The banquet’s guest speaker, Bill Ferrario, was raised in Pennsylvania, earned a scholarship to play football at UW-Madison and played on the offensive line and special teams with the Green Bay Packers.
Yuri Suguiyama’s first contract to be the University of Wisconsin swimming and diving head coach will pay him $150,000 annually in base salary.
The Badgers’ schedule, released Tuesday, has the team away from home for four of the final six weekends, with a pair of four-game road stretches.
Sidelined by headaches, Tony Megna now intends to join former college football players who have filed 111 lawsuits against the NCAA and its athletic conferences
[T]here was nothing phony about the sheer joy the University of Wisconsin softball team expressed when the Badgers learned they had made it into the NCAA tournament. The boisterous, spontaneous celebration that broke out from the banquet room at Christy’s Landing likely echoed all the way across Lake Waubesa.
Ticket prices for University of Wisconsin women’s hockey games are scheduled to climb next season, and the Badgers will offer a wrestling season ticket package for the first time.
All eight of the University of Wisconsin’s returning assistant coaches received pay raises this offseason following the Badgers’ 13-win season.
Former Wisconsin running back Montee Ball left school six years ago to pursue an NFL career. He has returned to campus and wants to make an impact off the field.
How often does an employee make more than his department head? More frequently than not actually in major college sports, where athletic directors are simply overseers while coaches become faces of the franchise, utilized in marketing tactics for the university in terms of exposure.
STEVENS POINT – Kimberly’s DJ Stewart feels fortunate to have wrapped up every year of his varsity football career at venerable Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.
Eighteen years after winning the Heisman Trophy, Wisconsin Badgers great Ron Dayne was back at Camp Randall Stadium for what he called one of the biggest days of his life. Instead of a football, he carried a diploma.
The University of Wisconsin sophomore won his fourth conference crown of the 2017-18 school year, the latest a title in the 1,500-meter run at the Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championship on Sunday in Bloomington, Indiana.
The first addition to University of Wisconsin swimming and diving coach Yuri Suguiyama’s staff needs no introduction to Madison.
A 7-under 209 total was enough for Curtis to earn an individual qualifying spot for the NCAA Championship even though the Badgers didn’t finish in a top-six spot as a team.
The picture is really hard to miss. Maybe even more so this week for the University of Wisconsin softball team.
Osiecki is a muskie fisherman with many trophy fish. This year he is holding the 1st Annual Mark Osiecki’s Casting for Kids Musky Tournament. All the funds raised will go to benefit the Carbone Cancer Center and the UW Health and American Family Children’s Hospital.
MADISON, Wis. – Undergraduate student Badger football tickets will now go on sale on two separate dates based on class standing, according to a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Department.
New dates announced based on seniority.
Former Wisconsin men’s basketball player Nigel Hayes said Tuesday he and his teammates discussed boycotting a game early in the 2016-17 season to protest the NCAA’s limits on what athletes can receive while playing college sports.
Former Wisconsin men’s basketball player Nigel Hayes said Tuesday he and his teammates discussed boycotting a game early in the 2016-17 season to protest the NCAA’s limits on what athletes can receive while playing college sports.
Photo feature: Here are the Badgers’ head coaches in order of longevity in their current position.
While Bucky is a common sight at UW-Madison athletic competitions, ceremonies and other public events, 85 life-size Bucky Badger statues decorated by 64 local and regional artists are about to swarm Madison and Dane County as part of a new public art project.
No matter how the coming years go as head coach of the University of Wisconsin swimming and diving teams, there’s a good chance a web search for Yuri Suguiyama will still deliver a reference to his having coached Katie Ledecky.
Noted: Troy Fumagalli earned that degree in December and was a consensus second-team All-American after catching 46 passes for 547 yards and four touchdowns.
“No matter how the draft and football go, he’s set,” Doug Fumagalli said. “Wisconsin’s business school can be a challenge. It’s very selective and it’s tough to get in.”
Since January, Savannah Guthrie and her husband, Scott, have been eating dinner on the floor of their one-bedroom apartment on West Gilman Street.
In his first year with the University of Wisconsin, wrestling coach Chris Bono is due to earn more than double the base salary of former coach Barry Davis.
The University of Wisconsin rewarded its highest-ranking football coaches with sizable raises following a season that produced a school-record 13 wins, per documents released by UW on Friday.
Barry Alvarez is getting a raise for his 15th full season as the University of Wisconsin athletic director.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Broncos fifth-round draft pick Troy Fumagalli had a successful career at the University of Wisconsin and he did it all with nine fingers.
Crazylegs Classic — comprised of an 8-kilometer run and 2-mile walk — was named in honor of iconic Wisconsin football player and athletic director Elroy Hirsch, and is used as a fundraiser for UW’s athletic department. The Crazylegs Classic begins at Capitol Square and ends inside Camp Randall Stadium.
Four head coaches of University of Wisconsin winter sports had contract extensions approved Friday by the UW Athletic Board.
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.
