The Wisconsin football team lost an opportunity to play in the $14 million Rose Bowl when it stumbled through the final two games of the season. In the process, UW lost a Big Ten Championship, a Bowl Championship Series appearance and plenty of luster in its 2004 campaign. However, neither the university nor Athletic Department lost a single dime.
Madison – Despite suffering a dip in productivity in the final two regular-season games because of injury, University of Wisconsin senior Erasmus James continues to reel in post-season honors.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Receiver Lee Evans learned the value of staying patient a long time ago.
Coach Pete Waite has watched the maturation of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team from a wide-eyed group featuring 11 freshmen and sophomores to an NCAA tournament qualifier receiving home-court advantage this weekend.
That edge at the UW Field House cannot be underestimated, either.
Many University of Wisconsin students� hopes of traveling to Pasadena died with the Badger football team�s loss to Iowa Nov. 20. However, the UW athletic department began accepting requests for student tickets Wednesday for Wisconsin�s game against the University of Georgia New Year�s Day in the Outback Bowl.
UW associate athletic director
Barry Alvarez lived the fantasy of every golf lover on the planet Monday when he played 18 at Augusta National, home of the Masters.
But instead of breaking par on the famed layout in Augusta, Ga., Alvarez will remember the round because he managed to break something else: His right foot.
Ask University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves for his greatest experience behind the bench and he will refer you to last season.
That’s when he took a month-long sabbatical from running the show at UW to guide Team USA to its first gold medal in the World Junior Championships.
The family of the late ABC sports cameraman Richard Umansky sued the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents for negligence Monday after he died from a falling accident at UW�s Camp Randall.
It has taken seven years, but the University of Wisconsin football team has a chance at redemption for its worst bowl performance in 15 years under head coach Barry Alvarez.
The University of Wisconsin football coaches can begin studying Georgia video full time, 24/7 if they choose. The Georgia Bulldogs, ranked seventh in the coaches’ poll and seventh in the writers’ poll, will face Wisconsin in the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl in Tampa.
Carl Anthony Silvestri, age 61, entered into the fullness of eternal life on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004. Carl graduated from UW-Madison in 1965, and was a member of the famed 1963 Rose Bowl team.
The biggest ski and snowboard resale in the Midwest begins Saturday in the second floor Tripp Commons at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
Despite a fourth-place finish in the Big Ten Conference, the University of Wisconsin volleyball team earned the right to host first- and second-round NCAA Tournament games by being awarded one of the tournament’s top 16 seeds.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Sixty-one seconds into the game, Brooks Bollinger strapped on his helmet and ran onto the field.
He’d gotten the call, an unexpected call to take over at quarterback after Jets starter Quincy Carter took a shot to the head.
The Wisconsin men�s football team was officially extended an invitation to the 2005 Outback Bowl last Tuesday. The Badgers will square off with an as-yet-undetermined opponent from the South-Eastern Conference in the New Year�s Day event in Tampa, Fla.
If you listen to local sports-talk radio or visit Badger-crazy Internet chat boards, it appears there are two prevalent takes – with bipolar viewpoints – on the season….The cynics argue that Barry Alvarez… and his highly paid staff aren’t giving the UW enough bang for their buck.
Donald L. Meyer, age 85, of Verona, died on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004. He retired from the UW Madison Athletic Department after 40 years of working in the ticket office.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans who are clamoring for more of the Badgers’ games to be televised this season are finding out what broadcast rights can mean these days. For instance, those rights can mean making sure some games aren’t televised for the sake of programming.
At this time last year, Jordan Wilson’s game took a jump up under the moon over Miami.
During the Miami Thanksgiving Classic in the suburb of Coconut Grove, Wilson first emerged as a force on both ends of the court for the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
It was big news earlier this month that Ohio State provides 83 parties associated with its athletic department – administrators, coaches, spouses – with courtesy cars from a host of auto dealers in Ohio.
