Previously, a college football media guide could be as long as the imagination of a sports information director or as fat as the school’s budget. But the NCAA figured the ever-expanding books were becoming an out-of-control recruiting tool. So as a cost-cutting measure this year it limited the pages to 208.
Public power and wastewater treatment plants throughout Wisconsin will remain state-owned and operated as a result of Gov. Jim Doyle�s veto of a controversial budget item calling for the privatization of such facilities.
Federal funds for academic research rose by 13.1 percent in 2003, the second straight year of double-digit increases, the National Science Foundation reported on Wednesday. The growth, coupled with a continuing drop in funds from industry, fueled an increase in the federal share of academic-research money to nearly 62 percent, its highest level since 1985.
If the state budget gets signed into law without revision, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard says the blow to his budget would strike his campus like a hurricane.
Shepard took his hurricane analogy to the UW Board of Regents at its July 7 meeting where a systemwide tuition increase was approved, resulting in a $140 tuition increase at UW-Green Bay beginning in the fall.
Dear Editor: Last week, Gov. Jim Doyle called former UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows’ new position within the UW System “wasteful” and “nonsense.”
Attorneys for professional school students at the University of California filed suit Tuesday challenging a plan by university officials to dramatically boost tuition fees.
Madison, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers announced Wednesday they have received a $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue research on protein structure.
Quoted: Dr. Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: David Kreling, a professor at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.539-billion as of June 8 (increase of $38.7-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
Soaring university tuition is reducing access and especially hurting middle class families, students told the Board of Regents today.
The comments came as regents prepared to act on a proposed 6.9 percent resident tuition increase in the University of Wisconsin’s 2005-06 budget. The proposal would boost in-state undergraduate tuition by $364 to $5,618 for two semesters. That’s 59.7 percent higher than in 2000-01.
Written by Merri Lindgren, librarian in the School of Education.
There are many well known features unique to Wisconsin, but there are also many that are not well known. One example is the Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker Program.
College officials are divided over the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week that commercial producers of file-sharing software can be sued for copyright infringement. The software has been wildly popular among college students, who use it to download songs and movies — usually in violation of copyright law.
Madison – Salt Lake City was good to the Wisconsin Badgers once before. Maybe it will be good to Mike Wilkinson, too.
Pending approval, coaches at the University of Wisconsin will receive nearly $500,000 in bonuses for exceptional achievements during the 2004-05 school year.
UW athletic director/football coach Barry Alvarez topped the list with a scheduled bonus of $156,000. Eleven other coaches are scheduled to be paid five-figure bonuses above and beyond their base salaries.
Madison – Karen Gallagher abruptly resigned as the University of Wisconsin’s softball coach Friday after 11 years on the job.
Building a program from scratch, the former California assistant had a 271-268-2 record at Wisconsin that included a Big Ten mark of 85-121. She coached 15 All-Big Ten players and one All-American, pitcher Andrea Kirchberg in 2000.
Enough has changed since the last time Madison hosted a NCAA hockey regional to merit giving the University of Wisconsin another chance at it. That’s the word from the NCAA, which announced Thursday that the 2008 Midwest Regional would take place at the Kohl Center.
It will be the first NCAA hockey postseason event in Madison since a regional in 1999 drew only 5,234 fans over two days to the Alliant Energy Center. The Badgers didn’t qualify for the tournament that season.
UW WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Minnesota guard commits
Senior-to-be Sarah Ingison says playing defense is “my favorite.”
Jon Masson Wisconsin State Journal
June 23, 2005
When Sarah Ingison orally committed to the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, the Badgers landed a 5-foot-8 point guard who plays tenacious defense and likes an up-tempo offensive style.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Marcus Randle El entered a guilty plea to disorderly conduct today but was sent to the first offender program and the charge against him could be dismissed if he successfully completes that program.
Randle El, 19, was charged with disorderly conduct last March after a shoving match with his girlfriend in Ogg Hall on the UW campus, and as a result was forced to sit out the first half of the Badger football team’s spring practice.
