MADISON, Wis. – UWBADGERS.COM surpassed its previous annual page view record in March with 32,727,908 million page views from July 1, 2004 through March, 2005. With three months yet remaining in the school year, the record surpasses the 2003-04 total mark of 26,151,279 million.
Madison – Although Temple appears to be the leading candidate to fill the Week 2 opening on the University of Wisconsin’s 2005 football schedule, the Owls remain under contract to play host to North Carolina State that weekend.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball player Howard Moore was named an assistant coach for the Badgers today. Moore, whose interview last week was first reported in The Capital Times, played for the Badgers from 1992-95, and was part of the 1993 NIT team and 1994 NCAA tournament squad.
Gov. Jim Doyle was on hand Friday when UW-Madison held the grand opening of its new 52,000 square foot, $8.56 million Crew House.
The facility features a plethora of new additions that, according to UW-Madison Athletic Department Spokesperson Paul Capobianco, will help the university’s three crew teams better compete with the nation’s other top-tier squads.
Working with a new coach in a stunning new boathouse, the University of Wisconsin women’s crew team is riding on smooth waves this season.
Coach Bebe Bryans has brought a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the Badgers, and considering the choppy waters and coaching carousel the past several seasons at the UW, the transition during her first year has gone well.
The Kasarov brothers turned University of Wisconsin assistant men’s tennis coach Danny Westerman into something of a prophet Friday by posting one of the biggest upsets in recent program history.
Anttaj Hawthorne paid dearly for his mistake. After testing positive for marijuana at the National Football League scouting combine in February, the University of Wisconsin defensive tackle, who once was considered at least a second-round talent, slid all the way to the sixth round of the National Football League draft Sunday.
As much as it might pain them to do so, fans in this football-crazy state who cheered Erasmus James’ rise from obscure prospect to All-American defensive end at the University of Wisconsin now have no choice but to root for his downfall.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin and its rowing programs would like to invite the public to a Porter Boathouse open house on Saturday, April 23 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
If you were to ask UW-Madison’s football season-ticket-holders what effect next year’s switch to a game-day voucher exchange will have, their answers would run the gammut.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department rents out its many facilities, but before you think about organizing a neighborhood flag football game for Camp Randall Stadium or a wedding reception for the new Porter Boathouse, here’s a heads-up: UW is not soliciting new business from the general public.
The contracts haven’t been signed but barring unforeseen developments, the exhibition opponents for the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s basketball teams are set for next season.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department, which had taken heat for an outdated cell phone plan that led to enormous bills, made a service switch that it projects will save $100,000 per year.
The change comes two months after a state audit found one coach – men’s hockey assistant Mark Osiecki – rang up a monthly bill of $1,455.85.
COMING LATER this spring: A new documentary on Camp Randall Stadium titled “In the Red Zone: The History of Camp Randall.”
The 90-minute DVD is produced by Madison-based Tweedee Productions, and the genesis for it came a few years ago when Tweedee founder Gregg Schieve, a former WKOW-TV/Channel 27 photographer, was driving past the historic stadium. The ongoing renovations were in the early stages and it dawned on Schieve that Camp Randall – old and new – had a tale worth telling.
Hello. Please hold. In lean times for all sorts of educational enterprises, the jockocracy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made a sacrifice. Of course, it took a report from the Legislative Audit Bureau to reveal the athletic department’s enormous cell phone bills. But word comes that, indeed, the athletic department has decided it can reduce the number of cell phones it pays for by 10 percent, and probably avoid nonsense like the $1,455.85 monthly bill that just one coach ran up.
In an effort to cut heavy costs resulting from cell phone usage, the University of Wisconsin Athletics Department announced Tuesday they switched plans to save as much as $100,000 per year.
MADISON ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison athletics department said Tuesday it switched cell phone plans to one expected to save $100,000 a year.
The change comes two months after a state audit found one coach rang up a monthly bill of $1,455.85.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin Division of Intercollegiate Athletics and U.S. Cellular announced Tuesday a cellular phone service solution that better accommodates the unique business needs of the athletic department. (Athletic Communications)
The University of Wisconsin 2005 football schedule, recently left with an unexpected open date in Week 2 after Western Michigan was allowed to opt out of its contract, should be finalized within the next two weeks.
University of Wisconsin student season men’s basketball ticketholders voted down an option to offer split-season plans to accommodate demand in a poll conducted by the university. Also, student football ticketholders voted to exchange their vouchers on game day rather than at midweek prior to a game.
The basketball vote closes the chapter of a contentious debate that emerged last fall after flaws in the lottery system used to award the 2,100 tickets eliminated several hundred students from consideration.
Facing an inevitable change in the current football voucher exchange program, UW-Madison students voted to trade in their vouchers on game day, the UW-Madison Athletic Department said Monday.
For the first time in more than 10 years, University of Wisconsin student football tickets will be exclusively distributed on game-day using a first-come-first-served basis during the 2005 season.
