Freshman UW football player Marcus Randle El has been suspended from the team after his arrest Monday for domestic battery. Randle El, 18, was arrested at about 12:50 p.m. at his dorm room at Ogg Hall and booked into the Dane County Jail. He was released after someone paid his bail at at 5:30 p.m.
Randle El can appeal his suspension. Until he is reinstated, he is ineligible for spring practices, which start Saturday.
Marcus Randle El, a freshman from Markham, Ill., was suspended from the University of Wisconsin football team after he was arrested Monday and tentatively charged with domestic battery.
I wish I had more friends like Bob and Irwin Goodman.
I wish you did, too.
If there were more people like the Goodmans in this world, our present would offer a greater source of optimism and our future would be easier to embrace.
For the second time in 28 days, a University of Wisconsin football player has been suspended for violating the school’s student-athlete discipline policy. Freshman wide receiver / quarterback Marcus Randle El was suspended indefinitely from all practices and games, UW officials announced Monday. Randle El, 18, was arrested and faces a battery charge for his alleged role during a fight in a campus dorm.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Troy Vincent was brought in by coach Barry Alverez before last season to talk to the Badgers about a number of issues.
The whining is loud over the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s unprecedented attempt to tell schools that if they do not educate their players, they will lose scholarships and eligibility for post-season play.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ââ?¬â?? When “March Madness” – the premier tournament of men’s college basketball – kicks off next week, it may mark a swan song for some of the 65 invited teams.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is expected to renew its apparel contract with adidas, giving the company six more years to outfit Badger athletic teams.
The proposal, which comes before the Board of Regents next week, would provide the teams with $900,000 worth of shoes, equipment and apparel in the first year of the contract. It would increase incrementally to a value of $950,000 in the sixth year. The current annual value of merchandise from adidas is $825,000.
(AP) The UW-Madison athletic department wants to spend two-million dollars more to finish the Camp Randall Stadium renovation.
The University says the additional money will come from donations to the athletic department, not taxpayer funding.
The University of Wisconsin Athletics department requested an increase of $2 million to their budget this week to complete the ongoing Camp Randall Stadium Renovation.
Perhaps the best things about the new Academic Performance Rate scores being kept for each NCAA Division I school is that there is a single number to use to compare programs.
The University of Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan was one of 20 finalists named for the Naismith Coach of the year Award Wednesday.
Renovating Camp Randall Stadium will cost about $2 million more because of unexpected expenses, UW-Madison officials said.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department will seek the authority to spend more than $2.1 million in additional funds to finish the Camp Randall Stadium renovation.
That will replenish a contingency fund that has been depleted after unforeseen expenses, said Alan Fish, assistant vice chancellor for facilities, planning and development.
The additional money will come from gifts to the athletic department, not taxpayer dollars or ticket receipts, Fish said.
The additional expenses will boost the total cost of the renovation to just over $109 million, Fish said.
The NCAA announced Monday that all but two UW-Madison athletic teams met or exceeded the minimum score for their newly implemented Academic Progress Rate, a system meant to track academic eligibility and retention of all Division I scholarship athletes, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
In basketball, it’s not always how you play. Sometimes it’s who, when and where you play.
Two weeks before her ballot was due to be cast, Michigan State women’s basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie sat in the Kohl Center media room and offered her take on University of Wisconsin shooting guard Jolene Anderson.
Jolene Anderson, who led the University of Wisconsin in scoring this season and set the school record for freshmen, has been named the Big Ten Conference freshman of the year.
The University of Wisconsin came in above the national average in the NCAA’s new academic progress rate, although football and men’s track lagged behind.
The new calculation is a measurement of success in the classroom by student-athletes and will be used by the NCAA to levy punishment – in the form of lost scholarships and, in extreme cases, bans on postseason competition – for those programs which lag behind.
Nearly half of the football and men’s basketball teams in Division I are failing the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s newest measure of academic success, according to a report published Monday by the association.
The Badger men’s basketball team’s next victory will be their 87th in four years, making that stretch the best four-year period in school history.
