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The senior point guard scored 20 points, including 16 in the second half, and the sophomore guard scores 13 off the bench as UW beats Michigan despite trailing for the first 36 minutes.

New Badgers’ soccer coach John Trask, a Milwaukee native who played collegiately at Indiana, is a former assistant coach with three Major League Soccer franchises and has spent the last five seasons coaching the Illinois-Chicago program, leading the Flames to three NCAA Tournament appearances.

John Trask has been named the new University of Wisconsin menâ??s soccer coach. Trask spent the past five seasons as coach at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the sixth coach in the 34-year history of the Wisconsin program.

The more George Marshall watched the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team play, the more he knew he wanted to be a part of that program.

Marshall, a 6-foot junior point guard from Chicago Brooks, made an oral commitment Tuesday to play for the Badgers, his father said.

“He had a chance to watch the point guards and he had a chance to watch the team and he became convinced he could play for Bo Ryan and he could play in that system,” said Marshallâ??s father, George Marshall Sr.

University Ridge Golf Course has been selected as the site of the 2015 Wisconsin State Open, marking the golf tournamentâ??s return to Madison after what will be a 20-year gap. UW associate athletic director John Chadima, who oversees the golf programs and University Ridge, said in a statement that landing the tournament validates the $3.1 million improvements made at the course in 2008.

One or more ticket price hikes will almost certainly be part of the proposed University of Wisconsin Athletic Department operating budget for 2010-11. Still to be determined is which of the prime revenue sports — football, menâ??s basketball and menâ??s hockey — will see increases and how much those bumps will be. “Everything is on the table,” John Jentz, the associate athletic director for business operations, said Tuesday after a meeting of the finance, facilities and operations committee of the UW Athletic Board.

University Ridge Golf Course has been selected as the site of the 2015 Wisconsin Professional Golf Association (WPGA) State Open. 

When the Suters gather together and talk turns to Olympic hockey, Bob has top bragging rights with his gold medal from the 1980 Miracle on Ice in Lake Placid. Brother Gary antes up with his silver from Salt Lake City in 2002.

MADISON, Wis. — The season is over for the Wisconsin Badgers football team, but there is still one Badger you can continue to cheer on this season. On Sunday, New York Jets safety Jim Leonhard will play in his second consecutive AFC Championship game.

After splitting two Big Ten Conference road games last week, Wisconsin slipped to No. 18 in the Associated Press top 25 poll and to No. 19 in the ESPNâ??/ USA Today coachesâ?? poll on Monday.

Jake Wood, a former Badgers lineman who joined the Marines after graduating from UW, assembled his own team and left Saturday for Port-au-Prince to help the victims of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake.

The Badgers are 5-3 in the Big Ten Conference and 15-4 overall, but the team is aware that a similar promising start to last season was derailed about this time.

The Badgers’ senior guard, who is 15 points shy of 1,000 for his UW career, enjoys keeping up with the exploits of his three younger siblings.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball coach Lisa Stone saw a different game than Michigan State counterpart Suzy Merchant.

Stone could barely contain her excitement after the Badgers turned up the defense to rally from a 14-point deficit in the second half for a 48-45 win over the 20th-ranked Spartans on Thursday night. Merchant, on the other hand, described the loss as her teamâ??s lowest point.

Jason Bohannon scored 19 points and Trevon Hughes added 16, all but one in the second half, to lead the Badgers to a victory in Evanston.

The Badgers plan on making a run at a Big Ten championship next year, but with the way the conference played this postseason, the team at the top of the league in 2010 could find itself playing for all the marbles.

Taylor Wurtz from the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team has been named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week, the conference office announced. She is the first UW player to receive the award in its inaugural season.

Wurtz aided the Badgers to two wins on the week, recording a career day vs. Michigan this past Sunday. The 6-0 guard scored a career-high 27 points against the Wolverines, shooting 9-of-12 from the field, including 5-of-7 from 3-point range. Her 27 points ties her for 10th on the UW freshman single-game record list.

Bo Ryan is subject to a fine by the Big Ten Conference if he ridicules or criticizes the officiating at any of the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball teamâ??s games, so he criticized the Big Ten Network announcers.

Former UW athlete Tracy Webster will take over as the DePaul menâ??s college basketball coach for the rest of the season on an interim basis.

University of Wisconsin forward Jon Leuer broke his left wrist in Saturdayâ??s win against Purdue and is out indefinitely.

Sam Worthington talks to American beach volleyballer Audra Jeffers, the fiancee of Tall Blacks star Kirk Penney, ahead of this weekendâ??s Wellington Open.

Compare Purdue’s Chris Kramer to former Badger Mike Kelley and they could be twins. Both are 6-3, both are among the Big Ten’s best all-time in steals, both earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors.

Freshman Taylor Wurtz scores a career-high 27 points in the 20-point win.

Reserve guard Jordan Taylor exploded for a career-high 23 points as the No. 17 University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team knocked off No. 4 Purdue 73-66 in a Big Ten Conference game at the Kohl Center.

The UW wrestling team is in Iowa this weekend, but the Badgers’ coach is elsewhere in the state coming to grips with the presumed death of his older brother.

