Former Badgers wide receiver JC Dawkins played for Barry Alvarez and won a Rose Bowl in his time at Wisconsin. But last year, at the age of 46, the unthinkable happened.”For a minute and 39 seconds,” he explained, “my heart had stopped.”
The Badgers, who open their season Thursday at Central Florida, are ranked No. 16 in the preseason United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll.
Cephus was expelled after the 2018 fall semester after an investigation determined he had violated the school’s non-academic misconduct code. He was found not guilty earlier this month of one count of second-degree sexual assault of an intoxicated victim and one count of third-degree sexual assault.
UW-Madison announced its intention in June to remove the statue as part of its plan to redesign the Field House South Plaza.
UW-Madison announced Monday it has reinstated former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus to the university — a year to the day after he told his team he had to step down and face criminal charges.
In a game of personnel change, the element of consistency that the University of Wisconsin football team features on the sideline in 2019 is noteworthy.
Wisconsinites understand the issues associated with the case of Quintez Cephus, and the dilemma facing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. She’ll be damned if she decides to reinstate the former Badger wide receiver and to allow him to attend the university this fall, and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t.
No matter what UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank decides, she will be criticized.
The UW Polo Club team hosted their annual Badger State Polo Cup on Saturday at the Alliant Energy Center to help fundraise for their club and the Wisconsin Large Animal Emergency Response (WLAER).
Cephus’ attorneys: Unless UW’s better angels prevail, Cephus will lose another year of his academic and athletic career based on allegations that jurors overwhelmingly and immediately rejected.
If the matter isn’t resolved quickly, UW’s players and coaches could enter the 2019 season worrying about Cephus and his fate once more.
The special alternate uniforms will be worn against Northwestern on September 28.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team is ranked No. 5 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association preseason poll released Tuesday.
Joan Nieson of Sports Illustrated said her rankings focused on college town environment, landscape, food and drink offerings, culture and music scenes as important factors.
Practicality hasn’t always been the norm in college football’s locker room arms race, where everyone’s trying to get a recruiting edge, but it has taken a prominent spot at UW.
Four members of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team have been chosen to play in a three-game series between under-22 teams of the U.S. and Canada this week.
Cephus’ attorney, Steve Meyer, created quite the stir on Monday by claiming that the University of Wisconsin-Madison had “sent us a clear message they do not want… Cephus to be a student at the university this semester.” Not long after, the university released a statement in which it very stridently pushed back against the attorney’s contention:
The university issued a statement prior to Monday’s press conference saying no decision has been reached on Cephus’ petition and that he would receive the same treatment as any other student.
“He is my blood brother,” Badger inside linebacker and former teammate Chris Orr said. “These are people you live with for years. We know each other inside and out. We truly are a family.”
Attorneys for former Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus said Monday the University of Wisconsin-Madison is “slow walking” its consideration of his request for readmission after being found not guilty of sexual assault.
Similarly, David Bell, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Director of Injury in Sport Laboratory, and a team of researchers, found that highly specialized high school athletes are over twice as likely to suffer lower joint injuries, such as around the hips or knees, relative to their unspecialized counterparts.
The wrong-way driver who crashed into the car of University of Wisconsin men’s assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, killing his wife and their 9-year-old daughter, had a blood-alcohol level more than 2.5 times the legal limit, The Detroit News reported.
The wrong-way driver who caused the auto accident that left Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant Howard Moore with third-degree burns and took the life of his wife and daughter was intoxicated, according to a toxicology report.
Wisconsin’s most notable gifts to the world include cheese, beer and cranberries, but who represents the greatest export in athletics?
That’s mostly an unanswerable question, but if we try to gauge which Wisconsin athletes are the biggest sports stars right now, we can at least arrive at a list.
Officials say Gawlik worked at the University of Wisconsin since 1994 holding various positions including assistant athletics director and deputy Title IX coordinator.
After 25 years with the University of Wisconsin athletic department, Terry Gawlik is leaving to run the athletic program at Idaho.
Cephus, who last week was found not guilty of two sexual assault charges, has asked to be readmitted to UW after being expelled last semester. Cephus’ lawyers filed a petition on his behalf Tuesday and asked for a response by Thursday.
While UW-Madison has not confirmed Cephus’ readmission because of privacy rules, Coach Paul Chryst and the Badgers say they would welcome him back with open arms.
“Yes, if it’s best for Q, – and it truly is for him – then I know his teammates and I know how we feel. We would welcome him back,” Chryst said.
“I’d love for Q to come back,” said running back Jonathan Taylor. “That’s our brother, and we would love to have him back on the field flying around with us again.”
