MADISON, Wis. — Rowdy behavior at University of Wisconsin sporting events could lead to season-ticket holders losing their seats, according to a new policy passed by the UW Athletic Board.
Dear Editor: I just read Rob Schultz’s story, “UW men’s basketball: Loopholes may allow game vs. Seminoles,” and am wondering if/when the University of Wisconsin is ever going to rescind that incredibly silly policy about nicknames.
“Florida State’s nickname is the Seminoles,” Mr. Schultz wrote, “and there is a school policy preventing UW athletic teams from playing another school out of conference that has a nickname offensive to American Indians.”
The next time you think you’ll sell or even hand over a Badger ticket to a friend, you might want to think twice. UW-Madison’s athletic board on Friday passed a policy that would let the school revoke season tickets for fans who are arrested.
Citing an ineffective and cumbersome student-athlete discipline policy, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board voted unanimously Friday to approve a revised policy that it believes will be fairer and easier to understand.
That revised policy, which Athletic Board chairman Walter Dickey said will be implemented immediately, narrows the number of disciplinary committee members from six to four. It also gives that committee a more flexible range of measures to discipline student-athletes.
At the conclusion of an otherwise nondescript spring football practice last month, first-year head coach Bret Bielema ordered the University of Wisconsin players to run a series of sprints in Camp Randall Stadium, from sideline to sideline.
Bielema acknowledged afterward that the sprints were a form of punishment for several players’ poor “off-field” performance, presumably in the classroom.
On Thursday, Bielema sent an even stronger message by announcing that he had suspended defensive end Jamal Cooper for the season opener Sept. 2 against Bowling Green.
A warrant was issued Wednesday for the arrest of former University of Wisconsin basketball player Roy Boone for allegedly slapping his girlfriend during a dispute in September.
The incident left the woman with scratch marks and a bloody nose, according to court documents. The warrant charges Boone with misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct.
….During the 1999-2000 season with the Badgers, Boone was put on probation after arrests for theft and disorderly conduct.
There are certain landmark opportunities in every career path. For an American hockey coach, directing the United States in the Olympics usually ranks high on the list.
It’s impossible to tell whether the temp job Mike Eaves is about to embark upon is a step toward that opportunity, but it would at least seem to indicate his prominence on the list of potential candidates down the road.
Excessive drunkenness at Badger football games could lead to more than just a boot out of Camp Randall depending on a vote from the University of Wisconsin athletic board tomorrow.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association denied final appeals from three universities seeking to continue using American Indian mascots and team nicknames regarded as ââ?¬Å?hostile and abusiveââ?¬Â Friday.
GEORGE ROONEY, who died at 90 over the weekend in Ohio, had a full life that included three years playing basketball for the University of Wisconsin in the late 1930s.
Rooney, who was born in Appleton, served as the Badgers captain – he also made All Big Ten – and it upset him his senior year in 1938 when the UW freshmen team beat the varsity. By 1941, Rooney could feel a little better about that loss. Those freshmen were now the varsity and they won the Badgers’ first and only NCAA basketball championship.
Through his life, Rooney never stopped following the fortunes of the Badgers….
University of Wisconsin defensive end Joe Monty, who was seriously injured in a moped accident last week, was released from the UW Hospital and Clinics on Tuesday afternoon.
Julie Bright and David Harris are the newest members of the Iowa State athletics administration.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is losing another member of his senior staff to Iowa State.
David Harris, the UW’s director of academic services since 2002, is moving west to become Iowa State’s senior associate athletics director for student services and the administrator for the Cyclones’ football team.
Joe Monty, a starting defensive end for the Wisconsin Badgers football team and UW-Madison senior, suffered serious facial injuries after a motor-vehicle accident early Friday. Monty had allegedly been drinking beforehand.
University of Wisconsin football player Joe Monty suffered lacerations and fractures after crashing his moped into another vehicle early Friday morning.
Joe Monty, a starting defensive end for the University of Wisconsinfootball team, suffered serious facial injuries in a motor vehicle accidentearly Friday.
