Category: Athletics

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.

As she wobbled along on a flat tire four years ago in London, Gwen Jorgensen promised to turn that heartbreak at Hyde Park into a conquering of Copacabana Beach at the Rio Games.

Zach Ziemek collapsed to the track at the Olympic Stadium and for a few moments his mind was blank. He’d just labored to the finish in the 1,500 meters, the final event of the Olympic decathlon, expending every bit of energy he had left after two grueling days.

The upcoming Lambeau Field College Classic is going to mean big business for local tourism.

There was nothing special about Jordan Elsen’s start or finish at the 96th Wisconsin State Open, but the former University of Wisconsin golfer owned the middle rounds to hold off his college coach.

The big question is, will Lee Corso put Bucky Badger’s head or the Tiger head on top of his balding pate?

Letter to the editor: Would you believe the gold medal for Fiji came right though the University of Wisconsin?

When a Wisconsin State Journal photographer lined up the seven candidates for the University of Wisconsin’s starting quarterback job on the opening day of fall camp in 1962, he put them in the shape of a question mark with center Ken Bowman as the dot.

The defending Big Ten Conference co-champion Wisconsin women’s soccer team was picked to finish third in league play, as the conference released its preseason coaches poll on Monday.

A quartet of Wisconsin women’s hockey players will compete for their countries this week as the United States Women’s Under-22 Team travels to Calgary, Alberta, to take on the Canadian National Women’s Development Team in a three-game series.

It was a bittersweet night for Kelsey Card.

The Green Bay Packers will pay the University of Wisconsin $3 million to play Louisiana State University at Lambeau Field.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Carlinville High School and University of Wisconsin graduate Kelsey Card fell short of advancing to the finals during women’s discus qualifying at the Rio Olympics on Monday night.

For Kelsey Card, throwing the discus wasn’t exactly love at first flight.

The University of Wisconsin volleyball team, like the building it plays in, is a work in progress.

Carlinville High School and University of Wisconsin graduate Kelsey Card will compete in Group B of the women’s discus preliminaries at 7:50 p.m. Springfield time Monday at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Jessie Vetter — among the University of Wisconsin’s most successful women’s hockey players and an integral part of the 2010 and 2014 silver medal U.S. Olympic teams — hasn’t laced up a pair of goalie skates since April.