The black market for explicit, compromising leaks (both real and phony) of images connected to niche scandals is certainly robust: last year, celebratory locker room nudes taken by the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s volleyball team after a championship win were openly shared and critiqued across social media.
With a top-35 attendance average last season and over 3,200 fans per game at the Kohl Center already this year, the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program has one of the top platforms in the sport. Assistant coach Caroline Doty hopes it can be put to use Thursday evening when the Badgers host their first Pride Game when they take on No. 11 Maryland in a Big Ten Conference game.
Letter to the editor: It has not only helped and been a great resource for UW-Madison athletes and fans, but many others in Madison, Dane County and the entire state of Wisconsin.
The Badgers won’t host a non-conference game in place of playing the Wildcats if the Big Ten Conference contest gets postponed, as coach Greg Gard said Tuesday was likely.
The Badgers have never before worn black as a base color. The subtle messages included in the gold pinstripes that cut through the uniform — the words equality, unity and Wisconsin forward in caps — are designed to speak loudly.
Erin Roberge graduated with a bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison before going on to earn her master’s degree in exercise science through Pennsylvania Western University with an emphasis in performance enhancement and injury prevention.
Fickell, now 49 and the coach of the University of Wisconsin, quickly has gone about giving the Badgers program a facelift. From bringing in fresh offensive schemes, an entirely new coaching staff and a different approach to recruiting that already is paying dividends, the UW program feels as if it already is his despite being hired six weeks ago.
Former University of Wisconsin cornerback Troy Vincent will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in a ceremony late in 2023, one of 18 players so honored in this year’s class.
One of the four coach inductees, Monte Cater, coached at Lakeland College from 1981 through 1986.
The College Football Hall of Fame encompasses a large contingent of inductees, but only 13 associated directly with their time at the University of Wisconsin make the list, though many others with connections to Wisconsin football have been recognized.
Troy Vincent, who starred as a Badgers cornerback from 1988-91, will be part of the 18-player class inducted into the Hall in December. He’s the 12th UW player to earn a spot in the Hall of Fame.
Troy Vincent, who starred in Barry Alvarez’s early Wisconsin teams, was selected Monday to the College Football Hall of Fame.
From 10 to 11 a.m. fans were invited to join the members of the UW Men’s Hockey team for a free skate, autographs and photos at the Edgewater Hotel ice rink.
JJ Watt received one of the strangest gifts in the mail and only Wisconsin fans will truly appreciate it.
The gift appears to be a taxidermy Badger. That’s right, someone appears to have sent Watt a stuffed Badger.
Watt shared photos of the gift on Twitter Thursday saying, “I have received a lot of wild fan mail over the years. This package that arrived today is certainly being added to the list.”
Letter to the editor: UW-Madison’s athletic director deserves a hand for his firm, capable leadership these last few months.
Wisconsin native and former University of Wisconsin star Cole Caufield scored his 20th and 21st goals of the season for the Canadiens in their fifth consecutive loss. He’s the first Montreal player to reach 20 goals in 37 of fewer games since Martin Rucinsky and Brian Savage in 1995-96.
Mark Johnson calls this the best time of the year.
It’s winter break on the University of Wisconsin campus, a time that most of the student body heads home and recharges for the second semester. The break is a favorite of the Wisconsin’s women’s hockey coach because it is the one time all season that his players can lock in and devote all of their energy to the game.
“I think he worked for Pizza Hut or Papa John’s delivering pizzas just to pay for his first semester,” said Brendan Kelly, who played on the defensive line with Watt at Wisconsin.
J.J. Watt, the pride of Pewaukee High School and a three-time NFL defensive player of the year, announced Tuesday via Twitter that Sunday’s game against Tampa Bay was his last NFL home game, implying that he would be retiring at the end of the 2022 season.
Milwaukee was good to the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team last year.
Will it be more of the same this year?
The Badgers return to Fiserv Forum for the second annual Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off on Wednesday and Thursday looking for a fresh start after a rocky first half of the season
Fickell, the new University of Wisconsin football coach, said at the time that he was acting as “kind of a figurehead” while allowing coordinators Jim Leonhard and Bobby Engram to run both sides of the ball.
att has two brothers, T.J. and Derek, who play in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The three Watt brothers played college football at the University of Wisconsin.
