Category: Athletics

Different college students spend their time in different ways. Some study, some go to parties, some yell racist taunts at the opposing hockey team.

Hockey fans at Boston University are a raucous bunch. Every game, hundreds of students paint their faces scarlet and white and come out wearing their lucky hockey jerseys to support their beloved Terriers. Alums, too, turn out in droves game after game. Almost everyone holds a special distaste for their longtime rival, the Boston College Eagles.

When University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema strolled into his weekly news conference two Mondays ago wearing an orange tie, I thought it was odd.

Not the tie, mind you. It was a pretty sharp-looking tie, particularly for those who are fond of all things orange. I did make a point to mention to Bielema before the start of the news conference that his tie matched the school colors of Bowling Green, UW’s opponent in its season opener later that week.

The University of Wisconsin and Virginia Tech have reached an agreement to meet in football in the 2016 and 2017 seasons, according to UW officials.

No swearing allowed. Quit the sexist and racist chants, as well.
And if sports fans don’t stop, they will get tossed from the stands, Boston University officials are warning.

It�s a rush, dude, and nobody�s gonna catch you. And who�s it gonna hurt anyway? That, at least, is how some people view the trash-bin fires that pop up near the Ohio State University campus after highprofile football games.

College football returns to Camp Randall Stadium today, though you might have trouble recognizing it at first.
The University of Wisconsin’s home opener against Western Illinois, a Division I-AA school, is an example of the latest trend in the NCAA, one that is best described as College Football Lite.

Bret Bielema’s University of Wisconsin players can expect a long, tough work week.

With memories of their sloppy 34-10 victory over Western Illinois still fresh, with a dangerous San Diego State team visiting Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday and with the Big Ten Conference opener at Michigan looming on Sept. 23, the Badgers must address several key issues, mostly on offense and defense

Barry Alvarez signed copies of his new autobiography entitled “Don’t Flinch.” Badger fans patiently waited in line at the University Bookstore to get a personalized copy. The former coach says he enjoyed reliving the past 59ââ?¬â??years and putting his experiences down in words.

Responding to feedback from fans throughout the 2005 football season, University of Wisconsin officials in the off-season spent about $500,000 on upgrades at Camp Randall Stadium.

Making Camp Randall Stadium a more customer friendly place continues to be a major initiative for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.A year after celebrating the end of a $109.5 million renovation with a grand reopening, UW officials spent another $500,000 to further upgrade the 89-year-old facility in advance of the 2006 season.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin football fans will find a few changes to Camp Randall when they come to see the Badgers’ home opener this weekend.

Squeezing 84,000 cheering badger fans inside Camp Randall Stadium is no easy task, and getting them in and out quickly is an even higher priority this year.

A big advantage will be to fans who have a ticket but nothing else on them. They can use a marked express line, found at Gates 1, 6, 7, and 10. Associate Athletic Director Doug Beard said Penn State and Detroit’s Ford Field during the Super Bowl used the concept, and it seemed to work.

If you are a diehard follower of University of Wisconsin sports, you have no doubt gone to tremendous lengths to satisfy your passion.
You have bought pricey tickets, driven great distances, worn questionable attire, exposed yourself to the elements, been subjected to intense ridicule and yelled until your throat was raw.

So you think you know UW football? Sure, then answer this: If you’re having offensive line coach Bob Palcic over for dinner, what would he enjoy eating?
Pork.

With sauerkraut.

Friday night was the calm before the storm for former University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez.”Normally, I have a hard time sleeping the night before the game,” said Alvarez, the UW athletic director.But he slept well Friday night prior to the 2006 season opener against Bowling Green.

MADISON, Wis. — As the Badgers take on Bowling Green Saturday to kick off the football season, Bucky is also gearing up for the big game.Or, more specifically, the energetic students who portray the beloved University of Wisconsin-Madison mascot are looking forward to starting a new year and pepping up the fans.

Sixteen years earlier, a Wisconsin constituency justifiably hesitant about the state of the football program filled Camp Randall Stadium to roughly three-quarters of its capacity for Barry Alvarez’s debut. Still, the crowd of about 50,000 for that loss to California was measurably superior than any gathering for the latter days of Don Morton, give or take an urgent circus elephant.

If relative solitude was somehow craved by Bret Bielema for his first game as head coach of the Badgers, he could not have picked a better place. Cleveland Browns Stadium, to which Bowling Green had moved its home game, seemed as empty and soul-less as one might expect for a college game trying to fit itself into a pro venue.

Saturday’s game in Cleveland marked the first road trip of the season for die-hard Badger fans. The NBC 15 sports team had no problem finding folks that made the trip from Stoughton, Janesville and Madison.A sea of red lined in the stadium parking lot today.

By Jim Polzin

University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema made a strong statement to his team in May when he suspended Jamal Cooper for one game because the defensive end wasn’t fulfilling his academic responsibilities.

If you have been waiting for an opportunity to purchase hard-to-get season tickets to University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games, your time has arrived.

