Bebe Bryans was named Big Ten Coach of the year Wednesday after leading the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s rowing team to its first conference title.
Bryans is the first UW coach to win the award, but it is the third time she has received the honor. She also was lauded in 2000 and 2003 while at Michigan State.
The USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships will be held in Madison, Wis. this weekend for the first time since 2004. Nearly 500 athletes from about 100 colleges and universities will compete in 18 events beginning Friday. The events are hosted by the University of Wisconsin.
A number of Badger athletes recently showed off their non-athletic talents at a special event at the Overture Center. The event is called the Buckinghams, and itâ??s presented by the National W Club. UW student athletes are recognized for their academic achievements, and many of them show off their non-athletic talents during the event.
A 20-year-old UW-La Crosse student arrested on Saturday on tentative charges that he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old UW-Madison female student has been released from jail with no charges being filed against him, according to published reports.
The La Crosse Tribune reported that Bebeto Yepmo Yewah was released from the Dane County Jail on Tuesday, after District Attorney Brian Blanchard declined to prosecute the case.
“The office lacks sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was committed,” Blanchard said in an e-mail to WKOW-TV, the newspaper article said.
Yewah is a national champion wrestler at 133 pounds for the UW-La Crosse wrestling team. He is a sophomore from Lansing, Mich.
The University of Wisconsin football team will play at Camp Randall in December for the first time, the result of an agreement with Illinois to reschedule games from the weekend after Thanksgiving in 2011 and 2012.
Don Voss, a driving force behind the University of Wisconsin football teamâ??s famed “Hard Rocks” defense who participated in the schoolâ??s first Rose Bowl appearance in 1953, died Saturday. He was 76.
The former UW duo, who racked up a slew of records while competing for the Badgers, had another night to remember Saturday at Stanford as they both set national marks in the 10,000 meters.
Chris Solinsky said that he and his teammates went into Saturday nightâ??s 10,000 meters at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., just â??hoping to have a good performance and boost our spirits heading into the heart of the track season.â?
Wisconsinâ??s athletic board on Friday renewed the contracts of five winter-sports coaches. Womenâ??s basketball coach Lisa Stone was rewarded with a three-year extension. Her contract, restored to the standard five years, runs through May of 2015.
The University of Michigan menâ??s hockey team took to the ice and immediately began whooping it up. “They were yippinâ?? and yappinâ??,” says Mike Stevenson, the universityâ??s executive associate director of athletics. “You could just tell it was a different atmosphere, and they were having a hell of a lot of fun. “This, at a Michigan practice in Madison, Wis. â?? inside the University of Wisconsinâ??s home football venue, and as outside as any of these players had been in their competitive careers. So they took advantage, circling and chirping in full gear and subfreezing temperatures.
The University of Wisconsin has approved a one-year contract extension for menâ??s basketball coach Bo Ryan. The athletic board on Friday extended Ryanâ??s rolling five-year contract through May of 2015. Athletics department spokesman Justin Doherty said financial terms of the contract were not finalized.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board approved contract extensions on Friday for the head coaches of five winter sports, including womenâ??s basketball coach Lisa Stone, who had two additional years put on her contract. Stone had her contract extended through May of 2015, which is the same for menâ??s basketball coach Bo Ryan and menâ??s hockey coach Mike Eaves.
MADISON, Wis. â?? The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board approved contract extensions for five of the schoolâ??s head coaches at its monthly meeting on Friday.
Wisconsin has won its appeal to the Big Ten Conference, opening the door for Mundelein (Ill.) High School senior guard Ben Brust to sign with the Badgers for their 2010 menâ??s basketball freshman class. The Big Tenâ??s 11-member committee of faculty representatives voted Friday in favor of UW and Brust to waive a league rule that prohibits athletes from transferring from one Big Ten school to another and remaining on scholarship.
Mike Eaves has had his share of staffing challenges since he became coach of the University of Wisconsin menâ??s hockey team in 2002, but nothing quite like this.