He set up the Justin J. Watt Foundation while he as at the University of Wisconsin and has gone on to raise more than $5 million to help fund after-school athletic programs and organizations.
J.J. Watt, who terrorized quarterbacks as a Wisconsin Badger and was a star for the Houston Texans, is retiring from the NFL.
Braelon Allen ran for 116 yards and a touchdown and Wisconsin withstood Oklahoma State’s second-half push in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl for a 24-17 victory Tuesday night.
Leonhard’s time at the University of Wisconsin is coming to an end soon. The former three-time All-American safety and UW hall of famer is not returning to the program after he was passed over as the team’s head coach in favor of Luke Fickell. His last game with the Badgers is set to be the Guaranteed Rate Bowl at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, and the players he led as interim coach for two months this season sought to commemorate their time with him.
The football players who chose to represent the University of Wisconsin in 2022 have been through hell during the last nine months.
Too strong for you?
Consider that the players lost two individuals who they considered part of their family, one a coach and one a player, and had to endure multiple coaching changes.
The Luke Fickell era at Wisconsin will have a soft opening. Fickell will be on the sideline against Oklahoma State on Tuesday night in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. Most of the major decisions, like naming a starting quarterback, will be made by interim coach Jim Leonhard and the other current Badgers coaches.
It will be an extended holiday break for Wisconsin men’s basketball.
Two people with ties to the Wisconsin men’s basketball program have been nominated for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bo Ryan was a finalist in 2015 but was not inducted. Michael Finley, who played at UW from 1991-95, is up for induction alongside the legendary coach.
The Badgers (4-9) and Beacons (2-6) originally were scheduled to start at 4 p.m., but the two teams shifted the start time to try to avoid the forecasted snowstorm beginning Wednesday evening.
UW paid the company $50,000 for a search involving a head football coach, and would pay the same rate for a head men’s basketball coaching search. That’s on top of the $48,000 annual retainer covering three to five openings for coaches or administrators.
Letter to the editor: I want to applaud the UW-Madison’s women athletes for a phenomenal 2022. While concurrently celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX, UW women athletes continue to make strides in a number of sports.
As his players gathered in front of the student section to sing “Varsity” one last time this season, University of Wisconsin volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield stood by his team’s bench late Saturday night, watching with his arms behind his back.
He broke that gaze to take one last look up at the giant video board at the UW Field House, perhaps just to make sure he could believe what he was seeing. Yep, the bad news was still there: Pittsburgh in five sets, 23-25, 25-21, 25-21, 19-25, 15-13. The thinnest of margins, and so it’s the Panthers off to the Final Four while the defending champion Badgers come to grips with their hopes of a repeat dashed.
Nose tackle Keeanu Benton could have turned pro after the 2021 season, his third at Wisconsin.
The graduate of Janesville Craig High School chose to return to UW for his senior season for two reasons:
To help UW win a Big Ten title and to improve as a player.
UW failed to win the Big Ten West and finished just 4-5 in the Big Ten, but Benton put together his best season with the Badgers and on Friday announced via Twitter he is entering the 2023 NFL draft. Benton could have returned for a fifth season because of the COVID year exception.
The volleyball team has been on an amazing roll the past several years, notably including last year’s national championship. And the fanbase has grown along the way: The team’s Sept. 16 game, attended by 16,833, broke the NCAA regular-season attendance record.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team has arrived at crunch time of its 2022 season with a resume that in some ways is better than the one the program had at the same point a year ago.
If Badgers fans bleed red, it’s because Jim Leonhard has their heart. He always has.His departure from the program leaves an open wound that marks the end of an era.
Chandler, a second-year student from Huntersville, North Carolina, majored in American studies, and was also a wide receiver for the Virginia Cavaliers.He had joined Virginia’s program after transferring from the University of Wisconsin.
Leonhard, the team’s defensive coordinator since 2017 and interim coach since Oct. 2, was a leading candidate for the permanent job. But UW athletic director Chris McIntosh hired former Cincinnati coach Luke Fickell last Sunday. Fickell was open to keeping Leonhard on staff and the men met three times over the past week to discuss the future, but Leonhard will be moving on.
