Barry Alvarez and Bret Bielema are the latest UW officials to tell potty-mouthed students to keep it clean at Badgers football games. The UW-Madison athletic director and football coach sent an email Thursday to all student season ticket holders asking them to end the tradition of yelling obscenity-laced cheers back and forth at Camp Randall.
Jordan Taylor says his surgically repaired right ankle isn?t 100 percent, but the senior point guard doesn?t expect anyone to notice when the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team begins practice for the 2011-12 season on Saturday.
If you think the realignment movement in major college football has been a circus, you should drop by this big top and grab a seat. What has happened under the tent of major college hockey since last season makes that sideshow look not only scripted, but dignified. In the past six months we?ve had the most dominant conference in the land implode and another get measured for a body bag.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema?s one-man media blitz last week appeared to pay off. Bielema was in Bristol, Conn., on Friday to do 15 interviews, by his count, at ESPN headquarters.
It may be drawing fans without tickets like a face-value hawker, but Badgerville, the organized tailgating party with amplified sound launched by UW-Madison this fall, is too noisy and goes on too long, say neighbors. Camp Randall neighbors have been venting their aggravation about the new “venue” over the Regent Neighborhood Association email network, and the volume of their complaints has been rising since the Oct. 1 night game against new-to-the-Big-Ten University of Nebraska. Badgerville is scheduled to set up camp once more this season, for the game Saturday against Indiana.
Dear Editor: This letter is in regard to the UW Badger football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. We went to the game with our four sons ? 16, 13, 9 and 7 months. We were appalled by the clothing worn by many UW fans as well as the general attitude toward Husker fans.
The first rains of October will set the stage for cooler, more seasonal weather for the weekend….The UW-Madison Homecoming parade is scheduled for Friday evening, and parade goers should bundle up as lows drop to the low 40s and winds blow up to 30 miles per hour. Saturday should be nice for the Homecoming football game between the Badgers and Indiana, with mostly sunny skies and a high near 60.
Greg Russo?s dream to play college football at Wisconsin, like a flame deprived of sufficient oxygen, is almost extinguished.
The senior reserve defensive end, who is spending his final season of eligibility on the scout team, isn?t giving up hope just yet. “It is a glimmer,” Russo said. “It?s way out there. But it?s possible.”
Unlikely, but possible.Before the 2011 season, the NCAA ruled Russo could not compete this season in part because of the circuitous route he took to get from Lake Mills High School to UW.
In case there remained any doubt about which team reigns over Wisconsin in October, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?s Bob Wolfley erased it on his SportsDay blog Monday.
If Russell Wilson becomes the third football player at the University of Wisconsin to win the Heisman Trophy, it will be because of performances such as the one against Nebraska last week, not any promotional ideas hatched by the school?s athletic communications department.
Mick Byrne leads the highest-ranked athletic program at UW-Madison, the No. 2-ranked men?s cross country team. He?s been head coach of the men?s cross country team and assistant track and field coach since 2008.
With 17 former University of Wisconsin hockey players on NHL rosters heading into tonight?s season openers, there is no shortage of storylines with local angles. Here are the Top 5:
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said that although 36 people were arrested at the Badgers? home game against Nebraska this weekend, Saturday night was a “best-case scenario.”
Although the football team ostensibly won the weekend, Madison businesses were also successful, reaping the economic benefits of the roughly 40,000 Huskers in town for Saturday?s game.
MADISON (WKOW) — Police say this weekend?s high-profile Wisconsin-Nebraska game came along with a high number of counterfeit tickets. The UW Athletics Department is reporting at least 80 people got ripped-off this weekend. Victims paid between 150 and 200 dollars for each of these fraudulent tickets. They were hoping, of course, to see Wisconsin play Nebraska in a sold-out game, but instead they got turned away at the gate.
Nebraska defensive end Chase Rome, who was ticketed by Dane County deputies for allegedly vandalizing a restroom at Madison?s airport early Sunday, has been “disciplined internally” by the coaching staff.
When the NHL regular season opens Thursday, the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team will have two more products in the mix. Defenseman Jake Gardiner and winger Craig Smith made the opening rosters for Toronto and Nashville, respectively. At the moment, they are among 18 former UW players on NHL rosters.
Dear Editor: My son and four friends attended the Wisconsin-Nebraska game in Madison on Oct. 1. They have since returned home, and I am appalled and shocked at the stories he has told me.
For the first time, a 360-degree, high-definition camera captured a view of Camp Randall Stadium moments before kick-off at the Nebraska-Wisconsin game Saturday. It?s called the Camp Randall FanCam.
