Joe Paterno has missed only one game since becoming Penn State�s head football coach in 1966, but he could miss his second on Saturday when the Nittany Lions play host to Temple.
Paterno remained hospitalized Wednesday in State College, Penn., following surgery on Sunday to repair a fractured shin bone and torn ligaments in his left knee.
If John Stocco can’t play Saturday against Iowa, University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema and his staff may be second-guessed for sending him back on the field against Penn State with an injured right shoulder.
The senior quarterback’s status remains uncertain; his first attempt at practicing would come today. In addition to the shoulder injury, Stocco broke two ribs, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema isn’t a fan of college football’s new speed-up-the-game rule that mandates the clock starts when a ball is kicked off rather than when it’s received. But if Bielema can use the rule to his team’s advantage, he will, and that’s just what he did Saturday against Penn State.
If the University of Wisconsin football team ends its four-game losing streak against rival Iowa, it likely will be forced to do so without fifth-year senior quaterback John Stocco.
Wisconsin’s war on those wascally wobbers who are making off with Wisconsin’s “motion W” has expanded far beyond that wily corn growing state to our west.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema isn’t a fan of college football’s new speed-up-the-game rule that mandates the clock starts when a ball is kicked off rather than when it’s received. But if Bielema can use the rule to his team’s advantage, he will, and that’s just what he did Saturday against Penn State.
Will John Stocco be healthy enough to play in his final Big Ten Conference game or will the shoulder injury he suffered against Penn State keep the University of Wisconsin senior on the bench for the first time since the 2003 season?
With three games left, Bret Bielema’s football team is one victory away from matching Barry Alvarez’s final-season victory total.
So many UW sports teams are ranked nationally right now, it is enough to make your head spin. You could call it a circle of success. The athletic department says solid coaching and talented players foster wins, which attract more coaches and players to Wisconsin.
“We had four national champions last year, mens and women’s hockey, men’s crosscountry and women’s lightweight crew,” says UW Senior Associate Athletic Director Vince Sweeney. “That’s pretty much unprecendented in our history.”
MIDDLETON – University of Wisconsin offensive line coach Bob Palcic walked through the door of the small airport, Morey Field, shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday. He was wearing a blue sweat suit and his game face.
…. Palcic has been flying, on and off, for 10 years, dating to an earlier coaching stint with the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League. He has logged about 250 hours.
“It’s an escape,” he said. “I don’t play golf, I don’t really have any other hobbies. I’ve always had an interest in flying. This is what I like to do.”
High school athletes who want to become college athletes have unique challenges in the college admission process. Many wonder whether they are good enough to continue playing in college, or whether their athletic talent will help them gain admission to a more selective college.
Admissions for college-bound athletes can be confusing and complicated; however, the benefits for students who love sports and want to continue playing can be great.
Instead of getting in his face, Carl Landry gave some space when his little brother, Marcus Landry, was ruled academically ineligible to play basketball last January.
“I gave him a little time and then I said, ‘Marcus, it’s not the end of the world. Take advantage of the situation and become a better person, become a better basketball player,’ ” Carl Landry said.
Thereââ?¬â?¢s a coach on the UW-Madison campus that recently entered the 150-win club and has won three Big Ten championships ââ?¬â? more than any other coach that came before him ââ?¬â? but his name is hardly mentioned when talking about championship coaches. Heââ?¬â?¢s been coaching more years at Wisconsin than most of his colleagues, yet his name is hardly recognized among the student body.
You may not have noticed UW- Madison has eight teams ranked nationally in the top 25 of their sports. Say what you want about the meaning of polls and ratings, but that’s pretty impressive.
The woman who was assaulted by former University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley says the former Whitefish Bay High School football star should be held accountable for his actions, but doesnt want a harsh prison sentence.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department responded to a small disturbance outside Union South Saturday involving several former and current UW football players, resulting in multiple charges.
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno wasn’t born yesterday.So, when the University of Wisconsin approached him about making the game on Saturday a night game, it didn’t take Paterno – who turns 80 on Dec. 21 – long to turn down that idea.
Take some lighten-up pills.
That, more or less, was Bret Bielema’s reaction to the minor hullabaloo that materialized from some comments the University of Wisconsin football coach made about P.J. Hill following the Badgers’ 30-24 victory over Illinois on Saturday.
Asked about Hill, who was injured during the game, Bielema said during a postgame radio interview that his star tailback “needs to take some toughen-up pills.” In the time since he made those comments, some have wondered why Bielema would use a public forum to question a player’s toughness.
