University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez made some significant changes to his senior staff this week, and there’s another move on the horizon.
Doug Beard will be promoted to senior associate athletic director and Marija Neubauer will be elevated to associate AD for development when the changes take effect Feb. 1.
Madison – Barry Alvarez has been a success as a football coach. Now he has an opportunity to make his mark as a full-time athletic administrator.
Alvarez’s football record is well-known. He has coached three Big Ten Conference and Rose Bowl championship teams over 16 years at UW. He has a 7-3 record in bowls and an overall record of 117-73-4.
Madison – Pat Richter and Ron Vander Kelen gave them a near-miss against top-ranked Southern California in 1963.
Tailbacks Rufus Ferguson and Billy Marek gave them memorable individual performances in the 1970s.
Madison – They are bankers, lawyers, utilities, brewers, broadcasters, insurers, construction companies, former University of Wisconsin athletes, politicians and successful businessmen.
And they all bleed Bucky Badger red.
MADISON – Eleven state lawmakers purchased tickets to sold-out Wisconsin football games this fall through the school’s lobbyist in an arrangement the state Ethics Board says must end, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
Eleven state lawmakers purchased tickets to sold-out Wisconsin football games this fall through the school’s lobbyist in an arrangement the state Ethics Board says must end, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Badger running back Booker Stanley is in the Dane County jail, facing tentative charges that he attacked and strangled a woman.
Stanley’s alleged actions, jeopardize several things, including his chances of playing in the Badgers’ upcoming Capital One Bowl game in Orlando.
The $110 million renovation of Camp Randall Stadium is generating more than $7 million a year in new revenue for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Department.
The major project, completed in August, has been a financial success because so many of Wisconsin businesses bought luxury suites and club seats, said Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director for UW. The project added 72 luxury suites, priced at $50,000 a season, and 900 indoor club seats, priced at $1,500 to $4,500 a season.
University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez revealed on his statewide Thursday night radio show that suspended tailback Booker Stanley will not be practicing with the team and will not make the trip to Orlando, Fla., for the Capital One Bowl between the Badgers and Auburn on Jan. 2.
Less than two weeks before the Capital One Bowl, Badgers running back Booker Stanley was suspended from the football team after an incident at his campus area apartment during which he allegedly choked a 20-year-old woman.
The 22-year-old junior from Milwaukee, who was set to plead Wednesday on four misdemeanor charges stemming from a fight last April, was arrested at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday after a resident in a neighboring apartment called police, Madison Police spokesman Mike Hanson said.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez made some significant changes to his senior staff this week, and there’s another move on the horizon.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, who has lost three members of his management team in the last year, on Thursday announced a realignment plan that is to go into effect Feb. 1.
University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced plans Thursday to realign his senior administrative staff effective Feb. 1, 2006. The announcement included the assignment of new duties to some current senior staff personnel as well as the promotion of Marija Neubauer to the new position of Associate Athletic Director for Development.
The UW-Madison football team could be one running back short at the Capital One Bowl in Florida now that its No. 2 rusher has been jailed again. The arrest also means that Booker Stanley, 22, likely botched a plea agreement for charges for his arrest in April after a fight at the Mifflin Street Block Party.
The image of the University of Wisconsin football program suffered another ugly hit Wednesday when for the second time in less than a week a member of the team was arrested in the wake of a violent incident.
Less than two weeks before the Capital One Bowl, Badgers running back Booker Stanley was suspended from the football team today after an incident at his campus area apartment during which he allegedly choked a 20-year-old woman.
The 22-year-old junior from Milwaukee, who was set to plead today on four misdemeanor charges stemming from a fight last April, was arrested at about 3:30 a.m. after a resident in a neighboring apartment called police, Madison Police spokesman Mike Hanson said.
He was jailed on tentative charges of second-degree reckless endangerment, false imprisonment, intimidation of a victim, all felonies, and two counts of misdemeanor battery.
Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley was suspended from the team Wednesday after being arrested for allegedly choking a woman at his apartment.
