Barry Alvarez has first hand experience with concept of freshman ineligibility, which is one reason the University of Wisconsin athletic director is looking forward to talks that might resurrect it.
Bo Ryan’s players didn’t panic after their loss at Maryland.
Former University of Wisconsin running backs coach John Settle will be returning to the Badgers for the same position he held from 2006-10, according to 247sports.
UW clinched a share of its first Big Ten regular-season title since 2007-08 with a 68-61 victory over Michigan State on Sunday at the Kohl Center.
For the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, its first trip to Maryland for a Big Ten Conference game was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Paul Chryst’s first staff at Wisconsin will be paid more in 2015 than the previous staff under Gary Andersen, though the increase appears to be modest.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team and staff spent the night in Pittsburgh after they were forced to make an emergency landing there due to an engine malfunction on their charter plane.
The University of Wisconsin revealed an old video featuring comedian Chris Farley playing his Matt Foley character from Saturday Night Live, advising young athletes to come and play for the Badgers.
A former University of Wisconsin football player and his twin brother are scheduled to plead guilty next month in a string of robberies.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team remained at No. 5 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll released Monday.
There are two words you won’t hear the members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team using to describe the 10-game winning streak .Easy. Boring.
A former UW football player and his twin brother will plead guilty next month to federal criminal charges involving a string of robberies at Madison-area businesses late last year.
Jermaine Whitehead met Melvin Gordon at the 45-yard line. On fourth and 1 in the Outback Bowl, Wisconsin’s Gordon froze the Auburn safety with a juke and raced up the left sideline.
Wisconsin’s Traevon Jackson continues to wear a walking boot on his right foot and still hasnt been cleared by the teams medical staff to return to practice.
MADISON, Wis. — For Mark Johnson, the guy many believe to be the best of a group of 20 kids who shocked the hockey world 35 years ago today in Lake Placid, heaven comes on a sheet of ice measuring 32’ x 58’ just a few yards off his back patio. It’s his own man-made rink, the one he started building 12 years ago when he moved to this edge of Madison, the home of the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon was effervescent, direct, determined and refreshingly realistic at the podium Thursday as he fielded questions from a group of about 40 reporters at the NFL scouting combine.
There are 23 sports programs at the University of Wisconsin and each one has a million moving parts. That’s especially the case when those teams go on the road for competition.
John Settle has emerged as the leading candidate to take over as Wisconsin’s running backs coach, according to a source close to the UW program.
Upset after seeing Traevon Jackson’s senior season put on indefinite hold because of a broken foot, Bronson Koenig sent a text message to his Wisconsin teammate.
Running backs coach Thomas Brown, one of two assistants retained by Paul Chryst when he took over the Wisconsin program, is returning home.
The university’s Athletic Board unanimously voted to increase per-seat prices for season football tickets from $45 to $48 at its meeting Friday afternoon in order to meet its annual services contributions to campus, which increased from $2 million to $5.5 million this year. The request from Bascom Hall for an additional $3.5 million came shortly after Gov. Scott Walker introduced a proposed state budget for 2015-17 that seeks $300 million in cuts to the UW System.
Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan was named a finalist to be considered for election in the Class of 2015 for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, as announced Saturday at NBA All-Star Weekend.
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — As one approaches this town of 11,000 in the southwest corner of Wisconsin, the largest letter M in the world looms to the north. Made of 400 tons of whitewashed limestone, measuring more than 200 feet in each direction and symbolizing the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s mining tradition, it is peaked on the kind of hill not ordinarily seen in the northern Midwest.
To avoid a budget shortfall for 2015-16, UW Athletics has proposed a $3 increase in season football tickets for the second straight year, moving the per-seat price at Camp Randall Stadium from $45 to $48. That ranks seventh in the 14-member Big Ten Conference.
The increase, from $45 to $48 per seat, comes in the wake of chancellor Rebecca Blank’s request that the Athletic Department up its annual services contributions to campus.
The former UW tailback, projected a month ago to go with the 24th pick in the first round, is now pegged as the No. 17 selection to the San Diego Chargers.
The report by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel said Aranda met with the team before Green Bay hired Oklahoma assistant Jerry Montgomery.
University of Wisconsin officials are poised to raise football ticket prices $3 per game for the 2015 season.
Dave Aranda, the defensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, was interviewed last week by the Green Bay Packers.
His team was losing to Nebraska and the capacity crowd of 15,998 fans inside Pinnacle Bank Arena was standing and roaring, but during an early break in the action Wisconsin’s Josh Gasser took a few seconds to soak in the atmosphere.
