Category: Athletics

Additionally the study found in a statewide sample of approximately 30,000 student-athletes a lower rate of COVID-19 contraction than what has been reported by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for 14- to 17-year-olds overall.

Public Health Madison and Dane County last week did walk-throughs of Regent Street businesses in Madison — near Camp Randall Stadium, where the Badgers will host Illinois beginning at 7 p.m. Friday — to make sure bars weren’t behaving as restaurants and allowing indoor dining.

Black student athletes, at UW-Madison and beyond, have long demanded more seats at the table within a college athletics system that uniquely depends on them for success and survival. But even at a university with a long tradition of student activism, student athletes leading protesters across campus was a “demonstration of solidarity that we’ve never seen before,” said associate athletic director Mike Jackson in an interview with NBC15 News at the protest.

“It’s definitely going to be different,” UW safety Collin Wilder recently during a Zoom session. “Camp Randall is not going to be the same without 85,000 fans there. We’re definitely going to miss them and I’m going to miss my family being able to be there.

The decisions that most affect the University of Wisconsin football team’s season won’t be made on the field.

Wisconsin holds it’s first official practice for upcoming season, headlined by experience.

After this football season passes, fans can also have their Bucky Board make its way to the Kohl Center or Labahn Arena for hockey and basketball.

Before a date was set for the Badgers’ first game, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced there would be no spectators at Camp Randall Stadium until further notice due to the state’s recent surge in coronavirus cases.

The Badgers are going back to their high school football days for their season opener.

The University of Wisconsin, Madison has picked up a new in-state verbal commitment for the 2022-23 season and beyond from local standout Anna teDuits of Fitchburg, Wisc.

“I missed two calls,” Alvarez said through laughs during his monthly radio show that aired on 1310 WIBA and Learfield/IMG College Wednesday night. “I said to my wife, who is POTUS? POTUS tried to call me. She started laughing. POTUS is trying to call.”

In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations throughout the state, UW-Madison announced only essential personnel will be allowed to attend the season opener at Camp Randall.

Today, UW-Madison announced that only essential personnel will be allowed to attend the game against Illinois at Camp Randall.  Previously it had been announced that families of players and coaches would be able to attend.

This change will limit attendance inside of Camp Randall from about 1,500 people to only players and coaches of both teams, essential public safety and stadium operations personnel and some broadcasters and journalists.

The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey locker room is a different place these days.

The pads are on as UW football started fall camp on Wednesday.

“This is a time of great complexity and challenge for colleges and universities,” Blank said. “I look forward to working with my colleagues to address the many important issues affecting our student athletes and our athletic programs.”

While the 2020 season is scheduled to occur without fans, the Badger Band, or university-sponsored tailgates, Governor Tony Evers said he believes the Big Ten Conference should do more to discourage fans from having large watch parties or crowding bars to watch games, which begin the weekend of October 23-24.

The University of Wisconsin athletic department has been fortunate to celebrate myriad achievements on the field and  courts in the last 26 months.

There are a few things you can count on on the Madison campus during a fall weekend. The farmers’ market on the square of the state Capitol; music blasting from apartments, fraternity houses and bars in the hours before a football game, and the mass migration of tens of thousands of fans wearing red T-shirts toward Camp Randall Stadium.

The Badger football players are ecstatic that the Big Ten reversed course and is playing this fall. Three of the Badger football players spoke with the media via zoom on Friday about getting the season underway.

Following Wednesday’s announcement that Big Ten football will resume in late October, several Madison and Dane county officials have voiced concerns that the return of Badger football could lead to an increase in cases of COVID-19.

Longtime chaplain of the Wisconsin Badgers football team, Msgr. Michael L. Burke, also known as “Father Mike” died Saturday night at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison. He was 72 years old.

Shortly after it was announced that the Big Ten conference had backtracked and the University of Wisconsin-Madison would be playing football this year, the team’s Twitter account tweeted a meme video of a group of people celebrating in a crowded bar during a soccer game in 2016. 

“You love to see it,” the tweet said.

Except in 2020, amid a local spike of COVID-19 cases, that image takes on a whole new meaning. 

Video: University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, who was the football scheduling chair of the Big Ten’s return-to-competition task force, discusses the conference’s plan to resume football during a Zoom call Wednesday morning.

Ellenson is a former member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison basketball team.