Q. When and how did the “Jump Around” tradition start in the Camp Randall student section?
A. House of Pain’s “Jump Around” was first played on Sept. 10, 1998, when the Badgers defeated Drew Brees and Purdue 31-24. The easy-to-coordinate dance caught on among students, and was particularly helpful at warming students’ frozen legs later in the season. Why “Jump Around”? Well, why anything? Don’t expect the student section to make sense.
A member of the national championship University of Wisconsin cross country team faces a felony battery charge after allegedly smashing a wine glass on his girlfriend’s nose.
Robert “Bobby” L. Lockhart, 22, also faces a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge in the Nov. 23 incident, which happened during a party shortly after 1:30 a.m. at a downtown apartment.
Lockhart, who has been suspended from the cross country and track teams for violating the university’s student-athlete discipline policy, was released Monday on a signature bond during a short initial court appearance.
Forty-one percent of the college football teams headed to bowl games this year have failed to meet new academic standards set by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to an annual report released on Monday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.
Wisconsin senior Bobby Lockhart, a member of the men’s cross country and track teams, has been suspended indefinitely after violating the school’s student-athlete discipline policy, UW announced Monday.
The Badgers are Bowling.
Wisconsin will take on Auburn in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando on January second.
Of course the news means many Badger fans are already inquiring about trip costs.
Kids are used to leaving cookies for Santa, but three UW-Madison bands are looking for earlier holiday help for the hungry. The roughly 320 students in the three University Bands, along with service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, ask audience members to bring donations of non-perishable food to their Sunday concert for the Second Harvest food bank.
The Wisconsin Badgers (9-3) accepted an offer to play the Auburn Tigers (9-2) in this year�s Capital One Bowl game in Orlando, Fla. Jan. 2. This will be the 11th bowl appearance for the Badgers under head coach Barry Alvarez, but it will mark their debut in the Capital One Bowl.
Associate Athletic Director for Communications Steve Malchow, who has worked at the University of Wisconsin for 16 years, will leave Madison next semester. He will serve as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Iowa State University.
Joe Thomas figures he has the forecast for Jan. 2 in Orlando, Fla., nailed: Plenty of sunshine. Balmy temperatures that don’t include a wind chill index and don’t call for long sleeves or long johns. And, most important, an easy victory for Auburn over Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl.
“I love being the underdog,” UW’s junior offensive tackle said Sunday at the Kohl Center after learning the Badgers’ bowl match-up, set for noon Milwaukee time on ABC-TV. “That’s kind of the way our whole season has gone.”
MADISON, Wis. — A member of the University of Wisconsin’s national champion cross-country team will be in court on Monday morning facing felony assault charges. Bobby Lockhart was arrested last month, WISC-TV reported.
CHICAGO – Chanda Gunn was a freshman goalie at Wisconsin when epilepsy began to take over her life.
She was far from her home in suburban Los Angeles, trying to adjust to college life and college sports, confused by the sudden ineffectiveness of medicine she took to control her seizures.
The New York Times last Sunday printed an expose on a “high school” that turns athletes with poor grades into players with academic records good enough to qualify for a college scholarship.
The school is University High School in Miami, which has no educational accreditation and no classes, but athletes who are struggling at their regular schools are able to take correspondence courses from it which, in turn, are recognized by major colleges for scholarships.
….The NCAA, not surprisingly, is oblivious.
“We’re not the educational accreditation police,” the NCAA’s managing director for membership services told the newspaper.
Brian White confirmed Monday that he will not be a member of incoming coach Bret Bielema’s football staff at the University of Wisconsin, and that he will interview Wednesday for the vacant head coaching job at Temple.
After meeting with Wisconsin’s assistants Monday to inform them whether they will be retained after this season, Bret Bielema remains optimistic UW’s staff will remain intact through the Badgers’ bowl game.
Ames, Ia. ââ?¬â? When Jamie Brown Pollard was growing up in Oshkosh, Wis., he spent many days working at the auto body shop owned by his father, George. As his mother, Mary, handled the financial books close by, Jamie soaked up the experience, “though I still can’t change my own oil.”
By the end of his junior year at Miami Killian High School, Demetrice Morley flashed the speed, size and talent of a top college football prospect. His classroom performance, however, failed to match his athletic skills.
