The University of Wisconsin-Madison group Student Coalition for Progress was miffed — MIFFED, I tell you — that the school’s football team was staying at a Trump hotel during its Orange Bowl appearance on December 30.
The victories came easily for the University of Wisconsin football team this season. The respect didn’t.
Wisconsin will be well-represented on the other side of the world next month, when the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams compete in the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
The shooting death of his father, 39-year-old Andre Taylor, was crushing.
MIAMI — Wisconsin still has a big game awaiting, but the Badgers already hauled in a sizable trophy during their trip to Florida for the Capital One Orange Bowl.
A distraction from the daily worries was a welcome one for the Raven family of Belleville. That’s some of what UW teams hope to provide with their Wish Upon a Badger program, where kids facing life-threatening illnesses or long hospital stays have a chance to interact with athletes.
Like most bowls, UW’s matchup with Miami on Saturday — and the pageantry leading up to it — will be nothing like a typical game week.
University of Wisconsin middle blocker Dana Rettke continues to add to her collection of honors.
The woman credited with helping to revive University of Wisconsin football says she might still be on its campus, were it not for a call from the 42nd President of the United States.
Badgers fans living among the University of Miami Hurricanes faithful in south Florida are looking forward to seeing reinforcements arrive soon, dressed in red and ready to cheer on the 12-1 football team as it takes on Miami at home in the Dec. 30 Orange Bowl.
Ticket usage fell 15 percent in 2017 when compared to the all-time high of the previous year.
Bill Reddan, known as the father of soccer at the University of Wisconsin and in the Madison area, passed away Monday at Oakwood Village University Woods, under the care of Agrace HospiceCare. He was 90.
MADISON, Wis. — The governing body for USA Hockey may be based in Colorado Springs, but its soul resides here, where the pillars of University of Wisconsin hockey energized the Olympic and Paralympic movements. And now, with the absence of N.H.L. players echoing the era when college players populated the American roster, the Badgers will have an outsize influence in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea.
While the Badgers had an announced home attendance average of 78,824 in 2017, only 84 percent of those tickets were used.
The idea had been there for a decade, tried a few times but not completed until recently.What emerged when author Mike Cowan got done with a book on legendary University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Bob Johnson was a collection of essays provided by his former players.
Ab Nicholas’ uniform number will have company in the rafters of the Kohl Center. Wisconsin officials on Monday announced they plan to honor Frank Kaminsky, the consensus national player of the year as a senior, on Feb. 15 when UW hosts Purdue.
While University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard has yet to complete his second season as a coach, he’s been around football long enough to know how the coaching carousel works.
Of the conclusions that can be drawn from a USA TODAY study of college football assistant coaches, this much seems clear: the University of Wisconsin gets a pretty good bang for its buck.
The most incredible and uplifting and inspiring football season of my life began in a way that I would’ve never expected. It started with a scream.
University of Wisconsin inside linebacker T.J. Edwards, left tackle Michael Deiter and running back Jonathan Taylor all earned second-team All-American honors from Sporting News on Tuesday.
Kelly Sheffield always figured it was a matter of time before the upper deck at the University of Wisconsin Field House would be needed to meet the demand for UW volleyball tickets.
The newly-formed Coach Sauer Foundation has announced plans for an annual award to encourage community service among girls and boys high school hockey players in the state of Wisconsin.
Led by redshirt junior linebacker T.J. Edwards, five Wisconsin players were named to The Associated Press All-American team Monday.
Of the conclusions that can be drawn from a USA TODAY study of college football assistant coaches, this much seems clear: the University of Wisconsin gets a pretty good bang for its buck.
The University of Wisconsin began its search for a 10th assistant coach last week after the NCAA passed legislation earlier this year that allowed FBS football programs to add an extra coach to their payroll.
Running back Jonathan Taylor, inside linebacker T.J. Edwards, tight end Troy Fumagalli and right tackle David Edwards were all recognized with the prestigious distinction.
Edwina also was an instructor in the vocational technical system and worked in the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Such terrors are symptoms of a damaged frontal lobe, which resulted from a 12-year NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals, two years of wrestling and four years of football at the University of Wisconsin that put him in the College Football Hall of Fame and playing linebacker and wrestling in his youth.
“Camp Randall has so many memories for me and my brother — just growing up, enjoying that atmosphere of that stadium, it’s hard to compete with Madison. I think it’s just a great college town. I was lucky to be there,” Taft said.
The University of Wisconsin took home two of the four major Big Ten Awards handed out by the Associated Press on Wednesday.
