Former Wisconsin and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland credits Ann McKee with saving his life in a piece that he wrote for Time’s “The 100 Most Influential People of 2018.”
As an All-State player at Sheboygan North, Kayla Tetschlag dreamed of becoming part of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program.
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.
Ryan Wagner was named the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey most valuable player Saturday at the team’s postseason banquet.
One goal Kelly Sheffield set shortly after taking over as University of Wisconsin volleyball coach five years ago was to reopen the upper deck at the UW Field House.
The University of Wisconsin has canceled its spring football game due to the threat of inclement weather. The game was set for 6 p.m. Friday at Camp Randall Stadium and won’t be rescheduled.
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
The first losing season in 20 years brought new lows in ticket usage for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
Over 15 regular-season home games in the 2017-18 season, the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team listed an average attendance of 3,703.
Even a rivalry game for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team couldn’t bring as many people to the Kohl Center as would have been expected early in the decade.
University of Wisconsin fans can relive past glory and support Easter Seals of Wisconsin this week.
Steele, a former softball coach and an associate professor at Concordia University in Mequon, wrote the book, published by the University of Wisconsin Press and released Tuesday, March 27, for several reasons.
Her older brother, Oluwadare or Dare, was a running back at the University of Wisconsin and signed as an undrafted free agent with the Houston Texans in 2017. He has since been an offseason/practice squad acquisition of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Washington Redskins.
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.
Monica Lam-Feist, fitness lead at AlgaeCal, ACE certified personal trainer, and former University of Wisconsin-Madison varsity soccer player, gave POPSUGAR her personal rules of staying safe and active as a runner, noting that if you’re running to improve your health, you don’t need to run more than 50 minutes each week to maximize the health benefits.
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.
Although the Badger men’s basketball team is not competing in the 2018 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Championship, there’s one member on their squad with a connection to the tournament.UW-Madison freshman Joe Schubert is pretty good at competing.
The University of Wisconsin will remain the primary home for the WIAA’s state championships for the next seven years.
The WIAA and UW announced Wednesday an extension of the contract to hold the boys basketball state tournament at the Kohl Center — and for six other championships at UW venues — through 2025.
Were he not a 6-foot-1, 215-pound former collegiate athlete, Trent Jackson wonders how things might have turned out differently one December night when he was accosted by two young white men, one of whom, Jackson said, called him the N-word while the other tried to attack him.
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.
A beaming, gold-medal-adorned Hilary Knight made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment this weekend.
For all the words we columnists burn making arguments, the best ones are often won with a swift verbal punch.
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.
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association has been looking for a visible and lasting way to honor former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Jeff Sauer’s contributions to the league.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team had the top offense and top defense in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and one player on each side earned league honors on Wednesday.
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.
Ethan Happ earned first-team All-Big Ten honors for the second consecutive season, but he wasn’t the no-brainer pick he was a year ago.
Could the sexual assault scandal that unfolded in Michigan State’s athletic department take place at the University of Wisconsin? It’s a fair question, said Walter Dickey, the Badgers’ special assistant to the athletic director. “We feel no,” Dickey said, “but we also feel a responsibility to our kids and our fans to assure them that we are managing these things in a responsible way.”
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?
They had been roommates for all of two weeks when Aaron Moesch decided it was time to deliver a bold statement to Matt Ferris.
When the U.S. women’s hockey team scored an epic victory over the long-dominant Canadian team, the loudest cheers went up from Wisconsin. Mostly, they were for the U.S. team.
Wisconsin hockey players were among those who helped Team USA win Olympic gold in women’s hockey for the first time in 20 years.Forward Hillary Knight, who won two national championships with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, scored the opening goal against Canada Thursday, redirecting a teammate’s shot into the net just before the end of the first period.
In her first season with the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, goaltender Kristen Campbell is one of 10 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award.
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.”
Hilary Knight was “crushed and heartbroken” after that come-from-ahead loss. “There was definitely an I-don’t-know-if-I-can-go-another-four-years kind of feeling,” she told NBC Sports’ Nick Zaccardi last year. Knight, who was a college star at the University of Wisconsin, had thought at one point that she wasn’t even going to make it to Sochi. She’d gone to Boston to train for the games, she told Fox Sports, and ended up calling her mom “bawling crying because my funding essentially wasn’t enough to live out here.
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.
Captain Meghan Duggan, forward Brianna Decker and backup goaltender Alex Rigsby also were among the former Badgers players celebrating. On the other side, it was heartbreak for five former or current UW players with Canada: forwards Blayre Turnbull, Sarah Nurse and Emily Clark, defenseman Meaghan Mikkelson and backup goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens.
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.
