A doctor’s near-death experience reminds a local company about the importance of their product. 5 years ago, Dr. George Warren was running in the Madison Crazylegs Classic when he suddenly collapsed from cardiac arrest.
Warren was saved by a nurse who also happened to be running the race, as well as a device that was manufactured in Deerfield, Wisconsin.
The prestigious Walsh Cup will remain in a trophy case in Madison.
Wisconsin’s sixth-ranked rowing team took home the Walsh Cup for a second consecutive year, defeating No. 16 Navy’s varsity eight on the Severn River in Annapolis, Md., on Sunday.
The oldest sport at the University of Wisconsin and its most dominant program have a couple of things in common.
They have the sweetest digs on campus. You probably couldn’t guess them without a hint. They don’t get a lot of love or attention from people like me.
They won’t be replacing famous siblings like the Cusacks and Gyllenhaals in Hollywood anytime soon, but Joe and Ann Detmer’s film debut has its moments.
The oldest sport at the University of Wisconsin and its most dominant program have a couple of things in common.
They have the sweetest digs on campus. You probably couldn’t guess them without a hint. They don’t get a lot of love or attention from people like me.
Marquette University’s Krystal Ellis and the University of Wisconsin’s Jolene Anderson each moved a step closer to being named to two separate USA Basketball teams over the weekend in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Dear Editor: An all too frequent component of Badger football games has become a flyover of military jets at low altitude. The UW regents should outlaw this practice for two reasons:
First, it represents a tragedy waiting to happen, with the potential for thousands of deaths. Recently the 26th Blue Angel to perish in a similar setting illustrated the inherent risks in military hardware near civilian areas.
Second, and more insidious, it is a jingoistic commingling of the military-industrial complex with athletic-regional pride.
Jolene Anderson expects to spend her third summer competing at an international level.
The senior-to-be with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team was selected as a finalist Sunday for the U21 World Championship team that will take part in the World Championships June 29 to July 8 in Moscow. The current 14-member roster will be trimmed to 12 players after practice resumes June 12 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Outsourcing, that common practice of big business, is flourishing in big-time college sports, including at the University of Minnesota. The Gophers’ new $288.5 million publicly funded campus football stadium is now up for commercial grabs. Advertising signs, corporate sponsorships and luxury suites are set to be sold at TCF Bank Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin continues to rack up Big Ten Conference track and field honors.
Senior Demi Omole has been named the Big Ten Conference track and field athlete of the year and UW’s Ed Nuttycombe has been named the Big Ten coach of the year, league officials announced today.
UW has swept those two awards in each of the last four years.
If you follow University of Wisconsin sports with any degree of passion, you have cause to feel good about the present and the future.
For the first time in school history, the Badgers have won multiple NCAA titles in consecutive school years.
In 2005-06, it was men’s and women’s hockey and men’s cross country. In 2006-07, it is women’s hockey and men’s indoor track.
A Senate committee took testimony Tuesday on a proposal to protect the rights of breastfeeding mothers. The legislation would make it illegal to harass or stop women from breastfeeding in public.
State Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison) is the sponsor of the bill. He says mothers should be allowed to breastfeed in any public location they’re otherwise able to be in. The Madison Democrat says the health benefits of breastfeeding have been clearly shown, but many women avoid doing it in public because they’re afraid of accusations of indecency.
The Big Ten Conference record book didn’t stand a chance against the University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team.
Quarterback John Stocco’s quest to land a job in the National Football League continues.
Stocco, a three-year starter who set several passing records at the University of Wisconsin, will not be invited to the New York Giants’ training camp.
University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema literally could reach out and touch someone — a potential football recruit — during a recent visit to a high school practice field in Texas. But he was limited to window shopping.
“I’m standing 10 feet away from a prospect, and I can’t talk to him,” Bielema relayed on his cell phone. “That’s why the May evaluation period is so challenging, because we can’t speak to the kids.”
Nonetheless, this is a critical recruiting window for coaches like Bielema, who will spend all but a handful of days on the road this month.
They came to Penn State University for the 2007 Big Ten Conference outdoor track and field meet expecting to dominate and make history.
The University of Wisconsin men, led by perhaps the most successful senior class in program history, did not disappoint Sunday afternoon.