MADISON, Wis. – UW-Madison student season football ticket holders will exchange vouchers on game day as they enter the stadium and student season menââ?¬â?¢s basketball ticket holders will receive full-season ticket packages after results of an on-line referendum were announced Monday. (Athletic Communication)
He was told it happened two or three years before he was born in 1978, a wretched fire in his grandparents’ Lynchburg, Va., home that killed both, plus an aunt and an uncle.
Although the rowing program at the University of Wisconsin is one of the oldest sports on campus – dating back 130 years – its teams have existed in the shadows of other
In the past 10 years, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department has brought nearly $200 million in major capital improvements to life.
Since 1995, UW has built the Fetzer Academic Center ($2.1 million), the Kohl Center for basketball and hockey ($76.4 million) and the Goodman Diamond for softball ($1.2 million).
In the coming weeks and months, the Porter Boathouse for men’s and women’s rowing ($8.56 million) and renovated Camp Randall Stadium for football ($109 million) will be unveiled.
In a courtroom at Madison’s federal courthouse, standing in blue jail scrubs, former Wisconsin Badgers star running back Marvin Artley was a long way from the cheering crowds of Camp Randall
With the University of Wisconsin’s football season opener less than five months away, UW officials still do not know which team the Badgers will face in Week 2, on Sept. 10 in Camp Randall Stadium.
MADISON, Wis. – Camp Randall Stadium is a hub of activity these days with Phase 2 construction taking place in every corner.
Several University of Wisconsin athletic officials have affirmed there are a variety of reasons the new Academic Progress Rate may be flawed. The APR was issued last February by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to measure student-athlete academic success.
Although two prominent former University of Wisconsin football players reportedly tested positive for marijuana at the NFL scouting combine in February, UW officials believe they have a comprehensive drug-testing policy in place. “It is an effort to get the athletes to realize the ramifications of their choices and to make better decisions,” Denny Helwig, UW’s head athletic trainer, said Wednesday. Pro Football Weekly reported Tuesday on its Web site that defensive tackle Anttaj Hawthorne and guard Jonathan Clinkscale were two of only four NFL prospects who tested positive during the combine.
Former University of Wisconsin athletes Anttaj Hawthorne and Jonathan Clinkscale tested positive for marijuana at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis last month, according to a confidential letter from the league that Pro Football Weekly posted on its Web site.
The impact of those results won’t become apparent until the NFL draft on April 23-24, but Hawthorne is expected to take the bigger hit of the two players. Regarded as a potential first-round pick by analysts entering his senior season last fall, the defensive tackle has been rapped for inconsistent effort and his stock had faltered even before the positive drug test.
The room was too small. The crowd was too sparse. The applause was too light. The spotlight was too dim.
Other than that, the University of Wisconsin student-athlete academic recognition banquet, held Monday night, was a rousing success.
University of Wisconsin NFL prospects Anttaj Hawthorne and Jonathan Clinkscale tested positive for marijuana at the NFL scouting combine in February, Pro Football Weekly reported Tuesday on its Web site.
MADISON, Wis. – Achievement off the field of play was honored at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Student-Athlete Academic Recognition Banquet Monday night at the Memorial Union. (Athletic Communications)
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s recently completed $8.56 million rowing facility will now officially be known as Porter Boathouse, after the Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the moniker last Friday. (Athletic Communications)
Once again the university administration has decided to put its time and efforts into addressing problems that do not exist. The current football voucher exchange system does not need to be changed, especially not with one of the two new plans the university wants to implement.
UW-Madison officials will survey student season ticket-holders this week to determine the future of season ticket distribution for football and men’s basketball, the Athletic Department announced Friday.
In order to eliminate lengthy weekday lines, the University of Wisconsin Athletics Department announced Friday it is drastically changing traditional football ticket protocol and allowing students to vote how they want tickets to be distributed.
Preparing to host an NCAA championship is not something you do in a matter of months.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials have been working on the 2006 Frozen Four men’s hockey championship since their bid for the Bradley Center in Milwaukee was accepted in 2000.
Rob Jeter was in the driver’s seat Friday afternoon, but Bo Ryan still was steering the wheel on their return trip from Milwaukee to Madison.
“I’m driving today. I’m not a head coach officially until Monday,” Jeter said with a laugh.
….Of all the traits of the World War II generation, perhaps the most impressive some 60 years later is the ability to make do, no matter the circumstances, and with little ceremony at that.
That theme echoes throughout author Terry Frei’s thoroughly researched and ardently objective book “Third Down and a War to Go,” a chronicle of the 1942 Badgers’ rapid transition from carefree college clashes against Notre Dame and Minnesota to battling Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.
It was an interesting Thursday for two assistant coaches for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team. Rob Jeter headed to Milwaukee and signed a five-year deal to become the new UW-Milwaukee head coach. Gary Close, meanwhile, returned from Charleston, Ill., where he interviewed for the vacant head coaching job at Eastern Illinois
Suddenly, there appears to be a good possibility that UW head coach Bo Ryan will lose two-thirds of his respected coaching staff to teams nicknamed the Panthers.
