MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A top University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department official who resigned earlier this month has apologized for what he called a “recent lapse of judgment.” John Chadima released the statement Thursday through a Madison law firm.
MADISON (WKOW) — A source close to UW Athletics told 27 News former Associate Athletic Director John Chadima was intoxicated at a party in connection with the Badger football team?s trip to southern California and the Rose Bowl and took part in “embarrassing” actions. In a statement Thursday, former administrator John Chadima apologized for unspecified actions. “I have resigned as associate athletic director from UW-Madison so as not to bring disrepute to the University of Wisconsin.”
MADISON, Wis. — Former University of Wisconsin athletic department official John Chadima released a statement on Thursday apologizing and accepting responsibility for his actions. The statement, which was released by Chadima?s attorney, makes no mention of the allegations that prompted Chadima to resign earlier this month.
The pressure continues to mount on University of Wisconsin-Madison officials to cut ties with Adidas. On Thursday, the Worker Rights Consortium released its final report outlining alleged sweatshop abuses at a factory the apparel giant subcontracted with. Adidas supplies UW-Madison?s 23 sports teams with equipment, uniforms and footwear — and also sells apparel to Bucky backers — in a deal that?s worth about $2.5 million annually to the university.
The city of Madison and the University of Wisconsin are in a continuing partnership. UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez needs to balance the university?s interests and its need to generate revenue with the Wisconsin Idea – reaching to the boundaries of the state. The UW serves the entire state of Wisconsin and these high school basketball players work for years to be able to earn the chance to play at the Kohl Center. State high school basketball tournaments were meant to be played on the hardwood floor of the major state university basketball team. This is an instance where the city and the university partnership to serve the state must take precedence.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema appears to have found a linebackers coach in Nevada defensive coordinator Andy Buh. But Bielema said he will likely not name the new linebackers or tight ends coaches until after 2012 recruits can sign National Letters of Intent on Feb. 1.
When Matt Canada was in his first coaching stint at Northern Illinois, he recruited the state of Wisconsin. Canada got a close look at the kind of football players that fueled the University of Wisconsin football program?s resurgence under Barry Alvarez in the 1990s. So, nobody has to introduce UW?s new offensive coordinator to the team?s preferred style of offense, which has continued under current coach Bret Bielema. Canada and new wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni were introduced to the media on Wednesday and the similarities were striking.
Both were exuberant about their opportunities, engaging in sharing their personal stories and quick to embrace the physical, power running offense that has become the Badgers? trademark.
Did you ever want to share ice time with champions? Your chance comes on Sunday, as Madison Parks holds its second open skate with the UW-Madison women?s ice hockey team.
Story focuses on the plans of Wisconsin football’s new offensive coordinator Matt Canada and his plans for the Badgers. Canada arrives in Madison from Northern Illinois.
University of Wisconsin Athletics officals are urging ticket holders to get to Wednesday nights Wisconsin Badgers basketball game at the Kohl Center early because of random security checks.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema has been on the road, calming the fears of recruits, following the departure of five assistant coaches from the program. “The good thing is … because it?s a small recruiting class, it?s been easier to manage,” Bielema said in an interview this week. The Badgers have 12 known oral commitments. Two of them appear to be wavering.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema named Matt Canada on Tuesday as the team?s new offensive coordinator. Canada spent last season in the same job at Northern Illinois, working under former UW defensive coordinator Dave Doeren.
Preliminary budget projections unveiled on Tuesday indicate that University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials aren?t planning to raise ticket prices for its major sports in 2012-13. But it?s too early in the process to say if there won?t be some type of bump, whether it?s in football, men?s basketball or men?s hockey.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department sent an email Tuesday to Badgers season ticket holders with a subject line that reads: “ALERT ? Increased Security Measures at Wisconsin Men?s Basketball.” Yikes. Not to worry, says Justin Doherty, UW-Madison’s associate athletic director for external relations.
“There’s no increased threat level or anything like that, it’s a periodic security measure the UWPD and our management staff are engaging in,” he says.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is asking fans to arrive early for Wednesday?s men?s basketball game against Northwestern and be prepared for longer lines to enter the Kohl Center as UW-Madison Police and event staff will be conducting random security checks. The increased security also will be in place for Friday?s men?s hockey game against Alaska-Anchorage, though UW associate athletic director Justin Doherty says “there?s no increased security threat or anything like that.”
With the recent announcement by Badger running back Montee Ball that he has decided to remain at UW-Madison and finish out his senior year, rather than enter the NFL draft, we have nothing but respect for this outstanding young man. When Ball and others accepted scholarships to attend UW and play football, they took on serious obligations, which Ball has seen fit to honor and complete. He is indeed a role model for athletes who will attend the UW now and in the future.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema has been on the road, calming the fears of recruits, following the departure of five assistant coaches from the program. “The good thing is … because it?s a small recruiting class, it?s been easier to manage,” Bielema said in an interview this week. The Badgers have 12 known oral commitments. Two of them appear to be wavering.