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team will open the 2019-20 season against North Florida Nov. 5 at the Kohl Center, according to the Badgers’ non-conference schedule released Tuesday.
One day after former University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus told the Journal Sentinel he hoped to resume his education and football career, his attorneys announced they would seek to have Cephus readmitted to UW.
Former Wisconsin running back Dare Ogunbowale said on Twitter, “Now that the nonsense is over, there’s no reason for him not to be on the field with the boys this season #LetQTPlay.”
The hashtag “LetQTPlay” surfaced Tuesday on Twitter.
Former University of Wisconsin star and Sheboygan native Sam Dekker will be continuing his pro basketball career in Russia after spending four years with four teams in the NBA.
The wide receiver tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a story published Tuesday that he doesn’t know if he will return to the University of Wisconsin.
A Dane County jury deliberated for less than 45 minutes Friday before finding former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus not guilty of two sexual assault charges.
In December 1996, (Gary) Poels was hired by UW-Madison as an assistant equipment manager. He has an office at the Kohl Center and is in charge of making sure four teams — men’s and women’s basketball, and men’s and women’s swimming — have all the gear and equipment they need for games and practices.
Column: Such a series between perennial top-25 teams, a staple on non-conference schedules well into the 1990s, has become all too rare in college football. If you’re looking for a root cause as to why fans aren’t going to games, having to pay increasingly big bucks to watch a steady stream of unattractive opponents is a really good place to start.
Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Danny Davis, called by prosecutors to testify Thursday in the trial of his former teammate Quintez Cephus, said one of the women who accused Cephus had flirted with Cephus shortly after meeting him for the first time and later said she was angry with herself for hooking up with him.
The Badgers last month started taking advantage of an NCAA rule that affords them 10 offseason practices to prepare for a foreign trip, which the team is taking over Labor Day weekend to play two exhibition games in Vancouver.
Gard announced Wednesday that Alando Tucker has been named an interim assistant coach. That news came two days after Moore’s family released a statement saying Moore is being transferred from a hospital to a long-term care facility following a setback in his recovery from an accident in May that claimed the lives of two of his family members.
The University of Wisconsin announced that all-time leading scorer Alando Tucker will join the men’s basketball coaching staff on an interim basis.
Surveillance video took center stage Tuesday during the first day of the sexual assault trial of former University of Wisconsin Badgers football player Quintez Cephus.
The study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health looked at whether the new rules passed by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association before the 2014 season reduced the rate of sport-related concussions compared to the previous two seasons.
When Wisconsin and Alabama opened the 2015 season at AT&T Stadium in Texas, some UW fans understandably wondered whether the Badgers could ever face the Crimson Tide at Camp Randall Stadium.
A UW-Madison graduate gave it her all on American Ninja Warrior Monday night.
During the transportation to the hospital, Howard underwent cardiac arrest and has been receiving care by the doctors, nurses and staff at the hospital.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore will be moved to a long-term care facility and will sit out of the 2019-2020 season following a car accident in May that took the lives of his daughter and wife.
A jury of eight women and six men will hear opening statements from lawyers Tuesday in the trial of former University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus, who was charged with sexual assault last year involving two women.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore has been moved to a long-term care and rehabilitation facility and won’t coach this season, his family announced in a statement Monday afternoon.
Sex among college students increasingly has raised debate about consent and assault, and that discussion becomes loudest when it involves a high-profile athlete.
Such is the case of Quintez Cephus, a former University of Wisconsin Badgers football player who goes on trial in Madison this week on charges he sexually assaulted two fellow students in the spring of 2018.
Noted: She left gymnastics for pole vaulting after her junior year, and committed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 2018. During college, she was a three-time Big Ten champion and two-time All-American, among many other accolades.
Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman and former University of Wisconsin star Travis Frederick appears ready to return after he was sidelined for all of 2018 while dealing with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a serious nervous system condition.
“That would have devastated most 15-year-old swimmers,” said Sugiyama, now the swimming coach at the University of Wisconsin. “But after the initial shock and disappointment, we focused on the positive — something I’m sure Greg Meehan will be doing — and Katie recovered.”
Former University of Wisconsin soccer player and coach Nick Pasquarello is the new executive director of the W Club and will direct strategic partnerships for the UW Athletic Department.
Football coaches self-scout after every season, whether their team wins a championship or plummets into last place.
Hayes was on track to spend five years at UW, planning to redshirt his freshman year. However, when a teammate was injured, the trajectory of his college career changed.
University of Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor became one of 10 players recognized as a Big Ten preseason honoree Thursday morning.
A knee injury ended his dream of playing football at the University of Wisconsin. After one semester, he dropped out and went to work as a car salesman.