Noted: Don Nelson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison lobbyist, said scalpers have not been a problem outside Camp Randall or the Kohl Center and the university has no plans to designate ticket resale zones. But he said the university would support the bill in case “in the future we find a necessity for this.”

For the first time ever, the Wadzinski family of Madison got to enjoy a Badger sporting event together. The family watched the Badger womenâ??s basketball take on the Michigan Wolverines. “They took a lot of steps â??- UW -â?? along with our Allergy Association, and it worked out really well today,” said Craig Wadzinski.

Family members have called off the search for 52-year-old Martin Davis . Davis is the brother of University of Wisconsin wrestling coach Barry Davis, who had joined the search Monday along with dozens of other friends and family members.

It doesnâ??t take much for some people to have allergic reaction. A simple touch can sometime be enough to send someone to the emergency room. But Sunday, staff at the Kohl Center took extra steps to make sure anyone with food allergies could come out and enjoy a game.

After four UW representatives helped Team USA win the gold medal in the World Junior Championships, now the fourth-ranked Badgers make a push for a seventh NCAA title.

University of Wisconsin wrestling coach Barry Davis is among the volunteers searching for his brother, who disappeared while snowmobiling in Iowa. Dozens of volunteers continue to search for Martin Davis, 52, of Cedar Rapids, including at least 30 people from the manâ??s manufacturing company.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (WKOW) — Dozens of volunteers are searching for a missing 52-year-old man after he went snowmobiling Sunday near his home in the Cedar Rapids area and never returned.

Martin Davisâ?? girlfriend says Davis left the lights and the television on at his home and the door unlocked. She assumed he had returned from his trip and ran a quick errand.

….Davis is the brother of University of Wisconsin wrestling coach Barry Davis, who joined the search Monday along with dozens of other friends and family members.

Michigan State edged the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team 54-47 in a physical Big Ten Conference battle Wednesday night at the Breslin Center.

Volunteers turned out by the dozens again on Wednesday to help search efforts for a missing snowmobiler. Martin Davis, 52, spoke with his girlfriend Sunday and said he was going for a short ride. Davis lives on Club Road S.W. about halfway between The Eastern Iowa Airport and the Airport National Golf Course.

For coach Mark Johnson and one-third of the U.S. Olympic womenâ??s hockey team, it didnâ??t just feel like a home game at the Kohl Center.

It was a home game.

Seven of the 21 members of Team USA, including the entire starting lineup Tuesday night, play or played at the University of Wisconsin. Johnson is the Badgersâ?? head coach when heâ??s not working for USA Hockey.

The University of Wisconsin has paid a $5,000 fine to the NCAA for mistakenly allowing a womenâ??s hockey player to compete in 2007 even though she was academically ineligible.

Members of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team practiced Tuesday on the outdoor rink at Elver Park to get a sense of what awaits them in the Feb. 6 Camp Randall Classic.

The University of Wisconsin sophomore adds a third-period score and the Americans earn an overtime win to grab the gold medal.

The Badgers see tonightâ??s game at No. 10 Michigan State as a â??different kind of test.â?

Tuesdayâ??s sunshine a bit bright for an outdoor hockey game. But, the Badger men were excited to take to the ice at a Madison park! Itâ??s a far different setting from the Kohl Center. In fact, this rinkâ??s almost like playing in your backyard.

Search teams in Iowa are looking for a missing snowmobiler.The man is the brother of Barry Davis, the University of Wisconsin wrestling teamâ??s longtime head coach, according to the Iowa City Press Citizen.

Kerry Cooks, who has served as the secondary coach at the University of Wisconsin for the last four years, will join the Notre Dame football staff under new coach Brian Kelly, sources told Madison.com sports.

Meghan Duggan and Hilary Knight, taking a year off from their UW careers to play of team USA, are excited to face “friends’ in Tuesdayâ??s exhibition game at the Kohl Center.

After earning a pair of wins to start the Big Ten Conference season, the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team moved up to No. 17 in this weekâ??s Associated Press top-25 poll, it was announced today.

Bret Bielema appears poised to punt special teams coaching duties to another member of the University of Wisconsin football staff.

According to a source close to the program, Bielema is expected to hand those duties to someone already on staff or look for a defensive backs coach with special teams experience to fill the vacancy created when Kerry Cooks took a job at Notre Dame.

UW got the signature victory it needed to show that this season’s improvement was not a mirage.

The best Badgers basketball game of the decade was played on March 2, 2004, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich. Wisconsin 68, Michigan State 64, overtime. You might remember it as “the banner game.”

Once more, Canada came out on top against the U.S. women’s hockey team, running its unbeaten streak in the fall series to five games. But American coach Mark Johnson said he came away encouraged despite a 2-1 loss Wednesday in the teams’ penultimate meeting prior to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Bo Ryan isnâ??t making any statements about just how much stronger or improved seniors Trevon Hughes and Jason Bohannon and sophomore Jordan Taylor might be heading into the Big Ten Conference season because he knows the Badgersâ?? upcoming opponents are stronger and more improved, too.

The final episode of UWâ??s annual holiday tournament wonâ??t be â??M*A*S*Hâ? or â??Seinfeld.â? But it will close out an unforgettable, if under-appreciated, production.