Defensive tackle Chase Rome of the Nebraska Cornhuskers officially had one solo tackle in Saturday night?s 48-17 loss to Wisconsin, but a tackle he made later in the night cost him. Rome, 19, was cited by Dane County deputies for criminal damage to property after he allegedly ripped a paper towel dispenser from the wall of a bathroom at the Dane County Regional Airport.
Since the day he was introduced as coach of the University of Wisconsin football team, Bret Bielema has never been afraid to think big. Whereas his predecessor, current UW athletic director Barry Alvarez, never publicly embraced national championship expectations for his otherwise successful program, Bielema made it known early and often that his goals for the Badgers exceeded the Big Ten Conference title and the Rose Bowl.
The University of Wisconsin football team has convinced one coach with a vote in the USA Today poll that it?s the No. 1 team in the country. Gee, any guess which coach that could be?
Two brief responses, both dramatic understatements, summarize where Wisconsin stands one game into Big Ten Conference play.
“Through Game 5,” UW coach Bret Bielema said, “we?re pretty good.”Specifically, UW 5-0, 1-0 on Sunday climbed two spots to No. 5 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches? poll and three spots to No. 4 in The Associated Press media poll after a 48-17 whipping of Nebraska.
MADISON, Wis. — University police say 36 people were arrested at Wisconsin?s home game against Nebraska.
MADISON, Wis. — Saturday?s game between the University of Wisconsin and Big Ten newcomer Nebraska is one of the most highly anticipated matchups at Camp Randall in a very long time, and local law enforcement and fans of both teams were busy Friday making last-minute preparations for the historic match-up.
MADISON, Wis. ? On his first day on the Wisconsin campus this summer after transferring from North Carolina State, Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson called his own team meeting. He delivered a short and simple message to his new teammates: he had come to work hard and compete. But just the simple act of introducing himself to his teammates and acknowledging that nothing would be handed to him spoke to his savvy and maturity.
Over the past several days, several media outlets have reported that a fleet of 20,000 fans of the Nebraska football team will make the journey this weekend to Madison to witness the Huskers? inception to Big Ten play.
Whenever the University of Wisconsin football team is preparing to host a big game, as it is Saturday, it never hurts to retell the story of the stampede that took place at Camp Randall Stadium in 1993 following a big Badgers win over Michigan that sent a reported 69 people to the hospital — 10 with serious injuries.
In late 1989, the new athletic director at the University of Wisconsin made a discreet visit to South Bend, Ind., to talk to Notre Dame?s defensive coordinator about becoming the next head football coach at UW. At some point in the interview, Pat Richter asked Barry Alvarez the standard interview question.
“Where,” Richter said, “do you see yourself in the future?”
Always regarded for his high level of preparedness, Alvarez was virtually born to answer that one.”I laid it out like this,” Alvarez recalled this week. “My vision is to do what my college coach did. Build a program, sustain it and after 10 or 15 years, do it like Bob Devaney. Pick my successor and keep it going.”
Mike Mahnke has enjoyed a prime vantage point for University of Wisconsin football and men?s basketball games for two decades as the Badgers public address announcer. What does enjoy most about being a public address announcer? “I’ve had a front-row seat in a true “Golden Era” of Badgers sports but I also do it for the camaraderie. That esprit de corps with the basketball and football crews is amazing.”
University of Wisconsin officials tout Saturday night?s game against Nebraska as the toughest ticket ever at 94-year-old Camp Randall Stadium.
When comparing the Nebraska and University of Wisconsin?s football programs, one word, other than red, comes to mind: passion. It?s the common denominator between Badgers fans and Huskers fans
The UW-Madison rugby club plays its home matches on the western edge of the University Bay fields, prudently near UW Hospital. Its out-of-the-way location recalls an Oscar Wilde description of the sport: “Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.”
Whether it?s the Brewers, the Packers, or the Badgers, it?s a good year to be a Wisconsin sports fan.
Despite the hype leading to Saturday?s football game, Badger players took some time for the kids Thursday.
If you?re going to watch the Badgers take on the Cornhuskers on Saturday, the UW Madison Police Department has some important information to remember.
For 11-years Mike Ruhlman has traveled the country setting up lights, stages and cameras for ESPN?s College Gameday.
Local bars are extending hours at their beer gardens for the highly anticipated game between Nebraska and Wisconsin on Saturday night.
While UW-Madison students plan to attend Saturday?s football game against Nebraska with other die-hard Badger fans, UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward plans to attend the game with Gov. Scott Walker.
Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema would likely cringe at any suggestion that his football team is glamorous in any way, shape or form.
Badger fans and Madison police are bracing for gameday weekend when up to 40,000 Nebraska fans come to Madison Saturday to witness the Huskers? first Big Ten game.