Michael Hughes was watching the cable sports network. The Woodlands High School was playing a football game in Texas.Hughes noticed the big W on the Woodlands helmets. It’s just like the University of Wisconsin “motion W.”He was stunned. And Wisconsin is all over Waukee, screaming trademark infringement about the design on the Warrior helmets?
By most accounts, the business of college sports appears as healthy as ever. The National Collegiate Athletic Association earns more than $500-million a year from its contract with CBS to televise the men’s basketball tournament — money that helps support hundreds of athletics programs. A record 64 football teams in the NCAA’s top division will receive a financial lift by appearing in a bowl game this season. And corporate sponsors and generous alumni are infusing millions more into athletics programs across the country.
For much of the past decade, and especially in the five years since Myles Brand became the first college president to lead the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the sports group has focused its efforts on passing rules aimed at ensuring that athletes in big-time sports programs get a meaningful education.
Senior University of Wisconsin-Madison running back Dywon Rowan apparently will not face disciplinary action from the UW athletic department following a fight outside Union South early Sunday morning.
Rowan, 21,� of Erie, Pa., was one of five men who fled the scene in a car that was stopped later by UW police, after police had responded to a fight in progress around 1 a.m. Sunday.
WHAT DO a 100-year-old woman who rides motorcycles and a 25-year-old woman who raises money running marathons have in common beyond an adventurous spirit? They are both in today’s column, that’s what. I think you’ll like them both.
….JAIME-ALEXIS Fowler is a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one thing history teaches us is that a marathon is 26 miles long, and 26 miles is a long way, especially if it’s your first marathon, and it’s the Big Sur Marathon out in California on the Monterrey Peninsula, a race famous for its grueling hills.
But Fowler, 25, was on a mission back in April, when she ran Big Sur, and she was still on a mission last weekend, when she ran the Chicago Marathon. In each case she was running to raise money for causes of considerable personal importance.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ââ?¬â? Elroy Hirsch played only one season of football for the
Wisconsin Badgers. But the halfback nicknamed “Crazylegs” left so indelible a mark on the
program that the school officially retired his No. 40 on Saturday.
Two conclusions can be drawn from the University of Wisconsin’s 30-24 victory over Illinois.
First, despite a record of 1-4 in the Big Ten Conference and 2-7 overall, the Illini appear to be perhaps a season away from competing for an upper-division spin the league.
Second, despite a shaky start, UW (8-1, 5-1) obviously has the leadership on the sideline and in the locker room to remain poised in the wake of a substantial early deficit. And that poise, as much as the second-half execution, allowed UW to wipe out a 21-3 deficit against the Illini. As a result, UW on Sunday moved up one spot to No. 17 in the coaches’ poll and remained at No. 17 in the writers’ poll.
The sculpture of Barry Alvarez that stands outside the main entrance to Camp Randall Stadium is remarkable not only in its detail, but its message.
From the pair of regulation Adidas shoes on his feet, to the watch on his left wrist that says it’s 7:24, to the stressed expression on his face, Alvarez looks much like he did on the sidelines during his final seasons as University of Wisconsin football coach.
Early on during the 20 or so years I worked in Washington, D.C., I concluded that the main function of the many statues in that monument-obsessed city is to give pigeons a place to poop.
Here in Madison, we know the two statues recently erected at the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall — one a tower of spheroid objects, the other a likeness of former coach and current athletic director Barry Alvarez — serve a higher purpose. That would be the glorification of big-time college football.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema has suspended junior defensive end Brandon Kelly indefinitely for what Bielema called “conduct detrimental to the team.” Bielema didn’t elaborate further on what Kelly did to draw the suspension.
“I just felt it was in the best interest of the team to not have him around,” Bielema said Thursday.
It’s midnight on a brisk October Saturday, and while most of their friends are out on the town, a group of University of Wisconsin students has set up outside the gates of Camp Randall Stadium.
They have only themselves as company, but they are accustomed to that. They have been in this position many times.Jake Diestelmann, Tony Canales, Aaron Olsen, Chris Manzeck and Eric Ashenbrenner have anchored the front row of Section O for seven straight UW home games, and they were not about to lose their spot for the Homecoming showdown against Wisconsin’s arch-rival, Minnesota.
So how good is Bret Bielema’s football team?
Securing an accurate reading on the University of Wisconsin Badgers hasn’t been easy this season, particularly for those poll voters who haven’t seen the team in person.
