Category: Athletics

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The Wisconsin Badgers will travel to Virginia in November to take on the Cavaliers in this year’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

The schedule, announced Thursday, opens with an exhibition game against the South Korean national team at LaBahn Arena on Sept. 16. That’s the first day teams are allowed to practice and play, and it represents the earliest opening to a season in the Badgers’ 19-year program history.

After running hundreds of miles in his career at the University of Wisconsin, Malachy Schrobilgen has only 10,000 meters left.

Another kickoff time on the University of Wisconsin football team’s 2017 schedule was announced Tuesday when the Big Ten Network released its lineup for the season’s first three weeks.

Led by its varsity eight, which improved eight spots from last year, the Wisconsin men’s rowing team wrapped up the 2017 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships on Sunday at Lake Natoma.

Not long ago, running back Corey Clement had what many felt was a realistic goal of taking the same path predecessor Melvin Gordon did — leave the University of Wisconsin football team a year early to become a high pick in the NFL draft.

The University of Wisconsin is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Camp Randall Stadium by recognizing individuals that have helped shape the history of the stadium.

Badgers managed to hand Mizzou loss during their time in College World Series.

The Wisconsin Badgers season opener against Utah State on September 1st at Camp Randall will kick off at 8:00 p.m. according to ESPN.

A former UW-Madison running back and first-round NFL draft pick has been sentenced to five years in California prison after pleading no contest to multiple felonies including identity theft and burglary.

Big Ten officials announced last fall that Wisconsin’s 2017 football opener against visiting Utah State would be a night game on Friday, Sept. 1.

MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin is honoring 100 years of Camp Randall Stadium by recognizing 100 individuals who the school says shaped the history of the football venue.

Pat Richter laughed off the revelation that struck him in the course of helping to select a list of people influential in building the tradition of Camp Randall Stadium over its first 100 years.

UW joins other Big Ten teams hoping to make splash against SEC, PAC-12.

A larger-than-expected Big Ten Conference bowl payout should help the University of Wisconsin athletic department’s financial bottom line for this school year.

Most black people have heard criticism over their natural hair at some point in their lives. It goes something like, “You know, you would look more professional if you wore your hair straight. Or short. Or back in a bun. Your hair is not going to look good on the green screen; pull it back.” After all, sleek and straight hair is considered the professional norm, while dreadlocks, Afros and big curls are thought to be unruly and unkempt.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar knows all about what it takes to have an NCAA basketball dynasty.

They play Missouri in the opening round at 8 p.m. Friday in a double-elimination regional that also includes No. 3 overall seed and host Oregon as well as Illinois-Chicago.

For the fourth-time this season, Wisconsin men’s track and field standout Morgan McDonald is a Big Ten champion as the sophomore won the 5000 meters to lead the Badgers at the 2017 Big Ten Outdoor Championships on Sunday.

Just weeks before the end of the season and the end of the semester, University of Wisconsin-Madison head men’s hockey coach Tony Granato is on his office laptop. Surrounded by hockey sticks signed by the likes of former teammate Wayne Gretzky and photos of his wife and four kids, he’s focused on 500 words.

The idea of a culture change is pervasive around the University of Wisconsin’s Porter Boathouse.