UW NOTES: Kohl Center awaits word on men’s hockey regional bid
Andy Baggot Wisconsin State Journal
June 23, 2005
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is always in the market for NCAA tournament assignments, especially when they involve the Kohl Center.
UW officials will learn today if a men’s hockey regional will be added to a resume that already includes an NCAA Final Four for women’s volleyball (1998) and a men’s basketball regional (2002).
Madison – If you’re an average Joe hoping to buy a seat to a University of Wisconsin football game this season, bypass the UW ticket office and head straight to the nearest ticket broker.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin student-athletes Carla MacLeod of womenââ?¬â?¢s hockey and Jim Leonhard of football have been awarded the Medal of Honor by the Big Ten, the Conference announced recently. (Athletic Communications.)
University of Wisconsin football fans did something unprecedented last year when they purchased every available ticket at Camp Randall Stadium in advance of the 2004 season.
Now they’re are at it again.
For the first time in school history, there will not be a public sale of single-game football tickets because Badgers season ticket-holders have bought them all.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing and Promotions Kevin Kluender was named the Big Tenââ?¬â?¢s Marketing Director of the Year, the conference announced recently. (Athletic Communications.)
The man and woman are in their 80s. After 57 years of marriage, they decided that’s long enough.
They agreed to evenly divide nearly everything accumulated in a lifetime together, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, savings and insurance policies.
The Badgers’ season opener against Bowling Green at Camp Randall Stadium will be played Sept. 3 at 11 a.m. and will be televised on ESPN. Wisconsin’s home game against Temple on Sept. 10 will be played at 11 a.m. and broadcast on ESPN Plus and ESPNU.
A medical exam Wednesday showed a slight break in the surgically repaired left foot of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball recruit Joe Krabbenhoft, a source said.
Krabbenhoft apparently suffered the injury recently and was not allowed to participate in the first day of unsupervised workouts Monday following an evaluation by UW basketball trainer Henry Perez-Guerra.
The startling number was lobbed onto the conversational table, then quickly buried under a slew of other data.
During a presentation to members of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board in late April, UW assistant athletic director Marija Neubauer gave a detailed demographic breakdown of donors to the Badger Fund, the primary fundraising arm for UW Athletics.
If a Mount Rushmore for each of the state’s major sports teams was carved on, say, the Baraboo Range, what faces would be set in stone? Some are easy, some are hard, but the resulting mountainsides might look like this:
University of Wisconsin football: Alan Ameche, Ron Dayne, Pat Richter, Elroy Hirsch.
Ameche and Dayne, who left UW with the Heisman Trophy and college football’s career rushing record, are locks. Hirsch and Richter were stars on teams that came within a touchdown of winning the national championship. Some would argue that Hirsch wasn’t even the best player on the 1942 team (Dave Schreiner was), but his later contributions as athletic director and goodwill ambassador were also significant. Just missing the cut was Barry Alvarez, who has coached UW to an unprecedented three Rose Bowls – and won them all.
UW basketball: Walter Meanwell, Devin Harris, Michael Finley, John Kotz.
Meanwell coached UW to eight Big Ten Conference titles, three mythical national titles and became basketball’s most dominant figure in the first 30 years of the 20th century. Led by Harris, UW won back-to- back Big Ten championships, the first such titles in 55 years. Finley was the player most responsible for ending UW’s 47- year absence from the NCAA tournament. Kotz and Gene Englund were equals on UW’s 1941 NCAA championship team, but Kotz was named most outstanding player in the tournament. Don’t be surprised if current coach Bo Ryan cracks this list before he’s through.
In her recent auditions for the United States women’s basketball national teams, Jolene Anderson hasn’t been asked to carry the load the way she does at the University of Wisconsin. But that’s just fine with the sophomore-to-be, whose main goal was simply getting her foot in the door.
