If the University of Wisconsin football team uses a second quarterback on Saturday vs. Western Illinois, it won?t be junior Joel Stave. That much is clear. The reason why changed during a bizarre news cycle that ended with Stave doing his best to explain a difficult situation.
The University of Wisconsin Badgers continue this school year receiving $800,000 in cash from Adidas for the right to outfit Wisconsin athletes as well as $2.7 million worth of Adidas equipment and apparel.
The kid from Pewaukee, Wis., started crying.
A new study from University of Wisconsin researchers suggests that the type of helmet a football player wears may not be a factor in lowering the risk of concussion.
After two decades of sustained success, the University of Wisconsin has become a household name in the world of college football. But is UW also seen as a program that can beat the very best teams from the Deep South and Far West? The answer is no.
Following a 2-0 start, the University of Wisconsin volleyball team moved up two spots to fourth in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Top 25 poll released Monday. Taylor Morey … was named the Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the conference announced.
In his Kalamazoo, Michigan study, decorated with a Bucky flag and full-length sofa where he intends to watch his alma mater take on LSU on Saturday, Sidney Williams, Jr. expects memories to come flooding back.
As Season Begins, We Rank Everyone on How Good?And How Shameful?They. (UW is ranked as one of the most admirable and biggest powerhouses.)
The Wall Street Journal has introduced a new element to college football?s nascent playoff system: Barry Alvarez?s poolside cabana.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will play a major role in determining the next national football champion.
Former UW players now making a living in the pros return to Madison every offseason to train with Jim Snider, the highly regarded strength and conditioning coach for the Badgers.
MADISON, Wis. — It?s sunny and still at 6:30 a.m. outside the Stephen M. Bennett Student-Athlete Performance Center. It?s early August, and a yellow taxi rolls into sight near the Lot 17 parking garage to drop off two young ladies, still dressed from Friday night festivities, who giggle as they search for their car on Wisconsin?s campus. A few minutes later, an engine whine buzzes through the air. It precedes the appearance of three large men riding scooters.
When Barry Alvarez leaves his job as the University of Wisconsin?s director of athletics each day, he retreats to his backyard. There sits a rarity in Madison, Wis.: a poolside cabana.
A year ago, Dominic Cizauskas was coming off one of his signature performances of the 2013 football season.
Had everything gone according to plan, Dominic Cizauskas would have been gearing up this week for his first football game as a Wisconsin Badger, coming up Saturday against LSU.
MADISON, Wis. ?A University of Wisconsin-Madison football recruit was sentenced for sexual assault Monday.
Year 2 of Gary Andersen?s run at Wisconsin is all about comfort.
Anyone who followed Ben Strickland?s athletic career at Brookfield Central shouldn?t be surprised with where he is today, serving as cornerbacks coach at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team will play host to both of the newcomers to the Big Ten Conference, Maryland and Rutgers, as the conference announced its expanded 2014-15 schedule Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will begin its quest to end a Big Ten Conference title drought with a game against Penn State on New Year?s Eve at the Kohl Center.
The University of Wisconsin football team had a home-and-home series with Washington scheduled for 2018 and 2021, but those plans have changed.
Many college basketball analysts expect Wisconsin this season to give coach Bo Ryan his first Big Ten regular-season title since 2007-?08.
When the NCAA voted to allow schools to provide all athletes with unlimited meals and snacks during the academic year, it gave schools the freedom to choose how much money to spend.
Rob Havenstein has long viewed leadership as a cut-and-paste process.
Starting with the upcoming football season, the UW Athletic Department will no longer print full-color, magazine-style programs and sell them at Camp Randall Stadium. The same goes for the programs made available at the UW Field House for volleyball and the Kohl Center for men?s and women?s basketball and men?s hockey.
After a mostly closed scrimmage Monday, the 14th-ranked University of Wisconsin football team has retreated behind closed doors for the rest of its fall camp.
The Sheboygan City Council on Monday turned over the key to the city to a recognizable defender of a very different sort of key.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team was picked to finish third in the Big Ten Conference race, in a preseason poll of league coaches.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will be featured four times on ESPN?s Super Tuesday schedule during the 2014-15 season, the network announced Wednesday.
What has amazed Kyle Costigan the most are all the letters. They arrive daily to the tidy home in Wind Lake, so many different postmarks and so much good will tucked inside.
George Rushing doesn?t golf.”Not at all,” the freshman wide receiver said Tuesday after Wisconsin?s 14th practice of preseason camp.