Stanley, the Badgers’ top returning rusher this season, could face charges of second-degree reckless endangerment, false imprisonment, two counts of battery and intimidation of a victim, Madison police spokesman Mike Hanson said Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Marcus Randle El has been cleared to return to the team and could play in the Capital One Bowl after he was arrested on a battery charge last weekend.
A school committee decided Tuesday to let Randle El, the brother of Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Antwaan Randle El, start practicing with the team again on Monday.
The Man of the House was reading the morning sports section when he mashed the paper in his lap and yelled for his wife.
“Honey, get in here,” he said. “Hurry.”
A weary figure, carrying an overloaded clothes basket, appeared in the doorway of the adjacent laundry room.
U.S. curling champion Maureen Brunt swept through town Tuesday with many reasons to celebrate.
The Portage native is only weeks away from leaving for Torino, Italy, to compete in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Brunt also is marking two unrelated but important milestones: graduating from college and turning 23.
Under coach Barry Alvarez, the Badgers’ rags-to-riches tale reads like a Hollywood script. If the story ever makes it to the big screen, here are our picks to play the starring roles.
Although UW officials never announced that Badgers football player Marcus Randle El had been suspended for violating the school’s student-athlete discipline policy, they announced Tuesday that his suspension had been modified by an appeals committee.
Randle El, who sat out practice Monday and Tuesday, will be allowed to return to practice on Monday, UW’s first scheduled practice in Orlando, Fla., in preparation for the Jan. 2 Capital One Bowl. Randle El is to miss UW’s final practice on campus, set for Thursday morning.
MADISON, Wis. – While the UW student-athletes take care of finals this week, the women’s basketball team is prepaing for its semester-ending last game with Western Illinois Friday at 7 p.m. in the Kohl Center. The following feature offers a glimpse of what the fans don’t see before the team takes the court. (Athletic Communication.)
Most UW graduates look for a job after college…but one is heading to the Olympics. 23-year-old Maureen Brunt has been curling for 17 years. In February, she’ll head to Turino, to compete in the sport. Brunt says she’s thought only briefly about winning the gold.
First-year data from the NCAA’s new Graduation Success Rate show the UW-Milwaukee’s men’s basketball program had a 28% graduation rate for classes starting from 1995-’98.
The UWM score for men’s basketball was in stark contrast to scores for the men’s basketball programs at the other Division I schools in Wisconsin. UW-Green Bay had the highest GSR for men’s basketball, 91%, followed by Marquette (86%), and Wisconsin (58%).
As of this morning, there was no word on the status of University of Wisconsin receiver Marcus Randle El, who was arrested Friday night on a tentative charge of battery.
Under athletic department rules, players arrested for crimes of violence are suspended automatically, but can appeal for reinstatement to a committee.
Bret Bielema, the football coach in waiting at the University of Wisconsin, will always have one skeleton in his closet in the minds of some fans.
It will be interesting to see how a recent University of Wisconsin Athletic Board evaluation on administrative hiring trends impacts the search for new management staff in the athletic department.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Incoming University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema strongly denied Friday night any talk of an escape clause in his pending contract.
The growing buzz around town and on the Internet in recent days was that Bielema, the Badgers’ defensive coordinator who’ll replace Barry Alvarez after the season, wanted an escape clause allowing him to coach Iowa, where he played collegiately.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Coach Barry Alvarez’s staff is gathering more information about the arrest of Badgers wide receiver Marcus Randle El on a tentative charge of battery, the athletics spokesman said Sunday. His status with the team remained up in the air.
Randle El, the 19-year-old brother of Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Antwaan Randle El, was arrested after allegedly punching another 19-year-old he knew at around 11 p.m. Friday night at his home in Madison over an alleged theft of money, police said.
Wisconsin reserve wide receiver Marcus Randle El was arrested Friday night and faces a tentative charge of battery for his alleged role in a fight in a Madison bar, according to Madison police.
Wisconsin defensive coordinator Bret Bielema acknowledged once more Friday that, yes, the Iowa Hawkeyes mascot (Tiger Hawk) still resides on his left calf in the form of a tattoo.