Anderson fulfilled that objective Sunday when she was named to the 12-player roster for the U.S. team that will compete at the Under-19 World Championships later this summer.
University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley will miss the first two practices of football training camp for his involvement in a fistfight at the Mifflin Street Block Party.
An anonymous university appeals committee ruled Friday that Stanley must sit out the Aug. 10-11 practice sessions. The group may alter Stanley’s suspension if additional information comes to light.
When organizing any kind of new get-together where thousands of people will be involved, one of your first thoughts best be about worst-case scenarios.
Better yet, your first two or three planning meetings should be devoted to all the things that could go awry.
Here are a couple of concerns where the inaugural Frozen Tundra Classic — the men’s hockey game pitting the University of Wisconsin vs. Ohio State at Lambeau Field in Green Bay — is concerned:
* What if the game-day weather conditions at 3p.m. Saturday, Feb.11 — the dead-of-winter date chosen for the first outdoor hockey game in the modern era at UW — replicate those of the epic Ice Bowl?
The University of Wisconsin football team will play host to Michigan at either 6 or 6:45 p.m. Sept. 24. The game will be televised by ESPN or ESPN2.
The man and woman are in their 80s. After 57 years of marriage, they decided that’s long enough. They agreed to evenly divide nearly everything accumulated in a lifetime together, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, savings and insurance policies.
When they came into court this week to make it all final, they needed the judge to decide but one issue:
Who gets the four Badgers football season tickets?
University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley will miss the first two on-field practices of pre-season camp as punishment for his arrest April 30 at the Mifflin Street Block Party.
Jolene Anderson made the cut and history. On Sunday the University of Wisconsin guard, who will be a sophomore next season, became the second Badger to make a USA Basketball team when she was one of 12 women selected to represent the United States in the FIBA U19 World Championship next month in Tunisia.
The man and woman are in their 80s. After 57 years of marriage, they decided that’s long enough.
They agreed to evenly divide nearly everything accumulated in a lifetime together, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, savings and insurance policies.
When they came into court this week to make it all final, they needed the judge to decide but one issue:
Who gets the four Badgers football season tickets?
In the middle of February, while football hibernates, the Green Bay Packers plan to convert their 72,000-seat stadium into a 40,000-seat outdoor ice rink and host the hockey teams from the University of Wisconsin and Ohio State in a game dubbed the Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic.
GREEN BAY – It takes a special event to elicit chills more than eight months ahead of its occurrence.
Special is precisely what everyone involved hopes the Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic will be. And with the formal announcement Wednesday of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey game at Lambeau Field, there’s one more thing for college hockey fans to look forward to in the state next season.
GREEN BAY The unveiling of a historic athletic event at Lambeau Field Wednesday generated a series of unusual memories and at least one thinly disguised jab at football fans in Ohio.
They came to life after it was formally announced the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team would host Ohio State in the inaugural Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic Feb. 11 at 3 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is probably at the top of Peter Tegen’s list of greatest composers of classical music; Viennese classical division. Not that you would find Tegen listening to “The Marriage of Figaro” overture in his headset while running.
“I never put a headset on and run,” he said. That’s because Tegen, the former University of Wisconsin women’s track and cross country coach, has something else in mind. “I love to think when I run,” he explained. “I do a lot of thinking, a lot of reviewing.”
Given his many triumphs as a coach-educator, a Tegen review session might be endless.
….Tegen retired last summer. But he has since filed an an age-discrimination lawsuit against the UW. Has there been any reconciliation whatsoever on his part?
“No, not really,” said Tegen, volunteering that he had just returned Tuesday afternoon from a hearing on his case.
MADISON, Wis. – The academic year on campus recently concluded, and weââ?¬â?¢re in the stretch run of the 2004-05 athletic calendar. Yet, as the end of the season is fast approaching our department remains active on a number of fronts. (Athletic Communications.)
One of the worst-kept secrets surrounding the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s 2005-06 schedule will be revealed Wednesday.
