UW-Madison received more than $4.4 million from royalties made off the sale of licensed merchandise in the 2015-’16 fiscal year, exceeding the university’s previous high mark by $561,000.
Score a hat trick 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday with free ice skating with the UW-Madison women’s hockey team, and Bucky Badger at Vilas Park ice rink, 1602 Vilas Park Drive.
Letter to the editor: Following the Cotton Bowl game Monday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, I was standing in the elevator corridor with about 100 other UW-Madison alumni when a group of Western Michigan University fans exited.
The excitement and trepidation was very real as Badger fans young, and old gathered to watch the Cotton Bowl game at Union South in Madison, Monday.
Even though Badger alumni living in the Dallas area reside about 1,000 miles from Madison, they’ve been lucky the past few years with Badger teams traveling to the Lone Star state on multiple occasions. The football team played in Houston against LSU in 2014 and then in Dallas against Alabama the following year. The Badger basketball team played in the 2014 Final Four in the very same building the football team will play in tomorrow.
The 24-16 win over previously-undefeated Western Michigan in the Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium was UW’s first BCS or New Year’s Six Bowl victory since winning the Rose Bowl to end the 1999 season.
In just two seasons, he has gone from starter at a Division III school to a front-line anchor at a Big Ten program known for producing quality offensive linemen. What’s more, the junior became an AP All-American in his first year as a starter.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team has never played before as many home fans as it did in 2016.
For the past four years, Pat Smet has been a Bucky Badger for the University of Wisconsin. This year he is one of the eight Wisconsin students on the Bucky Badger mascot troop.
At universities, not every player gets a scholarships. The ones who don’t are called walk-ons. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, walk-on players have been incredibly successful. One example is J.J. Watt.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team remained at No. 14 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll, which was released Monday morning.
Weighing a 10 percent increase in turnout for University of Wisconsin home football games in 2016 compared to the previous season has to take into account some key factors.
Excessive force by police against minorities, especially African-Americans, is nothing new in America. But now video evidence verifies the lethal violence occurring to our fellow Americans.
Maybe it’s paranoia, but Tony Granato feels like he knows what people think when they hear one of the classes he’s taking to finish his bachelor’s degree is on coaching.
University of Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst is a finalist for the 2016 Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year Award, according to a release.
University of Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst was named a finalist for the Dodd Trophy on Wednesday, given annually to the FBS head coach whose program represents the highest ideals on and off the field.
Public address announcer Mike Mahnke was back at the Kohl Center for Wednesday’s game after a minor health scare last week forced him to leave in the middle of the University of Wisconsin’s last home game against Idaho State.
Lauren Carlini became the first three-time first-team All-American in University of Wisconsin volleyball history, as the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced its teams Wednesday.
Wisconsin teammates Ryan Ramczyk and T.J. Watt, both first-year starters, on Monday were named to The Associated Press All-American team.
University of Wisconsin offensive lineman Ryan Ramczyk has earned his place as one of the nation’s best tackles in his first year playing for the Badgers.
There will be no confetti celebration for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team this year.
Letter to the editor: Now, after many successful seasons and a 2016 year where the Badgers were outstanding, the State Journal comes up with the headline: “Cotton Bowl serves as consolation prize.” Consolation? The Cotton Bowl is one of the biggest prizes among the many bowls.
Madison – On Sept. 29, Kat Vosters had a nice dinner with her fiancé and her best friend at Gray’s Tied House in Verona, enjoying the best Buffalo chicken wrap in town and just a glass of water, as usual, because work could call at any minute.
A total of 53 student-athletes from the University of Wisconsin have received the honor of earning spots on the fall Academic All-Big Ten teams, the Big Ten Conference announced Wednesday.
Instead of writing traditional pen and paper letters to a pen pal in an elementary school classroom, school kids can connect with college athletes with software provided by the Chins Up Foundation in Madison.
Discussion of salaries for assistant football coaches is not new for the University of Wisconsin.
Four members of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team were named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Northeast All-Region team on Tuesday.
Cornerback Sojourn Shelton retweeted a post from New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham on Sunday evening that eerily translated to the University of Wisconsin football team’s current situation following the loss in the Big Ten Championship Game the day before.
The No. 3 Badgers will meet Ohio State at 1 p.m. (Friday), followed by the match between No. 6 Stanford and Florida State at 3:30.
The class was held just last week in Professor Bud Selig’s classroom at the University of Wisconsin. The topic of the day, in the professor’s “Baseball in American Society” curriculum, was a whopper: steroids and baseball.