He received three F’s that year and had a 2.09 grade point average in his core courses, giving him little hope of qualifying for a scholarship under National Collegiate Athletic Association guidelines.
Introducing what should be the new No. 1 men’s hockey team in the country come Monday: your Wisconsin Badgers.
The eyes of Wisconsin are upon the Texas Longhorns.
Barry Alvarez’s football team needed to beat Hawaii and see Ohio State receive one of the two Bowl Championship Series at-large berths so the Badgers could secure an invitation to play in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 2 in Orlando, Fla.
Santa is a Badger fan. Why else would he wear all that red and white? And so it is entirely appropriate to give Badger-booster gifts to Grinches everywhere.
Fan obsession has many outlets – just look at “Star Trek.” And yet my Spock ears are not socially acceptable, but my official UW marching band mesh shorts – with “Eat a Rock” printed on the rump – are. For some reason, taste takes a holiday when it comes to school loyalty. (As one unnamed source told me while researching this article, “You’re telling me! I gotta sell this stuff.”) Still, some Badger booster items are fun, and a lot of it is downright neat.
Short of No. 1 USC or No. 2 Texas getting upset in the final two weekends of college football or Oregon and the Pacific-10 Conference twisting the arms of Fiesta Bowl officials right off, the Big Ten Conference will get two teams — Penn State and Ohio State — into the Bowl Championship Series.
What better time than Thanksgiving, with its Turkey Day football games, to consider football art, oxymoron that it is.
….The Lipski piece came about because of the state’s Percent for Art program, which requires a certain percentage of a state construction budget, a minuscule one-tenth of 1 percent, go to art for the site. Now, that is an admirable idea, and I would like to see it even more fully funded. And it has worked in various places, including at the UW Biochemistry Building and the UW Engineering School.
But this is, well … not what an athletic stadium really needs.
HONOLULU – A little news and a few observations while spending Thanksgiving in this little slice of paradise …
ââ?¬Â¢ Ask 10 people to name a highlight from vacationing here on the island of Oahu, and you could easily get 10 different answers….
� The UW football team is getting plenty of play here in the local newspapers.
Short of No. 1 USC or No. 2 Texas getting upset in the final two weekends of college football or Oregon and the Pacific-10 Conference twisting the arms of Fiesta Bowl officials right off, the Big Ten Conference will get two teams – Penn State and Ohio State – into the Bowl Championship Series.
That, of course, would free the Capital One Bowl to snap up the University of Wisconsin and its caravan of fans, something the people who wear Capital One blazers have always wanted.
Bret Bielema’s top two recruiting priorities going into his first season as coach of the University of Wisconsin football team next year are two juniors currently on the team, tailback Brian Calhoun and left tackle Joe Thomas.
They would probably rank on anybody’s list as the two best players on the team and both will explore their NFL options after the season before deciding if they will return.
Junior tailback Brian Calhoun, junior offensive tackle Joe Thomas and sophomore punter Ken DeBauche were UW’s only first-team picks, given that honor by both the coaches and media on Tuesday.
After three straight years of second-place finishes, the University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team won its first NCAA title since 1988 on Monday.
University of Wisconsin quarterbacks coach Jeff Horton was at a neighborhood party last December, watching the Michigan State-Hawaii game on TV.
The Spartans jumped out to a 21-0 lead and some people thought the game was over, but Horton kept telling everyone to wait.
With several hundred fellow red-clad University of Wisconsin fans on Maui, Terry Murawski said he is often asked which team the Badgers are playing in the EA Sports Maui Invitational.
“When I tell people ‘we’re not here for basketball; we’re here for a football game,’ they go, ‘what?'”
The Badgers overcame a 10-point deficit in the first half and an eight-point deficit in the second half to beat Old Dominion, 84-81, in the championship game of the Paradise Jam Tournament in front of a tournament record crowd of 3,147 at University of the Virgin Islands Sport and Fitness Center on Monday night.
With some modest UW alum connections and $168, I garnered four tickets to a recent UW football game for my brother and our wives. Despite the cold, gray weather, it was a grand spectacle with a capacity crowd in an enormous stadium.
While entering the stadium, I mused that Camp Randall should be renamed Fort Randall, what with its now-imposing concrete walls, menacing fences and gate security officers. I couldn’t even bring in an umbrella. This was in stark contrast to the stadium of my youth.
