Landry, who first rose to prominence as a mainstay for the University of Wisconsin from 2005-09, was back on the practice floor this week in the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion wearing the uniform of his favorite childhood team, the Milwaukee Bucks.
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling against the NCAA saying its use of college athletes’ names, images and likenesses violated antitrust laws but struck down a plan allowing schools to pay athletes up to $5,000.
Account of a football game (Badgers vs. Troy) at Camp Randall through the law enforcement prism.
The Milwaukee NBA team’s training camp kicks off today University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team was picked to finish last in the 2015-16 Big Ten men’s hockey preseason coaches’ poll released on Monday.
Those with UWPD say it’s no secret, a late start adds extra hours of drinking and usually means more work for officers.
“Night games bring a unique challenge to us,” UWPD, public information officer, Marc Lovicott, said.
A challenge those UWPD say they’re ready for.
“It could lead to and we’re expecting to lead to a few more fan issues inside the stadium,” Lovicott added.
Cubs fever spread last week to a classroom on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus during a lecture for a 600-level history course titled “Baseball and American Society Since World War II.’’
Q&A with Jackie Davenport, the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department’s new community relations director, meaning she’s responsible for coordinating service activities for the hundreds of Badger student-athletes.
UW-Madison is one of 15 universities that Koch Industries, led by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has signed with as part of an image rebuilding and employee recruitment program, according to news reports.
The start of the 2015-16 Wisconsin men’s hockey season is less than three weeks away, and now the television schedule and start times are set.
The Badgers’ television schedule includes 10 regular-season games that will air on either BTN, ESPNU, ESPNEWS or American Sports Network (ASN), with four more slated for CN900, which is available in Michigan. In addition, the Big Ten tournament, which takes place March 17-19 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, will also air on BTN.
UW’s first television appearance is slated for Nov. 20 against Denver at the Kohl Center on ASN. That contest will begin at 7:30 p.m. CT.
ive of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s regular-season games will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network, beginning with a game at Penn State on Jan. 16.
Kapoi, who made his first career start last week during UW’s 28-3 victory over Troy, orally committed to Hawaii before changing his mind and choosing the Badgers. Aloha Stadium, where the Rainbow Warriors play their home games, is about a 20-minute drive from where Kapoi played high school football in Kapolei, Hawaii.
The Badgers men’s basketball team has landed a verbal commitment from one of the top recruits in the state. Kobe King from La Crosse announced his verbal commitment on Twitter.
Madison West junior Terrell Carey is drawing interest from programs around the country including Purdue and Wyoming, but it was a recent visit to Wisconsin that had him smiling.
“It’s a real nice feeling knowing that you’re right down the street. You have the UW talk to you, knowing that you’re just so close to coaching staff.”
Carey isn’t the only local player on the Badgers’ radar. Madison Memorial’s Jake Ferguson, the grandson of Barry Alvarez, is also among those receiving interest. Paul Chryst’s new staff is making sure no stone is left unturned in the state.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Jones wore a GoPro video camera while playing with the University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni band – she played in the actual band many years ago – before Saturday’s game against Miami of Ohio at Camp Randall.
Wisconsin Badgers junior forward Nigel Hayes has been named a pre-season first team All-American by The Sporting News. Hayes started all 40 games on the Badgers’ 2015 Big Ten champion and Final Four team, ranking third on the squad in scoring (12.4 ppg) and second in rebounds (6.2 rpg).
Three Southeastern Conference teams fell out of the AP Top 25 and Auburn dropped 12 spots Sunday after the league that set a record for most teams in the college football rankings last week had a rough weekend.
UW-Madison police issued 25 citations and ejected 55 people from Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks, according to a report released Saturday night.
The UW Marching Band performed on Wake Up Wisconsin under the direction of its legendary director, Mike Leckrone.
The group was part of WKOW’s live Badger Bash show ahead of Wisconsin’s first home game of the 2015 season against Miami University (Ohio). Bucky Badger helped get things going as well as only Bucky can!
