(Madison) With a 9-0 team Badger’s fans are loving this football season, and celebrating right alongside them are businesses and vendors near Camp Randall. For the last home game, the bars were full, brats were selling, and game goers were loading up on Badger’s gear. Some business owners feel the team’s winning streak is a boost to business.
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Athletic Director and head football coach, Barry Alvarez, publishes a monthly column which discusses topical issues in intercollegiate athletics. This monthââ?¬â?¢s column addresses the 12th game football proposal being discussed nationally. (Athletic Communications)
The greatest honor a University of Wisconsin student-athlete can receive has been bestowed only four times.
The line started Monday morning outside Gate B at the Kohl Center, and it’s been growing all week, possibly at some expense to labs and lectures around the University of Wisconsin campus. Bo Ryan, whose job it is to keep these customers happy, not eligible, is delighted to see it.
(MADISON)Ã? Kids staying at the UW Children’s Hospital got to meet some hometown heroes Thursday. Bucky Badger and members of the University of Wisconsin football team visited patients
This story begins with a 93-year-old former Wisconsin football player, Harold Lautz, who wanted to go to the Illinois game at Camp Randall Stadium because it wasn’t on TV. It will end Saturday with Lautz in a luxury box for the Badgers’ game against Minnesota.
Scott Diffley attended the Super Bowls won and lost by the Green Bay Packers in ’97 and ’98, paying $1,700 and $1,500 to scalpers the day of the game for seats with a face value of about $300…. So when Diffley saw a special season in the making for the UW football team and decided he wanted to go to his first Badgers bowl game, he figured he would face the same situation.
When 2,100 University of Wisconsin students learned at 9:01a.m. Monday they had won men’s season basketball tickets in a lottery, they probably thought their day couldn’t get any better.
Six men arrested after police seized about 13 pounds of cocaine in October were arraigned Monday on indictments issued last week by a federal grand jury.
The pace of play will change and half of the roster is made up of freshmen, but optimism remains a mainstay as Lisa Stone prepares for her second season as coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
MADISON, Wis. – (KRT) – Throughout the campaign season, the color of the state of Wisconsin was in doubt.
Republican red or Democratic blue? Yet it never really mattered on football Saturdays, when Badger backers bleed nothing but cardinal and white.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department and the company that processes the tickets for the school’s athletic events took the extraordinary measure Monday of announcing that the 2,100 students selected to receive season tickets to the men’s basketball games will not be charged.
When 2,100 University of Wisconsin students learned at 9:01 a.m. Monday they had won men’s season basketball tickets in a lottery, they probably thought their day couldn’t get any better.
Well, it did.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin menââ?¬â?¢s basketball team will hold an open scrimmage followed by an autograph session on Sunday, Nov. 7 at the Kohl Center. (Athletic Communications)
The UW-Madison Division of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Monday the students selected for the 2004-’05 UW-Madison men’s basketball season tickets would not be charged.
Winning participants in the University of Wisconsin 2004-05 men�s basketball ticket lottery received a pleasant surprise Monday morning when the Athletic Department announced ticket recipients will receive them free of charge.
Bruce Pearl took his University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers to the Big Dance in 2003, but it wasn’t until this past off-season that he hit the big leagues of fund-raising from Milwaukee’s business elite.
There are many reasons to jump around in Madison. For one, that scary good Badgers football team
The UW Athletic Department announced Thursday that 2,100 students will receive season tickets for the upcoming men’s basketball season after all.
Following a survey conducted by the Athletic Department earlier this week, students voted for the full allotment of season tickets rather than the proposed option of having 1,600 season packages and dividing the remaining 500 into four-game packages for those who lost out on the lottery.
As of Monday, University of Wisconsin students will finally know if they have the winning numbers to the most-talked-about lottery on campus: the raffle to see who will receive season tickets for men�s basketball.
For Jerone Pettus, his disappointments on the gridiron at Wisconsin pale in comparison to his successes off the field.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Board of Directors met on Wednesday and Thursday in Indianapolis to discuss penalties for colleges that fail to attract enough fans to their football games, as well as those with too few athletes passing their courses.
The UW men’s basketball team has been so successful the past few years that ticket demand skyrocketed. So the Athletic Department, after getting much student input, implemented a weighted lottery system to decide who would get tickets. This was a good idea that the fans themselves played a large part in coming up with.
Kansas chancellor Robert Hemenway, chairman of the NCAA Division I Board of Directors, suggested Wednesday the idea of lifetime scholarships for athletes to address ââ?¬Å?inequitiesââ?¬Â in college sports.
…The regular-season finale – Formerly Known As The Big Game – will soon be formally addressed as the SBC Michigan-Ohio State Classic….For a local reference point, TDS Telecommunications is presenting the Border Battle Cup to the winner of the all-sports competition between the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin.
During Monday�s news conference regarding the basketball ticket fiasco, a front row girl walks up to basketball head coach Bo Ryan and puts her arms on his shoulders.
It takes a strange event to turn the heads of people on a campus chock full of oddities such as a six-foot, walking, talking bratwurst mascot. Maybe that�s why nobody questioned their own sanity upon spying some large Hawaiian men taking off on cafeteria trays from the top of a snowy Bascom Hill a couple years back.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Division of Intercollegiate Athletics will hold an on-line vote among the 3,750 UW-Madison students that submitted applications for menââ?¬â?¢s basketball tickets to help finalize the process for distributing 2004-05 tickets. The voting begins Tuesday (Oct. 26) afternoon.