Less than three weeks removed from guiding the Badgers to the NCAA championship game, Eaves is in the market for two full-time assistant coaches.
The Big Ten Conferenceâ??s faculty representatives are expected to meet soon to discuss an appeal submitted by the University of Wisconsin regarding Ben Brustâ??s scholarship status with conference schools.
A precedent case involving former Illinois player Alex Legion is expected to be part of the discussion during the appeal.
The Wisconsin menâ??s basketball staff could learn this week whether the Big Ten Conference will allow guard Ben Brust to accept a scholarship offer from UW and sign with the Badgers for their 2010 freshman class. Brust, a 6-foot-2 senior guard from Mundelein, Ill., originally signed a national letter of intent to play for Iowa but was released by the school after coach Todd Lickliter was fired.
Good luck trying to get that one past Mark Osiecki. Three days ago, Osiecki accepted an offer to become the menâ??s hockey coach at Ohio State, one of the biggest, most well-to-do athletic departments in the NCAA.
A record-breaking 20,450 runners and walkers came out Saturday for the 29th annual Crazylegs Classic, the race of massive proportions that helps raise funds for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.
Once the National Football League draft hit the seventh and final round Saturday, Chris Maragos had one wish: Go undrafted and then sign a free-agent contract.
“Once I got past the sixth round, we were hoping to go to free agency, so we could pick (a team),” the former Wisconsin free safety said Saturday night, “and get in a good situation.”
Not long after the 255th player was selected to close the draft, Maragos received a phone call from San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Singletary and agreed to a free-agent deal.
As he sat alone in his hotel room in Mobile, Ala., in January, Oâ??Brien Schofield had no clue when he would be healthy enough to play football again or if any National Football League team would take a chance on him in the 2010 draft. Hours earlier, Wisconsinâ??s fifth-year senior defensive end had suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during practice for the Senior Bowl.
A future that appeared so bright, thanks to an outstanding final season at UW and an eye-opening performance at outside linebacker in the East-West Shrine Game, was suddenly dark and unpredictable. “I felt like my career was over,” Schofield said.Schofieldâ??s career began Saturday when he was selected by the Arizona Cardinals with the 32nd pick of the fourth round, No. 130 overall.
The Madison Sports Hall of Fameâ??s Class of 2010 features inductees with a mixture of outstanding athletic ability, concern and compassion for Madisonâ??s youth and athletes, and a journalist and marketer who helped the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department rise to great levels. Vince Sweeney grew up on Madisonâ??s near West Side, became a three-sport high school athlete at Edgewood, and would go on to a long, distinguished career as a sports journalist and a senior-ranking administrator for the University of Wisconsin athletic department.
The moment last week he found out official Crazylegs Classic T-shirts had been shipped to countries such as Austria, France, Germany and Switzerland was when it really hit Terry Murawski that the event had gone global. â??I kind of got goose bumps,â? said Murawski, the executive director of the National W Club. â??I thought, â??Man, oh, man, thatâ??s kind of cool that we can reach out to people who want to be connected to the (University of Wisconsin) and UW athletics in this way.â??â? Crazylegs World added a whole new element to the 29th annual event that took place Saturday. Some who couldnâ??t join the runners and walkers in Madison staged their own version of Crazylegs, complete with their own wrinkles.
If former Stevens Point Area Senior High and University of Wisconsin-Madison defensive tackle Ross Kolodziej learned anything during his draft experience in 2001, it was to expect the unexpected.
The Crazylegs race is a Madison tradition, but itâ??s also spreading across the country. People ran the same distance today in Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia.
Itâ??s controlled chaos as school lets out at Harmony Elementary in Janesville. And Terry Schober is right in the thick of it.Â
For complete results, click on the link at the end of this story.The rain held off long enough for runners competing in the 29th annual Crazylegs Classic.For the second year in a row, itâ??s also an opportunity for a growing number to celebrate a life lost too young.