Kyle Costigan wasn’t prepared for the phone call.There is no game plan that adequately prepares anyone for the message Wisconsins fifth-year senior guard Costigan received Feb. 14: “Mom has cancer.”
Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon is the subject of feature story in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, the college football preview edition.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will open the 2014-15 season with four home games in a span of nine days before beginning what should be the most challenging stretch of its non-conference schedule.
Longtime Madison resident Robert ?Red? Wilson, a former University of Wisconsin football and baseball star who went on to success in the major leagues, passed away on Friday morning at Agrace Hospice in Madison. He was 85.
While at Wisconsin, he played baseball and football and was the Big Ten MVP in 1949 in football.
The commercial will be directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams.
The state Department of Tourism is going to be filming a commercial with University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan.
The Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 will have the ability to implement some rules on their own, including a stipend for athletes that goes beyond currently allowed limits of tuition, room and board, books and fees.
The gap between the haves and have-nots in college football just widened considerably Thursday.
The biggest schools in college sports are about to get a chance to make their own rules.The NCAA Board of Directors voted, 16-2, on Thursday to approve a historic package of changes that allows the five richest football conferences ? the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC ? to unilaterally change some of the rules that have applied to all Division I schools for years. Representatives from those leagues representing 65 universities will also benefit from a new, weighted voting system on legislation covering the 350 schools in Division I.
More than 69,000 tickets have been sold for the University of Wisconsin football team?s season opener with LSU at the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff at NRG Stadium in Houston.
It?s spectacularly appropriate that Brian Rafalski and Jeff Sauer are going into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame together.
The legendary University of Wisconsin men?s track and field coach, who retired a year ago, was selected as part of the 2014 Hall of Fame class, the USTFCCCA announced on Wednesday.
The universities with the country?s most prominent athletics programs are expected to gain preliminary approval Thursday to break away from some of the strictures of the N.C.A.A., a significant change that would give them more freedom to govern themselves and could allow athletes to share in the wealth of college sports.
While Kyle Costigan and his Wisconsin teammates prepared to open preseason camp Monday, a fund was set up and a benefit scheduled for his mother?s fight with cancer.
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The University of Wisconsin football program will no longer let freshman players serve as student hosts for recruits after an incident in December 2013 led to sexual assault charges.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Every catch that Jared Abbrederis made during the early days of training camp was met with loud applause from the Green Bay Packers fans in attendance. But after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in practice Wednesday, the rookie wide receiver who grew up 80 miles from Lambeau Field will have to wait until 2015 to make his first official grab for his childhood team.
What do you get when you take 300 women, throw in the UW Badgers football team, and let them all run loose in Camp Randall? An event few words can do justice to.
The Badgers, who finished the 2013 season at No. 21 in the coaches poll, will open the 2014 season at No. 14 in the preseason rankings released Thursday by USA Today.
The arrest and eventual conviction of Dominic Cizauskas, a touted linebacker prospect who sexually assaulted a University of Wisconsin student during his official visit in December, sparked questions about how UW officials handle on-campus visits involving football recruits.
One of the more explosive outbursts of the college football media day circuit came last week when Big 12 Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby railed against the NCAA and its enforcement arm. ?Cheating pays,?? he said.
No, there is no Montee Ball-like Heisman Trophy campaign for Gordon going into the start of fall camp. But in line with an NCAA rule that some schools might not even be aware of, UW paid for an insurance policy that will protect Gordon should he be injured this season.
Not all is hunky-dory with this autonomy model for college athletics, the engaging lifestyle being pursued by the five biggest conferences in the NCAA.
Home watering his trees that border a golf course in Madison, Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen recently entertained an unexpected visitor:Quarterback Joel Stave, who was in the middle of his round when he saw his coach doing yard work.
Wisconsin Badgers head football coach Gary Andersen says there are plenty of questions surrounding his team, but well begin finding a lot of those answers when fall camp begins Aug. 4.
CHICAGO ? University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen knows it is impossible for a high school recruit making a college visit to be under surveillance at all times.
Gary Andersen?s second season as coach of the University of Wisconsin football team is shaping up to be even better than the first, based on a poll of 29 media members who cover the Big Ten Conference.
An indication of how strong the University of Wisconsin football team will be in the new Western Division of the Big Ten Conference was issued Monday when two Badgers were among the five players on the division?s “watch list” released by the league.
