Three people, two of them recent University of Minnesota cheerleaders, were killed Thursday when an allegedly drunken driver slammed into their car as they tried to change a flat tire on an interstate near Madison, Wis.
A tragic early morning crash leaves 3 dead and a University of Minnesota community grieving.It happened just after 2:30 this morning on the interstate in the Town of Burke.Franchon Johnson says, “Now my baby is gone, it?s just hard.”
A driver who police said was drunk rear-ended a disabled car on the median shoulder of Interstate 39/90 near Madison early Thursday morning, killing three people including two University of Minnesota students.
An alleged drunk driver rear-ended a disabled car on the median shoulder of Interstate 39/90 near Madison, killing three University of Minnesota students.
After several delays for financial reasons, the proposal to build a women?s hockey facility near the Kohl Center will now advance out of developmental stages and into the city approval process.
….In light of the significant across-the-board salary cuts to virtually all other university system employees, many of whom truly did demonstrate excellence, I found Bielema?s 2009 financial windfall hard to stomach. I propose a public outcry should that scenario unfold again.
Can it be that freedom of speech is truly alive and well at UW-Madison? As I listened to a pre-game interview with junior Bradie Ewing, he humbly acknowledged that he?d had a good start to this football season. Then he quickly and quietly gave credit to his lord and savior, Jesus Christ, for endowing him with a talent that allowed him to do well.
These are confusing times to be a college football fan. The Big Ten will soon have 12 teams, the Big 12 only 10, and the Pacific-10 is on its way to having 12 teams. It really wishes it had 16.
Wisconsin Badgers football coach Bret Bielema might have surprised some fans with his muted reaction to Michigan State?s coaches possibly violating an NCAA rule on Saturday in the Spartans? 34-24 victory. Spartans defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi admitted after the game he was in constant contact from the press box with coach Mark Dantonio, who watched the game from a hospital bed.
The University of Wisconsin football team dropped nine spots in both major polls after suffering its first loss of the season Saturday at Michigan State.
The Badgers (4-1) fell to No. 19 in the USA Today coaches? poll and No. 20 according to The Associated Press.
Laurie Nosbusch and Alev Kelter scored on headers Sunday as the University of Wisconsin women?s soccer team beat Iowa 2-0 at the McClimon Soccer Complex to extend its unbeaten streak to nine matches. The Badgers (6-3-3, 3-0-1 Big Ten), who have not allowed a goal in their last eight matches, prevailed by more than one goal for the first time since beating Tennessee 2-0 on Sept. 17.
UW is eager to get back to its dominant ways after a year without its coach and top two stars.
On the family tree of insights and attitudes, appreciation is a first cousin to longing. You experience something wonderful only to have it vanish in the breath of circumstance. In the process of trying to recapture that sensation, you vow to be more aware and grateful should you find it again.
** Monkeys may possess a higher level of self-awareness than once thought, according to this report in wired.com. The findings come out of neuroscientist Luis Populin?s lab on the UW-Madison campus.
** Would you sign up for a class at UW-Madison taught by football coach Bret Bielema?
Wisconsin linebacker Mike Taylor rattles off the surgeries and injuries he?s had playing football — his hip, his hamstring, his knee twice. It?s probably the one he suffered when he was 10 years old that proves just how tough he is. Taylor?s back for the 11th-ranked Badgers, who visit No. 24 Michigan State on Saturday and will be without linebacker Chris Borland for the rest of the season because of a shoulder injury. Taylor, meanwhile, said he finally feels like he?s getting back to his old self after tearing a ligament and most of the cartilage in his right knee last year.
Dear Editor: After Saturday?s embarrassment at Camp Randall, during which the Badgers stomped the daylights out of the Austin Peay, I have to once again revisit a question I?ve been asking for years without ever getting a straight answer.
If Big Ten football coaches have a say in the debate, there appears to be strong sentiment for maintaining the status quo of eight conference games rather than a proposed nine.