I wonder if the “Wisconsin Percent for Art” program administrators and the UW might consider a different location for the “Nail’s Tales” sculpture by Donald Lipski. I think that another entrance to Camp Randall, perhaps on the northwest side of the stadium off of Breeze Terrace, would be more appropriate.
I am amazed that a UW philanthropist hasn’t already approached the UW Foundation, UW Alumni Foundation, UW National W Club or UW Athletic Department with a gift for the creation of a more appropriate piece of sculpture for the intersection of Monroe Street and Breese Terrace.
PROPHETSTOWN, Ill. ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin football fans see only a fraction of what makes up Bret Bielema.
They see the defensive coordinator vigilantly patrolling the sidelines ââ?¬â? always decked out in his long-sleeved red jacket, no matter how hot it gets ââ?¬â? relaying instructions to his injury-plagued and largely inexperienced unit.
PROPHETSTOWN, Ill. ââ?¬â? With the yank of pliers, Bret Bielema demonstrated more than just a high tolerance for pain.
The incoming University of Wisconsin head football coach showed a mental toughness and willingness to finish the job that remains ingrained in him today.
I walked up to Donald Lipski’s sculpture and simply started laughing. I was surprised at my own laughter considering how much I had already pondered and considered the design. So the laughter was a delight – that he had pulled off such a piece of sassy, droll, sly and provocative sculpture. A huge pile of footballs towers in the air where you’d expect to find a mighty bronze football hero.
Last winter, while Wisconsin football fans were lamenting the Badgers’ late-season swoon and wondering when the Big Ten Conference title drought would end, UW officials were discreetly preparing for the team’s 2005 regular-season finale at Hawaii.
UW officials requested that Hawaii, a member of the Western Athletic Conference, take steps to ensure that a WAC officiating crew not work the non-conference game.
Somewhere, University of Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez is smiling. So, too, are officials from Florida Citrus Sports, which oversees the Capital One Bowl.
Saturday was a great day for Wisconsin. Sure we lost, and sure it would have been much better to present Coach Barry Alverez with a victory at his last home game in an extraordinary career.
Western Collegiate Hockey Association commissioner Bruce McLeod said he’s disappointed in Adam Burish’s actions, but he won’t add any extra games to the University of Wisconsin hockey captain’s punishment.
Burish is out for Saturday’s WCHA game against Minnesota State because of a game disqualification he received for a hit on Colorado College’s Scott Thauwald at the end of last Saturday’s game. McLeod reviewed video of the incident but, after consulting with league supervisor of officials Greg Shepherd and taking into account past league suspensions, decided Tuesday it did not warrant more on-ice discipline.
Athletic spending at schools playing the top level of college football increased nearly 8% in 2004-05 ââ?¬â? the fourth consecutive year of such increases ââ?¬â? prompting a dire warning from NCAA officials. That means while the Class of 2005 was in college, athletic spending rose by about a third, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal reports.
Amid reams of research on alcohol use on college campuses are two studies focusing on sports. Fans were more likely than non-fans to binge drink and have alcohol-related problems, from missing class or falling behind in schoolwork to vandalism and sexual violence.
An online market place is being established for University of Wisconsin season ticket-holders who want to sell or purchase game tickets.
Corbin Hunt, the UW assistant athletic director for ticket sales, said Wednesday a system that allows Badger Fund members to exchange tickets and forward them electronically to another party, will be up and running today.
A sampling of schools where alcohol-and-athletics issues have simmered in recent years:
The line the University of Colorado walks on alcohol may be one of the most delicate in higher education. On one side is a campus image clouded by party-school rankings, several alcohol-related tragedies, including the death last year of an 18-year-old freshman, and a sex-and-booze recruiting scandal that staggered the Buffaloes’ football program.
On the other side is the locally owned, long-supportive Coors Brewing Co. The Coors name, by virtue of a $5 million gift, is on Colorado’s basketball arena, and family foundation donations to the school have totaled nearly $9.5 million in the last three decades.
