Category: Athletics

The professor chairs the UW–Madison Athletic Board.

The student sale of UW-Madison season football tickets is in full swing, with tickets selling out on the first day of the two-day sale.

Former University of Wisconsin football player Jake Wood will be the recipient of the Pat Tillman Award for Courage at the 26th annual ESPYS, to be held July 18 in Los Angeles and hosted by Danica Patrick.

Oliver Hoare, a native Australian running for the University of Wisconsin, came out of nowhere to win the national title in the 1,500 meters at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday in rainy Eugene, Ore.

Two games planned for the 2020 Wisconsin Football season are creating quite a buzz for Badger fans — yet another reason to look forward to the years to come.

NBA player and former UW-Madison Badgers star Sam Dekker, a Sheboygan native, and ESPN reporter Olivia Harlan are getting married July 14th in Door County, but the couple doesn’t want a table full of wedding gifts. Instead, they’re asking their guests and fans to take the money they would’ve spent on presents and donate it to the Children’s Cancer Family Foundation which a cause that’s near and dear to their hearts.

When Brenna Detra gets back to the starting blocks at Hayward Field this week for the NCAA outdoor track and field championships, the University of Wisconsin sprinter might have an opportunity to look to the sky.

Two prominent ex-Wisconsin Badgers football players are among those on the ballot for the 2019 College Football Hall of Fame class, with final selections announced Jan. 7 prior to the College Football Playoff National Championship.

The University of Wisconsin released kickoff times for four games on its 2018 football schedule Thursday.

Wisconsin’s football fans should get a chance to visit one of the more iconic professional baseball venues in 2020. According to the Chicago Tribune, UW’s road game against Northwestern on Nov. 7 of that season will be played at Wrigley Field instead of at Ryan Field on the Wildcats’ campus.

Ethan Happ has reached the decision most observers expected. He is returning to Wisconsin for his final season of college basketball.

It has been 27 years since the University of Wisconsin dropped baseball as an NCAA Division I sport.

The University of Wisconsin 400-meter relay team of freshman Meghan Blair, freshman Gabby DesRosiers, senior Brenna Detra and junior Ebony McClendon qualified for next month’s NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships with a fourth-place finish in 44.66 seconds late Saturday at the NCAA West Prelims in Sacramento, California. It’s the first time UW has sent a women’s 400 relay team to nationals.

The banquet’s guest speaker, Bill Ferrario, was raised in Pennsylvania, earned a scholarship to play football at UW-Madison and played on the offensive line and special teams with the Green Bay Packers.

The Badgers’ schedule, released Tuesday, has the team away from home for four of the final six weekends, with a pair of four-game road stretches.

Sidelined by headaches, Tony Megna now intends to join former college football players who have filed 111 lawsuits against the NCAA and its athletic conferences

[T]here was nothing phony about the sheer joy the University of Wisconsin softball team expressed when the Badgers learned they had made it into the NCAA tournament. The boisterous, spontaneous celebration that broke out from the banquet room at Christy’s Landing likely echoed all the way across Lake Waubesa.

Ticket prices for University of Wisconsin women’s hockey games are scheduled to climb next season, and the Badgers will offer a wrestling season ticket package for the first time.

All eight of the University of Wisconsin’s returning assistant coaches received pay raises this offseason following the Badgers’ 13-win season.

Former Wisconsin running back Montee Ball left school six years ago to pursue an NFL career. He has returned to campus and wants to make an impact off the field.

How often does an employee make more than his department head? More frequently than not actually in major college sports, where athletic directors are simply overseers while coaches become faces of the franchise, utilized in marketing tactics for the university in terms of exposure.

STEVENS POINT – Kimberly’s DJ Stewart feels fortunate to have wrapped up every year of his varsity football career at venerable Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.

Eighteen years after winning the Heisman Trophy, Wisconsin Badgers great Ron Dayne was back at Camp Randall Stadium for what he called one of the biggest days of his life. Instead of a football, he carried a diploma.

The University of Wisconsin sophomore won his fourth conference crown of the 2017-18 school year, the latest a title in the 1,500-meter run at the Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championship on Sunday in Bloomington, Indiana.

The first addition to University of Wisconsin swimming and diving coach Yuri Suguiyama’s staff needs no introduction to Madison.

A 7-under 209 total was enough for Curtis to earn an individual qualifying spot for the NCAA Championship even though the Badgers didn’t finish in a top-six spot as a team.

The picture is really hard to miss. Maybe even more so this week for the University of Wisconsin softball team.

Osiecki is a muskie fisherman with many trophy fish. This year he is holding the 1st Annual Mark Osiecki’s Casting for Kids Musky Tournament. All the funds raised will go to benefit the Carbone Cancer Center and the UW Health and American Family Children’s Hospital.

MADISON, Wis. – Undergraduate student Badger football tickets will now go on sale on two separate dates based on class standing, according to a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Department.

New dates announced based on seniority.

Former Wisconsin men’s basketball player Nigel Hayes said Tuesday he and his teammates discussed boycotting a game early in the 2016-17 season to protest the NCAA’s limits on what athletes can receive while playing college sports.

Former Wisconsin men’s basketball player Nigel Hayes said Tuesday he and his teammates discussed boycotting a game early in the 2016-17 season to protest the NCAA’s limits on what athletes can receive while playing college sports.

Photo feature: Here are the Badgers’ head coaches in order of longevity in their current position.

Noted: Troy Fumagalli earned that degree in December and was a consensus second-team All-American after catching 46 passes for 547 yards and four touchdowns.

“No matter how the draft and football go, he’s set,” Doug Fumagalli said. “Wisconsin’s business school can be a challenge. It’s very selective and it’s tough to get in.”

In his first year with the University of Wisconsin, wrestling coach Chris Bono is due to earn more than double the base salary of former coach Barry Davis.

The University of Wisconsin rewarded its highest-ranking football coaches with sizable raises following a season that produced a school-record 13 wins, per documents released by UW on Friday.

Barry Alvarez is getting a raise for his 15th full season as the University of Wisconsin athletic director.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Broncos fifth-round draft pick Troy Fumagalli had a successful career at the University of Wisconsin and he did it all with nine fingers.

Last year, Watt donated 100 thousand dollars to Hurricane Harvey recovery and pledged to raise double that amount. Watt ended up raising 37 million dollars for water, food, and supplies for storm victims.

The story of Ryan Groy becoming a starting NFL offensive lineman doesn’t begin in Pop Warner or high school or his beloved University of Wisconsin. It’s rooted in 4,000 saplings that were planted in swampland his father owned in a small Midwestern town about two hours west of Milwaukee.

Yuri Suguiyama, a highly decorated associate head coach at Cal and former mentor of Olympian Katie Ledecky, will be the next University of Wisconsin swimming and diving coach.

The current proposal would allow true freshmen and other players who haven’t redshirted to participate in any four games during the season and maintain that year of eligibility. It appears unlikely that a final version of the rule would apply retroactively to previous seasons.