Stew Price had to pay a steep price to make sure he and three family members have seats Saturday night in Camp Randall Stadium. Price, a Nebraska fan who lives in Waunakee, paid more than $1,500 to secure four tickets to see the Cornhuskers play the University of Wisconsin in the matchup of top 10 teams.
Minutes before he scored one of the most memorable touchdowns in University of Wisconsin football history, Jeff Mack was on the receiving end of a somewhat desperate plea from teammate Greg Lewis.
Fans are scrambling for tickets and being forced to decide just how deep they want to dig into their wallets to attend Saturday’s game between Wisconsin and Nebraska. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were about 500 tickets available on StubHub.com, an online ticket resale site. Prices ranged from $199 for a ticket in the upper deck to $1,500 for one in the Varsity Club suites. According to a StubHub press release, the UW-Nebraska game was the top-selling event on the site this week and “is by far the most demand we?ve seen for a Wisconsin home game in company history.”
The coach stood in the late-afternoon shadow that stretched across the field at Camp Randall Stadium, watching his offensive linemen prepare for a one-on-one blocking drill against the scout team. This is one of Bret Bielema?s favorite moments of the week: a full-contact, full-speed practice, in which the tone is set for the coming Saturday. As he watched one of his starting linemen crouch into a three-point stance, ready to unleash holy hell on the redshirt freshman across from him, Bielema smiled devilishly, as if he couldn?t wait for the bloodshed to begin. “This is what Wisconsin football is all about: man-on-man smashmouth,” Bielema said. “Just watch this.”
Saturday?s football game at Wisconsin against Nebraska is the hottest ticket in town, and many fans are still looking for tickets.
How desirable is a seat Saturday inside University of Wisconsin?s Camp Randall Stadium for the Nebraska Cornhuskers? first Big Ten Conference game?
Bret Bielema?s intensity ? and a desire to succeed ? has elevated the Wisconsin football program to sizzling heights in his five-plus seasons.
Wisconsin officials tout Saturday night?s game against Nebraska as the toughest ticket ever at 94-year-old Camp Randall Stadium.
With the Packers, Brewers, and Badgers playing like gangbusters, fans are reaping the benefits of their favorite teams? success.
Some fans are willing to do just about anything to see this weekend?s Big Ten opener between Wisconsin and new conference member, Nebraska.
Hotels are trying to deal with an influx of fans for UW?s football game against Nebraska.
The Badgers are in the national spotlight and a media swarm will begin descending on Madison tomorrow morning.
Beau Baumert is a Badger football season ticket holder and he?s never been to Camp Randall.
He?s never visited Madison and probably couldn?t sing the words to “On Wisconsin” if his life depended on it.But Baumert considers himself frugal.
And depending on your point of view, he?s also smart. He?s a diehard Cornhuskers fan who really, really wanted to go to the UW-Nebraska football game now that the Huskers are Big Ten members.
Experts are comparing Saturday?s football game against the Nebraska Huskers to last year?s Ohio State game, causing ticket prices to skyrocket well past their base values and forcing University of Wisconsin Police Department officials to put students on high guard for scalping violations and fraudulent tickets.
The scene at Union South hours before the Nebraska-Wisconsin showdown could be ripe for a culture clash. At the same time University of Wisconsin fans converge on the first floor to watch the UW Marching Band at the pre-game Badger Bash, the second floor will be occupied by a tailgate party of 850 Cornhuskers fans held by the Nebraska Alumni Association.
Eyebrows were raised among those who follow recruiting when news spread over the weekend that the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball program landed a commitment from Bronson Koenig.
Madison police are gearing up for a Badgers game unlike any they?ve seen, with between 20,000 and 40,000 Cornhuskers fans, most of whom won?t make it into Camp Randall Stadium, expected to descend on nearby bars to watch Saturday?s first Big Ten matchup between the two teams.
?It?s like a first date ? you don?t know what to expect,? said Madison Police Lt. Dave McCaw.To deal with the Nebraska throng ? and whatever comes with it ? the department is calling out its Special Events Team.
The non-conference season only reinforced the preseason vote that predicted a UW-Nebraska final. If anything, the seventh-ranked Badgers and eighth-ranked Cornhuskers are bigger favorites now than they were then.
With the ESPN College Gameday team setting up near the statue of Abe Lincoln on Bascom Hill on Saturday, will Lee Corso wear a stovepipe hat and beard?The former coach and mascot-head wearer will be on the set with fellow Gameday members Desmond Howard, Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit when ESPN College Gameday comes to Madison for the much-anticipated football game between Wisconsin and Nebraska.
