They came by the hundreds, and many sported red jackets. Even two Wisconsin political icons who rarely share a stage were there, taking turns at the pulpit.
They came to Bethel Lutheran Church on Thursday to pay tribute to the ultimate Badger, Arlie Mucks, who died March 19 at the age of 85.
The third and final phase of the Camp Randall Stadium renovation project is bringing about significant changes to the facility’s seating chart.
UW-Milwaukee’s search for a replacement for basketball coach Bruce Pearl is starting to take shape, and it will certainly heat up this weekend as UWM officials interview candidates at the Final Four in St. Louis. UW-Madison assistant coach Rob Jeter expresses interest in the job.
The third and final phase of the Camp Randall Stadium renovation project is bringing about significant changes to the facility’s seating chart.
Two additions to the student section – the University of Wisconsin Band and a safety feature called a “cross aisle” – have forced UW Athletic Department officials to expand the boundaries of the student section in order to maintain its 14,000-seat capacity.
MADISON, Wis. – Last week the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department gathered and donated 360 pounds of food during its second annual week-long Spring Food Drive. The food is contributed to the Community Action Coalition for South Central WI, which will distribute the donated items to 36 pantries in Dane County as needed.
Four members have resigned from an anti-sweatshop advisory committee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, citing disagreements with Chancellor John Wiley.
The conflict centered around the best way for the university to keep licensees of UW logo apparel from moving their factories to China, a nation with a poor record on labor rights.
UW-Milwaukee athletic director Bud Haidet hit the jackpot in his last two hires for Panthers basketball coach, getting Bo Ryan and Bruce Pearl. Mentioned as a candidate to replace the departing Pearl is Wisconsin assistant Rob Jeter.
…even in defeat, it was still a memorable day for the Badgers, who shot down the perception that they’re a slow, plodding team – a boring Big Ten team – whose Midwest-bred players are anchored to the floor and incapable of hanging and running with ACC thoroughbreds.
That has been the image perpetuated by a number of self-serving, clueless national pundits, although that sentiment was not shared in the North Carolina locker room here Sunday. Were the Badgers better than advertised? Or stigmatized?
“Of course, they were better,” Jawad Williams said. “They have some guys who could go anywhere else and be a star in college basketball.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Outchanced, outworked and out of the tournament. That sums up Friday night for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team at Van Andel Arena.
Michigan displayed periods of dominance and goaltender Al Montoya foiled all but one of the few chances the Badgers got in a 4-1 Wolverines victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
The saying goes that all good things must come to an end. For the UW men’s basketball team, this was all too familiar Sunday when their travel plans to St. Louis for the Final Four were cancelled. Sixth-seeded Wisconsin (25-9) bowed out of the tournament and the 2004-’05 season after a close 88-82 battle with the heavily favored No. 1 seed UNC Tar Heels (31-4).
While Badger fans were disappointed the men’s basketball team won’t be playing in the Final Four, they remained proud of the team’s strong performance in the NCAA tournament, right up until the final buzzer of its loss to No. 1 seed North Carolina.
“I’ve never been more happy about a loss before in my life,” said Brian Lowe, who watched the game with some friends at State Street Brats. “I feel like the program has gained a lot of respect tonight.”
SYRACUSE, N.Y.Ã? – Rashad McCants made the big plays down the stretch, Sean May dominated inside and North Carolina is back in the Final Four for the first time in five years.
McCants swished a clutch 3-pointer and had two huge blocks on the other end, leading the top-seeded Tar Heels to a 88-82 victory over Wisconsin on Sunday in the final of the Syracuse Regional.
Despite optimism aimed at reforming the way college athletics play a role at universities, the National Collegiate Athletic Association�s new Academic Progress Rate system could prove detrimental for several institutions.
Most students know Camp Randall houses one of the largest stadiums in the nation, but what many students do not know is that its history dates back to 1861.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. ââ?¬â? It took the vaunted North Carolina Tar Heels more than 39 minutes to secure an 88-82 victory over the sixth-seeded Wisconsin Badgers and a place in the 2005 Final Four.
Sure, there was disappointment. You don’t come within a couple of three-pointers of advancing to the Final Four and take consolation in the fact that it was a close call. The University of Wisconsin basketball team and its fans had every reason to be disappointed. But there was no reason to be upset.
Syracuse, N.Y. – We all know the guy.
He’s the butt of jokes and never quite gets his just due but always gets invited to the party. He’s nice but not really someone you want to hang out with all night.
