Hardly any starters played for the University of Wisconsin football team during its spring game, but one of the Badgers’ most important position battles was still on display Friday night at Camp Randall Stadium.
Nigel Hayes is known for his sense of humor, but joking about serious topics is something he doesn’t tolerate.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved one-year contract extensions for six coaches.
Dean Oliver was a four-year starter at point guard for Iowa, so it was no surprise to those that know him best that he ended up on the sidelines once his playing career ended.
Tindal, Dixon overcome extreme odds to earn degrees.
NEW YORK—On Feb. 28, the day before the NHL trade deadline, Blake Geoffrion tapped out a group text to three of his former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey teammates: “Boys getting the band back together, eh?”
The Thomas Zimmer Championship Course was built with an NCAA cross country national championship meet in mind, and it’ll have one before its 10th birthday.
That 42-player camp, running April 30 to May 4 near Tampa, Florida, will determine the women’s national team that will prepare for the 2018 Olympics.
The NCAA Division-I Council passed impactful legislation Friday that will drastically change the landscape of college football recruiting, including opening the door for the Collegiate Commissioners Association to implement a 72-hour, mid-December early signing period this year.
UW must replace four seniors who accounted for 110 wins, third-most for a senior class in Badgers history.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez received the Vince Lombardi Award of Excellence during a packed event recently at The Pfister Hotel.
Noted: Elliott played four years for Eaves at the University of Wisconsin before embarking on a professional career in which he has emerged as the great hope for the Flames in this first-round series.
Lauren Carlini, the only four-time All-American in University of Wisconsin volleyball history, was named the 2017 AAU James E. Sullivan Award winner on Tuesday night at the New York Athletic Club.
Carlini, the four-time All-American setter for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, was named the recipient Tuesday of the AAU James E. Sullivan Award, presented to the top amateur athlete in the nation annually since 1930.
Football and beer-infused softball games headline the top five remaining UW sporting events this year.
Cavallini was named the winner of the Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award, which recognizes “a fearless leader and beloved fan favorite who always places his team first.”
Former University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball opened up to Sporting News about his alcohol and domestic violence issues that began at the school and continued through his abbreviated NFL career.
Jake Gardiner is a burner and a gambler — a Leafs fan’s dream and, sometimes, nightmare — and a total one-of-a-kind on the blue line.
Houston Texans superstar J.J. Watt is known for doing things in grand fashion, so when he heard his beloved fourth grade teacher was retiring after 41 years, he wanted to surprise her with cake and gifts.
Montee Ball is returning to the place where he found football stardom. It’s also where the drinking that destroyed his personal and professional life began.
Andre Taylor, the father of University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus, died Tuesday afternoon, the day after being shot in the head, according to multiple reports.
Sport returns after UW-Madison boxer’s death.
Andre Taylor, the father of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus, was shot Monday in Macon, Ga., and is reportedly in critical condition.
Working on little sleep, Lamont Paris was in the midst of a mental juggling act Monday as he prepared to fly to Tennessee to start his new job.
University of Wisconsin senior guard Bronson Koenig will receive the 2017 United States Basketball Writers Association’s Most Courageous Award during a luncheon at the NCAA Final Four this year.
The father of former Stratford Academy and current University of Wisconsin football player Quintez Cephus was shot and critically wounded Monday at a street corner in Macon’s Unionville neighborhood, authorities said.
The 2017 class was announced Saturday morning and it didn’t include the former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach. Ryan was a finalist for the third consecutive year.
Paris, 43, had been an assistant at UW since 2010. Since Paris arrived, UW has gone 189-66 (.741) with six trips to the Sweet 16 in seven seasons, including two Final Four appearances.
It was a quick yet thorough process. But University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic director David Blackburn ended his latest search for a new men’s basketball coach by getting his guy again. Lamont Paris, most recently the associate head coach at the University of Wisconsin is the new coach.
Former University of Wisconsin women’s soccer player Meghan Flannery was killed in a car crash early Wednesday near St. Louis, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The University of Wisconsin and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association were absorbing the news Wednesday that North Dakota is dropping its women’s hockey program.
Bob Bostad applied for the Badgers’ defensive coordinator position before joining Paul Chryst’s staff as inside linebackers coach, according to a list of applicants obtained by the State Journal through an open records request.
University of Wisconsin sophomore forward Ethan Happ was named an Associated Press Third-Team All-American on Tuesday. Happ becomes the sixth UW player to be named to the AP’s All-America team since the award was first given out in 1948.
