The 2014 class announced Thursday includes Chris McIntosh (football), Mike Kelley (basketball), Steve Reinprecht (men?s hockey), Steve Bennett (baseball), Beau Hoopman (men?s rowing), Melissa Zimpfer (women?s tennis) and the late Steve Lowe (volleyball).
When Vinnie Ferguson died last month in New York, at 76, his obituary, and the news stories prompted by his past prominence as a boxer, all mentioned the NCAA boxing championship Ferguson won in Madison in April 1956. Ferguson won the individual title at 156 pounds, and the Badgers also won the team championship, their eighth and final title.
Leaders of the multibillion-dollar college sports industry, under increasing legal scrutiny over the rights of student-athletes, have begun rolling back some of the most contentious policies regarding amateurism.
Kaminsky and teammate Duje Dukan were two of a record 895 student-athletes honored by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
Gwen Jorgensen was working as an Ernst & Young accountant when she received an unusual recruiting pitch: Why not try triathlon?
UW director of bands, Mike Leckrone, says it?s a big disappointment that the band won?t be able to attend such a big game ? but it all comes down to money.
The University of Wisconsin Badgers first football game of the season will be a very big stage in front of a nationally televised audience against SEC powerhouse Louisiana State University. But while the football team and the Badgers nation of fans will be there, the band will not.
Danny Jones doesn?t like to live in the past.
The $86-million Stephen M. Bennett Student-Athlete Performance Center is tucked between Camp Randall Stadium and the McClain Center and provides an updated home for academic services, sports medicine and strength and conditioning, as well as a major upgrade of the football locker room.
Green is a former student manager for the football team who died last year.
The latest jewel to be added to the University of Wisconsin?s charm bracelet of athletic facilities is a lot like all the others we?ve seen displayed in the past two decades.
Stu Jackson, who coached Wisconsin basketball to two post-season appearances from 1992 to 1994, has been named the Big East?s senior associate commissioner for men?s basketball.
Before a workout Monday afternoon at the Kohl Center, the forward spoke candidly about what he learned from an uneven second season with the Badgers and how he?s already begun to apply those lessons to his game.
Senior right tackle Rob Havenstein was named Thursday to the watch list for the Outland Trophy, the award is given annually to the top interior lineman in college football.
Jordan Taylor is still chasing his basketball dream.The former University of Wisconsin point guard has faced his share of challenges since his college days ended in 2012, including undergoing hip surgery in February.
UW coach Gary Andersen not only senses that the Big Ten Conference will go to a 10-game schedule some day soon, he believes all the other major affiliations in college football will do so eventually.
Former Wisconsin and Kansas offensive lineman Brad Thorson declared in a blog post on the Fourth of July that he is gay.
University of Wisconsin junior running back Melvin Gordon was named Monday to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which is presented annually to the national player of the year in college football.
SiriusXM is hosting the 2nd annual College Sports Nation Tradition Tournament, and the University of Wisconsin?s Jump Around is up against Ohio State in the championship.
As anyone who has been online since Tuesday knows, Team USA goalie Tim Howard can save Bambi, Blockbuster Video and singer Taylor Swift from Kanye West. He?s even been dubbed the Secretary of Defense.
So, which of the sports programs at the University of Wisconsin will be the most challenged in the newly expanded Big Ten Conference?Several, most notably women?s basketball and men?s and women?s soccer, should be on high alert now that Maryland and Rutgers are in the mix.
That?s why, in the midst of all of the changes coming to college football for the upcoming season and beyond, the thing that grabbed Tolzien?s attention was the unlimited meals and snacks for approximately 900 UW student-athletes, which will go into effect Aug. 1.
The University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team had two incoming players selected in the recent NHL draft, for a 17th straight season.
UW athletic officials said approximately $40,000 was raised with proceeds from the inaugural event earmarked for the UW Burn Center, one of 45 in the nation verified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons. Also on Geoffrion?s list was setting the event on course to becoming an annual deal. Time will tell, but first impressions were excellent.
In an attempt to fortify recruiting efforts in the Midwest, University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen is looking to work multiple summer camps at sites outside Madison starting in 2015. Andersen would prefer to have prospects participate in his instructional camps at Camp Randall, but that?s not always feasible. As such he?s looking to hook up with a small college or two that will put him and his assistants in front of potential recruits in Minnesota and, perhaps, Illinois.
Defenseman Jack Dougherty, an incoming freshman by way of the U.S. National Team Developmental Program, was taken in the second round (No. 51 overall) by Nashville. Defenseman Matt Berkovitz, who played at Ashwaubenon High School last season and is projected to enroll at UW in 2015-16, was tabbed by Anaheim in the fifth round (123rd overall). Center Matt Ustaski, an incoming freshman who played last season with Langley of the British Columbia Hockey League, was selected by Winnipeg in the seventh round (192nd overall).
Pritzlaff is still well known in Madison as a standout wrestler who was an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin. Ever since he left Michigan in May, after three years as an assistant coach there, for his job at Rutgers, he has been peppered with questions about the ultracompetitive wrestling in the Big Ten.
It figured Gwen Jorgensen would be riding in a van headed to the Madrid airport for a flight to Chicago when we talked earlier this week.
All the proceeds from the game will be given to the UW Health Burn Center. Blake told 27 News he got to know Dr. Lee Faucher during his time in at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Faucher suggested a game to help out the burn center and Blake said he wanted to make it happen.
The timing, they say, was largely coincidental. But if the statement released Tuesday by the Big Ten ? and signed by all 14 of the league?s presidents and chancellors ? serves to back up the testimony given last week by Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany?
