Category: Athletics

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.

MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Board has decided to raise student ticket prices on season Badger football tickets to offset lower attendance.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Ryan Donato would love to clone himself so he could play at the Olympics and Harvard at the same time.

UW-Madison’s athletic board voted Friday to increase the price of student section football season tickets. The vote led to a discussion on the chronic lateness of students attending football games, an issue the program has tried unsuccessfully to address in the past.

Kaminsky, who is in his third season with the Charlotte Hornets, stopped through Madison during the NBA All-Star Break to take part in the celebration.

Pewaukee native JJ Watt has long expressed his love and allegiance to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. But that won’t technically be the only degree he has on his mantel.

A larger than normal increase in what University of Wisconsin Athletics will pay for salaries and benefits drove the department to ask for an 8 percent increase in spending authority next year.

Even the person who lived it has a hard time believing the Frank Kaminsky story really happened.

The University of Wisconsin has played men’s basketball for 119 seasons and it wasn’t until a year ago that a player’s jersey was hung in the rafters of the Kohl Center.

Taylor Currie was a middle-school student — and a long way from a Division I scholarship — when he became enamored with Frank Kaminsky.

Frank Kaminsky went from unheralded recruit to role player to star to national player of the year during his four-year career with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.

University of Wisconsin will have huge influence in USA-Canada women’s hockey game: Gary D’Amato of USA Today Network writes: “There’s red in the red, white and blue. There’s red in the Canadian flag. And when Team USA and Team Canada face off in a women’s hockey preliminary game Thursday at the Pyeongchang Olympics, they’ll be seeing red. Or, if you want to be picky about it, cardinal. That’s the vivid shade of red associated with the University of Wisconsin, represented on the two heavyweight hockey teams by nine players — four on Team USA, five on Team Canada. That means nearly 20 percent of the players on the combined rosters are products of UW’s women’s hockey program, led by coach Mark Johnson.

Noted: U.S. captain Meghan Duggan, one of four former University of Wisconsin players on the team, had an assist and was plus-1.

Taylor Currie was a middle-school student — and a long way from a Division I scholarship — when he became enamored with Frank Kaminsky.

It started as a joke, Zach Bohannon says — the guarantee that he would attend every game, home and away, during younger brother Jordan’s freshman basketball season at the University of Iowa.

That ceremony will take place at halftime Thursday night when the Badgers (11-16, 4-10 Big Ten Conference) host No. 6 Purdue (23-4, 12-2). Tipoff is at 6 p.m., but fans are encouraged to arrive in their seats by 5:40 for a pregame 3D court projection.

Wisconsin Olympic watchers will see a familiar face leading U.S. Olympic men’s ice hockey team this year: Tony Granato. He’s the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers Men’s Hockey team, but for the next several weeks he’ll be fighting for gold in Pyeongchang.