One of the most important lessons Rob Jeter learned from his mentor, Bo Ryan, is to never make any decisions until he has all the facts.
Jeter’s heart was telling him to become the next men’s basketball coach at UW-Milwaukee as soon as the job was offered to him by athletic director Bud Haidet last Sunday in St. Louis. But despite knowing the job fit most of the criteria for a dream first head coaching position, the University of Wisconsin’s associate head coach didn’t say yes until Thursday night, when all his questions were answered.
MADISON, Wis. – Cheryl Bailey, who has been a member of the Wisconsin Athletic Departmentââ?¬â?¢s management structure since 1990, announced Friday that she is resigning her position as Senior Associate Athletic Director as of Aug. 31 to pursue other professional opportunities. (Athletic Communications.)
Cheryl Bailey, a principle figure in the recent renaissance of University of Wisconsin sports, will resign this summer to pursue other professional opportunities.
Bailey (formerly Marra) has been an administrator in the UW Athletic Department for 15 years – the last three as senior associate athletic director for sports administration. She is the second-most tenured member of the senior staff behind UW athletic director and football coach Barry Alvarez.
A former colleague, now retired, always referred to the University of Wisconsin as a coach’s graveyard when it came to men’s basketball.
During the Dark Ages of UW hoops, which ran from 1950 to the mid-1990s, Madison was a place where coaches’ careers went to die. Few who came here to coach ever worked again – in this or any other town.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan expressed optimism midway through this past season that associate head coach Rob Jeter would one day take the next step in the coaching profession.
“I don’t think there’s any question he’s going to be a head coach,” Ryan said. “It’s just a matter of when and where.” That day has arrived for the 35-year-old Jeter.
UW-Milwaukee has its man. Athletic director Bud Haidet met late into Thursday evening at his home with University of Wisconsin associate head coach Rob Jeter and hammered out an agreement that made Jeter the Panthers’ new basketball coach.
A report that claimed that Rob Jeter is expected to become the next coach at UW-Milwaukee has been called inaccurate by a source within the Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
ESPN.com reported today that Jeter, the Badgers’ associate head coach, will become the UW-Milwaukee coach Friday. It cited a source close to the search.
A source within the Badgers’ program said that report “is flat wrong” and that Jeter has not decided whether to accept the offer.
University of Wisconsin associate head coach Rob Jeter has emerged as the top candidate to replace Bruce Pearl as UW-Milwaukee’s men’s basketball coach, a source close to the situation said Wednesday.
UWM officials want to meet again with Jeter this week – likely today and possibly Friday in Milwaukee – and if those talks go smoothly, Jeter will become the Panthers’ coach.
University of Wisconsin associate head coach Rob Jeter, a longtime assistant to Badgers coach Bo Ryan, has emerged as the leading candidate for the head coaching position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
PAT RICHTER’S life story might be rejected in Hollywood as too corny for these cynical times. Can the hometown hero with the movie star looks really star in the big game, get the girl, succeed on a larger stage, step away from the spotlight, and then return for a spectacular encore?
“It’s a story worth telling,” Vince Sweeney was saying Tuesday. “There are still some people out there who do things the right way, and come out on top.”
Wisconsin was ranked 10th in the nation and UW-Milwaukee was 23rd in the final ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll for men’s college basketball.
Tasha McDowell has been selected as an assistant coach with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, filling the void created by the departure of recruiting coordinator Denise Ianello, a source told The Capital Times.
McDowell, 29, has eight years of coaching experience. She spent the past four seasons as an assistant at the University of California-Santa Barbara and served as the Gauchos’ recruiting coordinator for three consecutive seasons.
University of Wisconsin associate head men’s basketball coach Rob Jeter is one of two finalists for the vacant head job at UW-Milwaukee, according to a published report.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said that Rob Dunlap, the coach at Metropolitan State – an NCAA Division II school in Denver – is the other top candidate.
After a lengthy semi-nomadic existence, the University of Wisconsin men�s and women�s crew teams have finally found a home.
Freshman Marcus Randle El had opening-day jitters at football practice on Sunday. The practice was the first of the spring for Randle El, a wide receiver-quarterback from Markham, Ill. He had been suspended for UW’s first seven practices because of his alleged role in a fight in his dorm room on March 7. Randle El faces one count of disorderly conduct and has a pre-trial conference set for April 14 in Dane County Circuit Court.
If North Carolina survives this weekend in St. Louis to win its fourth NCAA men’s basketball championship, the authorities back in Chapel Hill will be ready to handle the celebration.
After five years of exhaustive research and experimentation, doctors at University Hospital here announced that they can now cure, with a surgical procedure, the bane of most golfers — the cursed slice.
“We can guarantee that after we perform this surgery, which usually can be done lapriscopically, the golfer will hit the ball straight and almost always the yardage lost to a slice will be restored to the end of the drive, making it longer,” said Dr. Schott Schank, one of the team of surgeons who developed the new procedure.
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