Runners and walkers found cloudy skies this morning, but they still showed up with bright smiles at the 25th annual Crazylegs Classic. It’s named in honor of pro-football hall of famer Elroy Hirsch, but this year, one group’s also honoring a loyal fan of the event by spreading an important message.
The University of Wisconsin football program nearly lost one of its members Friday morning when senior Joe Monty suffered serious facial injuries in a motor vehicle accident on campus.
Brian Calhoun tried to remain patient and optimistic. Yet waiting for nearly eight hours to hear your name called in the National Football League draft can test the patience of anyone.
“Obviously it was an all-day wait,” Calhoun said by phone from his parents’ home in Oak Creek after being taken by the Detroit Lions with the 10th pick of the third round. “I was up early, couldn’t sleep much last night. I had to wait patiently, but finally in the third round Detroit decided to pull the trigger.”
In the National Football League draft this year, scouts put the biggest premium on the University of Wisconsin’s prospects at the skill positions. For the first time since 1998, no Badgers defensive player or offensive lineman was selected in the draft.
Curt Mueller, the chief executive officer of Mueller Sports Medicine in Prairie du Sac and a former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball player, has pledged a $1 million gift to his alma mater.
The gift comes jointly from the Mueller family, including Brett Mueller, the company’s president; Ginger Mueller-Mann, a vice president; and Jeff Mueller, a regional salesman.
Mueller has designated $700,000 to the athletic department, of which $500,000 was designated for the Camp Randall Stadium renovation project. Another $125,000 will go to the Heritage Hall project, a multi-purpose area that will be used for team banquets, alumni receptions and recruiting visits.
Joe Monty, a starting defensive end for the University of Wisconsin football team, sustained facial fractures and other injuries early today when he slammed into the back of a car with his moped.
Monty, a fifth-year senior from Fort Collins, Colo., sustained “numerous facial fractures,” head trauma and lacerations to his face and legs, according to Madison police spokesman Mike Hanson. His injuries were not considered life-threatening, Hanson said.
….It appeared Monty had been drinking before the crash and will likely face a drunken driving citation, Hanson said.
The Crazylegs Classic has become a rite of spring in the Madison area that belongs with the blooming of tulips and daffodils in our yards and algae in our lakes, the Mifflin Street block party just off campus and road construction everywhere else.
“The event has grown in reputation and stature,” said Jim Bradley, the race director of the Classic, which will be held for the 25th time Saturday. “At this point it’s just one of those things you do in the spring in our community.” The Classic can thank Bradley and some others for that.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Gino Cruse entered a no-contest plea today to a reduced charge of criminal damage to property and was fined $100.
Cruse, 20, a sophomore defensive lineman from Phoenix, Ariz., was kicked off the football team earlier this month by new head coach Bret Bielema.
College football’s expansive bowl lineup will grow next season ââ?¬â? by three games and possibly four, including the first staged outside the USA in 70 years.
No one was more surprised at the success of the Crazylegs Classic than the race’s namesake.
Who would have believed the race, dreamed up by three running buddies over beers at the old Charley’s Cafe a quarter- century ago as a way to raise money for the UW Athletic Department, would become a springtime institution in Madison?
University of Wisconsin fans hoping to see the Badgers men�s basketball team play a school other than Wake Forest or Maryland in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge will get their wish next season.
Badgers coach Bo Ryan told fans at the teamââ?¬â?¢s reception Wednesday night that UW’s opponent for the eighth annual event will be Florida State.
Gino Cruse and Antonio Freeman, each cited recently for marijuana offenses, have been dismissed from the University of Wisconsin football team, continuing a house cleaning by first-year coach Bret Bielema.
The moves were announced in a statement that accompanied the release of the Badgers’ two-deep roster. The release of Cruse and Freeman, who were expected to be reserves next season, means three players have been booted from the program by Bielema.
If the University of Wisconsin opened the 2006 football season today, freshman P.J. Hill would be the Badgers’ starting tailback. Meanwhile, coach Bret Bielema announced that reserve cornerback Antonio Freeman and reserve defensive tackle Gino Cruse would not return.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Defensive tackle Gino Cruse and cornerback Antonio Freeman, both sophomores-to-be, will not return to the University of Wisconsin football team, head coach Bret Bielema announced in a press release Tuesday afternoon.
