Category: Athletics

Whyte, who is from the Toronto suburb of Ajax, Ontario, prepared for the season by playing for the Canadian National B Team that won the Jones Cup this summer in Taiwan.

During Saturdays Badgers game, the University of Wisconsin-Madison police force showed up in a big way — on Twitter.

Gordon’s stat line in the Badgers’ 59-24 victory at Camp Randall Stadium will go down in college football lore: 25 carries, 408 yards, four touchdowns. No one has ever rushed for more yards in a Football Bowl Subdivision game, and the player whose record Gordon beat by two yards was among the first to send along congratulations through Twitter.

As Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon had a historic day against Nebraska, piling up a single-game record 408 yards against what was the No. 20 rush defense in the country, the parody Twitter account for Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, FauxPelini, tweeted to the UW-Madison Police looking for a little assistance in stopping Gordon.

MADISON, Wis. — Two weeks from Saturday, Wisconsin and Minnesota will play for the 124th time. Their rivalry is the most prolific in major college football, one that goes back to the 1890s.

Lofty preseason rankings, appearances on the cover of national magazines and constant talk of a second consecutive trip to the Final Four have neither expanded the egos nor dulled the drive of Bo Ryan’s players.

Our UW basketball season preview Sunday was on Frank Kaminsky the basketball player – and the goofball.

Their playing time has been limited, their contributions minimal. Yet Wisconsin wide receivers coach Chris Beatty thinks his three freshmen have made modest progress as UW prepares for its final three regular-season games.

The trio: forwards Alex Illikainen (Grand Rapids, Minn., playing his final season at Brewster Academy in N.H.), Charlie Thomas (River Hill High School in Clarksville, Md.), and guard Brevin Pritzl of De Pere High School.

A year after the Badgers were derailed by poor locker room chemistry and a sense of entitlement, they stand unified, determined and, to a degree, fulfilled. UW achieved its stated goal of winning the Big Ten Conference title — its first since 2005 — and secured a No. 4 seed and a first-round home match in the NCAA tournament.

Through-the-roof expectations aren’t the only new obstacle the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team must overcome if it wants to return to the NCAA Final Four. Other potential distractions can be seen every day at practice, sitting quietly up in the seats, notebooks in hand. Indeed, NBA scouts have been regular visitors to the Kohl Center during UW’s preseason workouts, lured by likely first-round draft picks Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker.

This much just about everybody seems to agree on in regards to the Big Ten Conference volleyball schedule — it needs to be fixed. Just how to fix it is the trickier part.

The Big Ten Conference champion University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team drew a No. 4 seed and will open the NCAA tournament against DePaul on Saturday at McClimon Field.

When fans of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program would ask Jay Bilas if Bo Ryan was the most underrated coach in the country, the ESPN analyst never really knew how to answer.

Reporters ask Melvin Gordon about the Heisman Trophy nearly every week. The University of Wisconsin running back hears his name on college football studio shows and sees it slotted somewhere in the top five on nearly every Heisman projection.

When Melvin Gordon slips on his Wisconsin uniform and steps onto the Camp Randall Stadium field Saturday he expects to see a close friend on the opposite sideline:Nebraska tailback Ameer Abdullah.

Wisconsin and Nebraska announced Monday that their annual game will now be a trophy game, as the two teams will play for the Freedom Trophy.

There was a familiar face missing from the courtside scorers’ table at the Badger basketball game Wednesday night at the Kohl Center. It belongs to Gordy Bass, the legendary Madison area basketball official and for the past 40 years the time keeper at not only the basketball contests but unknown to many up in the press box at UW football games, too.

Dave Schultz, one of the subjects of the movie “Foxcatcher,” was an assistant wrestling coach at UW from 1986-1989.

The Big Ten remains remarkably deep this season, though it doesn’t have as many Final Four candidates as it has in recent years. Only UW enters the season looking like a team with a great chance to be playing on the final weekend.

Lindy’s Sports ranked Kaminsky the No. 1 center in the nation. Sporting News, meanwhile, had the versatile 7-footer as the No. 2 in its ratings of power forwards. Athlon Sports didn’t have individual player rankings, but it did name Kaminsky a second-team preseason All-American and played it safe by listing him as a center/forward.

Any unsettled feelings Andersen had were wiped away when UW built a big halftime lead at Ross-Ade Stadium, and despite a rough third quarter, the Badgers went home with a 34-16 victory. Now UW (7-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) can worry about the Cornhuskers instead of the thought of them.