It’s pretty common for players who just finished their collegiate careers to pen a note on social media thanking fans, the university, their teammates, etc. (see: Vince Biegel, T.J. Watt, Ryan Ramczyk, and Zak Showalter).
NEW YORK — In the past two decades, through unconventional approach, Wisconsin has elevated itself to college sports royalty.
Bucky Badger is spreading UW goodwill all over the Big Apple. The University of Wisconsin mascot and a bunch of other Badgers fans were on the Today Show Thursday morning, photobombing the hosts during the live broadcast on the plaza.
Remember to wear red Friday. Governor Scott Walker declared Mar. 24 “Badger Red Day” throughout Wisconsin ahead of the UW-Madison men’s basketball Sweet 16 game against the University of Florida Gators.
Observant Badgers fans may be wondering why legendary UW band director Mike Leckrone has been missing from the NCAA tournament basketball games.
Carlini, who completed her storied University of Wisconsin volleyball career in December, still is a regular around the UW Field House. Three days a week she arrives at 6:15 a.m. for workouts with her former teammates.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team has once again sold out its share of tickets to see the Badgers play in the Sweet 16.
CHICAGO — Howard Moore loves busting brackets.The Taft graduate and former UIC head coach is an assistant coach at Wisconsin, which shocked No. 1 seed and defending national champion Villanova in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The eighth-seeded Badgers face fourth-seeded Florida in a Sweet 16 matchup Friday at Madison Square Garden.
Wisconsin point guard Bronson Koenig said his team is thinking a lot about the legacy they want to leave these days.
It wasn’t supposed to end this way for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team. The nation’s top-ranked team—statistically and in the polls all season—which also had the best player in women’s hockey fell short of a national championship Sunday afternoon as No. 2 Clarkson defeated the top-seeded Badgers 3-0.
This is brutal. The official University of Wisconsin-Madison Twitter account brought Villanova’s famous “crying piccolo girl” back after the Badgers upset the Wildcats in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. And the tweet was one word: “SWEET.”
The 2016-17 Wisconsin men’s hockey team was within one goal of a Big Ten tournament title and an NCAA bid, but despite outshooting Penn State 52-35 over more than four periods of play, the Badgers fell, 2-1, to the Nittany Lions on Saturday at Joe Louis Arena.
For the fourth straight season, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s run at a national championship ended in Frozen Four heartbreak.
The Masters of March are off on yet another mad dash through the NCAA men’s basketball tournament brackets.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has all of the trophies it could have claimed to this point .A prominent individual entry joined the team awards Saturday, when senior goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens became the fifth Badgers player to win the Patty Kazmaier Award as Division I women’s hockey’s top player.
There’s been a great disturbance in the force-of-brackets. As if millions were suddenly thrown in the trash. Chances are: Your bracket’s probably worthless, or at least one-fourth worthless, now that the Wisconsin Badgers took down defending champion Villanova in the second round of the tournament.
Hayes has been on the floor for 113 wins at UW, which trails only Josh Gasser (118) and Frank Kaminsky (114). Koenig is at 112; four days after making his debut against St. John’s, he never left the bench in the Badgers’ 59-53 home win over Florida.
The expectations started early, with the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team picked to win the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and given the No. 1 national ranking in preseason polls.
Goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens was named a first-team All-American for the second straight year on Thursday, and three of her University of Wisconsin women’s hockey teammates earned spots on the second team.
Lauren Carlini has been named a finalist for the AAU James E. Sullivan Award, presented annually to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
Bob Bostad will earn $300,000 to coach the University of Wisconsin’s inside linebackers this season, according to documents released to the State Journal via an open records request.
Zak Showalter has experienced the zenith and nadir of the NCAA Tournament.
One thing that hasn’t changed much over the past two seasons is the starting lineup for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
Wisconsin sophomore guard Khalil Iverson sensed trouble as he walked off the Verizon Center floor Friday night in Washington, D.C.
The sophomore swingman for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team thought something was odd when he saw his brother waiting for him on his way to the locker room. The look on Kevin Iverson Jr.’s face made his younger brother realize something terrible had happened. Khalil Iverson soon learned two of his cousins had been shot to death on the north side of Columbus, Ohio.
Walker is picking the University of Wisconsin Badgers to win it all, even though the Badgers enter the tournament as a No. 8 seed in the East Region.
There are memories everywhere, every day, even when Lamont Paris is locked in on his responsibilities with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