After letting a berth in the Rose Bowl slip through their fingers, Barry Alvarez and his players didnââ?¬â?¢t have to wait long to learn their bowl destination. UW_madison officials accepted a an invitation to play in Tampa’s Outback Bowl on Jan. 1.
It’s roughly 2,533 miles from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., to Raymond James Stadium, home of the Outback Bowl, in Tampa, Fla.
Alvarez is one of two in Division I athletics who manages both the head coaching and athletic director roles. The other is Watson Brown, the head football coach at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Brown took over the UAB coaching ranks in 1995 and then the athletic director position in 2002. According to UAB’s Senior Women’s Adminstrator and Associate Athletic Director Rosalind Ervin, Alvarez and Brown share a common trait that has allowed them to be successful early in their tenures.
MADISON) — The final play of Saturday’s game ended the blowout of the Badgers in Iowa.
No roses for the red and white. Instead, it looks as if they’ll be heading for Tampa, Florida.
Just win.
Those were essentially the two simple yet astute words from former UW Athletic Director Pat Richter to his successor Barry Alvarez before handing over the reins on April 1 and to date, Alvarez is living up to the mandate of his predecessor.
For many, Badger fandom is life at the University of Wisconsin. Students use Badger football and basketball games as opportunities to escape the rigorous pressures of academic life. Traditions have been built and upheld by fans, while UW student sections have gained notoriety for their enthusiasm and are considered among the best in the nation.
A University of Wisconsin football chant uses two of the seven words George Carlin told us you couldn’t say on television. (Login required.)
(CBS)Ã? It’s game night for the University of Wisconsin Badgers and the pressure’s on the team’s charismatic center Jake Dowell.
This sophomore is such a gifted athlete that the NHL has come calling, but tonight Dowell is giving it his all for his biggest fan, his father. (W/video.)
MADISON, Wis. – The NCAA Honors committee announced Mark Johnson, Wisconsin womenââ?¬â?¢s hockey head coach, as a recipient of the 2005 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award.
MADISON – Kinnick Stadium has been downright brutal to the University of Wisconsin football team over the last 50 years.
For that matter, so have some of the Iowa Hawkeyes fans.
WHAT A difference a year makes. It was just last fall that UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley was grimly releasing e-mails sent to the university by football fans from Ohio State and Purdue who had traveled to Madison and come away shaken by the experience….Wiley was concerned enough to go door to door personally in student areas, asking for help and restraint. It appears to have worked, at least judging by a column last week in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
MADISON, Wis. – It didnââ?¬â?¢t take long for the bulldozers to begin Phase 2 of the Camp Randall Stadium renovation. Within an hour after the final football game Nov. 6, Breese Terrace was closed to two-way traffic, and the west and east side stadium construction started promptly on Monday. (Athletic Communications)
The Rolling Out the Red Carpet campaign, an initiative launched to promote sportsmanship and curb growing hostility toward fans of opposing teams, has been moderately successful, according to UW-Madison officials.
There isn’t much about Jim Leonhard that can be described as big. He stands only 5-8. His hometown of Tony, Wis., has a population of 105.
New pregame and in-game features will enhance the Kohl Center experience for spectators at UW-Madison athletic events, such as tonight’s exhibition between the 21st-ranked Badger men’s basketball team and UW-Platteville.
The Capital One Bowl in Orlando, Fla., has always coveted a chance to land the University of Wisconsin football team.
