Category: Athletics

Their deaths have prompted student-athletes across the country to come forward and share their own struggles with mental health.

Six players for the University of Wisconsin, as well as former UW quarterback Jack Coan, agreed to free-agent deals after the conclusion of the 2022 NFL draft.

The Denver Broncos may not have a pick in the first round of the NFL Draft, but there’s been some school spirit swirling around the team in the days leading up to the draft.

Running back Melvin Gordon officially re-signed with Denver on April 27, but the Broncos announced their intentions earlier in the week on Twitter by posting this photo of Gordon and Russell Wilson posing together after a game between the Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks when Wilson was still with Seattle. The two have on different jerseys in the photos, but they’re both flashing ‘W’ signs with their hands, signifying the time when they wore the same jersey at the University of Wisconsin.

The 40th annual Crazylegs race is back this Saturday. NBC15 sports director Mike Jacques and chief meteorologist Charlie Shortino will be the emcees at the event.

“YouDub Marketplace” will give business partners a platform to access UW-Madison’s student-athlete profiles and negotiate potential NIL opportunities.

The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s coaching staff won’t return intact after the second-worst season in the team’s modern era.

Former Wisconsin running back coach Gary Brown passed away Sunday evening at the age of 52, according to Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Brown underwent two bouts with cancer, including after the 2019 season when he was not retained by the Cowboys. He underwent immunotherapy and did not coach in 2020, prior to coming to Wisconsin.

Kit Saunders-Nordeen had an interesting definition of fun. It involved fighting for fairness, fighting for funding, fighting for respect and best of all, eventually winning all those fights. But when UW-Madison’s first director of women’s athletics spoke of the challenges she faced building a program from the ground up, she was known to add three little words about the experience: “Wasn’t it fun?”

Turns out there’s more than a trophy and a banner that comes with winning a national championship. Over the past few months the Badgers have been lauded and applauded at the Kohl Center, Lambeau Field, Fiserv Forum, the State Capitol and the chancellor’s residence. Still to come is a trip to American Family Field this summer.

“Wisconsin men’s basketball guard Brad Davison has been granted a sixth year of eligibility from the NCAA and will return to Wisconsin for the 2022-23 season,” the Badgers announced. “Davison was awarded a medical hardship for his 2017-18 season that was marred by a reoccurring shoulder injury.”

The Badgers played UW-Green Bay on Tuesday night at Beaver Dam High School in a spring practice scrimmage, attracting a little under 2,500 fans — a sold-out crowd — to the school’s state of the art fieldhouse that opened in January 2018.

If you place a mic in front of Bonnie Oleson, she’ll feel right at home.For nearly two and a half decades, Bonnie Oleson has been the public address announcer for several UW sports including volleyball and women’s basketball. She added another team to the mix on March 24: the 2020-2021 NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks.

Wisconsin men’s basketball fans felt a sweet ride to Chicago was in sight. However, Iowa State re-routed both the Badgers and their fanbase back home with a bitter taste.

Badger fans are traveling down the road to cheer on their home team. They showed game day-level spirit Thursday afternoon at open practice. The free event at Fiserv Forum came ahead of Wisconsin men’s basketball team opening the NCAA tournament play on Friday against the Colgate Raiders.

Johnny Davis earned Big Ten Player of the Year honors by both media and the conference’s coaches on Tuesday. UW’s Greg Gard won the Coach of the Year award in votes by both media and the conference’s coaches, while Brad Davison, Tyler Wahl and Chucky Hepburn also earned all-conference honors. That’s four Badgers players named to a team despite no player earning any recognition in the preseason.

Over a month after the original incident, a Tweet identified former University of Wisconsin student Eric Kotek as the individual who made racist gestures toward the student section at a Northwestern basketball game Jan. 18, 2022.

The south end zone is adding a premium seating section for special events

Wisconsin Badgers star sophomore Johnny Davis was named The Associated Press Player of The Year in the Big Ten Conference and first-team All-Big Ten by both the coaches and media.

Badger fans knew it all along, but now its official: Johnny Davis is the Big Ten player of the year.

Cindy Bremser arrived on campus only a couple years after the implementation of Title IX, which forbid gender discrimination at federally funded institutions. Bremser was an All-American track runner at UW-Madison but wasn’t recruited by someone. She was recruited by something.”[It was] handwritten note that said they were looking for people to join the track team. There was a time and a date so I showed up,” said Bremser.

Former Wisconsin Badger hockey star Sarah Nurse made a statement in Beijing helping lead Team Canada to a 2022 gold medal. She’s also been a playmaker well before then by using her voice to promote diversity and inclusion in the sport.

Juwan Howard, the head coach of men’s basketball at the University of Michigan, has been suspended and fined after slapping an assistant coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team in the head after his team’s loss on Sunday, The New York Times reported, citing the Big Ten collegiate athletic conference.

Following the Big Ten’s official announcement which included fines and suspensions, UW Athletic Director Chris McIntosh issued a statement calling the $10,000 fine to be a “Wisconsin fine” and not a “Greg Gard fine.” McIntosh went on to add the university will assume the responsibility for paying the fine.

Michigan men’s basketball head coach Juwan Howard will be suspended for five games, through the end of the regular season, after he tried to throw a punch at Wisconsin’s assistant coach.

The end of the game was marred by an exchange of punches from players on both teams. Michigan head coach Juwan Howard and Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard got in each others’ faces before the fight, and Howard appeared to slap Wisconsin assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft in the face.

Michigan coach Juwan Howard slapped Badgers assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft after he disagreed with a timeout by Greg Gard following Sunday’s game. The conflict began when Wisconsin coach Greg Gard and Howard began exchanging words in the handshake line, at which point players and coaches began crowding around them.

Coach Gard’s late-game timeout and alleged touching of Juwan Howard sparked an eye-opening altercation after Sunday afternoon’s game.