For the second time in a month, every university president belonging to an athletic conference has jointly issued a public letter calling for change within the N.C.A.A.
As recently as five years ago, the statement released by the Big Ten?s presidents and chancellors on Tuesday would have seemed radical. Now, it appears reactionary.
When Gretchen Miron was walking the halls of Kimberly High School a few years ago, she never could have imagined what she would be now.
Yes, a few things have changed around here in the 10 years since Barry Alvarez assumed the role of University of Wisconsin athletic director.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board met Friday afternoon and approved the following recommendations of the UW Department of Athletics regarding contracts for spring sports head coaches.
A former University of Wisconsin football recruit was found guilty of third-degree sexual assault Wednesday. Dominic Cizauskas, a former Mukwonago High School football star, was on his official recruiting visit to the Madison campus on Dec. 13-15 when the assault occurred.
The violation of UW-Madison’s recruiting policies came out when sophomore linebacker Leon Jacobs testified in the sexual assault trial of former recruit Dominic D. Cizauskas. Jacobs told jurors his job as the student host of Cizauskas was to “show him a good time.”
Finishing second in the Big Ten for average attendance last season, UW trailed only Indiana (17,359) who claimed the top spot. The Badgers have now ranked first or second in the league in home attendance for 12 straight seasons. UW has finished first in the conference in the category nine of the last 12 season.
Well before they became Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor recipients, Reed Connor and Mary Massei had unusually eventful careers as student-athletes at the University of Wisconsin.
Specifically, he would create an early signing period for his sport, which he believes would significantly reduce costs as well as the stresses and controversies associated with the current system.
A Dane County jury found a former University of Wisconsin football recruit guilty Wednesday night of raping a woman in her dorm room in December while he was on a recruiting visit to the campus.
A University of Wisconsin football player said he witnessed a recruit consume 4-5 shots in the time before he allegedly sexually assaulted a female student at a residence hall last December.
Three seasons ago, the Wisconsin football team wore two different uniform combinations: red tops at home and white tops on the road, always with a white helmet and white pants.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville men?s basketball coach is credited with moving dozens of children out of harm?s way as a tornado hit the campus early Tuesday.
Undergraduate student season tickets for University of Wisconsin football games sold out Monday. It took all of 55 minutes for the 14,000 tickets in sections K, L, M, N, O and P to be gobbled up, according to the Badgers football Twitter account.
The NCAA track and field championships concluded Saturday with a pair of University of Wisconsin athletes earning second-team All-America honors.
Noted: Possible investors cited by sources include former Bucks star Junior Bridgeman, a successful businessman in the fast-food franchise business; Ted Kellner, a prominent benefactor to University of Wisconsin-Madison sports who runs a Milwaukee-based investment business; and Jon Hammes of the Hammes Co.
After taking an unofficial visit to the University of Wisconsin on Wednesday, Thomas committed to the Badgers on Thursday. Thomas, 6-foot-2, 215 pounds, started at middle linebacker at Bradenton (IMG Academy) as a junior. He plans to enroll at UW in January 2015.
Camps will be held Friday and Sunday, and some sources say the Badgers will get to at least 10 commitments by Monday. Below are the committed and unoffered recruits that are expected to visit Madison this weekend. We’ll break down the offered prospects the Badgers have been chasing and their chances at landing them.
?This is really where we kind of learn where the game is and where it?s going, whether it?s systems of play or how to utilize certain players,? said Trask, who led the Badgers to a 14-5-2 record and the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2013, his fourth season in charge of the program. ?It?s really setting up to be an interesting World Cup.?
A Badger football player appears on the witness list for next weeks sexual assault trial of former Badger recruit Dominic Cizauskas.
Years from now, when a roll call is made of the most impactful performers in UW men?s track and cross country history, Ahmed?s name will probably be read early. Ahmed is a senior who will compete in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in the NCAA Outdoor Championships that begin today.
In 1979, Betty Roberts supervised two undergraduate UW-Madison students who convinced hockey star Mark Johnson to participate in their study of the slap shot. Other press reports, dating back to the 1960s, credit Roberts ? today an emeritus professor of physical education at UW-Madison ? and her graduate students with research that helped launch the proliferation of ?soccer style? placekickers in American football.
Ferris and Schlundt will be two of the three newcomers on a UW team coming off the program?s first appearance in the Final Four in 14 years. Ethan Happ, a 6-8 forward from Taylor Ridge, Ill., is the only scholarship athlete in UW?s 2014 recruiting class.
Zimmer is a 5-foot-10, 165-pounder who will be a junior at Wayzata (MN) High School in the fall and turn 17 in October. He led the team in scoring last season with 30 points (10 goals, 20 assists) in 25 games. One of the top prospects in Minnesota, he said he?s looking to arrive in Madison in 2017-18.
The writer salutes track coaches Mick Byrne and (outgoing) distance coach Jim Stintzi following UW’s win at the Big Ten outdoor championships.
The writer agrees with Doug Moe’s Wednesday column, “Maybe sculpture was just a mistake,” about “Nails’ Tales,” the football-related sculpture on Breeze Terrace and Regent Street.
Takadrae Williams, 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, and X?zavien Ausborne, 5-10, 175, high school teammates at Dallas South Oak Cliff, are both relatively new defensive backs who could wind up at cornerback. The Badgers have put an emphasis on replenishing their cornerbacks for the 2015 class.
Red Line Report discusses five future Badgers (2014-15) and two projected to be drafted in 2015.
In year two in the program, some things don’t need to be spelled out — like striving to be in better shape than the opposing team every Saturday. This is a much different team than the senior-dominated squad of a year ago. UW had 16 seniors and 25 juniors on its spring roster.