“Dear Editor: On the heels of our final Badger football home game of the season, I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to the nearly half-million fans who supported us at Camp Randall Stadium this fall….You are the best fans in all of college football….” (Barry Alvarez, 11/15/04 Capital Times print edition)
A state appeals court Thursday upheld a decision that UW-La Crosse didn’t violate the state open meetings law in naming Veterans Memorial Stadium and its field after a former coach.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “Rolling Out the Red Carpet” community-wide campaign to build new, welcoming traditions for all sports fans is paying dividends. Lost amid Wisconsin’s perfect home football record in splashy, renovated Camp Randall Stadium is what can be summed up as a game-day atmosphere that is the envy of many others. (Athletic Communications)
MADISON, Wis. – Looking at the outside of the new UW Crew House, one cannot tell all that is going on inside as the end of construction draws ever nearer and the fall racing season wraps up
The good news just keeps coming for Wisconsin basketball fans. Following an impressive exhibition victory on Wednesday night, Head Coach Bo Ryan announced Thursday that he has secured three top players for the 2006 recruiting class.
MADISON, Wis. – Head menââ?¬â?¢s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced Thursday that high school seniors Joe Krabbenhoft, Marcus Landry and Phillip ââ?¬Å?Mickeyââ?¬Â Perry have signed national letters of intent to attend the University of Wisconsin and play basketball for the Badgers beginning in the fall of 2005. (Athletic Communications)
Saturday was my last Badger football game as a student. Noting the occasion, I took a little extra time to walk around Camp Randall and the surrounding neighborhoods to take my last glimpse of the notorious pre-game revelry.
University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Lisa Stone replenished the roster with recruits, and did so with a combination that provides depth and the top players available.
When Maurice Clarett lit the fuse and rolled that stink bomb into the Ohio State football headquarters Tuesday, you could smell it at Camp Randall Stadium.
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team won’t use any of the experimental rules that the NCAA wanted to look at during exhibition games this season.
(MADISON) — The bowl buzz continues for the undefeated Badgers. But some dieââ?¬â??hard fans looking to score tickets to a bowl gameââ?¬Â¦ may be disappointed.
How creative did a Gopher fan have to be to get a ticket to Saturday’s sold-out UW- Madison football game against Minnesota at Camp Randall Stadium?
To say that the talent level of this year’s national class of high school seniors is a bit down is like saying Tom Daschle’s loss in a Senate election last week was a bit of an upset. Recruiting analyst Van Coleman chuckled when he sized up the basketball talent in the Midwest and said, “Let’s face it, where’s the most talent in the Big Ten area this year? It might be in Wisconsin.”
In 1993, President Clinton appointed Donna Shalala as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. After serving eight years and becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history, Shalala was selected as the University of Miami’s President
Tall Black shooting guard Kirk Penney has turned his back on Europe and will attempt to fulfill his basketball dream via the NBA Development League.
The Wisconsin offense revolves around the running game, and for the past four seasons the Wisconsin running game has revolved around Anthony Davis.
Just as we all have a personal code of ethics, we also have moments when we wish we didn’t.
Barry Alvarez is no different.
Fans hoping to enjoy a leisurely tailgating breakfast at the UW-Madison football team’s Saturday destination in East Lansing, Mich., face a five-hour limit on their pregame gatherings.
MADISON, WIS. — Saturday afternoon, a member of the Gophers football traveling party looked around Camp Randall Stadium and asked, “How do you compete with this?”
Sunday’s scrimmage provides the first peek at a University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team brimming with lofty expectations, yet filled with question marks.
A group of patients with neurological diseases have rented an airplane with a banner to fly over the Badgers football game today.
Four years ago, Scott Starks was a wide-eyed freshman cornerback who sat and listened as senior linebacker Nick Greisen addressed his University of Wisconsin teammates the night before his final game at Camp Randall Stadium.
Once a year, Madison police officers face the task of controlling revelers as they parade down State Street in wigs, face paint and elaborate getups. It’s not Halloween, it’s Homecoming weekend, again, at the University of Wisconsin, and for Badger football fans there is no better place to be than the capital city. Waking to the obtrusive noise of an alarm clock (set 20 minutes ahead to allow for optimal snooze button usage), some fans feel they can never be too prepared for an exciting day of fun, friends and … work?
Katie Neuberger already had Badger basketball player Mike Wilkinson’s signature on the white Badger shirt she wore with his number, 54.