If he were a basketball player, he would be a perfect fit for the University of Wisconsin program.
About 500 student-athletes across the country have participated in a series of seminars co-sponsored by the NCAA and The Hartford Financial Services Group. They are aimed at teaching the basics of managing money. Good thing, too. More than one-third of 1,000 NCAA athletes surveyed said they expect to be millionaires.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Until further notice, Jack Bennett believes the heyday for college basketball in the state of Wisconsin came in 1977, when Marquette won the national title under coach Al McGuire.
“That,” said the UW-Stevens Point men’s basketball coach, “stands above everything else.” Bennett will add a caveat to that statement, however.
“Collectively,” said Bennett, whose older brother, Dick Bennett, led the University of Wisconsin to the Final Four in 2000, “it hasn’t been a whole lot better than right now.”
Gov. Jim Doyle, a basketball nut, has declared Friday “Badger Day” in honor of the University of Wisconsin’s Sweet 16 spot in the NCAA Tournament.
Doyle said: “They represent the very best of Wisconsin, and we look forward to seeing them in action again Friday night,” when the team plays North Carolina State in Syracuse, N.Y.
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves has been selected as the Ice Hockey National Coach of the Year for the United States Olympic Committeeââ?¬â?¢s Coach Recognition program, covering the dates of Jan. 1ââ?¬â??Dec. 31, 2004
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Even though their minutes might be minute, the NCAA tournament experience is gigantic for the University of Wisconsin’s young players.
“They get all this extra practice time and just going through the warm-ups in an NCAA tournament is something, whether they get in (the game) or not,” Badgers assistant Gary Close said. “The preparation, the travel, seeing everything. Next time they go through it … it will help, no question about it.”
Never one to pass up a scrimmage or a conversation, Bo Ryan stopped on his way to work Tuesday to talk to some kids shooting baskets on a driveway. He said he couldn’t get a game, but he did get some encouragement. The kids told him, “Go Badgers.” Ryan probably told them “Go left,” or something along those lines.
MILWAUKEEÃ? Mar 22, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? Before last weekend, Wisconsin-Milwaukee was best known for being the school where the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir went.
Colleges will have an easier time proving that they are meeting women’s interests in intercollegiate athletics under a policy clarification issued last week by the U.S. Department of Education. The clarification appears to fly in the face of one of the most influential court rulings in the long battle over women’s opportunities to play sports in college.
Arlie Mucks Jr., whose irrepressible enthusiasm for the University of Wisconsin-Madison went far beyond his job as head of the Wisconsin Alumni Association for 27 years, died Saturday at age 84.
Dear Editor: Anyone familiar with the garment industry should be disappointed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s recent moves. On March 11, the administration approved a sponsorship agreement with adidas that potentially keeps records of abuse secret from even the Board of Regents. With this, the administration is relapsing to its policy of 1999 and 2000, when students like myself were forced to occupy the chancellor’s office twice in consecutive years.
…. Instead of being a leader in demanding accountability for sweatshop abuses, Chancellor John Wiley has chosen to side with those responsible for the abuse.
After receiving help from all over the college hockey world the last few days, all signs Sunday pointed toward the University of Wisconsin landing an at-large berth to in the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season.
MADISON, Wis. – Barry Alvarez would be considered by most people to be a big wheel. On Thursday, the University of Wisconsin football coach and athletic director was a ââ?¬Å?Big Wheel Delivering Mealsââ?¬Â for Meals on Wheels.
The debate over steroids in baseball is not limited to the professional level. Indeed, many claim the single biggest problem with professional ballplayers� use of performance-enhancing drugs is the example it sets for younger athletes.
Mark Johnson rose from his office chair, walked over to a nearby bookcase and reached down to get two faded notebooks from a stack on the bottom shelf.
Up and down the glittering Las Vegas Strip, the story is the same. Hotels will be packed and so will the sports books, where many fans will spend the entire weekend watching and betting the games. But betting on the NCAA tournament is one thing that doesn’t stay in Vegas.
In dorm rooms, offices, and homes across the country, people can make a few clicks of the mouse and bet up to $10,000 or so on their favorite team.
MADISON, Wis. – The winter sports schedules are starting to wind down and the championship season is fast approaching. (Athletic Communications.)
University of Wisconsin wide receiver/quarterback Marcus Randle El was charged Monday with disorderly conduct in connection with an incident at Ogg Hall last week.
