University of Wisconsin hockey player Ryan MacMurchy pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor battery in connection with a fight outside a downtown bar last fall and was placed in a first offenders program.
Preliminary conversations have taken place aimed at rewarding University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves with a more lucrative contract.
It’s been nearly three weeks since the University of Wisconsin football team executed the last of its 1,613 plays from scrimmage, but one in particular continues to be recognized.
The Badger with the biggest snarl in the Kohl Center isn’t the one that taunts the visiting team’s fans. It’s the one under glass in a suite rented by Gorman & Co., the Madison developer. The burrowing carnivore is real, stuffed, and looks poised for attack. It’s a talker among sports fans, but not the only one.
Sunday, Bucky Badger presented the Wisconsin National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing with an “official” UW-Madison spirit flag.
“The point of the flag is to continue to foster positive relations with the National Guard units in Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison,” said Don Nelson, UW Assistant Director of State Relations. “We want to support our troops.”
A plan to reduce scholarships for all Division I student athletes who are performing poorly in the classroom was recently approved by the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Board of Directors.
With the nation’s longest current Division I college men’s basketball home winning streak in jeopardy Sunday, Wisconsin went to work just in time.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced on Friday that it had formed a panel of college presidents to study the future of college sports. Peter Likins, president of the University of Arizona, will serve as chairman of the group, which will present a series of recommendations in the next 18 to 24 months.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball player Boo Wade failed to meet the terms of a plea agreement he made last year in Dane County Circuit Court and thus faces sentencing on charges stemming from a fight he had with his ex-girlfriend and bail jumping.
Former UW-Madison basketball player Maurice “Boo” Wade faces sentencing in March after failing to meet the requirements of a deferred prosecution program that appeared to have closed criminal cases against him last year.
Mike Eaves has vivid memories of being part of the most lethal special-teams unit in University of Wisconsin men’s hockey history.
MADISON, Wis. – Long known for its rabid following, Wisconsin athletics is once again among the national leaders in its fan support. (Athletic Communications)
Former UW basketball player Boo Wade, who quit the team for good last week after taking time off for what was described as personal reasons, will be back in criminal court to face sentencing on charges from last year of fighting with his girlfriend and bail jumping.
Wade has been ousted from the county’s First Offender Program for failure to keep appointments and failure to follow through on an anger management program and thus will face sentencing on charges of disorderly conduct and bail jumping.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials welcome the academic reform measures adopted by the NCAA this week.
MADISON, Wis. – At the NCAA Convention Honors Dinner, Jan. 9, Wisconsin womenââ?¬â?¢s hockey head coach Mark Johnson was honored as a recipient of the 2005 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. (Athletic Communications)
(AP) The NCAA approved the first phase of a landmark academic reform package Monday under which about 30 percent of Division I football teams would have lost scholarships had it been implemented immediately. The Division I Board of
Directors approved the Academic Progress Rate (APR), the standard teams in every sport must reach beginning in the 2005-06 school year to avoid scholarship reductions. Schools will receive warning reports in the next few weeks that let them know which of their teams fall below the APR set by the Division I Committee on Academic Performance.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association gave preliminary approval on Monday to a plan to take scholarships away from Division I sports teams when their players flunk their courses. That was the highlight of a flurry of meetings here in which delegates from all three divisions of the NCAA considered rules changes.
The NCAA set the bar Monday for college athletics teams hoping to steer clear of newly drawn penalties for academic shortcomings: the equivalent of a 50% graduation rate.
Aubrey Pleasant’s change of heart over the weekend means another oral commitment for the University of Wisconsin football team.
Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, told people attending its convention here on Saturday that the following are myths: that college sports are more about sports than college, that college sports are only about the money and that athletes are pawns, that amateur sports are no more, and that Mr. Brand himself is the czar of college sport
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Ryan MacMurchy had no way of knowing his night would get a lot better. On one of his first shifts, the University of Wisconsin junior forward fired a shot off the goalpost. He shortly thereafter took a penalty and, after being whistled for another infraction only 22 seconds after being freed from the penalty box, he let out a left-handed swipe at air as he took a seat again.