Some ill-timed light drizzle could not stop the 29th annual Crazylegs Classic from getting underway Saturday morning.An estimated record 20,450 runners and walkers participated in this yearâ??s race.
The news that George Koonce, the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been placed on administrative leave leaves plenty of some unanswered questions. But it seems clear that Koonce, who was named athletic director in March 2009, isnâ??t coming back to the university.
Olympic standout and former UW women’s hockey star Jessie Vetter is the event headliner after returning from a whirlwind visit to Washington, D.C., that included a visit to the White House.
A Madison man was charged Wednesday with stalking for allegedly giving a runner from the UW-Madison womenâ??s cross country team unwanted gifts, following her and constructing a shrine to her outside the teamâ??s practice facility.
David Hose, 21, of Madison, is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. According to a criminal complaint, the 20-year-old woman told police that she didnâ??t know Hose before the incidents began in August.
The first incident, the complaint states, was outside a State Street bar, where the woman said a man later identified as Hose was acting so bizarrely that she took his picture to document who he was.
Anyone anticipating a blockbuster announcement regarding the Big Ten Conferenceâ??s plans to expand the 11-team league had to be disappointed and perhaps a bit skeptical Wednesday. Big Ten Commissioner James E. Delany, attending the BCS meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz., provided few new details on potential expansion. “There are no announcements, notifications, or is there a change in the timeline,” Delany told reporters.
More than seven months before The Big Chill arrives, the University of Michigan is within a hair of breaking the all-time ticket sales record for an outdoor hockey game. The school reports on its website that it has sold 73,513 tickets for the Dec. 11 game against Michigan State at Michigan Stadium — a.k.a The Big House. The University of Wisconsin hosted a hockey doubleheader in February at Camp Randall Stadium that drew 55,031.
The mountain of data compiled for every NFL prospect – including Wisconsin senior Chris Maragos – has been studied intensely. From Maragosâ?? stopwatch times to his demeanor to his interests, just about everything there is to know about the 2005 Horlick High School graduate has been out there for the leagueâ??s 32 teams to contemplate.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has placed its athletic director, George Koonce, on administrative leave effective immediately.
The University of Wisconsin football teamâ??s crucial home game against Ohio State on Oct. 16 will have a 6 p.m. kickoff, ESPN announced on Wednesday. The game will be televised by either ESPN or ESPN2. Itâ??s the second straight home night game against the Buckeyes for the Badgers, who lost to Ohio State 20-17 at night in 2008.
Wisconsin menâ??s basketball coach Bo Ryan might have to hire a new assistant coach before next season after all. Gary Close, who joined the UW staff in the spring of 2003, is in the running to take over the Cornell program.
The questions facing Wisconsinâ??s defensive line when spring football practice opened last month were serious and several:
How would UW replace four of its top five tackles from last season? Who would replace departed end Oâ??Brien Schofield, the unitâ??s best player in 2009? Would line coach Charlie Partridge be able to develop a rotation deep enough to keep the starters fresh?
After the annual spring game Saturday, a 33-11 victory for the Cardinal team, some questions remain unanswered.
With a record turnout, UW-Madison students voted against raising student-segregated fees to fund the proposed renovations for the Natatorium.
A record-breaking 34.5 percent voter turnout in the Associated Students of Madison elections brought the NatUP 2010 referendum down Wednesday night with just more than 60 percent of those casting ballots voting against the renovation.
As Associated Students of Madison Spring Elections began at the University of Wisconsin, the student organization NatUP asked students to vote yes to the Natatorium renovation â?? using around $30,000 of university money to convince them.
The Skyforce had their third NBA call-up of the season Tuesday – their highest total since 2005-06 – as center Greg Stiemsma was signed by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Appleton native Brian Butch and Carmelo Anthony have adjoining lockers at the Pepsi Center, home of the National Basketball Associationâ??s Denver Nuggets.
A few notes, quotes and observations from the UW-Madison Faculty Senate meeting held Monday evening at Bascom Hall.