A contract extension for Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard is under discussion, a Cyclones athletic official said Friday.”It is my understanding that the discussions have been going on for a while and that they will be coming to a conclusion likely in the near future,” said Steve Malchow, senior associate athletic director.
After it met in closed session last Thursday, UW-Madisonâ??s Labor Licensing Policy Committee has come to an agreement regarding the universityâ??s contract with Adidas and the Hermosa factory situation.
UW coach Coach Ed Nuttycombe spins his cautionary tale of doom-and-gloom before every Big Ten Conference track and field championship, indoor or outdoor, rain or shine.
“He does that all the time,” Omole, a former standout at Whitefish Bay Dominican High School, said with a knowing smile. “Were into his game. Hell go: Its going to be a dogfight and we have to bring our A game.
“Then we win by 60 points and we just look at him. Now we just run. We dont really listen to him anymore.”
Nearly three dozen athletics officials will gather today at Temple University to discuss how colleges should respond to terrorist attacks or other emergencies that occur during big sporting events.
To assess how well sports programs have prepared for potential problems, The Chronicle caught up with Lou Marciani, director of the Center for Spectator Sports Security Management at the University of Southern Mississippi, which is a cosponsor of the conference.
Take his word. There’s no chance that University of Wisconsin men’s track coach Ed Nuttycombe would ever take winning for granted. Especially winning Big Ten championships.
That won’t happen, he insisted, despite his lengthy resume, which includes 22 Big Ten titles, one shy of the conference’s all-time record held by legendary Indiana swimming coach Doc Counsilman. None of this has become “old hat” or mundane, according to Nuttycombe, even though the Badgers have won seven consecutive Big Ten indoor championships and are the favorite to win their fourth straight outdoor crown this weekend at Penn State.
A year of marked improvement led to a year being added on to the contract of University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Lisa Stone.
The UW Athletic Board on Friday renewed Stone’s contract and extended it by a year during its annual review of winter coaches’ contracts. The extension runs through May of 2011, meaning Stone is operating on a four-year deal beginning with the 2007-08 season.
Madison – Lisa Stone’s approval rating has risen considerably in the past year.
Last May, the University of Wisconsin athletic board voted to renew Stone’s contract but declined to extend it by a year. That move came after UW finished in ninth place in the Big Ten Conference women’s basketball race at 5-11 and 11-18 overall.
On Friday, the athletic board rewarded Stone with a renewal and a one-year extension. The Journal Sentinel reported last month that, according to a source, the board would renew the contract and extend it by at least one year after the Badgers finished 7-9 in the Big Ten and 23-13 overall.
For years John Stocco has taken the ball under center. He has thrown tens of thousands of passes and taken several punishing hits. But somehow he has gotten up to take another snap.
Badger fans went on quite a rollercoaster ride these past two weeks. First, there was the e-mail problem with football tickets, and then the announcement of a new distribution policy for basketball and hockey tickets.
After hearing outcry and criticism from students regarding football season tickets, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department responded Wednesday by arranging a lottery that will offer between 100 and 300 additional tickets.
The University of Wisconsin’s is set to open the 2007 Big Ten Conference football season under the lights. UW’s league opener on Sept. 22 against Iowa has been scheduled for 7 p.m., UW officials announced Tuesday.
Mentions that, at the University of Wisconsin, the lowest APR score was 931 for the men’s basketball team. The football team score was 935. Men’s cross country, men’s tennis, women’s ice hockey, women’s swimming, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball were honored for high APR scores. An APR score of 925 translates to an NCAA graduation success rate of approximately 60%.
On the eve of the biggest games of their seasons â?? if not their hockey careers â?? members of the four squads that make up the Robertson Cup National Tournament got to hear Wednesday from a man whoâ??s played in, and coached, his fair share: Mark Johnson.
Johnson touched on everything from college life to his time as a member of the 1980 â??Miracle on Iceâ? U.S. Olympic team in front of a throng of Ice Dogs fans and players with newly bleched blond hair.
â??It was amazing,â? Ice Dogs forward Kyle Schmidt said. â??Iâ??m really glad he had an opportunity to come up here.â?