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Jolene Anderson was named the Freshman of the Year in Big Ten Conference by a vote of the conference coaches and media the Big Ten Office announced today. (Athletic Communications.)
Barry Alvarez has always struck a cavalier pose when it comes to statistics and rankings associated with being the University of Wisconsin football coach.
UW-Madison athletic teams, with two exceptions, made the grade Monday when the NCAA released its newly created statistical calculation aimed at improving the academic performance of student-athletes.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board unanimously approved a $66.5million budget Friday that chairman Bruce Jones said “is lean in terms of making sure we live within our means.”
If you sat next to an Olympic gold medalist in class every day, would you be able to tell?
If that champion was UW-Madison senior Carly Piper, then probably not.
MADISON, Wis. – The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released Monday its newly created statistical calculation ââ?¬â?? the Academic Progress Rate (APR) ââ?¬â?? that measures success in the classroom by student-athletes. (Atletic Communications)
The University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team has won seven of the past nine indoor Big Ten Conference championships.
A date has been set and two possible opponents identified, but some key particulars need to be ironed out before the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team plays a game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay next season.
A pending change in college entrance exams could have a major impact on recruiting for University of Wisconsin coaches.
All incoming students for the 2006-07 school year at UW will be required to take a writing exam in conjunction with the American College Test or Scholastic Aptitude Test.
A few years ago, Barry Alvarez had a decision to make, one that only the very best college football coaches in the country are faced with. And make no mistake about it, Alvarez has shown year after year he is one of college football’s best coaches.
Remember the Wisconsin Badgers before Barry? Ugh!
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board Finance Committee passed proposed ticket-price increases this week to student and non-student tickets for several UW sports.
MADISON, Wis. – ESPN, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Big Ten Conference have reached a six-year agreement (through 2010) to continue the annual men’s college basketball inter-conference Challenge. The 2005 event will mark the seventh annual match-up between the two conferences, pitting several of the nation’s top programs against each other.
It is beginning to sink in that Ebba Gebisa is embarking on the rarest of farewell tours, a two-city engagement that begins tonight at the Kohl Center.
UW-Madison freshman Lesha Jones made her initial appearance in Dane County court Monday morning, facing charges of burglary to a building or dwelling, a felony punishable with up to 12.5 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
wenty-six years ago, Mark Johnson was finishing up what would be his final season with the Wisconsin men�s hockey team, an unknown outside of college hockey circles. A year later, Johnson would be one of the most famous athletes in all of the United States with one of the most amazing stories to tell. All it took was a year of hard work and a couple of goals against the Russians in perhaps the most famous hockey game ever.
Joanne M. Doak (nee Schwarzmeier), age 55, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. She was a founding member of the UW Women’s Hockey Club back when women “didn’t” play hockey.
I may be hopelessly naive and overly sentimental, but I don’t think the sports world as we know it will ever experience a moment like the one that crossed our paths 25 years ago today.
A university committee on labor licensing policies is trying to stamp out sweatshop-like worker abuses by asking UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley to place tighter controls on the companies that manufacture apparel using the university’s name or logo.
Suspended University of Wisconsin freshman women’s basketball player Lesha Jones was charged with one count of burglary today for allegedly going into the dormitory room of another student and taking her purse.
Jones, 18, who was reshirting this season to rehabilitate an injured knee, was suspended from the team after her arrest on Feb. 14. (2/21/05 Capital Times print edition)
Saturday, Sept. 28, 1957, was not a normal day for Sidney Williams.
Williams, Wisconsin’s starting quarterback-as well as the Big Ten’s first starting black quarterback-should have been preparing for the Badgers’ Oct. 1 match-up with Marquette. Instead, his thoughts were partly focused 766 miles away on his hometown of Little Rock, Ark.
IF YOU are trying to get something done in this city, it would not exactly hurt to have UW athletic director and football coach Barry Alvarez and his wife Cindy out on point. But of course everybody knows this, and consequently the Alvarezes are approached by groups and organizations all the time.