The school has called a news conference at Lambeau Field a Feb. 11 game at the historic home of the Green Bay Packers. The Badgers will play Ohio State in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game.
The Madison Sports Hall of Fame will induct four new members in ceremonies tonight at Monona Terrace, among them former Wisconsin women’s cross-country and track and field coach Peter Tegen.
Several others will be honored as well, including former Badger basketball star Mike Wilkinson as Area Sportsperson of the Year.
In his commentary, ââ?¬Å?Lamenting ghost grads,ââ?¬Â Robert Lipsyte shoves out the tired idea that absent from this spring’s college commencement exercises will be football and basketball student-athletes.
Commentary by Wally Renfro, senior adviser to NCAA president Myles Brand.
The last time I wrote about Erik Adams, I might have left you with the impression that he was, in Erik’s words, “a dumb kid that didn’t know what he was doing.”
It was October 2003 and he had just been arrested for streaking across the Camp Randall gridiron during a Badgers football game.
MADISON, Wis. – The UW Athletic Department recently announced that a record number of donors contributed to the Badger Fund in 2004.
MADISON, Wis. – Ninety-seven University of Wisconsin student-athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten for the spring season, the Big Ten Conference announced today.
The advent of a 12th regular-season game for college football in 2006 has the makings of a double-edged sword for the University of Wisconsin.
While another home game at Camp Randall Stadium is worth $2.15 million, filling those open dates is not an easy task. Not only is every other NCAA Division I-A school in the market for viable opponents, UW has additional non-conference holes to fill in its 2007 and ’08 schedules.
Will Ryan took the next logical step toward the collegiate coaching ranks Wednesday when he was named director of basketball operations for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
The advent of a 12th regular-season game for college football in 2006 has the makings of a double-edged sword for the University of Wisconsin.
In filling one position on his staff, University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan opened another. The Badgers coach announced Monday the hiring of his son, Will, as the Badgers’ director of basketball operations. Will Ryan, who played for his father at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Platteville, spent the past two seasons as Wisconsin’s video coordinator.
MADISON, Wis. – With the August 1 deadline for the start of fall football camp coming up fast, work crews are scurrying to make ready the new team dining facilities and all the inside-the-bowl Camp Randall Renovation projects. (Athletic Communications)
MADISON, Wis. – Will Ryan, who has spent the last two seasons as Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s video coordinator for menââ?¬â?¢s basketball, has been hired as the teamââ?¬â?¢s director of basketball operations. (Athletic Communications)
My commencement address ââ?¬â? had I been asked ââ?¬â? would have paid tribute to college athletes. Higher education for them is often a high life on campus but little in the way of an education. Graduates leave with their degrees, while athletes are often left on the sidelines.
In the past 15 years, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department has made its way through two distinct stages of health.
There was 1990, when reality was a $2.1 million budget deficit, a pathetic football program, an antiquated business model and more than $3 million in deferred facilities maintenance.
“They were more in triage mode,” UW deputy athletic director Jamie Pollard said of a time defined by the cutting of five sports and the infusion of new blood, led by athletic director Pat Richter and football coach Barry Alvarez. “They just had to fix things.”
In the past 15 years, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department has made its way through two distinct stages of health.
There was 1990, when reality was a $2.1 million budget deficit, a pathetic football program, an antiquated business model and more than $3 million in deferred facilities maintenance.
A fan may feel a sense of empowerment, as if he has the right to act on his emotions, said Susan Riseling, the chief of police at the University of Wisconsin and co-presenter of the audio conference, “Better Fan Behavior: Interventions That Work.”
“If today’s fans are looking for empowerment, then maybe we should give them some,” she said. “We can encourage them to police themselves and report bad behavior. It may be the best way to reverse the trend.”
College athletes have been noticeably absent from Congressional debates over performance-enhancing drugs. New legislation pending in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, however, could trigger government oversight of drug testing in college sports.
