Ryan Suter will carry on the family tradition by skating for the United States menâ??s hockey team at the upcoming Vancouver Olympics. The Madison native and former University of Wisconsin defenseman was one of four players with area ties named to the 23-man roster on Friday, joining ex-Badgers Brian Rafalski and Joe Pavelski as well as Madison native Phil Kessel.
The five players who comprise my University of Wisconsin men’s basketball All-Decade team best define the rebirth of a program that enjoyed unparalleled success from 2000-2009.
After a three-week layoff, the UW men’s hockey team needs to restart its engines quickly to regain its early-season form.
Among Mulhern’s highlights: The scandal involving the Shoe Box in Black Earth, a thriving shoe store that became synonymous with UW sports in the early part of the decade after a Wisconsin State Journal investigation revealed that Badgers athletes were receiving impermissible benefits from the store.
My most memorable moments revolve around Badgers athletics. Three games in particular â?? one from each of the big-time sports on campus â?? stand out from the 2000s.
At its very best, sport provides us with magical moments â?? plays, games or even seasons where something truly unexpected happens or where everything comes together for an athlete or a group of athletes. Over the last decade, three such games stand out for me, including Barry Alvarezâ??s final game as football coach at UW.
The Badgers’ postseason victory capped an impressive turnaround season, but it also means the team will have to find motivation by means other than a search for redemption that defined this year’s outfit.
A year ago at this time, Bret Bielema was getting skewered by critics, and his status as University of Wisconsin football coach was regarded as shaky. But an embarrassing 42-13 loss to Florida State in the Champs Sports Bowl in December 2008 fueled an impressive turnaround, and Bielemaâ??s current status is much more secure.
Mark Johnson, Team USA womenâ??s hockey coach, is going for gold, again, on the ice at the Olympics. Heâ??s on leave from coaching at UW to see if he can guide Team USA past Canada at the Winter Olympics and to its first gold medal since 1998.
The Badger women’s hockey team will host Team USA â?? the outfit bound for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver next month â?? in an exhibition game Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.
Derek Stepan made yet another key play at the IIHF World Junior Championships, and this one helped vault the United States into the championship game. The University of Wisconsin skater fed Jerry Dâ??Amigo on a two-on-one break for a shorthanded score in the third period.
The University of Wisconsin football team, ranked 24th, will play its final game of the season tonight against 14th-ranked Miami in the Champs Sports Bowl at Orlando, Fla. Could it also be the final game as a Badger for standout running back Johnny Clay?
Lisa Stone jokingly said she still carries the reminder of Rae Lin Dâ??Alieâ??s excitement from the University of Wisconsinâ??s upset of Michigan State in last seasonâ??s Big Ten Tournament.
If the athletic director canâ??t even score a ride on the team plane to a bowl game, you know things are tight.
Passing along a couple UW-Madison and higher education-related items that caught my eye over the past week …
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continued its “occasional series” taking a hard and fascinating look at conflicts of interest between doctors and drug and medical device companies. And like many of the previous articles, this most recent one gives the UW a black eye.
The University of Wisconsin football team arrived in Orlando on Wednesday. The Badgers left Madison to start on-site preparations before playing Miami on Tuesday in the Champs Sports Bowl.
Although she finished her Badger volleyball career with plenty of accomplishments and accolades to reflect upon, itâ??s more about family for Brittney Dolgner.
The most memorable steps Prince Moody has taken during his five seasons with the University of Wisconsin football program didnâ??t come at Camp Randall Stadium, even though he felt the rush of adrenaline from that pregame sprint down the tunnel more than two dozen times during his career.
Sophomore running back John Clay has been in a festive mood lately. He has been wearing a green no-contact jersey for so long during University of Wisconsin football practices, the coaches started teasing him about it.
Itâ??s easy to pick out the most enduring headline of the past decade where University of Wisconsin sports are concerned.
After a strong start, University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielemaâ??s bowl record has taken a hit over the last two years.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez was no different than many of the football teamâ??s fans coming into this season.
From Belleville to Baghdad, Waunakee to Waikiki, Monroe to Madrid – Bucky Badger is running around the world. In addition to Madisonâ??s annual Crazylegs Classic, the Wisconsin Alumni Association is planning to help coordinate satellite events in other cities where there is interest.
The college football recruiting has picked up for several Coast players during the holiday season. St. Stanislaus quarterback Dylan Favre is scheduling official visits to Oklahoma State, Southern Miss and Wisconsin for next month.