The annual operating budget is being pieced together for 2015-16, and it’s a unique project on at least one front. Thanks to landmark autonomy legislation, championed by the Power Five conferences and approved by the NCAA last month, UW is in the process of accommodating cost-of-attendance upgrades for all its student-athletes on scholarship.
Some Madison-area kids got a real-life lesson from UW-Madison student athletes on Saturday.
Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst on Wednesday signed 21 scholarship players and nine walk-ons, representing his first recruiting class as new coach. Following is information on each, including a link to their YouTube recruiting video.
They were raised in different regions of the country.
MADISON – Last month former University of Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen told CBSSports.com that the academic standards for athletes had become more difficult in his two years in Madison, and it was a major reason he bolted for Oregon State in December. He said there were times that he promised certain kids that they would get admitted and a number of times that ended up not being the case.
In most college towns, the unofficial start to next football season is National Signing Day. After months and even years of courting, athletic programs officially find out Wednesday which of recruits they’ve snagged, and which they’ve lost to rivals.
College coaches nationwide find out Wednesday if long plane rides and courting high school players and their parents will pay off in landing top football recruits.
This year the game, Paul Chryst’s debut as coach, will help fund efforts in the UW Office of Undergraduate Advising. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday for $5 at UWBadgers.com, by calling 1-800-GO-BADGERS or in person at the Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Office.
As the two football coaches walked through the halls of Bay Port High School, the conversation turned to recruiting on the home front.
Bronson Koenig’s toughest assignment as a freshman didnt come on the basketball court.
Though I love the game of baseball, why not introduce the oldest, newest game to a varsity position. The sport of lacrosse was founded by Native Americans a very long time before baseball and many other sports were even thought of.
The silver anniversary of that achievement will be acknowledged Saturday night when the Badgers host Minnesota in a Big Ten Conference series at the Kohl Center.
MADISON, Wis. — The name of the class, plainly enough, is Indians of Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin’s American Indian Studies department offers it regularly, and because Bronson Koenig is accustomed to identifying the correct course to take, signing up for it last spring only made sense. He can trace the Native American bloodline on his mother’s side back to a time before his ancestors had Anglicized names. As a member of the Ho-Chunk tribe, he had been exposed to the culture since he was a child, attending occasional large powwows near Black River Falls, watching from the periphery as dancers of all ages moved to the beat of the drums.
It’s time we consider our high admission standards a positive asset, not a liability, and be proud of setting the bar high.
Noted: Selig will spend time teaching classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University, a diversion for which he has a passion, but quitting baseball cold turkey was never an option. That void would have been impossible to fill.
The UW-Madison men’s basketball team won last Saturday in overtime against Michigan but the team doesnt play again until their rematch with Iowa this Saturday.
A group of about 20 boys sat across three rows of chairs inside a small conference room at a Nebraska Holiday Inn last March, rapt by the words coming from the man up front wearing his white Wisconsin Badgers warmup shirt. He was just a few years older, still a baby-face with a buzz cut, and yet he was worlds away on a path many seated there could only dream about.
UW is the only Big Ten school without baseball. Baseball ended at UW in 1991 because of funding and gender equity. UW cannot shake gender equity. It refused to spend a few hundred thousand dollars to update the UW Field House for a Big Ten championship women’s volleyball program.
UW athletic director Barry Alvarez confirmed Friday he interviewed former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano as well as former Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi for the opening that was created when Gary Andersen left last month for Oregon State.
Letter mistakenly listed Chryst as coaching at Penn State from 2012-14, rather than Pitt.
One of the area’s top prep players has accepted a preferred walk-on offer from the University of Wisconsin.
The Badgers are the only team in the nation that hasn’t led an opponent after the first period at least once this season.
The letter says Chryst coached at Penn State from 2012 to ’14, when he actually served that time as Pittsburgh’s head coach.
Havenstein, the only UW player at the Senior Bowl, has taken advantage of his early chance to impress NFL scouts.
Andersen finally stated what most Badgers fans already knew: he left because of UW’s high academic standards.
As the University of WIsconsin welcomes new football coach Paul Chryst and watches in anticipation as one of Bo Ryan’s finest teams makes another bid for the Final Four, I would like to issue the following statement.
Admissions standards were probably the reason Gary Andersen left his head coaching job at Wisconsin last month, according to a report from CBS Sports.
Lee, from West Hills (Calif.) Chaminade, says “with the new coaches and their philosophy, (UW) was not a good fit for me.”
Heading to the NFL after one of the greatest statistical years in college football history, the running back shared some kind words about his time with the Badgers on the way out.
The former walk-on has provided a major boost since becoming a starter.