The father of Wisconsin point guard Boo Wade believes his son could be back with the team sometime around the start of the season after clearing up some personal problems.
What’s been lost in the last couple days [in the lottery situation] we believe,” said UW Deputy Athletic Director Jamie Pollard at a town hall-style meeting the Athletic Department held at the Kohl Center Monday, “is how proud we are of the student support.”
The UW-Madison Athletic Department held a press conference Monday to offer a solution for the problems with UW-Madison men’s basketball season tickets. An error with the Athletic Department’s software provider had excluded 625 students from the lottery.
UW Athletic Communications announced yesterday afternoon that junior guard Maurice “Boo” Wade would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from basketball, effective immediately. The resolution was made in light of discussions between Wade and Head Coach Bo Ryan last week.
Sometimes, football brings families together. Like Dennis Bonk, a 1964 UW-Madison graduate and his daughter, Pam Bonk, a 1990 graduate. They spent Saturday tailgating and then watching the Badgers beat Northwestern 24-12.
(MADISON)Ã? — UW athletic officials have a plan for dealing with a glitch in the system to distribute basketball tickets to students.
UW-Madison police ejected 37 fans from Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday’s Homecoming game against Northwestern. The Badgers won 24-12.
In Jake Dowell’s case, the torture of Huntington’s goes beyond seeing his father slip away. Children of a person with the disease have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the gene. Everyone with the gene develops the disease, which rarely strikes before age 35.
Following the suspension of the men�s basketball student ticket distribution due to a computer glitch discovered in the online applications, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department announced it will retry the lottery.
Scholarship athletes are graduating at record rates in most sports, according to a report issued on Monday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In particular, black male basketball players are fast catching up to their white peers and to athletes in other sports.
We have been watching this educational process unfold with officials at the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department since late last week. That’s when its original plan for distributing student season tickets for UW men’s basketball went kerflooey thanks to two computer-related problems.
The competition at point guard during University of Wisconsin men’s basketball practices narrowed by one – at least for now – when coach Bo Ryan said Boo Wade will take an indefinite leave of absence from the team.
Players in the NCAA’s top-tier Division I-A are more likely than ever to leave school with degrees, according to the latest survey of graduation rates compiled by the federal government and released Monday by the NCAA.
Reshuffling college football’s latest BCS rankings, according to each school’s long-term football graduation rate.
A computer glitch apparently is to blame for a major ticketing snafu at the University of Wisconsin. The UW athletic department said in a press release Friday that it has suspended its 2004-05 men’s basketball student ticket process.
It began with a photograph, the official picture of the 1942 University of Wisconsin Badgers, displayed prominently in the den of former Oregon football coach Jerry Frei, an 18-year-old lineman on that team
Madison: The University of Wisconsin has a major ticket problem.
(Madison) Before the game got going� Saturday,� alumni and students had a chance to socialize and get revved up.
Wearing red, and ready to claim their seat in the stadium, some confident fans filed into Camp Randall.
(Madison) Vendors at Camp Randall were having a good day thanks to fans not wanting to enter the stadium in anything but red and white.
(Madison) The UW Athletic Department finds itself without a substantial sum of money.
Over the next two year, $900,000 the Department was counting on receiving from bond payments for Camp Randall, is being allocated elsewhere.
The Big Ten Conference has a very simple mission: “Collection of revenue from various sources and remission to member schools’ athletic departments.”
So says Part III, Item A, of the Big Ten’s Form 990 for the 2002-3 academic year. The form is the document that the league and all nonprofit organizations must make public every year and send to the Internal Revenue Service. (Subscription required.)
UW-Madison students waiting in line outside the Kohl Center for men’s basketball season tickets were sent home Friday afternoon when Athletic Department officials discovered 625 electronic applications submitted online by UW-Madison students were not processed by the computer ticketing system.
For 24 University of Wisconsin students, their ââ?¬Å?campingââ?¬Â experience at the Kohl Center came to a lucky end Oct. 29.
The 2004-05 men�s basketball student ticket lottery was suspended Friday afternoon after University of Wisconsin athletic department officials learned that 625 students who submitted electronic applications were not included in the selection process.
A town-hall style meeting, which
University of Wisconsin Athletic Deparment officials issued an apology this morning for a technology breakdown that stalled confirmation e-mails for UW student who had applied for 2004-05 men’s basketball tickets. (10/22/04 Capital Times print edition)
A former star running back at the University of Wisconsin and a man who beat an attempted murder rap are among six people arrested in a huge Dane County cocaine bust.
Dan Ginsburg is a die-hard fan of the University of Wisconsin men�s basketball team.
He�s traveled to away games. He hasn�t missed a home game in the last four seasons. And he�s even camped out for more than five weeks to grab the best seats in the Kohl Center.
A second-round pick (38th overall) last year, former Badger Al Johnson was penciled in as the Cowboys’ starting center as a rookie, only to suffer a right knee injury a week into training camp.
After reviewing the on-campus recruiting practices of their 23 programs, University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials have prepared an umbrella policy to satisfy a new NCAA edict
T.J. Wielebski, a solid student, opted to enroll at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and walk-on to the football team.
He said last week it’s the best decision he ever made.