“I have opted not to have it removed.” said Bielema, who played at Iowa from 1989-’92 and coached there from 1993-2001. “But if it gets to be much more of an issue, maybe we ought to look into that.”
What Bielema insists does not exist is an “escape” clause in his contract that will allow him to bolt UW for Iowa if the Hawkeyes have a head-coaching vacancy. He is less than two months away from replacing Barry Alvarez as UW’s head football coach.
MADISON, Wis. – The sixth annual UW student-athlete Thank-A-Thon held Dec. 5-8 at Camp Randall Stadium was another great success. (Athletic Communications.)
Capital One Bowl officials couldn’t wait for the chance to invite the University of Wisconsin football team and its fans to their game in Orlando, Fla.
But after lackluster ticket sales by UW for the Jan. 2 game against Auburn, bowl officials have to wonder why they spent all those years longing for the Badgers.
Jamie Pollard, who was credited with creating a strong financial foundation in the University of Wisconsin athletic department as it moved into the 21st century, would have been a hard act to follow – but there will be no “next Jamie Pollard.”
Athletic director Barry Alvarez said Wednesday that he will not hire a new deputy AD, and is meeting today with representatives of the chancellor’s office and the athletic board to discuss the next step in the restructuring of his senior staff.
We all hate being taken for granted, but I’m pretty sure we’re guilty of that behavior lately when it comes to those employed as coaches at the University of Wisconsin.
At a time when end zone celebrations in the NFL have reached new levels of creativity or stupidity — depending on one’s perspective — University of Wisconsin junior tailback Brian Calhoun has struck a blow for old-fashioned values.
During Rob Jeter’s first game as coach, an exhbition against UW-Parkside, the UW-Milwaukee coach’s first thought before the game was to make a phone call – to Bo Ryan. That should tell you a lot about the tie between Jeter and Wisconsin coach Ryan. It goes beyond friendship. They’re family.
n just one season at the University of Wisconsin, Brian Calhoun made a case for himself as the best two-way running back in school history, amassing a school-record 26 touchdowns and becoming the second Big Ten Conference player to rack up 1,000 yards rushing and 500 yards receiving.
Brandon Williams had a season to remember, too, capping a steady and productive career with a breakout performance in which he set all-time school records in receptions and kickoff return yards, and proved a worthy successor to Jim Leonhard as a punt returner.
University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Bret Bielema has agreed to a contract for when he takes over as head football coach of the Badgers following the Capital One Bowl, though it probably will not be signed until next week.
The contract was approved by the UW Board of Regents and was reviewed by the Athletic Board in closed session Frida
As fans get ready to cheer on the Badgers at the Capital One Bowl, the state Ethics Board is censuring a UW-Madison lobbyist for offering state legislators a special opportunity to buy tickets for the game.
Bret Bielema is still more than a month away from officially taking over as the University of Wisconsin’s next head football coach, but he moved one step closer to that job title Friday.
The UW Board of Regents announced it had approved a contract for Bielema, who has agreed in principle to a deal which has been in the works since July, when current coach and athletic director Barry Alvarez announced he had hand-picked Bielema to be his successor following the 2005 season.
….Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Alvarez said he used the contract of Arizona coach Mike Stoops as a starting point. Stoops signed a five-year contract with an annual base salary of $650,000 when he took over the Wildcats’ program as a first-time head coach in January of 2004.
University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Bret Bielema has agreed to a contract for when he takes over as head football coach of the Badgers following the Capital One Bowl, though it probably will not be signed until next week.
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin-Madison rescinded an offer Thursday to sell lawmakers tickets to see the Badgers football team play in a Florida bowl game after the state’s ethics watchdog said it may be considered special treatme
Bret Bielema acknowledges that during his few free moments this year he has contemplated the makeup of his first coaching staff when he takes over as Wisconsin’s head coach in 2006.
“I had an idea, a theory, in my mind midway through the season what direction my staff was going to go,” Bielema said after UW’s first bowl practice Friday.