“I was angry,” MacMurchy said. “I’m an emotional player.” Cue the sign-of-maturity alert. Instead of letting his game spiral downhill from there, MacMurchy made a change for the better.
One positive about playing in today’s nationally televised game at the Kohl Center is already a given for the University of Wisconsin’s women’s basketball team.
When Barry Alvarez lobbed that verbal grenade into the mass of University of Wisconsin football humanity seven days ago, my initial reaction was just like many of yours.
NCAA President Myles Brand is calling for sanity where he thinks it has often seemed lacking in big-time college athletics ââ?¬â? in spending. Warning that the days of escalating TV rights fees are near an end and profit margins are shrinking or disappearing.
As long as Denise Ianello is physically in Madison, that’s where her heart will be, too. Ianello will leave her post as University of Wisconsin women’s basketball assistant coach at the end of this season to follow her husband, Rob, to South Bend, Ind. The Notre Dame football program hired him away from the Badgers this week to serve as recruiting coordinator and receivers coach.
But until then, Denise Ianello remains committed to the rebuilding effort under second-year coach Lisa Stone.
Quietly, Boo Wade returned to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team a couple of weeks ago. Quietly, Wade left again Thursday. This time, he left for good.
The Badgers’ 6-foot-3 junior guard from Milwaukee has quit the team for personal reasons and will not return for classes, the school announced in a terse statement issued through the athletic department’s sports information office.
There are no guarantees that Janel McCarville would have come to the University of Wisconsin had Lisa Stone been the coach of the Badgers four years ago.
Heading into his senior year on the University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team, Nick Van Sicklen was pretty confident the 2004 season would be his last competitive hurrah on the pitch.
Junior guard Boo Wade’s career with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team ended Thursday, when he again left the team for personal reasons after appearing in only one game this season.
Guard Boo Wade has left the Wisconsin Badgers basketball team again, this time for good.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – It was fitting that during a frightful night when Purdue’s Mackey Arena was encased in ice, the UW men’s basketball team ended a cold, nasty losing streak by burning down the house with a torrid 3-point shooting barrage.
The final score was 77-68 in the Big Ten Conference opener for both teams here Wednesday night. But the score that may be most remembered from when the Badgers finally ended Purdue’s 33-year, 29-game winning streak over them at Mackey is 45-3.
It should not be a surprise that Barry Alvarez will continue to serve as University of Wisconsin athletic director and football coach in 2005-06.
The decision assistant coach Denise Ianello made to leave the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball staff after this season came down to family.
The last time University of Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez had a staff opening – with the departure of longtime defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove to Nebraska – Alvarez wanted to fill the vacancy with “the best guy who fit” and someone who could positively impact team chemistry.
The ground rules will likely stay the same now that Alvarez is looking to replace tight ends coach Rob Ianello, who has taken a position on Charlie Weis’ fledgling staff at Notre Dame….His wife, Denise Ianello, another solid recruiter, is a member of Lisa Stone’s women’s basketball staff at Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – What better way to make a mother proud than by following in her footsteps at the University of Wisconsin? (Athletic Communications)
The friendship Denise Ianello formed with Jerald Davis has turned to good fortune for the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
If you put together a list of great ideas to come out of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department during its rise to prominence since 1990, a top-10 nominee would be the Badger Showdown men’s hockey tournament.
They arrived at the same place with the same record, but the football teams from Georgia and the University of Wisconsin came from opposite directions.
Barry Alvarez will have to find a way to replace 13 departing senior starters next season.
TAMPA – Hip-hop boomed from speakers sitting atop the SUV, and the beer cooler’s hinges were getting a workout.
University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez will be losing one of the top recruiters on his staff with the decision of tight ends coach Rob Ianello to go to Notre Dame.
Ianello will be the recruiting coordinator and also coach wide receivers under new Fighting Irish coach Charlie Weis.