MADISON, Wis. — Mike Lucas, a longtime Madison media personality and radio color commentator for Wisconsin football and men?s basketball games, has been covering Badgers athletics since 1969, but after 39 years working for the Madison Capital Times, Lucas has taken a job with Learfield Sports to provide exclusive content for UWBadgers.com starting on Oct. 1.
Lucas will be responsible for producing content for the official website of Badger athletics on a daily basis, including event previews, post-game coverage, personality profiles, video segments and more.
The Big Ten Network will air the battle for Paul Bunyan?s Axe as the University of Wisconsin football team guns for its seventh straight victory over Minnesota on Oct. 9 at Camp Randall Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board will most likely see new hiring and transparency policies after last Friday?s meeting.
If everything had gone according to plan, fans heading to today?s UW home football game might have spent Friday night in a new hotel across from Camp Randall Stadium. Instead of bustling with Badger fans, however, the hotel at the corner of Regent and Monroe streets remains empty.
A plan to build a $27.8 million practice facility for the University of Wisconsin hockey programs has been revived. Six months after shelving the project, saying he was uncomfortable with the lack of private donations, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said Friday that a “very good?? surge of gift funds has put it back on track.
Saturday was a big day for Badger fans. Not only did the Badgers triumph over Austin Peay in football, but Bucky Badger celebrated his birthday!
As the University of Wisconsin volleyball team prepared for its first match of the season last month, senior Allison Wack told coach Pete Waite that the team?s competitive edge ? missing the previous two seasons ? was back. The Badgers backed up Wack?s statement by winning all 11 of their non-conference matches. They head to Friday night?s Big Ten Conference opener against Ohio State at the UW Field House having already matched last season?s win total.
Catching up on a couple higher education-related items …
** The FBI is stepping up its efforts to locate Leo Burt due to his connection with the bombing of Sterling Hall on the UW-Madison campus just over 40 years ago, the Washington Post reported.
** ** Most colleges with NCAA Division I sports programs are using mandatory student fees to help fund athletic department budgets, according to this USA Today report.
Linda Randall says her daughter, Randi-Lyn, a student at Radford University in southwestern Virginia, is not a “die-hard” follower of the Highlanders sports teams. Even so, by the time Randi-Lyn graduates in 2012, her parents probably will have paid an average of nearly $1,000 a year in fees to the school?s athletics department. They just didn?t know it from the school?s billing statements or website.”We?re looking at five years because she changed majors. That?s $5,000,” Randall says. “I don?t think I?d have as much of a problem with it if I knew I was paying it. With what we?re paying, it doesn?t seem right.” Like most other schools in NCAA Division I, Radford relies on student fees to help support ever-expanding athletics budgets. Many schools, including Radford, do not itemize where those fees go for those who pay the tuition bills, USA TODAY found in an ongoing examination of college athletics finances. The amounts going to athletics are soaring, and account for as much as 23% of the required annual bill for in-state student.
MADISON, Wis. — Anytime University of Wisconsin-Madison is first, the city and its passionate student population take notice. On Monday, the Memorial Union Terrace was the first Big 10 campus to provide a backdrop for a newly launched ESPN effort focusing on the Big 10 conference.
Bielema comes home to a house with no lights on, but believes not having a family actually reduces his stress level as a coach.
ESPN2?s SportsNation TV show will air live Monday from the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin campus, and the public is invited to participate as members of the audience. Badgers football coach Bret Bielema and standout running back John Clay will be guests on the show, which airs from 3 to 4 p.m. and is hosted by Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle.
Anytime University of Wisconsin-Madison is first, the city and its passionate student population take notice. On Monday, the Memorial Union Terrace was the first Big 10 campus to provide a backdrop for a newly launched ESPN effort focusing on the Big 10 conference.
Unlike last week?s victory over San Jose State, the number of ejections in the Badgers? latest victory against Arizona State greatly exceeded the total of the game?s final score.
Police say 71 people, including 46 students, were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday?s Wisconsin-Arizona State football game. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that 35 people were arrested, including 29 UW-Madison students.