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Department offered an explanation for the controversy over football tickets and said it will hold a limited lottery for those affected.
The nearly 11,000 tickets went on sale on April 21 and sold out in three days. But some students complained that they didn’t get the e-mail notifying them of when tickets would go on sale, causing them to miss out.
The Athletic Department said that it staggered the e-mails to keep the server from overloading, but said it appears that some didn’t get sent.
University of Wisconsin quarterback John Stocco’s long wait to enter the National Football League is over. Well, sort of.
On Tuesday, Stocco accepted an offer from the Green Bay Packers to attend their rookie orientation camp this weekend for a 72-hour tryout. It’s better than nothing but still doesn’t mean he will be offered a free-agent contract. That decision will be made by the Packers next week.
The Big Ten Conference announced starting times to three 2007 University of Wisconsin football games today.
The Badgers’ home game with Iowa on Sept. 22 will kick off at 7pm CDT and be televised live on ABC. Wisconsin has won 19 of its last 20 night games, including nine straight.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Department offered an explanation Tuesday for the controversy over football tickets.
The nearly 11,000 tickets went on sale on April 21 and sold out in three days. But some students claimed they didn’t get the e-mail notifying them of deadlines.
The Athletic Department said that it staggered the e-mails to keep the server from overloading, but said it appears that some didn’t get sent.
A decision is expected on Wednesday as to how to handle the ticket problem.
Camped out in a bright red tent Sunday at 3 p.m. until Tuesday at 3 p.m., a group from every single UW Athletics sport team took turns â??practicingâ? on Library Mallâ??jogging, doing crunches or walking around collecting moneyâ??for a cause.
The e-mail sent to UW-Madison students informing them of the April 21 date of football ticket sales missed many studentsâ?? inboxes because of the large size of the universityâ??s student listserv, according to the athletic department.
Badger athletes from all 23 varsity sports, cheerleading and dance, had a kink thrown into their practice schedules this week with the 48-hour marathon practice for charity on Library Mall.
Patti Henderson, who guided the University of Wisconsin women’s team to seven NCAA tournament appearances and the school’s only Big Ten title, has resigned to pursue other interests.
Last Tuesday, students learned that football tickets for the 2007 season were sold out. Although not surprising in itself, as Camp Randall is routinely sold out, the real shock came to many students because they did not even know they were on sale.
Saturdayâ??s 26th annual Crazylegs Classic run/walk attracted a record-breaking 14,997 runners and walkers to Madison, including city celebrities Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and UW football head coach Bret Bielema.
After last weekâ??s football ticket sale notification debacle, many Badger fans are again disgruntled with the Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Office.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department announced its new lottery and distribution policy Friday for menâ??s basketball and hockey tickets, drawing mixed reactions from students.
The old saying is, â??You are what you eat.â? Anyone looking for an additional exhibit of evidence for the adage can look no further than to Joe Thomas.
A record number of people participated in Saturdayâ??s Crazylegs Run, which will benefit the University of Wisconsinâ??s Badger Athletics Fund.
For sheer drama, there have been few more memorable Professional Golf Association Tour matches in recent years than Tiger Woods’ sudden-death playoff victory over John Daly in the October 2005 American Express Championship at San Francisco’s Harding Park.
But for many environmentalists and golf course superintendents across the country, the event — which abruptly ended when the volatile Daly jerked a 3-foot putt on the second playoff hole — was notable for one other reason: Harding Park, which is a public course, has been hailed as an environmental model because, in addition to its jaw-dropping beauty, it uses far fewer pesticides than any PGA course in the country.
(Quoted: UW-Madison associate professor of horticulture John Stier. Zoology professor Warren Porter is also mentioned.)
Phil Savage was Baltimore’s director of player personnel when the Ravens selected offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden No. 4 overall in the 1996 National Football League draft.
Ogden has since been named to the Pro Bowl 10 times and is preparing for his 13th NFL season with the Ravens.
Now the vice president and general manager of the Cleveland Browns, Savage used the No. 3 overall pick of the 2007 draft Saturday to snare University of Wisconsin offensive tackle Joe Thomas, a player who appears to have the talent and desire to build a professional résumé similar to Ogden’s.
