Category: Athletics

One of the worst kept secrets in Madison was officially confirmed today with the announcement that Paul Chryst will be rejoining the University of Wisconsin football coaching staff, replacing Rob Ianello.

Chryst, who coached the Badgers’ tight ends during the 2002 season, will be returning as the co-offensive coordinator with Brian White, who has held that role since 1999 in addition to coaching the UW running backs for the past 10 seasons. The 39-year-old Chryst has spent the last two seasons as Oregon State’s offensive coordinator.

Despite the crooked lines painted on the Kohl Center basketball floor, the University of Wisconsin men�s basketball team will not be slowed down for tonight�s game against the Iowa Hawkeyes, according to Associate Director of UW Athletics Steve Malchow.

A University of Wisconsin football player was supended from the team after being arrested Downtown early Sunday morning.

Sorry, but I can’t agree that the UW Athletic Department is bouncing tradition.

Gino Cruse, a freshman defensive tackle at the University of Wisconsin, was arrested early Sunday by Madison police after a domestic dispute. Cruse, a 19-year-old native of Phoenix who redshirted this past season, faces charges of criminal damage to property, domestic disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana. He was also cited for underage drinking.

MADISON, Wis. – Final exams are over and first-semester grade reports are being compiled all over nation. (Athletic Communications)

MADISON, Wis. – Gildaââ?¬â?¢s Club Madison Wisconsin announced today that Barry and Cindy Alvarez will co-chair its campaign to bring a Gildaââ?¬â?¢s Club to Madison, Wisconsin. (Athletic Communications)

Madison – The University of Wisconsin will begin holding its pre-season football camp on campus in 2005.

A federal prosecutor and jury in Memphis have given college athletic boosters nationwide something to think about. Or so NCAA and other officials expect. Wednesday’s conviction of Alabama booster Logan Young on charges that he paid $150,000 to have a prized recruit steered to the Crimson Tide could have broad ramifications ââ?¬â? deterring other wayward boosters and emboldening prosecutors ââ?¬â? they say.

A number of financial and logistical hurdles have to be cleared, but the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team could play one of its games next season outdoors at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

….The reason the lines on the basketball court at the Kohl Center look crooked is because they are, indeed, crooked. The free-throw lines, 3-point lines, center line, baselines – anything with a line on it – are anything but lined up correctly.

So the court, which is also missing lines for the coaches’ boxes, is a pretty strange sight and it has UW athletic department officials scratching their heads in disbelief because they just paid approximately $13,000 to have the maple floor repainted and repaired last summer.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison athletics board is considering raising football season ticket prices for the second year in a row. The university’s deputy athletic director says the department needs to come up with three-quarters of a million dollars.

One Badger fan says of the football games, “It’s what you do in Madison. It’s part of the Saturday experience, it’s the place to be.”

After federal drug agents based in Madison infiltrated a major international steroid operation, an alleged key player was charged in federal court in Madison Monday.

Senior athletic trainer at the UW’s Sports Medicine Clinic, Dr. Tim McGuine, told News 3 this case should be on the radar of all parents, coaches, and school administrators.

The three bread-winning sports at the University of Wisconsin are going to sell a combined 1 million tickets during the 2004-05 school year.

The University of Wisconsin football team returns only one starter in the defensive backfield next season, but now the Badgers could be without him.

Beer and other alcoholic beverages are inextricably linked to sports. Beer advertising and sales generate millions of dollars in revenue for leagues and franchises, and are an important part of the financial bottom line. But the sale of alcohol to fans – as evidenced by the mayhem at the Palace of Auburn Hills during a Detroit Pistons-Indiana Pacers basketball game this season – presents a real liability for sports teams and their partners.

Eleven UW-Madison coaches incurred charges of more than $3,000 each on their cell phones, causing the UW-Athletic Department to spend $180,000 on cell phone bills for the 2003-’04 school year.

Leaving in 1996 as the career leading scorer in the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball history, Barb Franke scored more points in her return to Madison Sunday afternoon.

As part of the festivities celebrating the 30th year of UW women’s athletics, Franke was celebrated as the team’s honorary captain

It was clear to Bo Ryan what he had to do after he learned an ESPN analyst called University of Wisconsin redshirt freshman Brian Butch the Big Ten Conference’s most overrated player.

“Don’t take potshots at any of my players,” the UW men’s basketball coach said after reading a statement strongly defending Butch, who was singled out by ESPN’s Doug Gottlieb at halftime of the Badgers’ 75-65 loss to Illinois Tuesday night.

(Madison) The University of Wisconsin at Madison athletics board is considering raising football season ticket prices for the second year in a row. The University’s deputy athletic director says the department needs to come

The 30th anniversary celebration of women’s athletics at the University of Wisconsin this week gives me the ideal opportunity to right a wrong.

If there is one development in women’s athletics at the University of Wisconsin that makes Kit Saunders-Nordeen most proud, it is the commitment to housing teams in modern facilities.

“The facilities are absolutely terrific,” said Saunders-Nordeen, who worked in the athletic department for 26 years prior to her retirement in 1990. She was the UW’s first women’s athletic director. This weekend the university will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its women’s sports.

The message Jamie Pollard delivered Wednesday was a forewarning, albeit a partially vague one.

“I think there will have to be a football ticket price increase,” said Pollard, the University of Wisconsin’s deputy athletic director. Pollard said the UW also is considering raising the price of men’s basketball tickets.

Security staff at Tuesday night’s ESPN-broadcast basketball game at the Kohl Center stopped a peaceful demonstration for a larger student section, angering student government leaders but earning a quick defense from UW-Madison Officials.

An on-campus practice rink for hockey is No. 1 on the list of future capital projects for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.

Hold the 16-game record of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team up to a mirror and it will reflect exactly as it did last season:

An overall mark of 7-9, including 1-5 in the Big Ten Conference.

Season ticket-holders for University of Wisconsin football games should brace themselves for another price hike in 2005.

A rule of thumb for those of you who can’t resist watching ESPN’s squawking heads debate college basketball before, during and after games: Unless Jay Bilas is doing the talking, ignore anything that is said.

It should be easy to tell today which UW-Madison students were at the Kohl Center Tuesday night.

When you step into the Kohl Center for a hockey or basketball game this season, tickets are no longer torn. Instead, event staff greet ticketholders at the gate with a Palm Pilot-like device in hand, ready to scan a barcode at the bottom of every ticket

Of all the assistant coaches Barry Alvarez has lost during his 15 years at the University of Wisconsin, the departure of Paul Chryst might have hurt the most.

Colleen (Neels) Bayer, a former two-time All-Big Ten Conference setter for the Badgers, has been named an assistant volleyball coach at the University of Wisconsin, coach Pete Waite announced.

The Illini circled the Wisconsin game on their schedule long ago, but so did a number of fans who are pushing ticket demand so high that it will cost at least $225 to get into the building, 10 times the face value of tickets. The media have been looking forward to this one, too. A record 217 journalists and rising will be in attendance.

…Over one 36-hour period – from Wednesday evening through early Friday – 27 tickets to the Illini-Badgers game were sold on eBay.

The best pair available on eBay – in the front row, behind the scorer’s table – sold for $1,250. To be fair (wink, wink), that price also included a parking pass.

University of Wisconsin hockey star Ryan MacMurchy was put in the first offender’s program Wednesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from a Sept. 5 fight outside the Kollege Klub campus area bar.