Paul Chryst’s players now face a challenge that hasn’t been a factor for more than a month: Regrouping after a loss.
It wasn’t what the University of Wisconsin football team or any of its fans were hoping for heading into the weekend, but the Badgers are on their way to a New Year’s Six bowl game to finish off a season much more impressive than the pundits anticipated.
Wisconsin men’s basketball team senior guard Bronson Koenig writes about his experience at the Standing Rock protest site.
MADISON — Even after two Final Four runs, Wisconsin basketball star Bronson Koenig said he didn’t think of himself as a role model when he took a September trip to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
University of Wisconsin senior running back Corey Clement and junior left tackle Ryan Ramczyk were named first team All-Big Ten Conference selections, the league announced on Wednesday.
Near the edge of the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota, about 50 yards from a tributary of the Missouri River, there’s a basketball hoop. It’s one of those worn-out outdoor hoops that leans forward a little bit, almost as if the wind had bent it.
University of Wisconsin junior linebacker T.J. Watt was a consensus All-Big Ten First team selection by the coaches and media, the conference announced on Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst was named the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, the league announced on Tuesday.
On the day he was introduced as the 30th head coach in the history of the Wisconsin football program, Paul Chryst was asked whether returning to his alma mater represented his dream job.
Forty-nine people, including eight students, were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, during the football game between Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The University of Wisconsin is the No. 3 seed in the NCAA volleyball tournament, the highest seed in program history.
Although many had experienced the same thing when Bret Bielema left for the, um, greener pastures of Arkansas in 2012, the University of Wisconsin football players were still shocked two years later when coach Gary Andersen told them just hours after the Big Ten Conference Championship Game that he was fleeing for the, um, academic flexibility of Oregon State.
One of the men who wore a costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose to a UW football game last month apologized and said that “there was no racial intent” behind the costumes.
A woman who had an extramarital affair with Bo Ryan, the former University of Wisconsin basketball coach who resigned abruptly last December, has filed a federal lawsuit against eight UW-Madison officials alleging defamation and other rights violations.
The attorney for one of the two former UW football season-ticket holders whose tickets were used by two people in costumes that depicted President Barack Obama in a noose said his client “condemns” their actions.
A woman who was romantically involved with former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan on Wednesday sued several top university officials, alleging they deprived her of due process, defamed her and invaded her privacy.
The man behind the President Obama mask at Camp Randall stadium last month, with a noose around his neck, is a 40-year old Elkhart Lake resident.
The University of Wisconsin football team moved up one spot to No. 6 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night.
“On Wisconsin” is a song Wisconsinites hold near and dear, especially during football season. Not only is it the famed fight song for the University of Wisconsin-Madison football team, it is also the official state song, just with different lyrics.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. — A year’s worth of careful preparation has distilled into the final few frantic days, and Rocky Biegel has disappeared again behind the wheel of his red pickup truck, flecks of dirt spraying as he fades into the distance toward a water reservoir.
The NCAA title hopes came to an end for the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team Friday night.
Letter to the editor: Two recent stories about UW-Madison in the State Journal really caught my interest. The first was about basketball player Nigel Hayes’ public protest during the national anthem. He stands a few steps behind teammates.
It could have been a season to forget for the University of Wisconsin cross country teams.
Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy, one of the NFL’s most interesting players and an activist who speaks out for human rights and against domestic violence, has called breaking Joe Paterno’s leg “my proudest moment in college”.
The Wisconsin basketball players Nigel Hayes and Jordan Hill took a step behind their teammates during the national anthem before the ninth-ranked Badgers’ season opener on Friday. It was another in a long series of visible protests from one of college basketball’s most socially aware locker rooms.
The holidays are just around the corner and for some families, gift giving may not be possible.That’s why Nigel Hayes, UW-Madison student athlete and the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County teamed up to help local families by taking them on a shopping spree. Life hasn’t been exactly easy for the Schultz and Keaton families.
For the second-straight week, the trio of Ethan Happ, Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig were all named to another major national award watch list.
After the No. 12 Wisconsin men’s cross country team stole the show at the 2016 NCAA Great Lakes Regional, UW Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Mick Byrne and junior Morgan McDonald have earned Great Lakes Region Coach and Athlete of the Year honors, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced Tuesday.
As we stood in the long line waiting to get into the Badgers’ nonconference basketball game with Central Arkansas last Friday night, I couldn’t help but think of what this is going to be like come real winter.
The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team gave the nation’s top-ranked team all it could handle in the Big Ten Conference tournament final.