The University of Wisconsin mens basketball program appears to have another commitment for the class of 2008.
Robert Wilson, a 6-foot-4 swing man from Garfield Heights, Ohio, has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday, when he is expected to announce his intention to play for the Badgers.
Meet 68 year-old Bob Knight, he’s one of last year’s Crazylegs classic winners, and tomorrow he’s hoping to defend his title, while rocking lucky numbers 5252.
“I’ve won my age division, which is 65 to 69 the last three years in a row,” says Knight.
The Crazylegs run/walk attracts nearly 15,000 people, who lace up to raise money for the National W club–but the clubs not the only ones benefiting so are downtown businesses like locally owned House of Wisconsin Cheese.
Students want more seats to University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and hockey games. Because the UW athletic department will never find students more seats to those games, it has continually tried to use a fair student seat allocation plan.
The latest plan, unveiled Friday afternoon on the athletic department’s Web site, includes a two-phase lottery system for men’s basketball games that is weighted toward graduate students and undergraduate upperclassmen.
The UW Athletic Department released details of new procedures for the sale, distribution and allocation of student season tickets for menâ??s hockey and basketball this morning.
MADISON, Wis. — Some University of Wisconsin students are crying foul about not getting season tickets to watch Badger football.Students who want one of 10,500 season tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis, and many are usually notified through e-mail. This year, some students said that a lack of fair warning left them out of luck.The tickets went on sale on April 21 and sold out in three days, WISC-TV reported.
Is it too much to expect the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department go through a year without someone breaking an NCAA rule?
“That would be nice,” said Steve Waterfield, the UW assistant athletic director for compliance. “Is it realistic based upon my experience in compliance? No. Do I think that if we do have (violations) it’s not been a perfect year? I wouldn’t necessarily say that.”It’s just that given the complexity and ever-changing NCAA rules – think of how many student-athletes and sports and how large a program (UW has) – it’s just unrealistic to think we could go through an entire year without any secondary violations.”
George Warren was given the gift of life during the 2002 Crazylegs Classic. Now, he and his family are giving back.
Five years after having a heart attack while running the event and being saved by two quick-to-act participants and a UW-Madison Police Department defibrillator, Warren and his family are showing their gratitude by donating three automated external defibrillators to UW-Madison in conjunction with Saturday’s Crazylegs.
We can all probably agree that the NCAA is among the most hypocritical, overly regulated and insanely silly regulating bodies known to man.
For example, you could not give a UWM soccer player a ride were he or she trudging across Downer in a snowstorm or a hungry Wisconsin swimmer a couple of bucks for a sandwich.
Some UW students are outraged after learning season tickets for home football games are sold out.
Especially since–many say they didn’t know tickets were on sale in the first place.
Badger tickets went on sale Saturday morning. By Tuesday afternoon, all 10,500 student season ticket packages were sold out.
The UW Athletic Department says it sent out email reminders to students, but many students have called the department complaining they never got those emails.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, along with other Labor Licensing Policy Committee members, gathered Wednesday in Bascom Hall to hear findings from Special Assistant to the Chancellor Dawn Crimâ??s recent trip to El Salvador to investigate the Hermosa factory situation.
Badger fans across campus expressed both anger and confusion with the UW-Madison Athletic Department Wednesday after discovering season football tickets had sold out before knowing they had even gone on sale.
Several students expressed outrage Wednesday after learning season ticket packages for home football games had sold out, saying the University of Wisconsin never notified them about the sale.
Chancellor John Wiley acknowledged Wednesday that Adidas has not completely fulfilled its promise to clean up its labor practices at some of its Central American factories.
Student season tickets for the 2007 University of Wisconsin football season are sold out.
After only three days, every single one of the 10,500 student tickets was gone by Tuesday afternoon.
I don’t even care if Joe Thomas is picked second by Detroit, fifth by Arizona or later this spring by the Milwaukee Bucks, who could use an athletic 6-foot-6 bruiser to give someone the business under the boards.
The only thing that seems important at the moment regarding the magnificent future of Joe Thomas – who one day just might be judged as the greatest professional player ever from the University of Wisconsin – is that Eric and Sally Thomas of Brookfield did some kind of job raising their son.