THERE is a sticker price for a messiah coach. For $16 million, the University of Florida recently banished Ron Zook with a $1.8 million buyout, paid the Utah Utes what amounted to a savior transfer fee of $250,000 and committed $14 million over seven years for Urban Meyer to compete with Steve Spurrier’s visorly ghost.
For more than a month after the ugly regular-season finale, the University of Wisconsin players and coaches had to accept the fact they had twice failed to seize the opportunity to win a conference football title and secure a Rose Bowl berth. They’ll have the entire off-season to deal with the added dissapointment of losing to Georgia, 24-21, in the Outback Bowl.
With only nine of 22 starters returning, the realistic outlook for University of Wisconsin football in 2005 isn�t pretty. Even with a senior-dominated defensive line healthy for the Outback Bowl, UW surrendered 460 total yards. Quarterback John Stocco again struggled early and failed to make enough plays to lead UW to victory. And special-teams breakdowns, particularly on both kickoff units, again cropped up at inopportune times.
Notre Dame officials are expected to announce sometime this week that they have hired University of Wisconsin assistant Rob Ianello to serve as the Irish�s receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.
“…the smart fans, including my group, are purchasing tickets through Ticketmaster or directly from the bowl/game location for good seating since the UW’s seating selection is consistently poor. It should be revised to give season ticket holders better seating options.”
TAMPA, Fla. – University of Wisconsin defensive line coach John Palermo was on a rampage during most of the early bowl practices. Nothing his players did seemed to make him happy.
In Bo Ryan’s world, the non-conference season serves one purpose, and that’s to get the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team prepared for the Big Ten Conference schedule.
The first Outback Bowl touchdowns occurred Wednesday, when hundreds of University of Wisconsin football fans arrived in St. Petersburg and Tampa on five charter flights from the Dane County Regional Airport.
TAMPA, Fla. – There’s no shortage of numbers that stand out when reviewing the storybook tale that is Jim Leonhard’s run at the University of Wisconsin.
…Leonhard is not alone in his ability to put things in their proper perspective, but he’s certainly in the minority in the world of major college athletics. Leonhard and others have managed to remain student-athletes in a landscape dominated by athlete-students.
Bowl games or playoffs? Playoffs or bowl games? With the Bowl Championship Series again under fire and The Associated Press top 25 poll being removed from the formula that determines the BCS rankings, the aforementioned debate isn�t going to die down anytime soon. University of Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez and Georgia coach Mark Richt, participants in the 2005 Outback Bowl, on Tuesday made it clear they do not want to see a playoff system implemented for college football.
TAMPA, Fla. – University of Wisconsin senior cornerback Scott Starks has an appreciation for speed.
Badger football fans and other travelers should expect longer security lines Wednesday at the Dane County Regional Airport, but airport officials say parking shouldn’t be a problem.
Hundreds of red-and-white clad Badger fans will disembark on three charter flights Wednesday morning, heading to Tampa, Fla., for the Outback Bowl.
It’s enough to turn an Optimist into a pessimist.
And it raises the cosmic question: Just what is it worth to sell a bratwurst inside Camp Randall Stadium?
University of Wisconsin football fans headed to Tampa, Fla., for Saturday’s Outback Bowl will be hoping for two things: warm weather (anything above 60 should shake the northern chill) and a Badger victory against Georgia.
TAMPA, Fla. – When Barry Alvarez started in college football, it wasn’t unusual for a head football coach to also be the athletic director.
Barry Alvarez brought in a well-known motivational speaker to address the University of Wisconsin players on Monday and it was none other than Lou Holtz.
TAMPA, Fla. – When the Georgia quarterbacks coach heads to the beach for family reunions, he frequently runs into tourists from Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – The sun came out Monday afternoon and the Wisconsin football team enjoyed another spirited practice as it counts down the days toward its Outback Bowl matchup this Saturday.
I won’t win any fans in Badgerland, but I think the University of Georgia bulldog mascot is cooler than Bucky Badger.