Here we are, mere hours from the start of a new college football season, and not a single hand-delivered manila envelope or bubble-wrapped FedEx package has shown up in my mailbox.

First in a three-part series of excerpts
By Barry Alvarez with Mike Lucas

“I loved coaching in Old Coal Miner’s games: Two teams standing toe-to-toe and slugging it out. Very little passing. Both defenses are pounding each other pretty good. Nobody is moving the ball very much. And everything is played between the tackles.

It’s a conservative, hard-nosed, physical brand of football. It’s about solid fundamentals and toughness. And it goes back to how I first learned to play the game in Pennsylvania, where the lifestyle, work ethic and tradition dictated how you played in the ’50s and ’60s.”

Bret Bielema looked for two things when he interviewed candidates to fill his first coaching staff. Great passion and great integrity.

Great chemistry, the University of Wisconsin football coach felt, would be a by-product if he made the right hires.

MADISON, Wis. — A new way to buy and sell Badger football tickets went online Friday.

Dubbed the ââ?¬Å?Ticket Marketplace,ââ?¬Â the site has already sold 42 football tickets. The system is nothing new for Badger sports fans that bought 750 to 800 tickets during basketball and hockey season last year.

Saturday had just given way to Sunday when the gathering – equal parts euphoric and solemn – took place.The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team had just completed its triumphant bus ride from Milwaukee, where it had won the NCAA title, to the Bob Johnson Hockey Complex at the Dane County Coliseum.

If you are a season ticket-holder for University of Wisconsin football games, you have a variety of options to buy and sell them if you like.

Usually, big-time TV sports work off a de facto depth chart for announcers ââ?¬â? with the big-name veterans at the top of the charts working the biggest games.But Fox, which this season has no regular-season college football but will inherit four of the five Bowl Championship Series games, doesn’t have starters or backups.

Madison – Add another name to the list of University of Wisconsin football players sidelined by injury in pre-season camp.

On Sept. 2 against Bowling Green at Browns Stadium, Bret Bielema will begin the taxing job of following a legend. But in what should work to his benefit, Bielema is hardly a clone of his celebrated mentors, Barry Alvarez, Hayden Fry and Bill Snyder. Bielema seems to be his own man, one smart enough to blend certain elements of his successful tutelage into the established program without allowing the giants of his past to overwhelm his style.

University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has officially joined the stable of TV color analysts for college football bowl season. He signed his contract with Fox Sports last week.

Fox will air four of the five BCS bowl games, the lone exception being the Rose Bowl, which still belongs to ABC.

A friendly heads-up here: You are about to be temporarily confused by details.

The University of Wisconsin has retired the uniform numbers of four football players over the years: Alan Ameche, Elroy Hirsch, Dave Schreiner and Allan Schafer.

In an effort to continue celebrating the history of the University of Wisconsin football program, UW officials plan to unveil the names of four former players, including one who gave his life while playing the game he loved, on the fa�§ade of the upper deck at Camp Randall Stadium.

The Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team has become an attractive commodity for ESPN and CBS, but not as attractive as the blue bloods of the Big Ten.

Former Kansas State quarterback Allan Evridge didn’t need to hear a brash sales pitch from Bret Bielema to choose his future home.

The University of Wisconsin campus, the UW program and its renovated facilities and his respect for Bielema from their brief relationship during the first round of recruiting several years ago convinced Evridge he wanted to play football for UW.

For Marcus Landry and Greg Stiemsma, this will be a much-needed vacation.

The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team leaves Thursday for a 10-day tour of Italy that will include a visit to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and to Michelangelo’s David.

Rome and Florence are lovely at any time of year but it’s the five exhibition games the Badgers are scheduled to play that have Landry and Stiemsma excited. The two, who are expected to be key players for the team next season, haven’t played a game or traveled with their teammates since January, when both were declared academically ineligible for the second semester.

My friends, we have a dilemma: There are too many things to do in Cleveland over the Labor Day weekend.

That is the way my e-mail to two dozen people began this month, in response to questions about what we’ll do to pass the time during a group outing.

We are heading to Ohio to watch Wisconsin play Bowling Green at Cleveland Browns Stadium, but college football isn’t the only lure.

University of Wisconsin senior quarterback John Stocco underwent knee surgery Friday and his status for the first part of the football season is uncertain.

As your toddler settles down in front of the television, Bucky Badger strides into the middle of the screen amid the warm sounds of a piano concerto.

It appears that University of Wisconsin basketball players Marcus Landry and Greg Stiemsma have officially regained their athletic eligibility.

How does a retiring U.S. Marshal become the equipment manager for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team? In Steve Castelletti’s case, it’s about following his passion.

By day, Castelletti tracked fugitives – in his words, “not very nice people.” By night, he was an equipment manager. After accepting a position with the Badgers, he’ll do the latter full time.

Marcus Randle El talks a good game.

“I think I’m growing up as a leader,” he said. Now the University of Wisconsin junior must prove it.