If Wisconsin beats Miami in the Champs Sports Bowl, Hurricanes fans may have an unlikely figure to blame: University of Miami president Donna Shalala.
Before she served as President Bill Clinton’s health and human services secretary, Shalala was the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor who helped turn an embarrassing football program into a perennial Big 10 contender.
From Belleville to Baghdad, Waunakee to Waikiki, Monroe to Madrid – Bucky Badger is running around the world.
In addition to Madisonâ??s annual Crazylegs Classic, the Wisconsin Alumni Association is planning to help coordinate satellite events in other cities where there is interest.
The event, to be held on April 24, will be called Crazylegs World.
There is something very distinctive about the Devin Harris jersey that adorns a wall in the office of UW-Milwaukee menâ??s basketball coach Rob Jeter.It hangs alone.
“Thereâ??s only one jersey in my office,” said Jeter. “Itâ??s not easy to get there.”
Harrisâ?? jersey is displayed not only as a gesture of respect for the former University of Wisconsin player who now toils for the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association, but also as a constant reminder to the UWM players what can be accomplished on the basketball court and in life.
The Champs Bowl Game is getting closer and University of Wisconsin Badger football fans are making their travel plans. The Wisconsin Alumni Association said ticket sales for this bowl game against the University of Miami are up from last year when the Badgers played Florida State.
Seated in Section 1, Row 48 at the north end of Camp Randall Stadium Nov. 14, Joe Mooney focused the binoculars he brought for this specific reason at midfield.
It was Parents Day when the University of Wisconsin football team played Michigan and, as a friend of Nick and Cindy Maragos, Mooney sensed he was about to see something he would never forget when they joined their son, Chris, during the ceremony.
The University of Wisconsin is looking for a new menâ??s soccer coach. Todd Yeagley, who was hired exactly one year ago Friday, is leaving to take over at Indiana, two sources familiar with the situation told Wisconsin Soccer Central.
Junior quarterback Scott Tolzien has proven he can take a hit this season. He can also take a joke. Tolzien has impressed his University of Wisconsin football teammates with the way he has hung in the pocket, calmly delivering the ball on time before absorbing a hit.
Todd Yeagley spent only one year away from Bloomington. The son of 31-year coach Jerry Yeagley returns as the programâ??s third coach, as announced by IU Athletics today.
Old Man Winter pushed the NCAA Division III title game back by five hours, but he couldnâ??t stand in the way of the Warhawk football team.
Cardinal and white, say hello to the red, white and blue. When the United Statesâ?? womenâ??s hockey team takes to the ice in Vancouver for its Winter Olympic Games opener against Feb. 14 against China in Vancouver, there will a distinct University of Wisconsin flavor.
MADISON, Wis. – Seven Badgers will play for gold in the Vancouver Olympic Games. USA Hockey and head coach Mark Johnson announced Thursday at Mall of America® the 21 players named to the 2010 U.S. Olympic Womenâ??s Ice Hockey Team.
Former Wisconsin coach and now the universityâ??s athletic director Barry Alvarez said: “Weâ??re irrelevant for the last three weeks of the football season because weâ??re not playing.”Â
She had been through all this before, sweating her way through an autumn of hockey with the promise of the Olympics in her mind. Yet when Jenny Potter was named to the U.S. Olympic womenâ??s team Thursday with her 8-year-old daughter, Madison, at her side, it felt just as emotional as ever.
If you want to know why there is a groundswell of support for the Big Ten Conference adding a 12th school, look no further than the final Saturday of the college football season, when the SEC and Big 12 dominated the nationâ??s television sets with their title games and the Big Ten twiddled its thumbs.
Indeed, a sagging national image and the need for media exposure late in the football season are the reasons behind the Big Tenâ??s announcement Tuesday that it will spend the next 12 to 18 months investigating its expansion options.
But all the Big Ten really did Tuesday was cast a line into the lake. So which school, if any, will end up on the Big Tenâ??s hook?
The latest and greatest reason for the Big Ten to expand from 11? The number 18.Thatâ??s how many millions of people watched CBSâ?? coverage of the Dec. 5 SEC title game. The exact figure of 17.969 million gave CBS the most-viewed college football telecast this season. By far.
For Badger fans who canâ??t get enough of the UW-Madison fight song “On, Wisconsin,” do we have a TV show for you.
“100 years of â??On, Wisconsin!,â??” a half-hour look at the history of one of the most popular schools song in the country, premieres on Monday, Dec. 21, on the Big Ten Network Charter Ch. 73.
