Tuesday provided a good news-bad news moment for Wisconsin football fans hungry to see UW reach home-and-home agreements with other marquee programs.
The University of Wisconsin announced a home-and-home football series with UCLA on Tuesday, with the games set for 2029 and 2030.
As far as coach Greg Gard is concerned, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team checked off a lot of boxes during its journey to Australia and New Zealand.
MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin and UCLA have scheduled a home-and-home series with games in 2029 and 2030.
Wisconsin will enter the 2017 college football season with expectations – from outside the program – not seen in a decade
The University of Wisconsin football program will enter the season as a consensus top-10 team.
During Jim Leonhard’s first season as a college football coach, the defensive backs he was tutoring sounded like a broken record.
The final minute of the game Sunday provided a valuable learning experience for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
There’s never a good time to suffer an injury, especially one that requires surgery. Still, it was rather easy for University of Wisconsin kicker Rafael Gaglianone to take a glass-half-full approach to his absence from the field for the final 11 games of last season.
When the University of Wisconsin dropped varsity baseball in 1991, there were valid reasons. The athletic department faced a $2.1 million budget shortfall, spending was outpacing revenue and the financial outlook was bleak.
Jerry Evans hit a three-pointer from the corner with 2.7 seconds left and host Melbourne United edged Wisconsin, 90-89.
(WLUK) — The familiar green and gold of Lambeau Field will once again give way to red when the Wisconsin Badgers return to Green Bay in 2020.
The Badgers previously were ranked No. 7 nationally in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
The University of Wisconsin and Notre Dame will receive equal shares of non-television revenue from football games scheduled in 2020 and 2021, according to the contract between the schools.
The series does come with concerns, however. As much as I like the idea of UW and Notre Dame meeting for the first time since 1964, there is something disquieting about the Badgers playing yet another big-time non-conference opponent somewhere other than Camp Randall Stadium.
Although officials from Wisconsin and Notre Dame began talking more than a decade ago about seeing their football programs meet on the field, the final push toward a successful two-game agreement was UW’s 2016 opener against LSU at Lambeau Field.
That much-anticipated revival will finally happen. The Badgers and Fighting Irish are set to face off at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on Oct. 3, 2020, before playing at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sept. 25, 2021.
The Wisconsin Badgers will face off against Notre Dame at two iconic NFL stadiums, the team says.
The official Notre Dame football Twitter account’s post does not leave much room for wonder.
Wisconsin averaged over 17,200 fans across 17 games at the Kohl Center last season, good for sixth in the country and first in the Big Ten. The Badgers posted a 15-2 record at home en route to another Sweet 16 season.
For the fourth straight year, the Wisconsin volleyball team opens the season among the top-10 teams in the nation.
The UW Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a six-year deal with Gatorade worth $1.5 million.
With a roster loaded with newcomers, the Badgers began practice on Tuesday in the newfound air-conditioned comfort of the UW Field House with the recently installed video board hovering over head.
Phyllis Leckrone, the wife of longtime Wisconsin Marching Band director Mike Leckrone, passed away Tuesday at the age of 81 after a long illness, according to the university.
Derrick Tindal loves comic book superheroes.
University of Wisconsin athletics teams will have Gatorade as their official sports drink under a six-year contract worth $1.5 million in cash and product.
UW Health is offering free sports physicals to uninsured high school students Tuesday.
The Badgers rank behind Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, Southern California, Clemson, Penn State, Washington, Oklahoma and Michigan. Three Big Ten teams are ahead of UW, but none are in the West division.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach will be named head coach of the U.S. Olympic team on Friday, sources confirmed on Thursday. USA Hockey has a news conference scheduled for 9 a.m.
University of Wisconsin head coach Tony Granato will coach the U.S. men’s national ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, according to multiple reports. The formal announcement is scheduled for Friday morning at 10 a.m. ET.
It wasn’t hard to find Greg Gard out on Ray Nitschke Field on Tuesday morning. Other than Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers’ quarterbacks, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach was the only one in red during the fifth practice of training camp.
Paul Chryst generally remains composed on the Wisconsin sideline and avoids venturing out onto the field to debate calls with the officials.
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team has released its 2017-18 non-conference schedule which features games against six 2017 post-season teams and six 20-win teams, head coach Jonathan Tsipis announced on Monday.
Bronson Koenig is in the middle of a very quick — but important — step in his basketball life.
Corey Clement had just three weeks to enjoy what looked to be an unbelievably great situation with the Eagles. It might still turn out well for the Glassboro High School graduate who went on to become part of the winningest class in University of Wisconsin history. But things have definitely changed.
It became apparent in the opening session of the Big Ten Conference Media Days that the three most important words in college football are scheduling, scheduling, scheduling.
Nothing came to fruition, but Monday both UW head coach Paul Chryst at Big Ten media day and Packers President Mark Murphy at the shareholders meeting in Green Bay confirmed a Chicago Tribune report that discussions are again being held.
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.