While you’re watching the game…they’re not only watching you, they’re watching out for you. In this story, NBC 15’s John Stofflet gets an all-access look at police operations at a Badger Football game.

Tailback Corey Clement was strolling through the Wisconsin campus last fall when he encountered a stranger, a towering stranger with an elongated face, droopy eyes and a passive persona.

The text no one wanted to receive came Tuesday night from the phone of Wisconsin cornerbacks coach Ben Strickland.

MADISON, Wis. — They remember the laughter and joy he brought to any room. That’s where most stories begin, with an outgoing and exuberant older brother who would do anything to make his siblings feel loved.

Bo Ryan doesn’t have a problem with Nigel Hayes joining a lawsuit seeking a free market for college athletes to get paid.

SEATTLE — John Moffitt spent 20 years to reach the pinnacle of his profession, a day to ditch that job and a year grappling with the consequences of his decision.

Noted: When he was released nine months later by the Green Bay Packers, it marked the end of one of the great football stories and careers of anyone to come out of the state of Wisconsin, after three years of varsity at Auburndale High School, five years at the University of Wisconsin after walking on, and 11 years with the Packers as a seventh-round draft pick.

For the second time this year, the University of Wisconsin forward graces this cover of Sports Illustrated. And, this time, he’s not sharing space with any of his teammates.

Now that the University of Wisconsin football team is bowl-eligible for the 13th year in a row, Badgers fans can only wonder where their team (will) be headed for the holidays.

Fifth-year senior goalkeeper Genevieve Richard was one of five University of Wisconsin women’s soccer players to earn All-Big Ten honors when the conference announced its season-ending awards Tuesday.

Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky is now a member of a small and elite basketball fraternity.

The senior center for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team was named to the Associated Press preseason All-America team Monday, joining Michael Finley 1994 and Jordan Taylor 2011 as the only Badgers to receive that honor.

For the University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team, Sunday brought a measure of revenge.

Lawyers in the Martin Jenkins lawsuit who seek a free market to pay college athletes on Thursday added two current college players as named plaintiffs to replace three former players. The suit added Wisconsin men’s basketball player Nigel Hayes and Middle Tennessee football player Anfornee Stewart to join Jenkins, a Clemson football player, in the suit led by sports labor attorney Jeffrey Kessler.

At universities across the country, student ticket sales are in steep decline, but University of Wisconsin-Madison is the big exception to the trend – and it’s paying off outside the stadium.

It’s too early to say the Badgers have come full circle as dual Big Ten title contenders, but the performance arc looks encouraging.

A record crowd of 8,002 the UW men’s basketball team scrimmage.

A year after advancing to the NCAA championship game in its first season under Sheffield, UW is ranked fifth in the nation and is challenging for its first Big Ten Conference title since 2001. Not only are the Badgers fun to watch, their place in the toughest volleyball league in the country means local fans get to see Top 20 opponents on a regular basis.

Yes, the Gophers. We?d be skeptical, too, but the professor in question, Laura McLay, teaches at the University of Wisconsin. (The Badgers, by the way, are nowhere to be found in the Top 25.) Though McLay is originally from Illinois and therefore doesn?t ?have this animosity toward Minnesota that everyone else in Wisconsin does,? she stands by the results ? with some caveats, of course.

The Wisconsin Badgers football team play the Maryland Terapins Saturday in their inaugural game as Big Ten Conference opponents.Maryland and Rutgers, two east-coast schools, joined the historically Midwestern league this season. It?s part of a larger trend in college sports in which schools have switched from one conference to another ever since Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011.

University of Wisconsin students showed up in record numbers to help raise Ryan?s American Cancer Society donation to $53,355. With matching donations from four other parties, the total added up to $276,775.

For students like UW-Madison junior Becca Mischel, Wisconsin Men?s Basketball head coach Bo Ryan?s Shooting Down Cancer means more than meeting Wisconsin?s basketball players and taking advantage of the event?s free t-shirts, food and other giveaways.

Former Wisconsin Badgers defensive tackle Tim Krumrie is on the 2015 ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, the fourth time in five years Krumrie has made the ballot.

Bo Ryan believes there is a secret to the art of swishing a half-court shot in basketball.

As soon as Kelly Sheffield heard the question, a puzzled expression creased the face of the University of Wisconsin volleyball coach.

MADISON – More than 2,200 University of Wisconsin students showed up to ?Make Bo Pay? on Wednesday at the Kohl Center, and he did so to the tune of $53,355.