Category: Athletics

The average number of tickets scanned as fans entered home matches in 2014 was up 83 percent over the previous season.

“It’s been well (documented) there were some kids I couldn’t get in school,” Andersen told CBS Sports. “That was highly frustrating to me.”

ESPN announcer Dan Dakich called for the Big Ten to discipline the junior center during Tuesday’s telecast.

One day after poking two Wisconsin players in the eyes and being pilloried by ESPN college basketball analyst Dan Dakich, Iowa center Adam Woodbury apologized for the incidents but insisted he did not act intentionally.

Three weeks into the Big Ten Conference men’s basketball season, there were no undefeated teams and four once-beaten teams — Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and the University of Wisconsin — jostling for first place.

The University of Wisconsin officially announced the hiring of two more assistant football coaches on Tuesday.

Tuesday has been a big night at the Kohl Center, as the Badgers played host to the Hawkeyes. But eyes werent just on the players, they were also on Coach Ryans footwear. Thats because sneakers were not just on the court, they were on the sidelines as well.

The one-time model shows toughness on the defensive end despite debilitating back issues.

The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team will be without defenseman Eddie Wittchow for two games after one of his hits drew the Big Ten’s ire.

The Badgers (16-2, 4-1 Big Ten) play No. 25 Iowa (13-5, 4-1) at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Kohl Center.

Depth and transition play make the Hawkeyes dangerous, the UW coach says.

The sophomore is getting his feet wet as a starter and knows what parts of his game need shoring up.

Sam Madden of New Jersey is the second in four days to change his mind about playing for the Badgers.

The UW tailback is one of six Big Ten Conference players pegged to go in the first round, including high school teammate Trae Waynes of Michigan State.

The two Minnesotans hope for a triumphant return home this weekend against the Golden Gophers.

Madison native Steve Schmitt (not the owner of the Shoe Box and Madison Mallards) is hoping to publish his well-researched account of the story of University of Wisconsin varsity baseball.

The point guard scored 11 points, had four rebounds, one assist and one turnover in UW’s 70-55 win over Nebraska.

Badgers running back Melvin Gordon may have grabbed the headlines with his record-setting performance during the Wisconsin-Nebraska game in November, but the Twitter banter between @UWMadisonPolice and @FauxPelini lit up social media.

Welcome back, Frank Kaminsky. Wisconsin’s gifted 7-foot senior center from Lisle, Ill., showed in his return from injury why he is among the elite players in the nation and UW’s most valuable player.

Taylor Mehlhaff, an All-American kicker at Wisconsin as a senior in 2007, is returning to UW to help work with the team’s specialists.

Dave Aranda had no desire to leave Wisconsin, which has been a professional and personal oasis for two years.

Before adoring fans called him “The Moose” or “Joe College” or “Frank the Tank,” Frank Kaminsky was known simply as “Frankie” or “Little Frank.”

The word Russell Wilson kept coming back to Thursday was dedicated. And considering what the University of Wisconsin football program has been through in the last two-plus years, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback’s choice of words was important.

The players say one bad outing won’t kick off a tailspin as it did last year.

Joe Rudolph comes home to lead the offense, while Dave Aranda reprises his job as defensive coordinator.

Dave Aranda had no desire to leave Wisconsin, which has been a professional and personal oasis for two years.

As expected, Joe Rudolph will be Wisconsin’s offensive coordinator and Dave Aranda will run UW’s defense in 2015.

But if Ammerman is to be remembered for anything during her time as a student-athlete at UW, let it be an act of worldly selflessness that dates to the summer of 2013. That’s when she spent five weeks in Kenya as part of a women’s health education initiative called Health by Motorbike.

Paul Chryst’s first staff at Wisconsin will have at least two more faces familiar to UW fans.

Bob Bostad, who coached some of the more decorated offensive linemen in the history of Wisconsin’s football program, likely wont be a member of Paul Chryst’s first staff at UW.

When Brittany Ammerman arrived in Kenya in 2013 on a trip with a nonprofit group that provides health outreach in rural villages, she bought a soccer ball to “keep busy during downtime and entertain some of the children.”

In Swahili, the phrase nikumbuke means “remember me.” When Brittany Ammerman, a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin, traveled to Kenya to be part of Health by Motorbike, she had no idea she would do something that would make many women in that country remember her.

The athletic department paid out more than $2.6 million in bonuses to 90 coaches over the last three full school years, according to data provided by the school.

Paul Chryst’s first coaching staff at Wisconsin is slowly being pieced together and one of the more critical targets has been secured.

AUBURN, Alabama — Wisconsin’s dramatic and record-breaking victory against Auburn in the Outback Bowl also broke ratings records.

With his duties as Pittsburgh’s interim head coach completed, Joe Rudolph appears poised to rejoin the Wisconsin staff.

Sources said Monday that Joe Rudolph is in line to be the offensive coordinator, reprising the role he had as assistant head coach under Chryst when the two were at Pittsburgh from 2012-14.

Frank Kaminsky didn’t allow the hype to expand his ego.

Badgers defeated Auburn in overtime 34-31 victory at the Outback Bowl.

Somewhere along the road to the Outback Bowl, Cameron Artis-Payne thought it would be a good idea to wave a red cape in front of Melvin Gordon.

Wisconsin’s Barry Alvarez wasnt kidding when he said he would take a more active role in play-calling in his second stint as interim head coach.

To label Wisconsin’s offensive line a MASH unit would be an understatement.

TAMPA — Brad Anderson and his family drove 1,300 miles this past week, leaving behind the single-digit temperatures in Madison, Wisconsin, to support his alma mater at the Outback Bowl and savor the much warmer climate in Tampa.

You may not like who the Wisconsin Badgers hired as their new football coach, but keep in mind that it could’ve been worse: They could’ve hired an aircraft parts salesman.

First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree: By the time good friends Paul Chryst and Jim Harbaugh match tactical wits as members of the Big Ten Conference football coaching fraternity, we should have a pretty good sense of where their new programs are headed.

The Badgers head to Florida having lost four straight bowl games for the second time in their history. They also dropped their first four in 1953, ’60, ’63 and ’81.

Alvarez, who retired as UW’s coach after the 2005 season, also coached UW against Stanford in the Rose Bowl after Bret Bielema bolted for Arkansas two years ago … When Bielema’s replacement, Gary Andersen, took off for Oregon State on Dec. 10, Alvarez again came out of the bullpen to coach UW when it plays Auburn on Thursday. He did so after UW’s seniors, recalling their Rose Bowl experience two years ago, asked him to come down from the athletic director’s box one more time.

University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig was hired to the same post at Vanderbilt, multiple outlets reported Sunday night.