By day, Suzy Favor Hamilton was a three-time Olympian making celebrity appearances.
UW Volleyball Head Coach Kelly Sheffield talks to News 3 This Morning about updates planned for the UW Field House.
Six All-Americans from the past 20 years — Lizzy Fitzgerald, volleyball; Mike Gentile, men’s soccer; Devin Harris, men’s basketball; Jim Leonhard, football; Brian Rafalski, men’s hockey; and Kerry Weiland, women’s hockey — will be honored along with administrator Paula Bonner, who helped steer women’s athletics through their growth years.It’s hard to find fault with any name on that list. … (but) How in the world is Jeff Sauer not in the UW Athletic Hall of Fame?
The University of Wisconsin football team dropped out of the Associated Press top-25 poll after its 35-17 loss to Alabama.
Even before the sun crept over the horizon, the streets of Fort Worth coursed red. Cardinal-clad Wisconsin Badgers supporters and crimson-adorned Alabama fans filled the streets, pooling at the Sundance Square plaza at the heart of downtown.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team jumped two spots to No. 11 in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
Denlinger was playing right guard on the Badgers’ field-goal unit. He remembers taking a nasty hit that he never saw coming. Everything after that remains a blur. “The lights kind of flickered for a second,” he said. And, the next thing he knew, Denlinger’s college football career went dark.
Corey Clement recalls the last game that piqued his interest as much as Wisconsin’s season-opener against No. 3 Alabama.
The sounds of On, Wisconsin! will be booming out of Irving Schools Stadium on Friday night.
Anya Covington, who played for the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team from 2009-12, has joined coach Bobbie Kelsey’s staff as an assistant coach.
If you like being active on social media when you’re at Camp Randall for a Badger game, you will have more options this fall through a new and improved Badger Gameday app.
Tuesday was a critical day for Wisconsin offensive linemen Hayden Biegel and Walker Williams.
Royalties from sales of licensed merchandise totaled just over $3.8 million in 2014-15, up 10 percent from the previous year and second-highest in school history to the record $3.85 million in 2012-13.
Football coaches at Virginia Tech and Cincinnati created a stir last week when they said they were considering withholding some of the stipends for disciplinary reasons such as missing team meetings, committing academic fraud or getting called for a personal foul penalty. Some schools have been accused of inflating their cost of attendance estimates for all students to be able to use a higher value of the new scholarship money as a recruiting tool for athletes.
Madison, Wis. — Students are back on campus and the fall sports season is up and running at UW-Madison. While many of these student-athletes already have a lot on their plate between classes, practices, and games; some are adding another extra-curricular activity – community service.
Profile of Badgers punter.
Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Aranda hopes to see a change this season in cornerback Sojourn Shelton. Aranda wants the junior to break the law — figuratively, of course — beginning with the opener Saturday against No. 3 Alabama.
Specifically, Aranda hopes Shelton takes more calculated risks within the framework of the overall defense.
UW running back Corey Clement spent his freshman season playing behind James White and Melvin Gordon and was Gordon’s backup last season.
Profile of former UW defensive lineman turned Badger strength coach Ross Kolodziej.
A few days after Wisconsin’s 68–63 loss to Duke in the NCAA championship game, the school’s athletic director, Barry Alvarez, walked into coach Bo Ryan’s office for what he thought would be a standard, end-of-season wrap-up meeting. Ryan, however, delivered a message that was far from standard: He was strongly considering retiring at the age of 67. “I was surprised,” Alvarez said in a telephone interview. “People have asked me how much longer he’s going to coach, and I always said you’re gonna have to wheel him out of here on a gurney.”
Wisconsin women’s rowing head coach Bebe Bryans has hired Jacksonville University head coach Jim Mitchell as an assistant coach for the Badgers.
he Big Ten schedule was released Thursday and the Badgers will play eight of their 18 conference games against teams that were in the NCAA tournament field last year.
