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.
In addition to worries over facility security, students and staff also expressed concern about student athletes’ access to health care, including mental health care, and reporting protocol.
By the rankings or by subjective analysis, it’s hard to conclude that the field for Friday’s Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational cross country meet is anything less than stacked.
Noted: Dixon on Wednesday was included in a group of 180 semifinalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which is given annually by the National Football Foundation to the nation’s top football scholar-athlete.
When Wisconsin and Nebraska meet Oct. 6 at Camp Randall Stadium, it will mark the 13th game between the proud programs, including the eighth since the Cornhuskers joined the Big Ten.
Wisconsin’s October 6th night game against Nebraska will include a little more electricity at Camp Randall. The Wisconsin football program will honor the 1993 team that’s credited with turning the Badgers into a national program.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will not testify again in a National Collegiate Athletic Association antitrust trial, UW-Madison officials announced Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin football team will play its second straight night game and third of the season next week against Nebraska.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s involvement in an NCAA antitrust trial may not have ended with her testimony last week.
Attorneys representing NCAA athletes in a landmark California antitrust trial on Monday sought another chance to question the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chancellor, who recently testified that it might drop its sports department if it had to start paying athletes, saying that testimony was contradicted by the school’s recent statement. (Registration required.)
So when I saw the story the other day that the Athletic Department is contemplating another multimillion-dollar renovation of Camp Randall, I wondered if there were a few bucks in the package to install railings on the aisles. Most every other stadium has them.
DETROIT (AP) — Even if he doesn’t play football here anymore, former Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy has made a home in Detroit and is starting a family here.
College is a time for personal growth, and for Wisconsin Badgers linebacker Zack Baun, that’s taking place on the field and on campus.
Is the University of Wisconsin seriously contemplating dropping athletics if NCAA schools are forced to pay athletes more than full cost of attendance? Of course not.
Also discussed is University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s testimony that the school could drop its athletic program if it has to start paying student athletes.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sounded a warning this week about the future of intercollegiate athletics at the school if it is forced to pay student-athletes. But in a statement Tuesday, a UW spokesperson said the school had no plans to stop offering athletics after Blank testified a day earlier at an NCAA antitrust trial that the university may not sponsor a sports program if it’s not an amateur endeavor.
According to a recent report published on Law360.com, on Sept. 4, a trial was set in motion that cross-examined UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and American Athletic Conference commissioner Michael Aresco. The two testified what impact would come from removing NCAA payment restrictions for student athletes.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will start the season at No. 2 in the national rankings.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team remained at No. 6 in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, released Monday.
Virginia Kehl Mackesey attended UW and graduated in 1956. While at the school, she was one of four females UW Athletics let cheer as part of the first coed cheer group in 1952.
The University of Wisconsin football team plummeted 12 spots to No. 18 in the Associated Press poll Sunday after its 24-21 upset loss to BYU at Camp Randall Stadium.
According to the University Wisconsin-Madison Police Department, 82 fans were taken to temporary on-site cooling centers during Saturday’s UW-Madison Badger’s game against the B.Y.U. Cougars.
Lewis ‘Les’ Ritcherson was the first black member of the athletics coaching staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin wide receiver slated to come back Saturday from a two-game suspension for his alleged actions related to a teammate’s sexual assault case will not face criminal charges, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Thursday.