It’s almost November, which means it’s time for the silly season in college football.
University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema is monitoring the hype machine closely.
This week wasn’t a day old when talk of Heisman Trophy candidates began to include UW tailback P.J. Hill.
Back in 1988, when the Badger football team was bad, really bad, it was fashionable to sit in the sparsely populated student section and chant, ââ?¬Å?Who gives a shit? We came to see the band!ââ?¬Â And it was true. Students who spent most games getting tanked in their dorm rooms or at Jingleââ?¬â?¢s would file in for the Fifth Quarter to dance and sing along with the UW marching band.
Success breeds accolades. Accolades breed attention. Attention breeds the potential for distractions.
That’s why University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is keeping a close eye over things as his team — particularly some of its young players — become more and more popular by the week.
Take redshirt freshman P.J. Hill, for example. There’s an entire page in the Badgers’ weekly media release devoted to Hill, who is being touted by the UW as a “Heisman Trophy and Doak Walker Award Candidate.”
University of Wisconsin offensive line coach Bob Palcic asked his mother for one more favor when he bid her farewell last week.
“When you lose your mom, it’s rough,” Palcic said moments after UW’s 24-3 victory over Purdue on Saturday afternoon. “She was a great fan and a great mother. And . . . I just have to tell you guys that I had to give the eulogy.
Bret Bielema’s football team has caught the attention of the pollsters.
All it took for the University of Wisconsin to return to the top 20 in both polls for the first time since the end of the 2005 season was four consecutive Big Ten Conference victories, by an average of 31 points.
One day after UW whipped Purdue, 24-3, the Badgers on Sunday moved up four spots in each poll, to No. 17 in the Associated Press poll and to No. 18 in the USA Today poll.
Courtside seats for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games – priced at $10,000 to $12,500 each – have sold out, and a waiting list has been created.
In the midst of the media frenzy over the illegal “motion W” penalties handed out by the University of Wisconsin is the not-so-funny problem concerning a logo used by Weston High School.
The little school located 70 miles northwest of Madison, which made national news in recent weeks when its heroic principal was shot and killed while wrestling a gun away from a student, has a “motion W” for one of its logos, too.
“I’ve just become recently aware that they are using that logo,” said Cindy Van Matre, the licensing director for the UW. “In light of what’s happened at that school, could you imagine the PR uproar if they were a school that we contacted right now?”
The boorish and unacceptable behavior of some UW Marching Band members has to stop.
Adam Burish is only three games into his NHL career, but already the rookie winger holds a special place in Blackhawks history.Burish was selected 282nd overall in the 2002 draft, and nobody taken that late by the Hawks has ever played a game for them.
I knew this would happen.
Some of these formerly small towns in Iowa are getting too big for their britches. One day, they’re smaller than the seats on a commuter flight. The next day, they’re larger than the federal deficit.Take Waukee. You’ll find it on the Omaha side of West Des Moines. Or the Minneapolis side of Urbandale. I get so confused.
The on-the-field fiasco between Miami and Florida International last weekend created a firestorm. Players using helmets as weapons, stomping on players � it was enough to make the college football lover flip channels in search of the baseball playoffs.
Miami head coach Larry Coker has publicly commented on the affair, and Miami President Donna Shalala has said the event was nothing Coker should lose his job over. But let’s take a deeper look. The Hurricanes’ loss to Florida State took them out of the BCS picture in the opening week of the season. Then came a blowout loss to Louisville. Then a one-point win over Houston. In other words, Coker was a lame duck coach well before his players made a public disgrace of the program.
The popular pick to replace him at season’s end (assuming he is replaced) is former Hurricane coach Butch Davis, who once before resurrected the program from the depths of despair. But another name floating around Southern Florida is former Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez.
Perhaps no opposing coach in the Big Ten Conference has a greater appreciation for the improved home-field advantage the University of Wisconsin enjoys at refurbished Camp Randall Stadium than Minnesota’s Glen Mason.
MADISON, Wis. — It’s a scene right out of a college brochure.
A sun-splashed Saturday morning is framed by the autumnal technicolor of green, red, orange and gold leaves.
The primary color in play is the hometown favorite as thousands of cardinal-clad Badgers fans make their way toward historic Camp Randall Stadium.
….For years, the Fetzer Center – located in the basement of the McClain Center – was the student-athlete’s best choice to get help. A second Fetzer Center opened today at the Kohl Center and will be put to immediate use by the men’s and women’s basketball and hockey teams. It’s located just 42 steps from the basketball and hockey locker rooms on the ground floor.