Whether Bielema’s original blueprint will remain intact remains a mystery to most outside the program. UW’s second-year defensive coordinator has declined to comment publicly on any candidates and on which of UW’s current assistants will be retained.
Many may remember Trey Schwab from when he coached the Marquette men’s basketball team for four years.
He was also a patient in need of a double lung transplant.
Time was ticking. But in February doctors found a match and he had the surgery.
It only happens a few times a year – 2 games at the Kohl Center in 1 day.
That left crews racing against time to convert a basketball court to a hockey rink.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison lobbyist who was ordered to stop selling Capital One Bowl tickets to state legislators has been in the habit of selling tickets to lawmakers for a variety of university sporting events, including sold-out games, Roth Judd, director of the state Ethics Board, said Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison rescinded an offer Thursday to sell lawmakers tickets to see the Badgers football team play in a Florida bowl game after the state’s ethics watchdog said it may be considered special treatment.
….Jay Heck of Common Cause in Wisconsin, a government watchdog group, said he was “dismayed that the university and its lobbyist didn’t realize that this offer might fly in the face of our ethics law.” He said allowing lawmakers to avoid the $20 processing fee clearly represented special treatment.
Someone needs to come up with a slogan for the UW- Whitewater sports teams.
With national titles in baseball and women’s volleyball and its undefeated football team preparing to play Wesley College (Del.) in the NCAA Division III semifinals Saturday at Perkins Stadium in Whitewater, all that’s missing is something catchy to capture what has been a fabulous calendar year for the school’s athletic programs.
University of Wisconsin-Madison rescinded an offer Thursday to sell lawmakers tickets to see the Badgers football team play in the Capital One Bowl after the state’s ethics watchdog said it may be considered special treatment.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison lobbyist who offered legislators the opportunity to purchase tickets to the Capital One Bowl game through the chancellor’s office was forced to rescind his offer Thursday after the state Ethics Board said it was unethical.
Many University of Wisconsin studentsââ?¬â?¢ most exciting college memories involve cheering in the stands with thousands of other Badger fans during sporting events, from football to basketball to hockey. For athletes, memories consist of actually being on the field, or on the court or in the rink ââ?¬â? and going to class, studying for finals and having a social life.
The University of Wisconsin will have to improve the academic standings of its student-athletes or it will face NCAA repercussions, according to a report released by the University of Central Florida earlier this week.
Mike Kelley and Brian Wardle went one-on-one Wednesday night at the Kohl Center. Again. Only this time they weren’t in competitive overdrive like they were during their collegiate playing days, when the University of Wisconsin defensive stopper (Kelley) used to draw the assignment of holding down the Marquette offensive sniper (Wardle).
Bucky Badger vs. Pope John Paul II? It’s a slam dunk for hoops fans and very late night viewing for put-off pontiff buffs.
Wednesday night’s University of Wisconsin men’s basketball game will pre-empt the second part of the CBS miniseries “Pope John Paul II” on WISC-TV/Channel 3, prompting irate phone calls and e-mails to station management from viewers of the first part of the biopic Sunday night, who don’t want to stay up until 1 a.m. Thursday morning to see Jon Voight as the late pontiff John Paul II.
The Big Ten can cry about being shut out of college football’s national championship picture … all the way to the bank. With Penn State and Ohio State in the top-tier Bowl Championship Series and five other teams landing bowl berths, the conference is projected to pocket a record $35 million this postseason ââ?¬â? an average of a little more than $3 million per school.
UW-Madison senior Bobby Lockhart, a member of Wisconsin�s men�s cross country and track teams, will be in Dane County Circuit Court today facing charges of substantial battery with intended bodily harm, a felony, and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.
The state of Wisconsin charged University of Wisconsin senior Bobby Lockhart with one felony count of substantial battery with the intent to do bodily harm Monday.
University of Wisconsin left tackle Joe Thomas has two main criteria when it comes to playing in a bowl game.
While it’s nice to go some place warm, or to a place he has not been before, it mostly comes down to playing in the best possible bowl against the best possible team.
