Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst has landed his No. 1 target for UW’s new offensive coordinator:
Bobby Engram.
According to a UW source, the Executive Committee of the UW Board of Regents on Friday approved Engram’s compensation package.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved standard contract extensions for three fall sports coaches.
The five-year contracts of football coach Paul Chryst, volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield and women’s soccer coach Paula Wilkins were extended by one year to January 31, 2027.
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Head football coach Paul Chryst’s five-year contract was extended through Jan. 31 of 2027.
Andrew Ernst has worked with Team USA Bobsled and Skeleton for the past six years.
Football’s Paul Chryst, volleyball’s Kelly Sheffield and women’s soccer’s Paula Wilkins now have five-year deals running through the 2026 season after the board approved recommendations by athletic department administrators in a closed session.
According to multiple reports, Bobby Engram is leaving that position in order to become the offensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin.
Bobby Engram’s hire as the University of Wisconsin football team’s offensive coordinator is imminent and could become official as soon as Friday.
Chucky Hepburn only had one brother for the first 10 years of life, but he added a new one when Vincent Burns came around.
A University of Wisconsin fan was removed from a basketball game at Northwestern University this week after he made anti-Asian racist gestures at a crowd of Northwestern fans.
The team lost a plethora of different coaches during the 2021 offseason, and it appears it will be that way again in 2022. After announcing that they had parted ways with defensive coordinator Don Martindale, it was reported Tom VanHaaren and Jamison Hensley of ESPN that the University of Wisconsin is targeting current Baltimore tight ends coach Bobby Engram to be their next offensive coordinator.
There are several programs that can attempt to lay claim to the mantra “running back U”, but it’s pretty difficult to argue against the University of Wisconsin as the true home to RBU.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has barred a fan from ever again buying tickets to an athletic event for his conduct at a basketball game at Northwestern University.
Winning a national championship is a dream come true — but for UW coaches, it’s also a big payday. On top of his $362,000 salary, University of Wisconsin-Madison volleyball head coach Kelly Sheffield earned a bonus of about $109,000 for winning the national championship in 2021, plus a bonus of about $18,000 for winning the Big Ten, according to the UW Post Season Bonus Policy.
A University of Wisconsin fan who made a racist gesture directed at Asian-American fans during the UW men’s basketball game against Northwestern on Tuesday has been banned from UW athletic events going forward.
It appears that the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team won’t be able to reschedule both of last week’s postponed home games against St. Thomas.
When Cindy Cheng first saw the TikTok video of a Badgers fan taunting Asian American students at Northwestern University with a slant eyes gesture, she hoped it would turn into a learning opportunity. UW Athletics has since barred the person, who is not a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, from purchasing tickets for athletics events on its platform. But Cheng, a history and Asian American studies professor at UW-Madison, said the racist act should additionally serve as a teaching moment on the gesture’s harm — not necessarily a personal condemnation of the person.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Athletic Director Chris McIntosh have condemned a UW fan’s actions during Tuesday’s Badgers men’s basketball game at Northwestern.
A University of Wisconsin fan who made a racist gesture directed at Asian-American fans during the UW men’s basketball game against Northwestern on Tuesday has been banned from UW athletic events going forward.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has banned a fan who was caught on video making racist gestures during a basketball game between the Badgers and the Northwestern University Wildcats from buying tickets to future sporting events, the university said Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin has banned from all athletic events an individual accused of “abhorrent anti-Asian activities” during Tuesday’s men’s basketball road game versus Northwestern.
The individual is not a UW-Madison student or employee and will be notified that they are no longer welcome at any future UW Athletics event. The individual is prohibited from purchasing tickets through the athletic department.
Not only have an unprecedented 10 former or future UW women’s hockey players been selected to play for the U.S. or Canada in Beijing next month, another familiar face from the back of a Badgers bench will be there.
UW athletics responded via a tweet saying: “We are deeply disturbed by this behavior and find it abhorrent & disgusting. This is no representation of what it means to be a Badger. We denounce any acts of racism or discrimination. We applaud Northwestern for removing this individual. His actions have no place at our events.”
“We are deeply disturbed by this behavior and we find it abhorrent and disgusting,” the University of Wisconsin Athletics said in a Twitter statement responding to the video.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh is redesigning his administrative team.
UW officials announced Friday that Marcus Sedberry, the senior associate athletic director for student-athlete success at Baylor, and Mitchell Pinta, the National Football League’s director of business development and partnership management, are joining the UW athletic department as deputy athletic directors.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh filled out his senior staff by naming two deputies Friday. Marcus Sedberry will lead internal operations and Mitchell Pinta will be in charge of external affairs.
The pregame entrance of University of Wisconsin men’s hockey players to the Kohl Center ice in 2022 happens amid spotlights, smoke machines and a video board spectacle.
Michigan? It’s just getting good, Khakipants. After some challenging, underachieving times, Wolverines had themselves a thriller of a season. There were big wins over Iowa, Penn State and fine—an early rout of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Michigan captured its first Big Ten title since 2004 and was one of four teams to make the Nick Saban College Football Invitational. Blah blah blah, and so on.
Games originally scheduled for Saturday and Sunday between the top-ranked Badgers and the Tommies were called off on Wednesday because of COVID-19 cases in the St. Thomas program.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s weekend series against the University of St. Thomas has been scratched. The Badgers’ athletics department explained the two-game set was called off because of COVID-19 concerns within the Tommies.
