Last month, Wisconsin sophomore Jonathan Taylor was named the best running back in the Big Ten Conference. On Thursday, Taylor was named the best running back in the nation when he won the Doak Walker Award.
Jonathan Taylor’s Heisman Trophy chances slipped further from reality as the University of Wisconsin continued to fall down — and eventually out of — the national rankings.
Five University of Wisconsin football players earned Associated Press All-Big Ten first-team honors when the teams were released Wednesday, including the only unanimous selection in the conference.
Sophomores Dana Rettke and Sydney Hilley and redshirt junior Madison Duello were named to the all-region team, while junior Tiffany Clark and senior Tionna Williams received honorable mention.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face its second consecutive West Coast Conference opponent when NCAA tournament regional play begins Friday.
The University of Wisconsin football team will once again end its season against Miami.
Sunday we will know in which bowl game the Wisconsin Badger football team will play.
As one would expect after a 14-point comeback in the fourth quarter, the University of Wisconsin football team’s triple-overtime victory at Purdue on Nov. 17 sent its locker room into a rambunctious celebration.
Two University of Wisconsin offensive players were named the best in the Big Ten at their position Wednesday.
Three members of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team were named Wednesday to the All-Big Ten Conference first team.
University of Wisconsin inside linebacker T.J. Edwards earned first-team All-Big Ten honors when the conference’s defensive teams were announced Tuesday on BTN Live.
As an undergraduate at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, Sheridan Blanford first became interested in diversity and inclusion in relation to athletics after being the only woman of color on the college’s woman’s basketball team all four years.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team earned the No. 6 seed in the NCAA tournament and will host UW-Green Bay in a first-round match Thursday at the UW Field House.
His influence off the field reaches much further. Dixon earned a spot as one of 13 finalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which annually recognizes the best football scholar-athlete in the nation—partly for his community activities that include mentoring youth at a correctional center, developing a program for student-athletes aimed at reducing the stigma of seeking mental health services and speaking to community and youth groups. Dixon was also nominated to the 2018 American Football Coaches Association Good Works team.
Three days after becoming the fourth University of Wisconsin athlete to win an NCAA men’s individual cross country title, senior Morgan McDonald was named the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Athlete of the Year, the organization announced Tuesday.
After blowing out Memphis and Hofstra in the opening two rounds of the NCAA women’s soccer tournament, the University of Wisconsin met its match in Sunday’s round of 16.
McDonald completed the 10K course in 29:08.3, outracing Stanford’s Grant Fisher and Iowa State’s Edwin Kurgat down the stretch. He became the fourth Badger to win the event and first since Simon Bairu got the second of his two consecutive titles in 2005.
UW Athletics received more than $39.7 million in conference media contract revenue in the 2017-18 fiscal year, nearly double its take from the previous year.
University of Wisconsin cross country star Morgan McDonald redshirted the 2017 campaign. He envisioned winning the NCAA individual title on his home turf at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course during his last year of eligibility.
Mark Johnson’s No. 10 Wisconsin Badgers hockey jersey will hang from the rafters at the Kohl Center, elevated in a ceremony Feb. 9.
The kids at the Meadowood Neighborhood Center didn’t quite know what to make of Tionna Williams when she first showed up at the facility early last summer.
The University of Wisconsin has never before retired a men’s hockey player’s jersey. The choice for the first one was something of a no-brainer.
Juniors Mekenzie Steffen and Kristen Campbell were named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s defenseman and goaltender of the week, respectively, on Tuesday.
The three family members were surprised on the field with a Wisconsin football jersey embroidered with Capt. Cory Barr’s badge number #138 and the Sun Prairie Fire Department patch.
Unified Sports held its championship flag football game Sunday night at the Near West Fields at UW Madison, bringing together Special Olympics athletes and UW students.
Junior Eli Stickley was excited to find himself alongside Badger icons like Dayne and Kaminsky. Two months later, Eli died in a car accident near the Quad Cities in Illinois. He was 21-year-old.
For the eighth time in his 11 seasons leading the program, the University of Wisconsin’s Mick Byrne is the Big Ten Conference Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year.
In the 31 weeks since he was named wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin, Chris Bono has changed the look of the program and how it is presented.
Now lecturing at UW, Selig reflects on career, important moments in baseball history.
Four weeks ago at the 2018 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, University of Wisconsin junior Alicia Monson made a statement, winning the individual title while defeating the reigning NCAA cross country champion.
The exhaustive 198-page external report that will help the University System of Maryland Board of Regents decide the fate of football Coach DJ Durkin paints a troubling picture of the embattled program but stops short of saying the environment in College Park was “toxic.”