After seven seasons with the Wisconsin Badgers football program, Jim Leonhard has announced he will part ways following the 2022 Guaranteed Rate Bowl game. Leonhard announced his decision on Twitter Tuesday night.
In a post on Twitter, Leonhard said that he would stay on as the defensive coordinator through the Guaranteed Rate Bowl against Oklahoma State.
The Wisconsin football defensive coordinator’s announcement follows the Badgers’ decision to hire Luke Fickell as head coach and quarterback Graham Mertz’s departure.
This past Friday, the 6-foot-3 Robinson finished with a team-high 11 kills, while posting a .667 hitting percentage and recording five blocks as the top-seeded Badgers swept Quinnipiac, 25-19, 25-9, 25-4, in front of an announced crowd of 7,229.
Luke Fickell’s seven-year, $54.6 million contract as University of Wisconsin football coach is 80% guaranteed.
It also includes an additional $2.5 million in pay through the end of March, when his agreement will annually roll over, plus the use of a Camp Randall Stadium suite, two cars and a country club membership.
The Badgers (6-6) will play Oklahoma State (7-5) in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl at 9:15 p.m. Dec. 27 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. The game will be televised on ESPN.
Letter to the editor: Along with thousands of other alumni, fans and UW football players, I was shocked to find out that Jimmy Leonhard had not gotten the head coaching job at UW-Madison.
Letter to the editor: UW-Madison athletic director Chris McIntosh stated during the Luke Fickell press conference that ensuring the survival of the athletic department serving around 800 student athletes factored into his recent UW football coaching change. The media ignored this very important point.
The Graham Mertz era is over, at least at the University of Wisconsin.
A UW spokesperson told the State Journal that the nine assistant coaches remaining after Chryst’s firing on Oct. 2 were “previously informed” of their extensions, which would keep them under contract through the Badgers bowl game and about five weeks after that.
Letter to the editor: The Big 10 is changing and each school must evaluate their team and coaching staff going forward. The money involved in college athletics has grown substantially, and successful football programs are normally the driver for the entire athletic program. Wisconsin must return its football team to its winning ways so that top players will want to come to Wisconsin.
Three members of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team were unanimous first-team All-Big Ten selections and Kelly Sheffield was voted Coach of the Year, the conference announced Wednesday.
“Debunk the myth that great minds think alike.” That’s the advice from Dr. Danielle Pulliam, the University of Wisconsin’s new assistant athletic director for diversity and inclusion.
Program available to UW students for 2022-2023 basketball season.
Fans were asked to remain inside the Kohl Center following Tuesday night’s Badger men’s basketball game due to police activity outside the center.
UW-Madison issued a statement on Twitter saying towards the end of the game, Madison Police asked UW Athletics officials to keep fans inside as police “dealt with a situation outside.”
UW outside linebacker Nick Herbig was a consensus first-team choice and safety John Torchio was a first-team choice by the media. Defensive tackle Keeanu Benton was third-team pick by the coaches and linebacker Maema Njongmeta earned a third-team nod from the media.
The new landscape of college football in the 17 months that players have been allowed to capitalize financially on their name, image and likeness has given some schools new ways to get ahead of competitors.
According to Madison Police Sgt. Nicholas Pine, the suspect from a shooting just off the Capitol Square on Tuesday was possibly spotted in the area of the 500 block of State Street, not far from the arena. Officials issued a shelter-in-place warning for the 14,435 fans in attendance until police could search the area.
This, I recall thinking, is the precise moment and exact place where Wisconsin’s football past meets its future.
The University of Wisconsin women’s volleyball team once again earned a bid to the NCAA tournament for the 10th-straight season.
The team was selected as the top regional seed and No. 3 seed overall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has hired Luke Fickell as its new head football coach. Fickell comes to Wisconsin from the University of Cincinnati’s football program and will replace interim Badgers coach Jim Leonhard.
University of Wisconsin officials on Monday posted five job openings involving the football program, including three coaching positions.
Both coordinator positions have been posted, as well as an assistant coaching position, the head of strength and conditioning and an assistant strength and conditioning position.