During his 17 months as Notre Dameâ??s athletic director, Jack Swarbrick has asked university officials about what transpired in 1999, when the Irish declined an invitation to join the Big Ten.
Trevon Hughes belongs to Wisconsinâ??s 1,000-point club. Badgers coach Bo Ryan says his guard deserves to be on the list for 1,000 good defensive plays as well.
The statement is a mere 288 words, yet itâ??s difficult to get through the 13 tedious sentences without wondering: “Is this going to be on the test?”Then again, the Big Tenâ??s goal in its “statement on expansion” was not to entertain, but to inform. And it does provide insight into how the league will determine whether it will seek to add a 12th school.
The Big Ten Conference is actively pursuing a 12th team, although the process is in the preliminary stages and could take up to 18 months before a school is identified and a recommendation is made.
The Big Ten might be getting bigger. The league said Tuesday it will explore options over the next 12 to 18 months for expansion. Big Ten presidents and chancellors decided this month that the timing is right to study adding a 12th school.
Expansion of the Big Ten Conference from 11 to 12 teams is once again a possibility, the league and its Council of Presidents/Chancellors announced Monday. A 12th team would allow the conference to form divisions in football and have a championship game â?? a scenario viewed as inevitable since Penn State was voted in as the 11th school in 1990.
Although Wisconsinâ??s 72-63 victory over Marquette gave the Badgersâ?? bragging rights for a year and gave UW fans the opportunity to tweak their rivals from Milwaukee if they choose, poll voters werenâ??t as impressed or enthused.
Jim Delany never will be a contestant on “Top Chef,” but the Big Ten commissioner frequently has used a cooking analogy when asked about the prospects of Big Ten expansion.”A back-burner issue,” he has called it. Not anymore. According to a league official, the Big Ten will release a statement Tuesday saying the matter has moved to the front burner.
The first sign of change came from former Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez, who told Wisconsinâ??s athletic board on Friday that Delany “is going to take this year to really be more aggressive about it. I just think everybody feels [expansion] is the direction to go, coaches and administrators.”
Athletic Director Barry Alvarez announced at an Athletic Board meeting Friday the Big Ten will push next year to add a 12th member to the league.
The long-debated addition of a 12th team to the Big Ten Conference could be on the front burner, at least if you are to believe University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez. During the monthly meeting of the UW Athletic Board on Friday afternoon, Alvarez told board members that Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany will aggressively pursue a 12th conference member in the coming year.
A Nov. 14 photo of a reflection off John Clay’s visor has been commemorated by Sports Illustrated, which made Clay the cover image for its Year in Pictures issue that hit newsstands this week.
Noted: It was career victory No. 200 at Wisconsin for Bo Ryan and the second straight big scoring performance by Leuer for the Badgers (7-2), who jumped into the Top 25 after beating Duke last week â?? only to lose at UW-Green Bay on Wednesday despite getting a career-high 26 points from Leuer.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, â??Invictusâ? stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman in a movie centered around the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The story of rugby in Madison is itself a good one. It dates to the early 1960s, according to a brief history on the Wisconsin Rugby Clubâ??s website. According to that history, the first rugby game played in the Midwest occurred in the spring of 1962 and matched a club from UW-Madison against a Notre Dame squad.
The Big Ten Conferenceâ??s new bowl lineup comes a year late for University of Wisconsin football fans frustrated with another trip to Orlando, Fla. This is the last year of the Champs Sports Bowlâ??s agreement with the Big Ten and it will be dropped from the schedule, along with the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio.
Bo Ryanâ??s basketball team got what it deserved Wednesday night – a loss to unranked UW-Green Bay.
There have been reports that the University of Wisconsin was showing interest in Edgarâ??s Justin Sinz, who verbally committed this past weekend to play at Purdue next fall. Not quite, according to Sinzâ??s father, and longtime Edgar coach, Jerry.
A man accused of punching a former University of Wisconsin basketball player in the head, critically injuring him, has been ordered to stand trial.
Some University of Wisconsin football fans might be tired of the Champs Sports Bowl and Orlando, Fla.
As Bo Ryan approaches 200 wins with the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team, anyone who has coached or played for him is flummoxed every time they are asked to name the victories that best define his coaching prowess.
The University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team got on the road for Green Bay before the massive snowstorm hit the Madison area, and Wednesday nightâ??s game against the Phoenix will go on as scheduled.