It has been our experience that very little good comes of efforts to keep the public from what is legitimately the public?s business. And what goes on at the state?s largest public university qualifies as the public?s business. But there are also important issues of process and fairness that often come into play and are indeed in play in the UW?s investigation into alleged misconduct by the recently resigned Senior Associate Athletic Director John Chadima.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema?s outlook hasn?t changed during the ongoing process of hiring five new assistant coaches. “I really believe this; it?s how I?m wired,” Bielema said in a phone interview. “You can say it?s coachspeak. To me, transition is an opportunity to improve.” That?s the way Bielema views the hiring of Urban Meyer protege Zach Azzanni as UW?s new receivers coach.
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those with problems and those with solutions. This is one of those rare moments when I think I might be able to do something besides complain. The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association and University of Wisconsin Athletic Department have a dilemma on their hands.
Everyone seems to be trying, so we?ll give some credit for that. But here?s our message to the WIAA and UW officials who are looking for options to keep the girls and boys state high school basketball tournaments in Madison: Try harder. Nothing against the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon, touted as a likely alternative site to the over-scheduled Kohl Center in Madison. No doubt the Resch is a fine facility, and the Green Bay area knows a little about hosting big events. But the high school basketball state championships belong in Madison.
Bret Bielema?s first coaching hire since Wisconsin?s loss to Oregon in the Rose Bowl appears capable of helping the UW program in multiple areas.
Zach Azzanni, named wide receivers coach Monday, comes to UW with a reputation as a dogged recruiter, coordinated a pro-style offense last season at Western Kentucky, has produced several talented wide receivers at multiple schools and is familiar with the offense run by Urban Meyer, who is preparing for his first season as Ohio State?s head coach.
The University of Wisconsin would like to keep the WIAA state basketball tournaments in Madison ? and on its campus ? after this year, but it is unlikely the options the school has offered the WIAA will suffice.
A state lawmaker is taking issue with the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s investigation into an allegation of misconduct against the school?s former associate athletic director.
On the heels of a record-setting season at the University of Wisconsin, Russell Wilson has chosen football over baseball as his career focus, according to Pete Thamel of the New York Times. Wilson, a fourth-round draft choice of the Colorado Rockies in 2010, has informed the team that he will concentrate on improving his stock for the NFL draft instead of reporting to spring training.
As the only proven scorer returning to the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team this season, Taylor Wurtz figured to attract a lot of attention from opposing defenses. Indeed, UW coach Bobbie Kelsey would be surprised if any team focused on anyone else. “She?s proven that she can score and other people haven?t,” Kelsey said.
Interim UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward is defending the university?s silence about an investigation involving a former top athletic official accused of misconduct. In a statement Wednesday, Ward said he understands the public has questions about what led to the investigation of John Chadima, who resigned as senior associate athletic director Friday, but he asked for patience as an independent panel reviews the matter. But not disclosing the nature of the allegations against Chadima allows for speculation, observers said.
UW-Madison interim Chancellor David Ward issued a statement Wednesday afternoon regarding John Chadima, the senior associate athletic director who resigned late last week after allegations of misconduct were brought forward. Although the statement is relatively lengthy, it divulges no new information on the case.
Rep. Steve Nass R-Whitewater on Wednesday called for more transparency in University of Wisconsin-Madison?s inquiry into an allegation of misconduct lodged against a former UW Athletic Department official.
After leading Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl during his lone season with the Badgers, quarterback Russell Wilson has decided to pursue a career in professional football over one in baseball.
MADISON, Wis. — A state lawmaker is taking issue with the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s investigation into allegations of misconduct against the school?s former associate athletic director. The office of State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, released a statement on Wednesday that called on interim UW Chancellor David Ward “to make immediate changes to the inquiry” of senior associate athletic director John Chadima, who resigned last Friday after the allegations surfaced.
Despite exhaustive efforts from the Wisconsin Athletic Department and the Big Ten Conference, the University of Wisconsin is unable to alter the time of its men?s basketball game on Jan. 15 against Nebraska.
During the 14 years of the Bowl Championship Series, no league has benefited more from the most flawed, detested postseason system in major American sports than the Southeastern Conference. So how ironic is it that the SEC’s domination of the BCS will be the mechanism that finally brings it down, at least in its current form?….The only possible conclusion one can draw from all this is that college football fans are tiring of a bowl system that gives them unsatisfying championship games, prevents deserving teams from having a chance at the title and renders all other bowls virtually meaningless. The greed-driven BCS system may have perpetuated the best regular season in sports ? and I’m not even sure about that anymore ? but there is no doubt it has drained college football’s postseason of any drama it once had.
Richland Center defensive lineman Logan Schmidt has a special insight into the University of Wisconsin football team?s successful walk-on program. Fullback Bradie Ewing, who just finished his senior season, is one of those success stories. Not only is Ewing from Richland Center, but his dad and Schmidt?s dad were classmates.
….the recent college conference realignments don?t seem so well-intended. The NCAA has become a campus meat market at bar time, with everyone hooking up out of desperation. “You say you need a 12th school so you can establish a conference championship football game and secure a 10-year TV deal with ESPN? Here?s the key to my apartment, big boy.” As always, money and college athletics make strange bedfellows. This is why San Diego State is sleeping with Rutgers. And it?s why our kids will have to learn geography someplace other than universities.