Nearly 700 student-athletes, 400 staff members participated in in-person interviews, health, safety surveys.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has done its part toward becoming the No. 1 team in the country with an 8-0 start.
The Badgers have a season ticket base of 11,251 per two-game series for 2018-19, according to data released by the school. That’s a drop of 747, or 6 percent, over the 2017-18 season.
An attorney for one of the alleged victims in the Quintez Cephus sexual assault case on Thursday denied that her father engaged in a “racist rant” about the suspended Badgers wide receiver during a meeting with university officials.
It wasn’t the first time Dick Bennett had the occasion to consider how much the opening of the Kohl Center factored into putting the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team on a successful track.
The head coaches that led University of Wisconsin teams into the Kohl Center era and the arena’s lead benefactor will be honored Wednesday as the first members of the Kohl Center Legends Walk.
Badgers men’s basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife Michelle put their money on the line for Swish Upon a Cure.
Suspended Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus pleaded not guilty Thursday to the Dane County judge responsible for his upcoming trial for the sexual assault of two women.
Lawyers for University of Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus were working on two legal fronts Thursday — asking a federal judge to order UW-Madison to stop its investigation of sexual assault charges against Cephus and asking a Dane County judge to delay scheduling a trial on those charges.
In a brief arraignment hearing Thursday morning in Dane County Circuit Court, suspended Badger receiver Quintez Cephus pleaded not guilty in his sexual assault case.
The song that shakes the stadium, “Jump Around” is celebrating 20 years after debuting in 1998 at Camp Randall.
A UW-Madison football standout charged with sexually assaulting two women is pleading not guilty. Madison Police say the incidents happened in April.
Twenty years ago when the Badgers took on Purdue at Camp Randall Stadium, the “Jump Around” tradition was born, a Madison quirk known nation-wide in which the entire stadium channels its inner House of Pain while the famous 1992 song is played before the start of the fourth quarter.
Suspended Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus has sued the University of Wisconsin to try to stop an expected expulsion over a sexual encounter with two students in April.
The bigger stars and vocal leaders on that team were pitcher Warren Spahn and third baseman Eddie Mathews. DeMerit was a rookie on that team. He was signed after his junior year — there were no agents or a draft — at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Suspended Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus is suing the university, claiming it violated his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Quintez Cephus, the Badgers wide receiver who was suspended from the team following two counts of sexual assault, announced he is bringing federal charges against UW-Madison for violating his constitutional rights to a fair investigation.
Quintez Cephus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison football player facing multiple sexual assault charges, filed a lawsuit against the school on Tuesday, claiming the administration violated his constitutional rights.
Suspended UW-Madison wide receiver Quintez Cephus, who was charged in August with sexual assaults of two women in April, sued the university on Tuesday alleging that it violated his constitutional rights by going ahead with a student disciplinary investigation despite Cephus’ inability to participate in it because of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Remembering the most memorable and important season in Badgers football history: 1993, when Wisconsin won the Big Ten and then the Rose Bowl, setting the stage for the quarter century of success that would follow.
The Wisconsin Badgers men’s ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team that represents the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.
On Thursday, UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and other staff members presented a report to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents regarding student safety. The presentation took place at the monthly Regents’ meeting, which this week is taking place at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus.
David Burkemper always had the itch to coach.
The former University of Wisconsin basketball player enjoyed the game so much that upon graduating in the late 1990s he considered a career in coaching before deciding to get married and start a family.
The safety review of UW-Madison’s Athletic Department was requested by the department itself after witnessing what happened with Doctor Larry Nassar who was convicted of sexual misconduct involving athletes at fellow Big Ten school Michigan State.
TOWN OF SOMERS – Shortly after convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar was sent to prison for sexually assaulting multiple gymnasts during medical appointments at his Michigan State University office, the UW-Madison athletic department launched a proactive review of its own policies and practices.
Gwen Jorgensen felt calm. Happy, even. It was an odd pre-race emotion for the 30-year-old triathlete, especially considering she was minutes away from starting the most important race of her life, at the Rio Olympics.
And they lived happily ever after. That could be the title of the Mike Kelley and Kelly Auger story, a tale of high school sweethearts who survive college together and then marry and have a family. It’s storybook and true for the Pius XI graduates who just happen to be two of the best basketball players the school ever produced.
A seven-month review of the health and safety policies and procedures followed by the University of Wisconsin athletic department resulted in several recommendations from student-athletes and staff.
An internal review of safety and security procedures within the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department identified recommendations for improvements but found no major deficiencies.