Thirty-seven years ago tonight, a collection of social currents in American society flowed together to produce an event watched by 50 million people on television. When it was over, the nation had seen, played out theatrically, what it had struggled to absorb intellectually: Women’s sports deserved respect.
….Before the “Battle” UW-Madison had no women?s intercollegiate sports and was responding to a complaint that it was violating Title IX. Today, the nearly 400 women competing in 12 sports at the university outnumber the school?s male competitors. Women remain behind in sports in financial backing and administrative and coaching jobs. But the progress is remarkable.
MADISON, Wis. — A student audience will be welcome for a pair of live ESPN broadcasts on Monday at the Memorial Union Terrace. Colin Cowherd will host his radio show live from 9 a.m. to noon and the ESPN2 show SportsNation will be live from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ESPN2?s SportsNation features co-hosts Cowherd and Michelle Beadle.
Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez will be honored this Saturday for his upcoming induction into the College Football Hall of Fame with an on-campus salute before the Badgers take on Arizona State.
While many are wondering if the University of Minnesota football team can recover from the ??adversity?? of losing to South Dakota, a Division I-AA opponent (FCS), beleaguered Gophers coach Tim Brewster addressed a real life adversity Wednesday. Brewster told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that redshirt freshman wide receiver Connor Cosgrove — the son of defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove — has been diagnosed with an acute form of leukemia and is beginning chemotheraphy treatments.
(Kevin Cosgrove was a member of Barry Alvarez’ original coaching staff with the Wisconsin Badgers)
A younger generation of UW football fans has grown accustomed to watching winning teams, filling the seats and the athletic department?s coffers and guessing just where the Badgers will play their next bowl game come the holidays.
An older generation of fans, though, didn?t always have it so good. After some great days in the ?50s and early ?60s, they endured one horribly long losing streak, then watched patiently as the Badgers, led by an athletic director known as Crazylegs, started to turn the team?s fortunes around only to have it all collapse under a new administration into yet another long losing streak. It was a time to try any serious Badger fan?s soul.
After adding two teams for the 2010-11 season, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association is faced with the possibility of losing two men?s programs ? Minnesota and Wisconsin ? to a Big Ten Conference as soon as 2014-15.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema said Monday he has been in contact with former wide receiver Kraig Appleton.
University of Wisconsin police are searching for an approximately 25-year-old man who allegedly sexually assaulted a man in the shower at the Natatorium on Observatory Drive.
Mentions that Eric Bean, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, led the local competitors with a third place finish, 13 minutes behind Gambles.
The Big Ten Network introduced itself just before the football season started in 2007. Outside of live football and basketball games with teams not quite attractive enough for ABC, ESPN and others, its earliest programs made some viewers scratch their heads — unpolished studio shows with few big names and heavy doses of old, taped games. Well, the network has come a long way since then. Neither the conference nor the Chicago-based cable network publicly talk about their finances, but, according to the Sports Business Journal, three years after it went on the air the network is delivering close to $70 million a year to the Big Ten.
One of Kay Monigold?s first big headaches when she bought a small cable TV business in Illinois and Indiana in late 2007 was a startup cable channel specializing in Big Ten sports.
Thirty-nine people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday for poor behavior or breaking the law during the University of Wisconsin?s 27-14 win over San Jose State, police said. Thirty-five of the 39 were UW-Madison students, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
The first home game of the year brings thousands of Badger Football fans to campus and with the gubernatorial race heating up candidates find the perfect opportunity for their last minute pitch.By 9 a.m. the grills were going and the herd was on it?s way in.
The UW-Athletic Hall of Fame welcomes seven new members tonight. TheBarry Alvarezgroup is led by former football coach and current Athletic Director Barry Alvarez.