The tipoff time for Sunday?s UW-Nebraska men?s basketball game at the Kohl Center will remain 5 p.m., despite efforts to change it to accommodate fans who want to watch the Green Bay Packers.
Skylar Stecker, age 9, had arrived. Actually, she?d been arriving on stages across Wisconsin since surprising her mom and dad with an unexpected singing talent in spring 2011. Neither Aaron nor Kara Stecker are gifted singers, though there?s plenty of talent to go around in the family. Aaron, an Ashwaubenon native, and Kara, who is from Janesville, met on the UW-Madison campus and dated through college.
Wisconsin center Peter Konz made official today what had been widely suspected late last week: he?s skipping his senior year to enter the NFL draft.
HOUSTON ? Only three years ago, J. J. Watt was delivering pizzas, mopping floors and being picked at like a leftover pepperoni pie by doubters who scoffed at his football dreams.
MADISON, Wis.– Wisconsin has fallen out of The Associated Press? college basketball poll after its third straight loss. Wisconsin, ranked as high as No. 9, fell out of the rankings from 18th after losing 59-41 to Michigan on Sunday.
The University of Wisconsin has set up an independent review of a former UW athletic official who resigned after allegations of misconduct.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward announced today (Monday, Jan. 9) that retired Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler will lead a four-person team to conduct an independent review of a recent allegation of misconduct regarding a UW athletic department official.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has named an independent panel to review an allegation of misconduct against a former athletic department official.
Zach Azzanni, who has ties to Florida and new Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, is a candidate to be the wide receivers coach for the University of Wisconsin. Azzanni is currently the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Western Kentucky. A source who has talked to Azzanni said nothing has been offered at this point, but it appears to be “heading in that direction,” pending approval by whoever becomes the new UW offensive coordinator.
Retired Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler will head a four-person team that will independently review an incident that led John Chadima, a senior associate athletic director at UW-Madison, to resign late last week. UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward made the members of the review team public in a university news release Monday night. The other members of the review body previously worked at UW-Madison and are now retired.
UW-Madison interim chancellor David Ward has appointed a four-person panel to independently review an allegation of misconduct made against a University of Wisconsin Athletic Department administrator.Retired Dane County Circuit Patrick Fiedler will lead the group, which will look into the case against former UW senior associate athletic director John Chadima.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward announced Monday that retired Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler will lead a four-person team to conduct an independent review of a recent allegation of misconduct regarding a UW athletic department official, according to a press release issued by the university.
A retired Dane County judge will lead a four-person team looking into the circumstances behind an allegation of misconduct against former University of Wisconsin associate athletic director John Chadima.
Donny Lavrenz set a Rose Bowl record Monday, piling up an estimated 17,694 all-purpose yards. Never heard of him? Now you have.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison officials might have launched an investigation into what prompted the resignation of a top aide to athletic director Barry Alvarez last week. While questions continue to swirl after former Alvarez deputy John Chadima submitted his resignation on Friday after finding out he was facing allegations of misconduct, UW officials aren?t answering many questions. UW spokesman Vince Sweeney has said that police aren?t involved.
A high-ranking official with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Department has resigned after an allegation of misconduct.
The stadium was alive with Badger fans. With an 80 degree temperature at kickoff, one could not have asked for more (well, maybe). After the game we roamed the parking lot singing “On Wisconsin” and “Varsity.” As we approached our car, an Oregon fan said: “You Wisconsin fans have a lot of class. You should be proud of your team and especially the Badger fans that made a great showing today.” I am not a UW-Madison alum, but it didn?t matter. I accepted the compliment for all Badgers and could not have been prouder.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says senior associate athletic director John Chadima has resigned. University spokesman Vince Sweeney says the school learned of an allegation of misconduct against Chadima and placed him on administrative leave Friday. Sweeney says Chadima resigned later that day.
A 2011 Lincoln High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison student will go great distances to help children.
Madison officials may have launched an investigation into what prompted the resignation of a top aide to Barry Alvarez, but beyond that, they?re not answering many questions.
John Chadima, a top lieutenant to University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, has resigned amid an allegation of misconduct. The alleged incident took place while the UW football team was in Los Angeles to play in the Rose Bowl, say two sources close to the football program. One source asked to remain anonymous because of his relationship to Chadima and the other asked to remain unidentified for job reasons.
Helmets raised to Badgers football player Montee Ball for not bailing on his senior year at UW-Madison. This was certainly some much-needed favorable news to come out of Monroe Street in recent days.
A University of Wisconsin source said Sunday that the school is unaware of any criminal charge being filed against John Chadima, a senior associate athletic director who resigned Friday after an allegation of misconduct surfaced.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison placed a senior associate athletic director on administrative leave Friday after learning of an allegation of misconduct against him, and he resigned later in the day, the school said Saturday.
University of Wisconsin junior center Peter Konz will not return next season and is entering the NFL draft, according to a source. The source said Konz “was rated very high” by the NFL?s College Advisory Committee. Konz, an All-American from Neenah, started 11 games for the Badgers.
