Bolstered by four runners in the top 17, the University of Wisconsin women finished in third place on Friday at the NCAA cross country Great Lakes regional meet at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course at University Ridge — and made a strong case for an at-large bid to the NCAA championships in the process.
Many fans missed the opening tipoff and a good portion of the first half during Friday night’s game because of long lines formed from newly implemented security measures at the Kohl Center.
Letter to the editor: As a season ticket holder for over 46 years and donor to the UW, the decision by Delany to hold Big Ten football games on Friday nights is wrong in so many ways.
Letter to the editor: My respect for Wisconsin Badgers basketball player Nigel Hayes continues to grow.
Letter to the editor: While I strongly support his right to speak out and share his opinions, I find it necessary to criticize his most recent actions, which the State Journal reported.
UW-Madison police officers had a relatively quiet time Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium during the Wisconsin-Illinois football game, with only 20 arrests made and 21 citations issued.
Badgers sophomore forward Ethan Happ, senior forward Nigel Hayes and senior point guard Bronson Koenig were among the 50 players on the list. The mid-season list of 30 will be announced on Feb. 9.
When the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced the 2017 Naismith Trophy watch list on Thursday, only four schools in the country had three nominees named to the 50-player list.
Wisconsin Badgers forward Nigel Hayes has not been shy in expressing his opinions on the current social climate in the U.S., expressing ad nauseum his frustrations with how Black Americans are currently being treated.
UW-Madison athletics says every sports fan will be held to new standards and community members say it’s a step in the right direction to improving the campus climate.
Two weeks ago, Camp Randall gained national attention, not just for a Badgers win, but for a racially charged costume worn at the game.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin athletics department officials announced changes Wednesday night to the school’s carry-in and ticket policies for home sporting events, beginning this weekend. The decision comes in response to an Oct. 29 home football game in which two people were involved with a Halloween costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose.
A number of high-profile UW Madison student athletes are speaking out on Twitter against racial inequalities.
Like it did in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls earlier in the week, the University of Wisconsin moved up one spot to No. 7 in the College Football Playoff rankings, which were released Tuesday night on ESPN.
When the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team gathered for the start of its eight-week summer session in June, there were three new players on the roster.
The University of Wisconsin will be one of six Big Ten schools to host a Friday night football game next season, the conference announced Tuesday.
The goals are listed on an 8½-by-11 inch sheet of paper and, Nigel Hayes reports, there are enough to fill nearly an entire page.
The 2016-’17 academic year is my 21st spent in Dane County covering University of Wisconsin athletics.
University of Wisconsin football players opted not to provide further comment following the Twitter release of a collaborative message by school athletes Monday night calling for UW to more aggressively address how students of color are treated at the university.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank apologized Monday for her school’s mishandling of a situation at an Oct. 29 football game against Nebraska in which two fans were not asked to leave after depicting Donald Trump hanging Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with a noose.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has indefinitely revoked the season tickets of two people involved with a Halloween costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose during an Oct. 29 football game at Camp Randall, and Chancellor Rebecca Blank apologized Monday for the university’s response to the incident.
At Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, Chancellor Rebecca Blank apologized for the University of Wisconsin’s response to an incident involving a someone dressed as President Barack Obama with a noose around his head.
When the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team gathered for the start of its eight-week summer session in June, there were three new players on the roster.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank offered an apology Monday for the university’s response to a controversial costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose worn at an Oct. 29 football game.
UW-Madison has revoked season tickets held by two groups of fans who officials say were involved in a costume that depicted a noose around the neck of President Barack Obama during a UW football game last month, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday.
Now living in St. Paul, the Waukesha native and University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate was back in Madison last week as the headliner for the 13th annual Saris Gala to benefit the Wisconsin Bicycle Federation.
Wisconsin basketball star Nigel Hayes is speaking up again, this time on racial injustice.
Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, on Monday apologized for the way the university responded to an incident last month when two fans at a football game wore costumes and had props depicting the lynching of President Obama (at right). Authorities at the time asked the two fans to stop using the noose, and the fans complied, but many said the university should have done more.
MADISON, Wis. — Several University of Wisconsin athletes used their Twitter accounts Monday night to post a statement demanding change in racial inequalities on campus. The message came in the wake of an incident at an Oct. 29 home football game in which two people were involved with a Halloween costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose.
Just three months off of a gold medal performance at the Rio Olympics, triathlete Gwen Jorgensen s already looking ahead to the 2020 games in Tokyo.
It makes me wonder what kind of lives they live to consider this a form of entertainment. That’s a lot of anger to carry around directed at people they don’t even know. As for the way UW-Madison handled the crisis: As an alumnus, what I want to hear is an unequivocal focus on the condemnation of racism. Let the perpetrators make the argument for free speech.
