The University of Wisconsin athletic department will have a new provider of sports drinks for the second time in as many years.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Big Ten Network will triple its prime-time national TV exposure during football season and add more basketball games in the time slot, thanks to new deals with broadcast partners FOX, ABC/ESPN and CBS.
Paul Chryst was a feel-good hire in the winter of 2014.
The University of Wisconsin football team was picked to win the Big Ten west division this season by the conference’s media members.
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association on Thursday launched an effort to crowdfund on behalf of its women’s league.
UW assistant Howard Moore, born and raised in Chicago, on Wednesday reported via Twitter he had lost an uncle.
Kids at a children’s hospital in Green Bay got a special visit Wednesday from Vince Biegel, the Packers linebacker and former Badgers star.
Marquis Mason says he was definitely thrown into the fire, but has enjoyed his transition into a new sport – ultimate frisbee.
It’s like Lauren Carlini is living the life she charted as a 9-year-old when she drew a picture of herself wearing a No. 7 USA volleyball jersey.
Some “clear” changes are coming to Camp Randall carry in policies this fall. Carry in bags at Camp Randall Stadium will be required to be made of clear material, beginning with this fall’s Badger football season.
New rules will limit what kinds of bags spectators can bring into University of Wisconsin football games at Camp Randall Stadium starting this season, but the change isn’t as severe as at some other schools.
In the interest of security, the University of Wisconsin has announced a new bag policy for fans attending home football games this upcoming season at Camp Randall Stadium.
Wisconsin Athletics announced Monday that it will establish a new bag policy for home games at Camp Randall Stadium. The new policy states that bags larger than 6.5” x 4.5” are not allowed in the stadium unless they are clear. Clear tote bags up to 12” x 6” x 12” will be allowed, and the University will provide one tote bag per household to season ticket holders when tickets are mailed out.
Izzy Ashburn loved playing volleyball with Sydney Hilley in high school so much that she’s decided to do it again in college.
Three seniors on defense and two junior offensive linemen at Wisconsin have made the latest round of college football preseason watch lists.
The University of Wisconsin football and volleyball teams aren’t the only ones with a season right around the corner. The Badger’s Water Ski and Wakeboard teams are also in the midst of their summer workouts.
UW Football Student Athletes play pioneer games and engage with neighborhood children in different nature activities including skins and skulls identification as well as team building exercises.
Badgers head to Australia, New Zealand in August.
“I think it’s important to get out of Madison and go to different parts of the state,” Chryst said. “Certainly, we’re lucky in Wisconsin. We’ve got a great following. People come from all over the state – obviously some from out of the state – but for us to then go out and thank them for what they’re doing, I think it’s important.”
Alvarez has been making similar treks across America’s Dairyland since accepting the job as coach at Wisconsin in 1990.
Williams was the UW representative on the team that included one player from each Big Ten school on a tour that took them to the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy and Austria from June 17 to 28.
With the NBA’s moratorium period over, the Milwaukee Bucks went on a signing spree Thursday. The Bucks locked up their first-round pick, 6-foot-10 forward D.J. Wilson, to a rookie-scale contract, added former Wisconsin guard Bronson Koenig on a two-way contract, acquired Sterling Brown from the Philadelphia 76ers for cash considerations and signed former VCU guard JeQuan Lewis to a free-agent contract.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department ranked in the top three of the Big Ten Conference in operating revenue and expenses for the 2015-’16 fiscal year.
Back when Howard Moore was growing up on Chicago’s West Side in the 1980s and early ’90s, he could play basketball with his friends at the playground until dusk.
Adjustments to roles and areas of oversight among the University of Wisconsin athletics senior staff are being made, University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez adjusted responsibilities to some of his senior staff, it was announced Wednesday.One of the changes was that Chris McIntosh, formerly the associate athletic director for business development, will assume the role of deputy athletic director. He will take over for former deputy Walter Dickey
We’ve all heard and probably repeated the old saying, “You can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy,” many times. Mostly it refers to people who left the farm and never came back to actually farm but always kept a soft spot in their hearts for farming and maybe attended a farm show once in a while or subscribed to a farm newspaper or magazine.
Track and cross country star Chris Solinsky was omitted from Tuesday’s initial announcement, Badgers athletics officials said Wednesday. He’ll also join the group being inducted in September.
Brooks Bollinger already goes down as one of Grand Forks’ greatest athletes.