The coming season for the University of Wisconsin promises to be special one for the Badgers. For starters, the players will take the field for the first time on the newly dubbed Barry Alvarez Field. However, because of schedule changes announced by the Big Ten on Tuesday, the conference opponents who will be coming to Camp Randall to play on that field has been completely switched – except for the most important one.
Turning the tide for UW–Madison women’s basketball may be Moseley’s most formidable task yet. The Badgers have had losing records for 10 consecutive seasons.
Former Loyola Chicago coach Neil Jones has been hired as the seventh men’s soccer coach at the University of Wisconsin. Jones, a former New Zealand international as a player, was 81-54-24 and won the Missouri Valley Conference twice in nine seasons with Loyola.
The results can’t be considered shocking: Ticket usage was down 8% for the season compared to 2019, and three of the seven games were among the 10 smallest crowds since 2006, when data for ticket scans started being tracked.
Jones was previously the head coach at Loyola University Chicago.
Pewaukee native T.J. Watt has entered rare NFL company. His name is now at the top of the NFL single-season sack list.
The Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker and former University of Wisconsin star tied Michael Strahan’s mark of 22½ sacks in a season when he wrapped up Baltimore quarterback Tyler Huntley for a loss on a 1st-and goal from the 3-yard line with 23 seconds left in the second quarter Sunday in Baltimore.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team postponed games against No. 17 Ohio State set for Friday and Saturday because of at least one COVID-19 case within the Badgers program.
After the sun had set and the temperature fell, conditions were perfect to make Wisconsinites feel at home in the desert, and it didn’t take long for the Badger Band to warm them up.
While the Wisconsin Badgers football team is focused on bringing a win home from their trip to the Las Vegas Bowl, a handful of players took some time Tuesday to meet with fans.
If there’s one thing Wisconsin sports fans do well, it’s travel. As the Badgers get ready to take on Arizona State in the Las Vegas Bowl, Badger Red popped up across the Las Vegas Strip as fans took in the sights and sounds ahead of the game.
While the latest surge of coronavirus cases has interrupted winter exhibition game plans, several former Wisconsin Badgers are training and vying for roster spots on Olympic hockey teams.
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team’s game against Purdue scheduled for Thursday at the Kohl Center will not be played, it was announced Monday.
The University of Wisconsin’s women’s basketball team has canceled its second consecutive game because of positive COVID-19 tests within the program. On Monday, the university announced the Dec. 30 matchup against Big Ten rival Purdue at the Kohl Center will not be played and UW gave no indication that it would be re-scheduled.
The latest COVID-19 wave has hit the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
UW officials announced that the Badgers’ game set for Thursday night against George Mason has been canceled because of positive COVID-19 tests in the UW program.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not travel to Las Vegas for UW’s bowl game.
McIntosh must quarantine for 10 days.
“I would encourage everyone to follow the advice of medical professionals and get vaccinated, boosted, tested and wear a mask,” McIntosh said. “Those mitigation measures may not keep us from contracting COVID, but there’s a good chance they will keep us from having a severe outcome.”
The latest COVID-19 wave that is sweeping across the University of Wisconsin campus has affected the UW football team.
Multiple sources close to the program told the Journal Sentinel Saturday both players and staffers tested positive in recent days and that the Badgers would be short-handed when they face Arizona State Thursday in the Las Vegas Bowl.
Bryson Williams’ life changed in 2019.
The young nose tackle was preparing for his sophomore season that summer when he learned his application to the University of Wisconsin School of Business had been denied.
“That was the eye-opener for me,” Williams acknowledged. “I said: ‘Let’s get working. Let’s get going.’”
The best tribute to this program will be to remake the upper tier of the Field House in Madison safer with more capacity and comfortable seating. Anyone who has climbed around pillars and ducked under eaves in the upper deck can tell you that it’s not for the faint of heart or physically challenged, especially many older fans.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team has called off its game Wednesday against Eastern Illinois due to COVID-19 cases in the Badgers’ program.
“I would encourage everyone to follow the advice of medical professionals and get vaccinated, boosted, tested and wear a mask,” McIntosh said. “Those mitigation measures may not keep us from contracting COVID, but there’s a good chance they will keep us from having a severe outcome.”
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team was forced to cancel its game against George Mason, which was scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday at the Kohl Center, because of positive COVID-19 tests within the Badgers’ program.
The celebrations continued Wednesday for Badger Volleyball after the team won their first National Championship Saturday.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team has called off its game Wednesday against Eastern Illinois due to COVID-19 cases in the Badgers’ program. The women’s team was set to face off against the Panthers on Thursday at the Kohl Center.
Rashada said he did some of his own research to make sure he was allowed to explore endorsement deals. He also worked with an adviser, Ethan Weinstein, to help secure his first deal. Weinstein is a college junior who represents a handful of college athletes in NIL deals. He has previously worked in the University of Wisconsin recruiting office and interned with agent Drew Rosenhaus.
The Badgers will play George Mason at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Kohl Center. Tickets remain valid despite the change in opponent.
Nearly 1.2 million people tuned in to watch the Wisconsin Badgers women’s volleyball team take home their first national championship Saturday night, setting a record for the most-watched women’s college volleyball match ever on ESPN, the network said Tuesday.
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team is searching for a new opponent for Thursday at the Kohl Center after Morgan State notified the Badgers on Monday that it can’t travel due to COVID-19 complications within its program.
While the majority of his University of Wisconsin men’s basketball teammates focused on resting and finishing finals during a scheduled week off between games, Vogt traveled to Mayfield to help his community after much of the city was devastated by a tornado Dec. 10.
Chayla Edwards is a defender with the NCAA national champion University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, where she played in all 21 games during the championship campaign.