Few topics tend to spark more emotional banter among faculty leaders than the schoolâ??s athletic department. So it was a mild upset when UW-Madison professor Murray Clayton summarized a committee report that examined whether the Athletic Board is properly overseeing the athletic department — and no one stood up to question the findings.
Blake Geoffrion, UW’s senior center, who declined overtures from the NHL to return for a final season in Madison, captures college hockey’s top individual honor a day ahead of his team’s appearance in the national championship game.
The UW athletic director says he has had meetings with donors while in Detroit for the Frozen Four.
The Badgers’ hopes of a seventh national title are dashed by a disappearing offense and Boston College’s four-goal outburst in the final period.
It may take some time, but perspective will eventually find members of the University of Wisconsin menâ??s hockey team and it should provide a good measure of comfort.The Badgers fell short of their long-stated goal when they absorbed a 5-0 loss to Boston College in the NCAA Frozen Four championship game Saturday night at Ford Field in Detroit.
Badger fans gathered at bars and restaurants across Madison to cheer on the hockey team in the NCAA championship game on Saturday. Despite a 5-0 loss to Boston College, Badger Nation is proud of its team for making it to the final game.
The Wisconsin Badger hockey team had its chances, but Boston Collegeâ??s defense held UW scoreless in the 2010 National Championship game.
The Badger Menâ??s Hockey team is in the national championship game. And Nick Cozzi is ready to show his pride.”Iâ??ve been to a couple games,” said Cozzi. “The atmosphere, the energy thereâ??s like 20,000 people against six or seven guys on the ice of the other team. Itâ??s great. I love it.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ending its apparel contract with Nike, becoming the first school to cut ties with the athletic shoe and apparel giant due to alleged labor rights abuses at two factories overseas.
University officials announced their decision Friday afternoon at a meeting of the Labor Licensing Policy Committee at Bascom Hall.
The punch that ended varsity college boxing was a classic right hand delivered to the left temple of a beloved Badger boxer named Charlie Mohr. It happened 50 years ago Friday. On April 9, 1960, the University of Wisconsin was hosting the final night of the NCAA boxing tournament. The site was the Field House, which over the previous 25 years had regularly been filled with up to 15,000 fans. College boxing was enormously popular in Madison. The NCAA had an annual bracketed tournament, in the manner of the basketball tournament today, and UW had won eight of them.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball player Darin Schubring is back at work but still recovering following an assault on Halloween that left him with head injuries.
The name on the front of the jerseys said RIT. From afar, it looked more like Butler. And since virtually everyone at cavernous Ford Field was looking on from afar Thursday, the job of the University of Wisconsin menâ??s hockey team was clearly defined: Avoid getting Butlered at the NCAA Frozen Four.
The second-ranked University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team walloped the Rochester Institute of Technology 8-1 at Ford Field and will play Boston College for the NCAA title Saturday night.
The University of Wisconsin mens hockey team earned a place in the NCAA national championship game by defeating Rochester Institute of Technology 8-1 in the first semifinal of the NCAA Frozen Four in Detroit on Friday.
Days before a review of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board that found no problems with the function of the board is set to go before the Faculty Senate, senators are beginning to form initial opinions of the scope of the reviewing committeeâ??s suggestions.
National reports show while the overall student athlete graduation rate at the University of Wisconsin has gone up over the past decade, the rate for female athletes has dropped.
The comparisons that have been drawn between the last University of Wisconsin team to win the NCAA Division I menâ??s hockey title (in 2006) and the current group of players just two victories away from winning the seventh title in program history, are understandable.
The 2005-â??06 team, Mike Eavesâ?? fourth as UWâ??s head coach, was dominated by upperclassmen and in winning the national title took the final step in a rebuilding project that began with Eavesâ?? hiring in the spring of 2002.
Eavesâ?? current team is dominated by upperclassmen, most of whom talked openly before the season about making a run at the national title, and is the first UW team to reach the Frozen Four since â??06.