Rose Bowl-winning quarterbacks Darrell Bevell and Brooks Bollinger were among 10 players named Tuesday to be inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame.
One former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey captain will replace another on the Badgers coaching staff.
Ten former Badgers will be inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 29 at Union South.
More than a dozen current and former Badgers are set to compete this week at the 2017 USA Swimming National Championships in Indianapolis.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame was established in 1991, around the time Barry Alvarez and Pat Richter teamed up to revive Badgers athletics.
Last Friday, the NHL held a press conference hours before the start of the NHL Draft announcing that the league would be providing money for five schools to conduct “feasibility studies” into starting Division I NCAA men’s and women’s hockey programs, and named the University of Illinois as the first school to receive that funding(the other four schools have not been chosen yet).
Event will honor a giant of UW athletics.
Frank Ntilikina, Daymean Dotson, Ognjen Jaramaz will be joining former Badger for summer practice as well.
Former Badger took to Player’s Tribune to announce ’I’m the best shooter in this year’s draft class.’
None of the 10 players with Wisconsin ties who had pre-draft workouts with the Milwaukee Bucks, among other teams, were chosen in the NBA draft Thursday night.
Take a look back at the career of former Wisconsin Badgers basketball star Nigel Hayes as he prepares for the NBA draft, which begins Thursday.
On Friday, UW posted the job vacancy, with the window for applications closing on June 26.
Three University of Wisconsin men’s hockey players were among 42 selected for USA Hockey’s evaluation camp for the World Junior Championship.
For the 11th consecutive year, the Wisconsin women’s lightweight rowing programs boasts at least one All-American, as junior Brianna Wynne was named to the 2017 Pocock Lightweight All-America Team.
Jessie Vetter traces the origins of her annual golf outing to when she was a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin.
To Tony Granato, a former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey player will have an advantage in becoming the team’s newest assistant coach. To a point.
Peering out onto the Milwaukee Bucks practice court from the wall of the Cousins Center, a sweaty Zak Showalter rattled off names like Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson and Ray Allen with ease.
Madison owns its pieces of professional golf lore, from Walter Hagen playing the (then 18-hole) Monona Golf Course in the 1930s to Arnold Palmer and Gary Player touring Odana Hills in 1961. Palmer shot 65 that August day, and took home the winner’s share of the $4,000 purse. A spectator ticket was $3.
Eight University of Wisconsin head coaches had their contracts extended by one year by the Athletic Board on Friday.
The day of the Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic is usually a special one on the calendar for the charity game’s namesake.
Those who want to enjoy the bunker-like weight room and labyrinthine hallways of UW-Madison’s Southeast Recreational Facility before the popular campus gym is demolished have until Aug. 18 to do so.
The UW Athletic Board met Friday afternoon and approved many contracts for spring sport head coaches.
An associate head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey team is leaving for a coaching job with the NHL.
Only a year after the University of Wisconsin’s men hockey program acquired Don Granato, the former associate head coach announced that he will be taking an assistant head coach position with the Chicago Blackhawks.
It was only a matter of time before interest developed in breaking up the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coaching “dream team.”
It took nearly two months, but the Hawks filled that vacancy and also added another assistant when they hired Ulf Samuelsson — a former teammate of Quenneville’s — and Don Granato on Thursday.
BRIDGEVIEW – In a Chicago Fire locker room with a World Cup winner, U.S. national team members and a diverse group of MLS rookies and veterans from all over the world, Cary native Drew Conner tries to play a vital role: the man in charge of the music.
Steelers outside linebackers coach Joey Porter didn’t come out and say it, but don’t be all that surprised if first-round draft pick T.J. Watt is the starting right outside linebacker when the Steelers open the season in Cleveland Sept. 10, or shortly thereafter. Porter certainly didn’t close the door on the idea when he spoke with reporters during a break in minicamp Wednesday morning.
UW-Madison is celebrating 100 years of history at Camp Randall Stadium with the Camp Randall 100, a list of the most influential figures in the stadium’s past.
After hours of waiting and technical difficulties, UW-Madison announced Monday that undergraduate student football tickets have sold out for the 25th consecutive season.
The inevitable closure of the Southeast Recreational Facility—commonly known as the SERF—is quickly approaching. The UW-Madison Division of Recreational Sports announced Friday that the popular facility will officially close Aug. 18.
The Wisconsin Badgers will travel to Virginia in November to take on the Cavaliers in this year’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