Tailback Booker Stanley, who was kicked off the University of Wisconsin football team in February, and cornerback Antonio Freeman, who was suspended indefinitely from the team in January, have inquired about transferring to UW-Whitewater, which reached the Division III national title game last season.
A proposed UW-Madison plan to revoke season tickets from unruly fans may affect the way students buy and sell tickets. At the crux of the issue is the stipulation that season ticket holders are responsible for the actions of any person who occupies their seat.
It was just after midnight when two friends walked into the hotel lobby and came across a major reason, heretofore unheralded, why the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team won the NCAA title.
WHITEWATER, Wis. A cornerback for Wisconsin’s football team has inquired about transferring to U-W-Whitewater.
Antonio Freeman was suspended indefinitely from the Badgers team in January after he was charged with possession of marijuana in Jefferson County.
I HOPE the UW athletic department goes ahead with its tentative plan to permanently bounce rowdy drunks from Camp Randall Stadium.
For some fans the stadium on football Saturdays is simply a large outdoor tavern, and there is a long tradition of taverns banning people who can’t hold their booze from the premises.
….There is one aspect of the athletic department’s plan that may require some tweaking….
In many important respects, the Bret Bielema Era has already begun. The new University of Wisconsin football coach has brought in his first class of recruits, hired his first staff of assistant coaches, replaced one of those assistants, dumped his first miscreant and brought his 30-something tastes in decor to an office whose previous occupant is pushing 60.
Remember the good-old days? You know, that time when the UW football team’s annual spring game and the Crazylegs Classic run/walk were held on the same day?
It’s hard to believe, but this will be the sixth straight year that the two events will be held on separate days.
For nearly two decades, the events were linked and signaled the unofficial start of spring in Madison as thousands would converge on the UW campus and downtown areas for a full day of fun in the sun. Now, well, it just isn’t the same.
It’ll be practice as usual for the U.W. men’s soccer team Monday, except for one detail. It will be held at two in the morning, at Librar
Madison: At every Badger home football game more than 60 fans are ejected for poor behavior such as underage drinking, throwing items, fighting or public urination.
A week from today, Paul Chryst was reminded, will mark 20 years.
“I would have never guessed that if someone had asked,” the University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator responded. “It really doesn’t feel like 20 years.”
A week from today — April 28 — will serve as a sad reminder to many of that Monday afternoon 20 years ago when the Badger football program took a devastating hit.
A two-strikes-and-you’re-out policy for drunk, obnoxious and disruptive ticket holders at University of Wisconsin athletic events took a step toward becoming reality Wednesday afternoon.
The UW Athletic Board’s facilities committee unanimously approved a new athletic department policy that will revoke season tickets from anyone who engages in unruly or illegal conduct at UW events.
In addition, the policy will hold season-ticket holders responsible not only for their own conduct but the conduct of all others who use their tickets to gain admission to athletic events.
A new policy under consideration by the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department could send misbehaving fans packing.
Akiya Alexander was granted a request to transfer by the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team and will join NCAA Division II Southern Indiana next season.
The 5-foot-9 sophomore point guard from Evanston, Ill., was academically ineligible during the second semester of the 2005-06 season. Alexander averaged 4.4 points and 17.3 minutes per game and had one start in 13 games with the Badgers.
Alexander informed UW coach Lisa Stone of her intentions on Wednesday and the compliance office approved the request today.
The UW Athletic Department is considering a policy that would sanction season ticket holders involved in unruly or illegal behavior at all its campus sports facilities.
The warning and revocation process, endorsed Wednesday by members of the UW Athletic Board’s facilities and operations committee, would affect season ticket holders on two fronts.
Four miles into the 1967 Boston Marathon, a race official realized a woman was runningââ?¬â?unheard of only because women were not allowed to enter the race. The official physically tried to stop Kathrine Switzer, grabbing at her race number.
