Category: Athletics

The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team and Michigan State both made sizable leaps in the polls heading into Thursday?s matchup in East Lansing. The Badgers jumped six spots in The Associated Press poll to No. 15 and five spots in the ESPN/USA Today coaches? poll to No. 17, while the Spartans moved up to No. 7 and No. 8, respectively.

In a column that ran today (Saturday) in the Columbus Dispatch, the father of Ohio State star forward Jared Sullinger is quoted as saying that he believes some Big Ten Conference teams are being too rough with his 265-pound son. Satch Sullinger doesn?t specifically name the Badgers, but there was no doubt in the mind of the column?s author, Rob Oller, that the elder Sullinger was talking about coach Bo Ryan and UW.

McKenna Meuer continued a family tradition by signing a national letter of intent to play women?s soccer at the University of Wisconsin, paving the way for her to become the fifth member of her family to compete for the Badgers. Meuer, a two-time All-State midfielder for Madison Memorial and a member of FC Milwaukee?s 2011 national club championship team, is one of 11 players whose commitments were announced Friday.

The top-ranked University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team clinched a share of its fourth WCHA championship on Saturday with a 6-2 victory over host St. Cloud State at the National Hockey Center.

Noted: Jorgensen, from Milwaukee, has a history of catching on quickly. A walk-on swimmer at the University of Wisconsin, she swam for three years before moving full-time to running, where her natural talent blossomed. She swiftly became an All-American in track and cross country, winning Big Ten championships at 5,000 and 3,000 meters during her senior year. She graduated in May 2009.

The University of Wisconsin is one of the 10 top spending teams in college sports, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.

Green Bay or Madison? The battle intensifies over which city will be the future home of the WIAA state basketball tournament. Now Action 2 News has learned a decision may be delayed until after this year?s games.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating a third allegation of misconduct against former Athletic Department official John Chadima, according to UW officials.

How did Russell Wilson learn the University of Wisconsin football playbook in three weeks in July? The quarterback revealed some of his methods in a Q&A with IMG Performance Academies, where he is training for the upcoming NFL combine in Indianapolis.

One of the more interesting battles in the ongoing effort to keep the WIAA state basketball tournaments in Madison has pitted Madison Mayor Paul Soglin against University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez.

MADISON (WKOW) — Eight Wisconsin football players will take part in the NFL scouting combine, the most from any Big Ten school and second only to national champion Alabama, which has nine players invited. Six players from the 2011 Badgers team will try to impress the scouts in Indianapolis this February, including three offensive linemen.

Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis says his peers in the Big Ten are comfortable exploring the possibility of a four-team playoff for the national championship. Hollis says keeping ties to the Rose Bowl is extremely important to athletic directors in the Big Ten and Pac-12.

The Dane County Sheriffs Office is helping in the probe of a man’s allegation against former UW-Madison Athletics senior staff member John Chadima.

Enter Jon Leuer. A native of Orono, Minn., Leuer was a three-and-a-half year starter at the University of Wisconsin under Bo Ryan. While there, he averaged 11.2 points per game in a system that does not have a lot of double-digit scorers.

Get a life, Bret Bielema. That?s the candid response from Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee to the University of Wisconsin football coach?s recent suggestion that the Buckeyes, under new coach Urban Meyer, were employing unspecified ?illegal? tactics on the recruiting trail.

This didn?t seem likely when Greg Stiemsma was driving his Ford Focus around Ankara, Turkey, one of his six professional basketball stops since leaving the University of Wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin officials on Monday disclosed a second misconduct allegation against former associate athletic director John Chadima, and UW police said the alleged victim?s story is credible.

A Big Ten Conference official confirmed Monday plans to adopt a neutral site format for its newly sanctioned men?s hockey playoffs that will debut in 2013-14. While that is a major step toward helping the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department alleviate future scheduling difficulties with three WIAA state high school tournaments at the Kohl Center, issues remain that jeopardize whether those events will continue to have a home in Madison after 2012.

University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema took a swipe back at former Badgers offensive coordinator Paul Chryst and also filled out the UW coaching staff on Monday. Bielema hired former Badgers running back Eddie Faulkner to be the tight ends coach. Faulkner was hired a month ago by Chryst, the new head coach at Pittsburgh, to coach the running backs.

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said on Monday that UW police are investigating a second allegation made against former Athletic Department official John Chadima.

The UW-Madison Police Department is investigating a second allegation against John Chadima, the UW athletic official who resigned last month amid a report that he sexually assaulted a student at a pre-Rose Bowl party. Interim UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward called the allegation “serious” but would not detail the nature of the allegation. It was made by an adult male who formerly attend the university, Ward said in an interview after a meeting Monday of the UW Faculty Senate.

The University of Wisconsin revealed Monday that it has begun an independent investigation after a second allegation of wrongdoing by former University of Wisconsin associate athletic director John Chadima.

University of Wisconsin police are investigating a second allegation of misconduct against former athletic department official John Chadima, previously accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a male student at a party.

The University of Wisconsin is unhappy with adidas for failing to make severance payments to workers at an Indonesian factory that made collegiate apparel.

Reacting to a recommendation by a university committee that UW end its multiyear licensing and sponsorship agreement with the company for violating a labor code of conduct, interim Chancellor David Ward sounded a warning to adidas.

Details emerged this week on the University of Wisconsin?s ?Athletic Village,? a three-story, $77 million annex to the north end of Camp Randall Stadium to be completed in three phases by 2014. The 38,000-square-foot academic and strength training center will house (among other things) offices, study rooms, an auditorium, a library and a computer lab. It?s a place, as the Wisconsin State Journal put it, ?where student-athletes can study and train together.?

The troubling news involving allegations of sexual assault at a pre-Rose Bowl party by resigned UW-Madison associate athletic director John Chadima brings back something former UW history professor and athletic board member Jeremi Suri told me in an interview four years ago.

John Chadima, senior associate athletic director, resigned over allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances toward a student employee during a Rose Bowl party.

University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema and his three holdover assistant coaches weren?t the only ones working overtime to hold this year?s recruiting class together during a month Bielema called “insane.” Guard Dan Voltz from Barrington, Ill., was one of the Badgers? first oral commitments and he started working the phones, calling the other players in the class, following the departure of six UW assistant coaches.

The University of Wisconsin football spring intrasquad game will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. Tickets are $5 and are on sale now. Proceeds will benefit the UW Center for Nonprofits in the UW School of Human Ecology.

University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema accused new Ohio State coach Urban Meyer of illegal recruiting tactics and said the two had a conversation about it.

Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema and his assistants could know by the end of the week whether UW?s 2012 freshman football class turns out to be as robust as it was before two touted offensive tackles withdrew their oral commitments and signed with other schools.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team visited a makeshift memorial for former Penn State coach Joe Paterno on Tuesday before its 52-46 victory over the Nittany Lions later in the day at the Bryce Jordan Center. The memorial for Paterno, who died of lung cancer on Jan. 22, is located outside Beaver Stadium. The Badgers left a UW hat that was signed by the coaches and players. UW coach Bo Ryan put a message on the hat that read: “To the greatest teacher of all time.”

University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is set to announce his smallest recruiting class Wednesday. The Badgers have 11 firm oral commitments heading into signing day, with room likely for a couple more. Bielema’s first six classes averaged 21.3 scholarship players, with a low of 16 in 2007. As a result, this class is not highly regarded nationally.

A sweep against Western Collegiate Hockey Association rival Bemidji State isn?t the only thing the No. 1 Badgers had to celebrate after last weekend.