Category: Athletics

University of Wisconsin Badger men’s basketball standout Bronson Koenig says he had no doubts about traveling to North Dakota to protest a controversial pipeline project. “My brother asked me a week or two ago to travel with him to Standing Rock Reservation to fight to protect our sacred land and water,” Koennig told The Mike Heller Show on WTSO. “I’ve been wanting to go for so long, but I didn’t think I’d have any time or a way to get there.”

One of college basketball’s most well-known Native American players is heading to North Dakota to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe this weekend.

University of Wisconsin basketball star Bronson Koenig and his brother Miles are packing an 18-foot trailer with food, water, supplies and clothes to drive Friday to North Dakota to provide relief for Sioux tribal members locked in a showdown with an oil pipeline builder.

The University of Wisconsin volleyball team dropped four spots to No. 6 in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll released Monday.

If you’re at Camp Randall Stadium this football season, take a close look at the south end zone near the UW Field House. Focus on the bold, white letters spelling “WISCONSIN” on a cardinal red background. Do you notice anything off about them?

On Saturday, Badger fans were out tailgating for the first football home game of the season.

There’s a new sign near Camp Randall Stadium that’s part of a new partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Ho-Chunk Nation.

Never one to crave the spotlight, Kelsey Card found herself front and center this weekend as the guest of honor at a two-day community event in Carlinville.

Wake Up Wisconsin anchor Brandon Taylor’s dog Bailey picked who will win the game between UW Madison and the University of Akron Saturday.

Barry Alvarez, the University of Wisconsin’s Director of Athletics since 2004, has signed a contract extension through January 31, 2021.

University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez has signed a contract extension through 2021, according to uwbadgers.com.

The first time Lee Evans learned about reinvention, it was in the context of his football career after a major injury. The second time, it was about the rest of his life.

Barry Alvarez, who has served as Wisconsin’s director of athletics since 2004, has signed a contract extension through Jan. 31, 2021.

The University of Wisconsin softball team announced four games for its 2016 fall season.

Generally ignored when votes were cast in the two major preseason top 25 football polls, Wisconsin now has the attention of the folks filling out those ballots.

After Wisconsin’s huge win in their season opener at Lambeau Field last Saturday, plans are already in the works for more college games on the Packers’ home turf.

A daunting schedule that includes five teams ranked in the top 15 of the coaches’ poll?The players were told it was a death march.

The 4-foot alligator wrapped in bacon and slowly roasted in a charcoal-fueled convection oven on Friday was only the warm-up act.

September 3rd 2016: It’s a day Ryan Ramczyk and his family will never forget.

Noted: Officials included evidence of a discarded envelope a city worker had found with a bag of trash in the alley. Exhibit A against Harpie the Violator was a photograph of that unopened envelope addressed to her from Bucky’s Buddies, a kids club for fans of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the alma mater of her mother, Theresa.

Kyle Blackbourn became the newest addition to the Wisconsin men’s basketball staff, as announced by head coach Greg Gard on Thursday.

Women’s rowing head coach Bebe Bryans has announced that openweight assistant coach, Nancy LaRocque, will be promoted to associate head coach for the upcoming season.

Green Bay is rolling out the red carpet for Wisconsin and LSU fans ahead of the Lambeau Field College Classic.

Green Bay is bracing itself for an invasion of Badgers and Tigers.

The University of Wisconsin football team will be transporting more than just sports equipment to Lambeau Field this weekend for the Badgers’ football game against LSU.

This is shaping up to be a heck of a party. Or, what might be described in Louisiana as a big ol’ fais do-do.The Wisconsin Badgers and Louisiana State University Tigers don’t even kick off at Lambeau Field until 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, but across northeast Wisconsin, the locals have already started staging a bash for folks from the bayou.

Katherine Vosters arrived at UW-Madison hoping to become a sideline reporter.

University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard confirmed last week that his program likely will no longer play road games at either UW-Green Bay or UW-Milwaukee.

This weekend’s Lambeau Field Kick-Off Classic game between Wisconsin and LSU is expected to be a big money-maker for businesses in the Green Bay area.

The University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2016 has amassed some impressive numbers: 14 All-America honors, 11 school and conference records and five national titles.

The Big Ten released its 2016-17 women’s basketball conference schedule on Monday, completing the University of Wisconsin’s slate of games for next season.

When the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team released its 2016-17 schedule on Thursday, one notable opponent was missing from the list.

For the first time in a decade, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will start and end conference play at home.

As Plan Bs go, spending a week in Hawaii isn’t half bad.

Video: The author of “100 things Badger fans should know and do,” Jesse Temple, visits Live at Four.

Lauren Carlini can hear the clock ticking, but she’s doing her best to tune it out.

Wisconsin’s Dan Voltz spent the last several days seeking advice from trusted sources and pondering arguably the most difficult decision of his young life:Keep battling the injuries that had battered his body for most of his time at UW. Or walk away from football?

University of Wisconsin seniors Lauren Carlini and Haleigh Nelson were named to the Preseason All-Big Ten Team, the conference announced on Tuesday.

Swimming almost a mile through open water, biking 25 miles and then running more than six miles around Rio de Janeiro might inspire some athletes to take a break, particularly if the effort had earned them the first Olympic triathlon gold medal in United States history.

Gwen Jorgensen gave the U.S. its first Olympic triathlon gold medal Saturday, crushing the field at breezy Copacabana Beach in 1 hour, 56 minutes and 16 seconds.

Wisconsin will open the college football season unranked in both The Associated Press and coaches’ top 25 polls for the first time since 2009.