When U.S. Paralympic sled hockey goaltender Steve Cash heard of the death of Jeff Sauer last month, he said one of the toughest realizations was that he could never make his coach proud again.
The emotions started to hit the six University of Wisconsin women’s hockey seniors when they got to LaBahn Arena on Saturday.
Losing to Michigan in the Big Ten Conference championship game was bad enough.The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team didn’t know it was going to get hammered by the NCAA tournament selection committee, too.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard was diplomatic.Senior Nigel Hayes insisted he missed most of the NCAA Tournament selection show on Sunday after the Badgers learned their fate because he was looking for family.
When U.S. Paralympic sled hockey goaltender Steve Cash heard of the death of Jeff Sauer last month, he said one of the toughest realizations was that he could never make his coach proud again. Cash was one of many who spoke Thursday of their appreciation for Sauer at a celebration of the former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach’s life at the Kohl Center.
Rowers from UW-Madison and Stanford University faced off Thursday for a good cause. The rowers took part in a 100 kilometer ERG challenge to support the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, which raises funds to fight childhood brain cancer.
Former Wisconsin head men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan will be is inducted this fall into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, according to UWBadgers.com.
At this time next year, teams from the Big Ten Conference will be in a holding pattern as they wait for the start of the NCAA tournament or other postseason events. Howard Moore, an assistant coach with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program, knows the feeling.
It was frustrating at the time, but going against Frank Kaminsky on a daily basis paid dividends for Ethan Happ while he was redshirting during his first season with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.Two years later, Happ is an All-Big Ten first-team selection. That honor was announced Monday when the conference revealed its 2016-17 awards.
Five members of the No. 24 Wisconsin men’s basketball team received season-ending awards from the Big Ten Conference on Monday, headlined by Ethan Happ earning first-team All-Big Ten recognition.
Carlini was named Monday as one of 18 semifinalists for the 87th AAU James E. Sullivan Award presented annually to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
On this senior night, there was a big showing of support for Koenig, as he played his last game at the Kohl Center. Members of the Ho-Chunk Nation met for a watch party at the Double Tree in Madison Sunday evening, to watch the game and celebrate his career with Wisconsin.
Senior Night didn’t start out very well for Bronson Koenig. The senior guard for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team picked up his second foul 5 minutes into the game and was forced to watch from the bench for the rest of the first half as 22nd-ranked UW and red-hot Minnesota were locked up in a tight game Sunday at the Kohl Center.
Only later did Sarah Nurse realize the reason why she frightfully couldn’t hear anything while lying on the ice was that the sellout crowd at LaBahn Arena had gone silent.
Rose Lavelle’s whirlwind year continued Saturday evening when earned her first cap for the Women’s National Team as they battled England in the SheBelievesCup at Red Bull Arena in New Jersey. She became the 14th player to earn a first cap under head coach Jill Ellis.
Until Thursday, only one person from the University of Wisconsin had been a two-time top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top women’s college hockey player.
PHOENIX — About 15 minutes before class, the professor sits down in an office a few doors from Room 550 at Arizona State University’s law school, where he will commence a two-hour lecture titled, “The Power of the Commissioner.”
With spring practice less than two weeks away, one of college football’s best defenses must begin breaking in two of the most unconventional coaching hires of the offseason.
Trades can be an unfortunate part of the business of professional sports. Players are forced to uproot their lives and start over in new cities, with new teammates and new coaches and new surroundings.
MADISON – Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ is among the 10 semifinalists for the 2017 Naismith Trophy, given annually to the top basketball player in the country.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he peers out his office window “about every day” to reflect on how much Camp Randall Stadium has developed since he took over as the football program’s coach in 1990.
The Big Ten Conference announced Monday that Wisconsin will boast 10 pre-seeded wrestlers heading into the Big Ten Championships in Bloomington, Indiana, March 3-5.
After an overachieving season that saw the University of Wisconsin win its first BCS/New Year’s Six Bowl game in 17 years, Badgers head coach Paul Chryst and offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph have been rewarded with pay raises.
Former University of Wisconsin offensive assistant Bob Bostad will return to the Badgers, but this time as the program’s inside linebackers coach.
Bob Bostad is back at Wisconsin for the 2017 season, returning to a program he helped reach unprecedented offensive success during a six-year run that saw the Badgers claim a pair of Big Ten championships.
For years, in the driveway outside of Zak Showalter’s house in Germantown, Wis., the Badger guard played basketball with a clear disadvantage. When the family game of pickup broke out, it was always 2-on-1. Zak played alone while his younger brother, Jake, played alongside their dad, Steve.
Hayes will end his UW career among the all-time leaders in points, rebounds and assists, and there’s a chance he’ll end up being on the floor for more wins than any other player in program history. He’s also left his mark in community service and is on track to graduate in May with a degree in business finance and investment banking. “I have no idea where I’d be right now without (my stepfather),” Hayes said. “I wouldn’t be here, I can say that with 100 percent certainty. I call my mother the queen of the universe — she does a lot for me — but he’s really the reason why I’m able to sit here now.”
The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s 4-3 upset win over the Soviet Union at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics — commonly known as the “Miracle on Ice” — is considered the greatest moment in sports history. The game, highlighted by Al Michaels’ famous “Do you believe in Miracles? Yes!” call was the epitome of David vs. Goliath, Cold War tensions hitting the sports arena and a true underdog story.