FYI: On Todd Drive there’s a Culver’s restaurant billboard that has Bucky Badger on it. Does Culver’s pay a fee to use Bucky’s image or is it part of a sponsorship package? Since Bucky is trademarked or copyrighted, how does the arrangement work?
(Another question relates to the recent protest at a U.S. Navy recruiting booth at a campus recruitment fair.)
A series of ticket price increases and a major departure from tradition are the major items in a $71million spending request made Friday by the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department for 2005-06.
Preliminary figures from the University of Wisconsin athletic department show that it received a $1.4 million payout from the football team’s appearance in the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1 – the sixth highest payout of all the bowls.
The bad news is that the expenses to play at Tampa, Fla., are among the highest of all the bowls, too.
In order to handle skyrocketing expenditures, the University of Wisconsin athletic department Friday got initial approval to hike Badgers football tickets and single-game hockey tickets starting next season.
In addition, the UW also plans to cut costs by ending the long tradition of holding its preseason football camp at the Bishop O’Connor Center.
The Finance Committee of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department on Friday approved raising ticket prices for football, men’s hockey and women’s basketball for 2005-’06.
A redshirt freshman on the UW-Madison’s basketball team was in jail Monday after being tentatively charged with burglary and fraudulent use of a credit card.
One of the lessons Barry Alvarez learned as an assistant coach under Hayden Fry at Iowa in the 1980s is that it’s OK to have a lot of strong personalities on a coaching staff, provided they have well-defined roles and get along.
Now that the University of Wisconsin football team will operate with co-offensive coordinators for the first time since Barry Alvarez took over the program in 1990, the question is: What is needed to make the arrangement work?
UW women’s basketball player Lesha Jones has been suspended from the team after an arrest Monday on a tentative burglary charge.
…University police would provide no details today about the arrest. Jones has not been formally charged. (2/16/05 Capital Times)
The Dick Bennett era won’t be a long one.
Bennett, Washington State’s men’s basketball coach who is in the second season of a five-year contract, said yesterday he will retire after either this season or next.
Brian White, the University of Wisconsin’s offensive coordinator for the past six seasons and a member of the football staff for the past 10 seasons, has reportedly interviewed for a position on the Dallas Cowboys’ staff.
MADISON, Wis. – Just last year a regular, four-sided scoreboard, imported from the University of Wisconsin Field House, was hanging from the ceiling of the Kohl Center. It displayed statistics such as time left in a penalty (hockey) and team fouls (basketball), while occasionally showing a simple animation such as three smiley faces bobbing up and down. (Athletic Communications.)
Hinge tickets on student behavior Regarding recent articles on the number of student tickets allotted for UW basketball games, I must take issue with the opinion of Jeff Wright, spokesman for the Associated Students of Madison, who feels the current system is unfair.
Paul Chryst’s role in coordinating the University of Wisconsin offense in 2005 will be greater than originally believed. According to sources, Chryst will coach the team’s quarterbacks and likely have final say on play-calling. UW officials announced Thursday that Chryst had decided to step down as Oregon State’s offensive coordinator and return to UW as co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach.
The area around Camp Randall Stadium is a hectic place these days, with construction still dominating the scene. I’m not around there much these days, although it was once like my second home when I covered University of Wisconsin football and basketball for the Wisconsin State Journal.
So a recent visit with sports information director Justin Doherty in the new Kellner Hall at the east end of the stadium staggered my imagination. Seeing the lavish surroundings I couldn’t help but think of former SID Jim Mott’s old office, where water leaked from the stadium seats above during a heavy rain.
University of Wisconsin football player Gino Cruse allegedly smashed his girlfriend’s car window after she confronted him when she became suspicious he was cheating on her.
Cruse, 19, a redshirt freshman defensive lineman from Phoenix, Ariz., was charged Thursday with criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct for last Sunday’s incident.
The tug Paul Chryst feels toward his native Madison and the University of Wisconsin has always been strong.
UW-Madison football player Gino Cruse smashed the window of his girlfriend’s car during a Sunday morning argument outside a dorm, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