To curb abuses, some universities rein in tailgating, sales at games, commercial ties to beermakers. There’ll be no oversized trucks, buses or RVs allowed outside the historic Yale Bowl on Saturday. No drinking games. Pack up your coolers, grills and buffet tables by halftime of the 122nd Harvard-Yale game, please, and head into the stadium ââ?¬Â¦ or head home
AMES, Iowa — Sioux City native Steve Malchow, sports information director at the University of Wisconsin since 1990, has joined the athletic department at Iowa State as senior associate athletics diretor for communications.
ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard announced Malchow’s appointment Monday night.
When things go wrong, a sense of humor can help.
Like when 83,000 people show up to celebrate your last home game as Badger football coach, and your team, um, neglects to win.
“Barry and I have a strong sense of humor,” Cindy Alvarez, the coach’s wife, said Monday. “And when you’re down, like on Saturday, thank God for a sense of humor.”
Division IA college football teams have selected only 19 blacks to the 404 head coaching openings in more than 20 years.
Adam Burish said Monday that he hopes people don’t judge him by the hit at the end of Saturday’s University of Wisconsin hockey game for which he faces the possibility of further suspension.
Burish, the Badgers’ senior captain, already is out for Saturday’s series opener against Minnesota State at the Kohl Center because of his game disqualification penalty for a check on Colorado College’s Scott Thauwald near the final horn.
Madison – John Palermo, in his 11th season as Wisconsin’s defensive line coach and his 15th season overall on the staff, will not return to UW in 2006.
Madison – So how will the Wisconsin players and coaches be rewarded if UW can close the regular season with a non-conference victory on Nov. 25 at Hawaii?
Perhaps with an all-expense-paid trip to Orlando for the Jan. 2 Capital One Bowl.
When Barry Alvarez steps down as University of Wisconsin football coach and becomes full-time athletic director early next year, he will have another major rebuilding job on his hands.
Steve Malchow, the UW associate athletic director for communications, became the third member of Alvarez’s senior staff to leave since August when he accepted a similar job at Iowa State Monday.
Over the course of 16 seasons and 192 games as University of Wisconsin football coach, Barry Alvarez has generated and accumulated countless memories.
The majority of them came to life at Camp Randall Stadium, where Alvarez has won 67 of 101 games (three ended in ties) and sold out the place 69 times going into his final home appearance as UW coach today against Iowa.
The University of Wisconsin football team’s chances of playing in a January bowl game likely will hinge on the Big Ten Conference getting two teams into the Bowl Championship Series.
The only way to appreciate how far the University of Wisconsin football program has come in 16 seasons under coach Barry Alvarez is to know where it was when he got here.
It was invisible. It was nowhere. It was as low as it gets in big-time college football.
MADISON, Wis. — At least the downpour was polite enough to wait until after the tearjerker postgame ceremony. By then Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez had waved goodbye to the stadium he helped fatten, to the fans he helped spoil, and to the family, friends, and former players and teammates who poured into Camp Randall for an emotional group hug.
Dear Editor: I think the Lipski sculpture is great. It will spark imaginations and inspire discussions about art. It might even rally athletic supporters. After all, it does look like something in need of a jock, doesn’t it?
Jeff Berry, Madison
Dear Editor: Nail’s Tales is not a huge stack of footballs as is widely assumed. It is a huge stack of oddballs, goofballs and screwballs. Perfect for the UW-Madison campus.
We need to appoint a committee to review the panel that appointed the committee that commissioned this $200,000 expenditure. Can the “lemon law” be applied here?
Bob Marek, McFarland
In the cold November rain, the reign of Barry Alvarez at Camp Randall Stadium ended with the roar of a capacity crowd, despite a whimper of an effort over the last three quarters of a humbling 20-10 loss to Iowa.
That, if nothing else, is testament to the power of personality that Alvarez has held in this state for the past 16 years. Well, the last 13, anyway, once he delivered the first of three Rose Bowl titles and proved what he had told people since the day he was hired – that there was no reason the University of Wisconsin couldn’t be as successful in football as it was in cross country, or in genetic research, for that matter.
For one of the rare times in his coaching life – spanning the last 16 seasons as the University of Wisconsin football coach – Barry Alvarez didn’t know where he was going. He really didn’t have a plan.
As UW-Madison Football head coach Barry Alvarez�s coaching career comes to an end after 16 solid years, his impact on UW-Madison football will forever remain a legacy.
