coach Bret Bielema said the first day of spring practice ?seems like it?s been forever to come.?
BOSTON ? One thing a program finds out as it climbs the ladder of success in college sports is that the bigger the game, the more it hurts to lose. This one will hurt the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team for a long, long time.
BOSTON ? Time after time during his brilliant four-year career with the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team, Jordan Taylor made 3-pointers late in the shot clock to demoralize the opponent. There was Taylor again Thursday night with the ball ? and the Badgers? season ? in his hands. The final possession was hardly a thing of beauty, but at least UW had a chance because its best player had a look at the basket, albeit a contested one from 26 feet away.
Ryan Evans is fueled by rejection, real or perceived. Cut from the basketball team during his sophomore year at Phoenix Desert Vista High, Evans transferred to Hamilton High School in Chandler, Ariz.
Two seasons later, Evans was an all-state performer who signed with Wisconsin in spring 2008.
A state commission approved plans to renovate a Camp Randall facility as part of the second phase of the University of Wisconsin?s plan to build a new center for student athletes to train.
Former Maryland quarterback Danny O?Brien has scheduled a visit to the University of Wisconsin this weekend, a UW source confirmed on Tuesday. O?Brien visited Penn State last weekend, according to FightOnState.com, and Mississippi on Monday, according to CBSSports.com. He has two years of eligibility remaining and because he will graduate this spring, he will be able to play during the 2012 season as long as he enrolls in a graduate program not offered at Maryland.
Seamus Malone just finished his freshman year of high school in Naperville, Ill., but the highly regarded hockey prospect already knows where he?s headed for college. Malone, a forward with the Chicago Mission Midget Minor program, commited to the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team, according to his father, Patrick. “We?re thrilled,?? Patrick said. “It?s a premier program in the U.S.??
BOSTON — Contrary to how it may have sounded, it wasn?t ?Rip On Ryan Evans Day? Wednesday afternoon at TD Garden. Greg Gard, the associate head coach for the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team, was actually dishing out a compliment when he had this to say about junior forward Ryan Evans: ?He?s persistently stubborn at times,? Gard said. Not only did Evans agree with that description, he took it one step further. ?It?s stubbornness (and) arrogance,? he said.
Paul “Rufus” Terry?s first WIAA state boys basketball experience was hard to top. Terry was a senior at Beloit Memorial High School and sitting in the University of Wisconsin Field House on March 22, 1969, when Lamont Weaver launched the most famous shot in tournament history. Terry, 60, has had an affinity for the state tournaments ? and state sports teams ? ever since. He works for UW-Madison, in Arena Control at the Kohl Center. His duties include working the state football, wrestling and girls and boys basketball tournaments.
DULUTH, Minn. ? Surrounded by her teammates, coaches, and family, Wisconsin?s junior forward Brianna Decker received the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award on Saturday to honor her for season-long success.
Badger fans in Boston for the NCAA Men?s Basketball East Regional are encouraged to join fellow Badgers for a Wisconsin Basketball Sweet 16 Party. The fun begins on Wednesday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. ET at The Baseball Tavern.
MADISON (WKOW) — Badger fans in Boston for the NCAA Men?s Basketball East Regional are encouraged to join fellow Badgers for a Wisconsin Basketball Sweet 16 Party. The fun begins on Wednesday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. ET at The Baseball Tavern. The UW Spirit Squad, UW Band and Bucky Badger will be on hand to entertain those in attendance. Free Wisconsin Basketball Grateful Red T-shirts will be available to fans while supplies last courtesy of adidas. Plus several door prizes will be awarded throughout the event including official Wisconsin Basketball gear and an autographed Bo Ryan basketball.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said this week his department is in the process of crafting written procedures for serving alcohol at off-campus functions. Without a written policy, Alvarez said the department?s oversight of alcohol at events had “probably” become lax.
Bo Ryan and Jim Boeheim go back a long ways, having served together for years on the board of directors of the National Association of Basketball Coaches ? where they introduced legislation that helped rein in the Wild West environment of recruiting, for instance. But did you know that Bo counts on a licorice snack from Boeheim?s wife at every Final Four when both are sitting in the stands?
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball players haven?t set foot in many classrooms recently, but that doesn?t mean they have put their studies on hold during the NCAA tournament. With all of the excitement of advancing to the Sweet 16 for a second straight season, it?s easy to forget the players? academic obligations do not change.
The university revealed the details of two sexual misconduct accusations against former Associate Athletic Director John Chadima in a second report Friday, involving a former football player and a second student employee.
University of Wisconsin officials released a second report Friday detailing two alleged cases of sexual assault by former associate athletic director John Chadima against male students in the Athletic Department.
The Badgers are Boston-bound after beating Vanderbilt 60-57 in the third round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday.
University of Wisconsin officials released a report on Friday about additional allegations of improper conduct leveled against a former Athletic Department official.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? One sequence Saturday night at The Pit summed up why the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team is still standing after one weekend of the NCAA tournament.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? For Jordan Taylor, the NCAA men?s basketball tournament is reminiscent of the start of the regular season. A relief.
Top athletic officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were shocked when allegations of sexual impropriety surfaced against a then-assistant athletic director, according to an investigative report released Friday.
A new 25 page report says top UW-Madison athletic officials were shocked when allegations of sexual impropriety surfaced against then-assistant athletic director John Chadima.