MADISON, Wis. — Tryouts to become the next Bucky Badger are this week, and many UW hopefuls are finding that becoming the famous mascot is no easy task.Tryouts are being held at the UW Field House this week. Seventeen students showed up to battle it out for the honor of playing Bucky.
Now that Barry Alvarez has become a certified hockey groupie, it will be interesting to see if he uses his position as University of Wisconsin athletic director to enhance the experience for all involved.
….Although much of the red-sweater crowd was glued to the TV during the Badgers’ thrilling, 2-1 win over Boston College in last Saturday’s NCAA Frozen Four title game, it’s somewhat surprising to learn how few nationally took the time to tune in.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the BC-UW game had a national television rating of just 0.5 – which means there were approximately 746,000 viewers.
Granted, three-quarters of a million people is nothing to sneeze at. But as a comparison, the April 3 NCAA men’s basketball final on CBS had an 8.2 rating – which translates to 13.1 million viewers.
When Bob Rennebohm traveled to Fort Atkinson last April to pay his final respects to longtime friend and former University of Wisconsin teammate Fred Negus, it was clear age had taken its toll.
Rennebohm, 82 at the time, moved hesitantly, spoke softly and appeared almost fragile. On Saturday, Rennebohm passed away at his home in Madison. He was 83.
Robbie Earl called it “pretty much a disaster” when he fell to the sixth round of the 2004 NHL entry draft. Today, the teams that kept passing on the speedy winger that weekend almost two years ago might be thinking the same thing about their decisions.
Earl told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., he would sign today with the Toronto Maple Leafs and forgo his senior season with the University of Wisconsin.
Junior winger Robbie Earl, who last week helped the University of Wisconsin win its sixth NCAA men’s hockey championship and was named most outstanding player in the Frozen Four, is mulling a contract offer from the Toronto Maple Leafs and could turn pro within days.
Two weeks before Mike Eaves guided the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team to the NCAA title he got a cold call from a long-time NHL acquaintance, asking an intriguing question.
Would Eaves consider another coaching job?
Four days after guiding the Wisconsin men’s hockey team to the NCAA championship, Mike Eaves was named head coach of the U.S. national team by USA Hockey.
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Eaves will coach the United States at the International Ice Hockey Federation Men’s World Championship from May 5-21 in Riga, Latvia.
USA Hockey is turning to one of its most successful coaches, and Mike Eaves has a chance to win a second major championship in a span of less than two months.
Eaves, the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach who won the national championship last Saturday, was tabbed today as the head coach for Team USA at the IIHF World Championships next month in Riga, Latvia. There, he’ll try to bring that tournament’s gold medal stateside for the first time in non-Olympic competition since 1933.
Badger fever is headed for Eau Claire in June, but some Eau Claire City Council members wonder if the event will mix well with the city.� The UW-Madison Athletic Department is planning a Badger tailgate party in Carson Park.
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team will travel to Italy for an exhibition tour Aug. 17-27. The tour will feature five games against Italian pro teams in Rome, Florence and Lake Como.
Madison – To ensure he savored every moment of Wisconsin’s sixth NCAA men’s hockey championship, Mike Eaves didn’t leave the Bradley Center ice until he looked into the eyes of each of his players and shared an intimate bond outsiders can’t truly understand.
If you choose to measure a team by how it reacts in its worst hours, 20 minutes in a locker room in Mankato, Minn., start that tale for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team.
The Sunday afternoon rally drew nearly 5,000 fans to the Field House where they gathered to honor the national champions, the 1977 University of Wisconsin hockey team. The individual player introductions were handled by the tri-captains: Steve Alley, John Taft and Mike Eaves. A teary-eyed Elroy Hirsch, the UW athletic director, led the crowd in the singing of varsity, capping the festivities. An emotionally drained Eaves confided afterward, “I’m still trying to unwind, it’s going to take a long time to come down.
MILWAUKEE – He arrived at the University of Wisconsin with bold promises that invited scrutiny and pressure.He took a hard line with players from the start, chasing off several he didn’t want in his program and recruiting over many of the rest.