The Badgers released their schedule for next season, a challenging slate that features 13 games against teams that played in the NCAA tournament last season.
Suzy Favor Hamilton said Wednesday that she will release a memoir next month that will touch on the mental health issues that compelled the former U.S. Olympian and University of Wisconsin track star to lead a double life as a Las Vegas call girl.
When Paul Chryst was the critically acclaimed offensive coordinator for the University of Wisconsin football team from 2005 to 2011, the offensive players thought so highly of him they almost viewed him as their head coach. Now Chryst really is the head coach, returning to UW this season after a three-year job-training program as the head man at Pitt.
Suzy Favor Hamilton said Wednesday that she will release a memoir next month that will touch on the mental health issues that compelled the former U.S. Olympian and University of Wisconsin track star to lead a double life as a Las Vegas call girl.
Ziemek, a redshirt senior with the University of Wisconsin track and field team, is competing this week in the decathlon at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing.
This year’s Athletic Department budget includes an additional $2 million that can be distributed to athletes to pay for expenses such as transportation, school supplies and cellphones — costs universities had previously been barred from funding. The changes mean full-scholarship Badger athletes will get an additional $3,800 to $5,200 per year from the university, associate athletic director Justin Doherty said.
Quarterback Joel Stave has crammed a lifetime of experiences into his first four years at Wisconsin.
Wisconsin was ranked No. 20 in The Associated Press top 25 football poll released Sunday.
Over the course of five months, a pair of investigative reporters trailed former Wisconsin football player Chris Borland, whose decision to give up the game just one year into a promising NFL career drew national attention. Their conclusion: “In many ways, Borland is like any bright, ambitious recent college graduate who is trying to figure out the rest of his life. In other ways, he’s the most dangerous man in football.”
I recently heard the new University of Wisconsin football coach speak before a service club. For a guy said to dislike public speaking, Chryst, a Madison native and former UW player, struck me as humble, likable and earnest. Humble is not a word that pops to mind to describe recent Badgers football coaches.
Wisconsin women’s tennis coach Tina Samara announced on Thursday the hiring of Taylor Braziel as the team’s new assistant coach. A former teaching professional at the Rick Macci Tennis Academy, Braziel comes to Madison after most recently serving a two-year stint as a volunteer assistant coach at Florida State.
Badger athletes will receive thousands of dollars more from the UW Athletic Department this year under a new set of NCAA rules that allow universities to pay for the full cost of attending college.
The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team is predicted to finish ninth in the Big Ten Conference, according to the league’s preseason coaches poll released Wednesday.
Wisconsin cornerback Derrick Tindal probably won’t ever forget the last time he spoke with his mother.
During his two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Pittsburgh, Taylor Mehlhaff told anyone who asked how much he believed in head coach Paul Chryst, how he treated the people in his charge and his vision for the football program.
UW wide receiver Ricky Finco got his first taste of playing at Camp Randall in high school. When he took the field, he immediately knew he wanted to suit up for Wisconsin someday.
Quoted: A little over a $100 per helmet, [Riddells are] just as good as those newer models that cost sometimes over $500, according to Tim McGuine at University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
“There’s a lot of misinformation out there that if we just have these athletes wear these helmets, that are designed differently or something, they’re gonna have fewer concussions. And from a simplistic model that makes sense, but concussions are multi-factorial,” said McGuine.
Barry Alvarez said “no mas,” when asked if he would ever coach again after the 2015 Outback Bowl. Though the former coach never strays too far from the sideline. The UW athletic director has made several stops to week one of fall camp, observing the team and new head coach Paul Chryst. This could be seen as pressure for Chryst with his boss looking over his shoulder, but that’s not at all the case.
UW-Platteville is bringing back former men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan for its Distinguished Lecturer series. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. on Bo Ryan Court in Williams Fieldhouse.