J.J. Watt has built himself into one of the NFL’s best players – already a three-time Defensive Player of the Year award winner – and one of its most marketable stars. He’s the gridiron version of Captain America with an underdog backstory as a non-scholarship walk-on player at the University of Wisconsin. But as Editor-in-Chief of MMQB Peter King wrote: “Nothing J.J. Watt has achieved in his career, or might still achieve, will measure up to what he did for Houston.”
In sports, they often say that you can’t win ‘em all — and the Wisconsin Badgers football team proved that correct by losing the Big Ten Championship game on Saturday night, 27-21.
Pewaukee native and University of Wisconsin alumnus J.J. Watt, who’s been a beast on the field since he arrived in the National Football League, has been given an impressive honor for his work done off of it.
Trailing by 9 points heading into the fourth quarter, University of Wisconsin football fans weren’t giving hopes up on a Big Ten title.
University of Wisconsin football fans can begin to purchase tickets to the Orange Bowl in Florida starting Monday as the Badgers will take on the University of Miami.
Although Wisconsin’s quest for a berth in the College Football Playoff ended with a loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten title game, the Badgers were rewarded with a top-10 matchup in a New Year’s Six bowl.
The college football regular season now is over. But the excitement is just beginning as the Badgers fans and alumni look towards bowl season.
No playoff ticket punched. No undefeated season achieved.
Miami and Wisconsin are heading to the Orange Bowl as their end-of-season consolation prize.
The Wisconsin Badgers left Madison on Friday morning for the Big 10 Football Championship Game in Indianapolis.
The University of Wisconsin’s Paul Chryst won both the Dave McClain Coach of the Year (media) and the Hayes-Schembechler Coach of the Year (coaches) awards after leading the fourth-ranked Badgers (12-0, 9-0) to an undefeated regular season and a second straight Big Ten West title.
For the sixth time since 2011, Badger Nation will make the 375-mile trek to Indianapolis.
When it comes to the Nurse family, Sarah isn’t the first name that comes to mind.
There is no telling how many of the eighth-graders in Jonathan Taylor’s class fulfilled the dream laid out in an assignment to describe where you see yourself after high school.
You could say, it’s a great day to be a Badgers fan.
A day after the University of Wisconsin placed 12 defensive players on All-Big Ten teams, eight of the Badgers’ offensive players earned the same honor Wednesday.
Browns tackle Joe Thomas spent some time at two Shell stations in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday. This wasn’t your average gas station pit stop.
A staggering 12 University of Wisconsin defensive players earned All-Big Ten honors Tuesday, including every member of the Badgers’ starting lineup against Minnesota last week.
The University of Wisconsin football team has finally jumped into the top four of the College Football Playoff rankings.
Dana Rettke of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year and was a unanimous All-Big Ten and All-Freshman selection, the conference announced Tuesday.
For the 12 – 0 Wisconsin Badgers football team, it’s been an amazing season. And alumni like Steve Pipp are excited the team’s journey may soon lead to a shot at the College Football National Championship.
“They’re on the verge of something real special and as a Badger fan, an alum, it’s really exciting to see where this team is at,” said Pipp.
When Zach Bohannon was a junior forward on the University of Wisconsin basketball team, his Badgers played in a Thanksgiving tournament at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. During pregame warmups, Zach nearly fell when he slipped on a large Continental Tire decal that had been slapped onto the middle of the basketball court.
Tickets for the University of Wisconsin football team’s Big Ten Championship game against Ohio State are getting harder — but not impossible — to find.
Tickets went on sale on Monday morning for the 2017 Big 10 Football Championship Game on Saturday in Indianapolis.
If you’re a fan of Badgers football, you are looking forward to the team’s next game on Saturday for the Big 10 title. As local 5’s Kris Schuller reports a win against Ohio State might just give the Badgers a chance at a national championship.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison allotment of tickets for a seat at the undefeated Badgers’ Big Ten championship game against Ohio State is sold out, but some tickets were still available elsewhere Monday morning.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team wasn’t about to let Kelli Bates and Lauryn Gillis go out on a sour note on Senior Night.
The University of Wisconsin football team moved up to No. 3 in both the AP poll and USA Today Coaches poll after its 31-0 shutout of Minnesota on Saturday.
University of Arkansas head football coach Bret Bielema was fired on Friday following a 48-45 loss to Missouri and capping a 4-8 season.
Arkansas Razorbacks football head coach Bret Bielema was fired just moments after his team lost in the SEC game against Missouri Tigers, 48-45.