For years, Tony Granato had thought about coaching hockey with his brother, Don, and longtime friend Mark Osiecki.
Sean Frazier used to run the day-to-day operations of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s athletics department before leaving to become the athletic director for Northern Illinois University in 2013. Speaking at the Inn on the Park at a luncheon organized by the Madison nonprofit ProSquared, Frazier talked about topics like the marketing of college sports and the state of the NCAA.
The Badgers stayed a unanimous No. 1 in the USCHO.com Division I women’s poll Monday after 1-1 and 0-0 ties at No. 4 Minnesota.
Exactly two weeks after James White scored the game-winning touchdown for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI, it’s still hard for him to explain everything that’s happened.
When Terry Gawlik meets with student-athletes, she asks them to tell her what Title IX means.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board on Friday unanimously approved athletics’ spending authority of more than $132.4 million for the 2017-18 fiscal year.
Ethan Hughes put his big brother Cameron on notice. Not only does the 17th-ranked University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team need to win tonight, it has to put on a show.
Six seniors took their turn in the spotlight before the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s regular-season home finale Sunday.
The Badger women’s hockey won their game this afternoon, and the win was especially exciting for one fan in the arena. 14-year-old Megan Pharo says she feels like she’s part of the team after the players surprised her with a meet and greet last month.
A change in how the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department accounts for money it sends to campus means that a proposed 8.7 percent increase in spending authority for 2017-18 isn’t as large as it appears.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan has been retired for a little more than a year.
Ethan Happ of the No. 7 Wisconsin men’s basketball team has been named to the John R. Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 list, as announced by the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Wednesday.
NORTHFIELD, Minn. — The days begin and end the same. First thing in the morning, Mike Eaves pours himself a cup of coffee and looks out the picture window of his cabin overlooking Circle Lake and the large island it surrounds. At night, Eaves puts aside his cellphone and enjoys a glass of merlot with his wife, Beth, a tradition they call “wine at 9,” with the gas fireplace flickering and a starry lake view in the background.
The University of Wisconsin’s spring football game will be played under the lights at Camp Randall Stadium this year.
White, 25, a third-year pro and fourth-round draft pick, caught a Super Bowl-record 14 passes for 110 yards and scored three touchdowns — the final one on a 2-yard toss play in overtime that gave the Patriots their second title in three years.
Wisconsin’s players are set to debut new warm-up tops when the Badgers host Indiana at noon Sunday.These aren’t ordinary T-shirts.With senior Nigel Hayes as the catalyst, the players will be wearing shirts with the names of 28 prominent individuals in black history.
New England Patriots running back James White said his quarterback, Tom Brady, did not have to say much Sunday night as he huddled the offense in overtime of Super Bowl 51.
On the night of Thursday, Jan. 26, I was in Flagstaff, Ariz., with my training group, sifting through my Twitter feed.
Jeff Sauer, who embraced the challenge of replacing legendary men’s hockey coach Bob Johnson at the University of Wisconsin in 1982 and went on to win two NCAA titles in 20 seasons, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer.
A UW-Madison club baseball coach pitched an idea to bring varsity baseball back to the university’s list of Division One sports for the first time since 1991.
A year ago, Jim Leonhard hadn’t coached a day of his life. After elevating the Badgers’ secondary in 2016, though, the 34-year-old Leonhard already proved himself enough for Chryst to choose him as UW’s next defensive coordinator. Leonhard’s promotion was announced Thursday afternoon.
When Sauer was eased out as the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach after 20 tremendously successful seasons, he could have fired back at school administrators or quietly faded into the background knowing full well his prominent place in college hockey history was secure.
Former Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, Jeff Sauer, passed away this morning at the age of 73. Sauer had been suffering from Pancreatic Cancer.
University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst said he expects to have a new defensive coordinator by the end of the week.
Conney Safety donated carbon monoxide detectors to both the UW men’s and women’s ice hockey teams.
Lengthy rebuilds by the Milwaukee Brewers and Bucks have conditioned state sports fans to persevere, but no such patience is required for those who follow the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team.
Just a few weeks ago a carbon monoxide leak at an away game put the UW women’s hockey team in a dangerous situation. One local company wants to make sure that never happens again.
Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy, called President Donald Trump’s travel ban “scary” and mentioned Japanese internment and Hitler’s treatment of Jews while criticizing the policy.Van Gundy coached the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team in 1994-1995.
Greg Gard needs your vote. Gard, in his first full season as Wisconsin’s head men’s basketball coach, is participating in the seventh annual Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge.
MADISON, Wis. — Google Maps told the Koenig brothers the trip to Standing Rock would take nine hours. But Google didn’t know how how many donated items — warm clothing, camping supplies and dry food — filled the 18-foot trailer they drove, slowing them down for all the right reasons. They put a flag for their Ho-Chunk tribe on the trailer, so it could fly alongside them as they drove.
The Badgers set a new record as the University of Wisconsin ranked 12th out of 200 universities nationwide for collegiate merchandise sales, proceeds from which go toward students in need.
In 1926, one University of Wisconsin alumnus had an idea to bring Wisconsin’s legacy to the whole nation.