Ann-Renée Desbiens’ name is already littered all over the NCAA record book, but on Sunday, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s goaltender cleaned up one particular entry.
There is no disputing the current location of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program. Once a college basketball nobody, UW is now living large, situated firmly in the sport’s high-rent district.
Cover story on UW women’s volleyball team.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Wednesday that the university will change stadium policies in the wake of an incident Saturday when the Badgers took on Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said the school would change its stadium policies following last Saturday’s incident where a fan wore an Obama mask with a noose around its neck.
It was the unmistakable scream of a distraught child,with the drama playing out just inside gate C of the UW Field House.As the mom led her weeping child away, she offered up a sigh andan explanation for the meltdown: “The volleyball match is sold out.”
The College Football Playoff committee’s public opinion of the University of Wisconsin didn’t surprise anyone Tuesday night when the group released its initial rankings.
University of Wisconsin officials have committed to making stadium policy changes before the next home game in response to outrage over an offensive costume.
In the wake of the Big Ten’s controversial announcement that its member schools will play six primetime games on Fridays during September and October beginning in 2017, the University of Wisconsin announced it is not open to hosting such games at Camp Randall Stadium with the exception of Labor Day weekend.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Wednesday that the university will change stadium policies in the wake of an incident Saturday when the Badgers took on Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium.
Before he enrolled at UW-Madison, student Devon Hamilton had never heard of the fraternity members at the university who dressed in blackface and held a mock slave auction in the 1980s.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison African-American alumni sent a letter with more than 160 signatures to the university’s chancellor Tuesday afternoon expressing their frustrations with the racial climate on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials will be reviewing Camp Randall policies after a fan wore an offensive costume to Saturday’s Badgers football game.
UW-Madison will review policies at Camp Randall Stadium after photos of a man in costume with a noose around his neck stirred outrage, with officials saying they will seek to ensure “that symbols of this type are not displayed in our stadium again.”
I find it difficult to express the depth of my disappointment with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If this is not hate speech … a costume of a black president in a noose, then what is?!
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez released a joint statement Tuesday in which they committed to keeping controversial costumes out of Camp Randall.
Heading into one of the most important weeks of his life, Nigel Hayes had something else weighing on his mind. He was failing his Finance 300 class. He couldn’t even tell his mother. An F? He’s a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
A costume depicting President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck at Saturday’s Wisconsin football game has ignited a firestorm on social media and on campus, with students, faculty and others denouncing both the people who wore it and what some considered a weak response to the incident from UW-Madison.
Reaction to the picture shared at Saturday’s Badgers football game on social media of a man wearing a costume of President Barack Obama hanging by a noose is spreading nationwide.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison continues to face criticism this week after two fans at Saturday’s football game wore costumes and a noose to depict Donald Trump lynching President Obama.
It’s Halloween, so put on your seat belts, brothers and sisters, and get ready for an onslaught of racist Halloween costumes coming from white college students who think your humanity is fair game for chuckles. The blackface paint will flow as white students think that smearing it on, along with a sign that says, “Black Lives Matter,” is the most hilarious thing they can do. And when they get caught, and suspended by their universities, they’ll all proclaim, “I had no idea it was racist!” Don’t be bamboozled, my friends.
A Halloween costume involving President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and a noose worn by two attendees at a University of Wisconsin football game has reignited the debate on the role universities play in protecting free speech and curbing hateful words.
Three new bias incident reports have been filed since an individual wore a Barack Obama mask and noose costume to a University of Wisconsin-Madison’s football game Saturday.
Two fans at Saturday’s Wisconsin-Nebraska game in Madison, Wis., enacted a scene that many found offensive, both in the stadium and through images that circulated online. One fan wore a Donald Trump mask and held a noose around the neck of the other fan, who was wearing a Barack Obama mask and a prison-striped outfit.
The incident comes at a time when students, faculty and staff are questioning the University of Wisconsin’s campus climate, after what Chancellor Rebecca Blank referred to as “ugly incidents” last Spring.
Fans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison football game caused a stir Saturday night when they wore costumes of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton with nooses around their necks, led by another fan in a Donald Trump mask.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police ejected a total of 69 people, including 11 UW students, from Saturday’s Badgers home football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, campus Interim Chief Brian Bridges said.
Officers arrested 25 people and ejected 69 people from Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday night’s football game, according to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department.
The University of Wisconsin says it asked a fan wearing what appeared to be a President Barack Obama mask and a noose around his neck to remove the offensive parts of the costume during the school’s football game Saturday against Nebraska.
