Category: Athletics

After more than three months, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has lost its hold on the top spot in the national rankings.

Fifty years ago this February, a football superstar came home. Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch was hired away from the Los Angeles Rams to become the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin.

Families and kids will have the opportunity to cheer on the Badgers this season with Sunday Kids’ Days. Each regular season Sunday home event will have something specifically designed for kids, according to a release from UW Athletics.

“Captain Troy” was a walk-on on the football team at UW-Madison and eventually earned a full scholarship and was a member of the 1995 winning Rose Bowl team.

Their bond – built upon a foundation of faith, friendship and football – was born before they became University of Wisconsin teammates.

Researchers hope study will prompt review, reassessment of mental health programs at universities nationwide.

The UW roster is full of young men whose older brothers, parents – and even grandparents – once wore the Wisconsin jersey.

University of Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Tony Granato will present the award on the eve of the WIAA State Hockey Tournament.

University of Wisconsin-Madison sports programs brought in $179,911 per athlete in revenue in 2016, meaning its athletes on average generated the most sports revenue of any school in Wisconsin that year, according to a Watchdog.org analysis of U.S. Department of Education data.

Seniors Annie Pankowski and Jake Bunz were among the 17 nominees named Thursday. That list will be pared to finalists, with a recipient named during the men’s Frozen Four in Buffalo, New York, on April 12.

Could Wisconsin’s dominant victory over Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl lead to the departure of offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph? Miami coach Mark Richt announced his retirement Dec. 30, less than three days after UW’s 35-3 victory over the Hurricanes.

The booster club for University of Wisconsin football will disband at the end of the month.

Former University of Wisconsin offensive tackle Joe Thomas was selected for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, along with 12 other players and two coaches, it was announced Monday.

The Empire State Building will shine in the colors of the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the University of Miami on Wednesday, December 26 to celebrate the 2018 New Era Pinstripe Bowl. The world-famous tower lights will be split, with the North/South sides of the building lit up in the University of Miami green and orange and the East/West sides in the University of Wisconsin – Madison red and white.

On December 28, 1958, a national television audience of 45 million people watched former UW–Madison fullback Alan Ameche fulfill every football player’s dream, scoring the winning touchdown during the first ever sudden-death overtime in NFL history.

Under the old rule, where one snap burned a player’s eligibility, UW may not have found the value in turning to Wildgoose if he had yet to play a snap midway through the year.

The No. 1 goaltender on the top-ranked team in NCAA women’s hockey will admit the start to her season had some flaws — mental errors made in the heat of the moment.

Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is having a bounce-back season after injuries limited him to just eight games total the past two seasons.

In 2009, the Mendota Gridiron Club feted 60 years of support for the University of Wisconsin football team with a sold-out banquet. It appears that any 70th birthday celebration will have to be of the posthumous variety.

The hit that put Walker Williams’ brain over the edge — leaving him with ongoing headaches, mood swings, ringing in his ears, depression, anxiety and short-term memory problems — was nothing out of the ordinary.

The Badgers’ belief had grown so strong over a nine-match winning streak that even when they fell behind 16-8 in that fourth set at Illinois, they still figured they would somehow prevail. They rallied to within one point at 24-23 before their season came to a sudden, stunning end.

In all, UW-Madison student-athletes were diagnosed with 137 concussions from 2014 to 2018, according to records from an ongoing NCAA and U.S. Department of Defense concussion study obtained by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism under the state Open Records Law.

In all, UW-Madison student-athletes were diagnosed with 137 concussions from 2014 to 2018, according to records from an ongoing NCAA and U.S. Department of Defense concussion study obtained by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism under the state Open Records Law.

Three members of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team earned All-American honors from the American Volleyball Coaches Association, the organization announced Wednesday.

University of Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor joined elite company Wednesday by earning first-team All-American honors from the American Football Coaches Association.

For about an hour, it appeared the Bucks would be acquiring former University of Wisconsin star Sam Dekker in a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And then, it was reported that the Washington Wizards would be getting Dekker in a three-team trade.

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.

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.

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 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.