It will be more than a year before it comes to fruition, but the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball roster will be fortified by another of the state’s top talents.
UW football player Marcus Randle El was formally charged today with one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct for a skirmish with his girlfriend in a dorm room last week.
Randle El, 18, was arguing with the young woman in his room at Ogg Hall when he allegedly pushed her down, causing her to suffer some minor scrapes to her arms, the complaint says.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team earned its first NCAA tournament bid and will face Dartmouth on Saturday in Hanover, N.H., with the winner of the one-game playoff advancing to the Frozen Four.
The UW Board of Regents on Friday approved a new sponsorship agreement with Adidas worth more than $1 million a year to UW-Madison, despite concerns that the contract shuts out the public and enables the exploitation of sweatshop labor in overseas subcontractor factories.
Many of the players for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team didn’t know much about Northern Iowa, their opening foe in the NCAA tournament Friday in Oklahoma City.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team got some good news and some bad news Sunday.
What began as a typical meeting of the UW System Board of Regents Friday quickly turned heated as the board decided in a contentious 10 to 4 vote to approve UW-Madison’s new athletic apparel sponsorship agreement with Adidas.
The University of Wisconsin marching band will have a different view of the field at the start of the 2005 football season when the group will be relocated to the Camp Randall Stadium stands.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents passed a new contract with adidas and discussed issues with Gov. Jim Doyle�s executive budget proposal in a meeting Friday.
NCAA schools gladly tap the financial keg of beer companies, as TV ad money flows in like a smooth lager. Meanwhile, drinking problems still plague college campuses. This hypocrisy is hard to swallow.
For the second time this week, a University of Wisconsin football player has had a run-in with the law.
An assault charge stemming from a fight at a State Stree bar has cost Brandon Tobias his spot on the University of Wisconsin Football team.
In addition, Marcu Randle El’s suspension was modified by an appeals committee.
Freshman wide receiver / quarterback Marcus Randle El, suspended indefinitely earlier this week for violating the University of Wisconsin’s student-athlete discipline policy, will be allowed to participate in the team’s final eight spring practices, school officials announced Thursday.
On Thursday the Appeals Committee of the UW-Madison Student-Athlete Discipline Policy amended the March 7 suspension of UW-Madison quarterback Marcus Randle El, according to uwbadgers.com.
Say what you will about the quality of its basketball this season, but the Big Ten conference continues to ride high in other areas that are crucial for a conference to succeed. It draws lucrative TV deals, favorable television time slots, attracts huge crowds and it didn’t have to reinvent or restructure itself to do it.
Cold, hard cash is one of the main reasons why the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team is bumped from the Kohl Center at the start of every other postseason.
By remaining undefeated until the final 6 seconds of the regular season, Illinois revived one of the great debates in sports.
The NCAA the other day released its first “academic progress rate,” a sort of report card on the academic achievements of each of the university athletic departments.
The whole idea behind the APR is to encourage – no, force – the member schools to do a better job graduating their athletes.
Mike Wilkinson is as consistent off the basketball court as he is on it. The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s 6-foot-8 senior forward shrugged his shoulders after it was announced that he was a consensus first-team All-Big Ten Conference selection Tuesday.
he accolades continue to pour in for University of Wisconsin standout Mike Wilkinson. The Big Ten announced its all-conference men�s basketball teams Tuesday, with a pair of Badgers receiving honors. Wilkinson, a senior forward, earned first-team honors from the league�s coaches and media, while sophomore forward Alando Tucker garnered a pair of third-team selections.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball player Maurice ââ?¬Å?Booââ?¬Â Wade, 20, was sentenced to 18 months probation and ordered to complete domestic violence counseling Tuesday morning after being charged for bail jumping and disorderly conduct.
University of Wisconsin football player Marcus Randle El, a freshman, was arrested for battery and suspended from practice and competition Monday.
To say there aren’t cheerleaders at University of Wisconsin men’s hockey games is like calling the students who don clown wigs, cow udders and Elvis costumes casual fans.
The University of Wisconsin football team’s spring scrimmage will be April 16 at Lussier Stadium at Madison La Follette High School.
Modesty might be one of Mike Wilkinson’s strongest attributes.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball player Boo Wade was put on 18 months’ probation today and ordered to get domestic violence counseling as a result of his failure to complete the county’s First Offender Program.
And new information filed with the court showed Wade was involved in physical abuse of several other women.