The UW-Madison ââ?¬Å?Motion Wââ?¬Â can be recognized on memorabilia around the state and even the country as a logo exclusive to UW-Madison. Could a gold and purple ââ?¬Å?Wââ?¬Â representing a school nestled in the city of Waukee, Iowa infringe on its integrity?
Would you feel bad about Bucky Badger beating up on a little high school?
A school in Iowa?
Didn’t think so.
Bob Palcic, in his first season as the University of Wisconsin’s offensive line coach, has returned home to Buffalo, N.Y., to be home with his ailing mother and might miss UW’s Big Ten Conference game this week at Purdue.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to Bob,” UW coach Bret Bielema said Monday during his weekly news conference. “We knew this might pop up. He completed his preparation for the game this weekend and took off to be with his family.”
….Think all this tough talk about the UW marching band being placed on double-secret probation for alleged inappropriate activities is a joke?
You mean to tell me that UW Chancellor John Wiley would seriously consider not allowing the band to play at things like Badgers football games if Mike Leckrone’s charges don’t shape up?
Well, as bizarre as this all sounds, it must be noted that at least one band has been silenced by university powers this college football season….
Dear Editor: Michael Leckrone, in his own way, has contributed every bit as much as Barry Alvarez and Pat Richter in turning the University of Wisconsin and its sports programs into the national force they are today.
University of Wisconsin linebacker Elijah Hodge, 20, will not face criminal charges for being in possession of a stolen moped on Sept. 19, Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said Friday.
“There wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove he knew the moped was stolen,” Blanchard said.
The bronze Barry is the second sculpture unveiled in as many years outside Camp Randall, and a lot of people were critical the last time the UW stepped into the art world.� Last year, plenty of people in Madison wanted to see a statue of Barry or Bucky or anyone associated with the football program outside. They finally got it this year.
Ed Bosold hears people discussing the Paul Bunyan Axe and he can’t figure out what the fuss is all about.
A linebacker for the University of Wisconsin from 1971 to ’73, Bosold recalls those Badgers wanting to beat Minnesota because the team was their rival and it was always the last game of the season, not so they could race over and snatch the axe from the Gophers.
Maybe this was the start of something special.
Saturday morning the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team convened for the first practice of what will be a season to remember, according to various pre-season publications and analysts across the country.
With five regular-season games left, a bowl game is assured.
When the national rankings were released Sunday, the University of Wisconsin was No. 21 in the Associated Press poll (up four spots), No. 22 in the coaches’ poll (making its season debut) and No. 21 in the first Bowl Championship Series standings of the season.
….Mention to Ryan that might mean Wisconsin has finally arrived in the nation’s consciousness as a top basketball program and he shrugs his shoulders and says that it already arrived. It’s just that the local media hasn’t figured it out until now.
To prove his point, Ryan cited some remarkable numbers published in the Wall Street Journal in March that show the unique development and success of the UW men’s basketball program. It ranks among the nation’s leaders in total revenue ($12 million) as well as difference between expenses and revenues ($8 million). Another database showed that it ranks toward the bottom in the country in recruiting expenses ($43,309).
UW Marching Band members engaged in a head-shaving hazing incident and lewd dancing on a recent road trip that recalls even worse conduct in previous years, administrators said Thursday.
When one door closes, another one opens. Or, in the case of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association this season, when 17 doors close, many others fly wide open, inviting opportunistic players to make their mark on the league.
The eye-catching statistic around the WCHA at the dawn of this season isn’t about who’s back; it’s about who’s not. The final count of players with eligibility remaining who left league teams to sign a pro contract was 17, a WCHA record.
So what exactly happened in Michigan that has Chancellor John Wiley primed to dismember entire sections of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band?
No one in the band seems to know, and the administrators who do aren�t saying much.
ââ?¬Å?I think no one in the entire band knows what happened in Michigan,ââ?¬Â UW sophomore and band member Kevin Hart said after practice yesterday. ââ?¬Å?There werenââ?¬â?¢t any arrests; there wasnââ?¬â?¢t any serious injury. I have no idea what spurred it at all.ââ?¬Â
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin chancellor has issued a stern reprimand to the UW-Madison band following an incident that occurred on a road trip to Michigan.The incident occurred on a September road trip to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the Badger football game, and although no one will provide details of the incident in question, it has the university’s administration clamping down on the band.