When the phone call came, back in March, Dick Houden thought it was a joke. He has kids who are not above pulling pranks. When Houden realized it truly was Barry Alvarez, and that he was calling to tell Houden he had been selected for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, Houden couldn?t help it. He wept. Houden was a sprinter who specialized in short distances, but he?d come a very long way. Friday evening, Houden will be one of six former UW athletes inducted into the hall, with Alvarez himself ? the winningest football coach in school history ? making a total of seven in the 2010 class.
The Wisconsin Badgers will take the field at Camp Randall on Saturday, and with the new season comes new policies on what fans can bring to home football games.
It was a sea of red every step of the way.Last Thursday night, I got to Rockford International Airport to board a flight to Las Vegas for what has become a regular Badger event ? a football game in Sin City against UNLV.
Neither Barry Alvarez nor Don Davey gave it a passing thought 20 years ago that some day they would be a part of the same induction class for the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame. “That?s why getting inducted together makes it extra special,?? Davey said.
If you are Bucky Badger, the last thing you want is to lose your head. That?s exactly what happened Sunday night, when one of the UW-Madison students who portrays the iconic symbol of Wisconsin sports had his 28-pound over-sized Bucky head stolen from his campus area apartment.
Quoted: Justin Doherty, assistant athletic director for external relations.
Yes, UW is in a division with Ohio State and Penn State, both formidable teams. But the Badgers will also play Illinois, Indiana, Purdue and Minnesota each year. That means opportunity, if Bret Bielema and Co. can take advantage of it.
In an exclusive interview with WKOW, Barry Alvarez talked about the new two division format that the Big Ten will employ beginning in 2011.”It?s OK. Every Big Ten team had to sacrifice something. I talked with Bret [Bielema] and you still have to win games to win the league. I think it?s fair,” Alvarez said while in Las Vegas for the Badger football team?s opening game against UNLV.
I know it?s a long time ago, but I would like revenge against the big guys in Vegas who were rumored to have had something to do with the power outage during the UW-Madison/UNLV game in 2002. The lights went out before ? according to their sports betting rules ? the game was complete. Why? They were about to lose millions because their odds makers underestimated the Wisconsin team. This is a call to action for all Badger fans going to Las Vegas to see the Badgers play, and for those who just like to place sports bets. Determine how much you expect to spend on slots, blackjack, craps and sports bets, and send that amount to the UW marching band.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema believes the Big Ten Conference?s new divisional alignment will help the Badgers in recruiting.
Be true to your school on Friday, and proudly wear your colors. Friday is College Colors Day, a national event that started in 2005 to celebrate the start of the collegiate school year by encouraging students and alumni and fans to wear the colors of their favorite college or university. UW-Madison?s news service put out a statement on Thursday to get Badger fans to make a fashion statement.
Lou Holtz believed five was a magic number in football and shared that philosophy in the late 1980s with one of his Notre Dame assistants, Barry Alvarez.
Alvarez embraced Holtz?s philosophy and took it with him to Wisconsin, where he resurrected a foundering program and won three Big Ten Conference and Rose Bowl titles in 16 seasons.
So if you are a Wisconsin football fan, whether passionate or just on the periphery of the action, you?re probably feeling somewhat empty and perhaps a bit angry today.
When the Big Ten Conference on Wednesday night revealed its pair of six-team divisions for football, beginning in 2011 with the arrival of Nebraska, you learned:
? The Badgers and rival Minnesota will be in opposite divisions. The teams will face each other every season because the Gophers are UW?s protected crossover rival, but the game won?t be the regular-season finale in 2011 or ?12.
? The Badgers won?t face Iowa or Northwestern every season because the Hawkeyes and Wildcats are also in the division opposite UW.
? You?ll see a lot more of Illinois, Indiana and Purdue.
Following the University of Wisconsin?s decision to cut ties with Nike over workers rights concerns early this year, the Board of Regents approved a five-year extension to a major apparel contract with Adidas.
Badger faithful going to Saturday?s football game against UNLV in Las Vegas will have to rely on their iPods to hear On Wisconsin, If You Want to Be a Badger and other classics, as the UW Marching Band will not be there to play them.
