Category: Athletics

Ryan Wagner was named the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey most valuable player Saturday at the team’s postseason banquet.

With the weather forecast calling for a strong chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms on Friday during the late afternoon and evening, Wisconsin Athletics has decided to cancel Friday’s Spring Football Game. The game will not be rescheduled.

Minutes after Wisconsin’s season ended with a 63-60 loss to Michigan State in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament, Ethan Happ shared his short-range plans: Happ planned to enter the 2018 NBA draft without hiring an agent so he could obtain a clear picture of his stock while retaining the option of returning to UW for his final season

According to UW Athletic Communications Associate Director Diane Nordstrom, the announcement will pertain to changes to be made inside the Field House.

Whitney Hite’s seventh season as head coach for the University of Wisconsin swimming and diving teams will be his last.

Chris Bono admits he’s an emotional guy, so the last week has been a roller coaster for the new University of Wisconsin wrestling coach.

Harold Olsen didn’t foresee the nuttiness known as March Madness.

Sasha Palmer, assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team for the past three years, is leaving the program.

The second-ranked Badgers were left with those feelings after a double-overtime, 4-3 loss to No. 3 Colgate ended their season late Friday night.

Like a well-crafted hockey line, Mark Johnson, Dan Koch and Jackie Crum have developed the ability to read each other’s unspoken messages.

The University of Wisconsin will remain the primary home for the WIAA’s state championships for the next seven years.

Knight is considered the star of Team USA. Knight leads the U.S. Women’s National Team in goals and total points. Knight also doesn’t just dominate women’s hockey, she is also know to intimidate NHL All-Stars. But was she really worth $775,421 to the University of Wisconsin in 2012?

Nigel Hayes is a supremely confident basketball player, and he’s also a realistic young man who understands exactly the opportunity that has presented itself.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Vinny Castilla stepped into a batting cage Thursday, his hands in gloves and wrists wrapped, with every intention of getting a hit. But the Rockies’ special adviser, an original member of the Blake Street Bombers, was about to go down swinging.

As former University of Wisconsin men’s college basketball player Kirk Penney retires from the New Zealand Breakers, take a look back on the former Badger’s time in Madison and his career in professional basketball and the Olympics.

Barry Davis, who has spent the last quarter-century leading the University of Wisconsin wrestling program and is the longest-tenured current Badgers head coach, announced Monday he’s leaving the program.

A loss to Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff championship game cost the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team the top spot in the national rankings.

Former University of Wisconsin standout Nigel Hayes is getting another chance in the NBA.

Noted: “The fact of the matter is that when you artificially sublimate the unpaid labor and don’t give them a fair share and force all the money to a small cohort of the population — the coaches and the administrators and the apparel companies and the television networks — a black market is going to take place,” said Zach Bohannon, a former basketball player at the University of Wisconsin. “This black market is being shown now, in public. But it was already there. There’s an imbalance there that the NCAA doesn’t want the public to know.”

Wisconsin wrestling coach Barry Davis resigned on Monday, ending his 25-year tenure as the Badgers’ head coach.

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics announced Monday that the Wisconsin Badgers’ Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez was named a 2017-18 Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year.

Ten days ago, University of Wisconsin junior Marsha Howard found herself the target of an elected official, when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) directed his constituents to “exprress outrage” at the women’s basketball player for not standing during the national anthem during Wisconsin’s road game against Iowa.

Wisconsin has always been home for Pat Richter.

University of Wisconsin athletics officials have launched a study into safety and security policies in the aftermath of sexual assault allegations at Michigan State.

Lilly runs four dedicated fan accounts for the Badgers: one for D’Mitrik Trice, one for Aleem Ford, one for Walt McGrory and one for the whole Wisconsin team.

A recent lunch with three Wisconsin offensive linemen featured some of the great food debates of our time: Does a Kobe beef patty really contain ground beef imported from Japan? Who serves Chicago’s best deep-dish pizza? Are cheese curds better than mozzarella sticks?

Noted: “Everyone from home has been fantastic,” said forward and team captain Meghan Duggan, who also played at UW. “There’s a big contingency back home and all of us, we wouldn’t be here without all that support, without the fans and the little girls and everyone that has supported us on this journey.”

At 28 years old, Knight was no spring chicken on this year’s gold-medal team. But Pyeongchang also wasn’t her first rodeo. Not by a long shot. A Palo Alto, Calif., native, she became a national name at just 17 when, in 2006, she was tabbed as the youngest player for Team USA in the annual Four Nations Cup tournament. A year after that, she was already starring for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and debuting for the U.S. at the IIHF World Championship, where she was also the youngest USA representative.

Brianna Decker sported a nasty-looking, purplish-red bruise just above the bridge of her nose, right between her eyes, courtesy of a wicked elbow from Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin that sent Decker sprawling to the ice at the Gangneung Hockey Centre.

Gone by a matter of inches was a chance to knot the shootout at 1-all, and now the Americans, coached by University of Wisconsin coach Tony Granato and former Badgers defenseman Chris Chelios, will head home while the Czechs get a semifinal game against the powerhouse Russians.

For Wisconsin hockey fans, the game has a lot to offer because players with ties to the state are on both teams’ rosters. Three members of Team USA are Wisconsin natives, while both U.S. and Canadian players have connections to the University of Wisconsin-Madison hockey program.

It was Granato’s priority, too, though he knew going in he would only miss two to four Wisconsin games. While splitting his attention between his college team and preparations for the Olympics, he made sure associate coach Mark Osiecki and the rest of the Badgers’ staff and team were set up to be OK without him.

he head coach of the Badgers women’s basketball team is defending his players after a U.S. senator criticized one on Twitter for not standing during the playing of the national anthem.