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Wisconsin Football: 3 Trap Games On The 2024 Schedule
With the season beginning on just over a month for Wisconsin football, the 2024 schedule is brutal. This includes games against Alabama, Oregon, USC, and Penn State. This is the result of eliminating the East and West divisions in the Big Ten and adding Oregon, USC, UCLA, and Washington to the conference. The Badgers will have to win some of these tougher games if they want to be successful this season.
Passing the torch: The hometown heroes heading to the Paris Olympics
Women's sports are finding larger audiences in Madison these days, but this town has a long history of being home to exceptional female athletes, many of whom won medals on the world’s grandest athletic stage: the Olympics. With the Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremony approaching on July 26, what better time to reflect on local ties to past summer medalists — and highlight a few of the hometown heroes competing in Paris?
Big Ten primer — Wisconsin’s greatest football moment
USC goes to Big Ten media days in Indianapolis this week. The Trojans enter a new world and a new era. One of their new conference neighbors is Wisconsin. The Badgers have had a lot of good teams in the past 35 years. They have beaten Miami in an Orange Bowl game. They have played in several Rose Bowl games. They have produced multiple Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne. Yet, if trying to pinpoint the greatest Wisconsin football moment, which one is the best of them all? It has to be the 1994 Rose Bowl. Wisconsin’s 1963 Rose...
Wisconsin among winningest college football programs without national championship
The Wisconsin football program has been the model of consistent success over the last few decades. The program has qualified for 22 consecutive bowl games, the third-longest active streak behind only Georgia and Oklahoma. It has experienced only two losing seasons (2001, 1995) since Barry Alvarez’s initial breakthrough in 1993.
Former Wisconsin women's hockey star earns another honor for 2023-24 performance
Former Wisconsin women’s hockey standout Britta Curl was named a first-team Academic All-American by College Sports Communicators on Tuesday. This marks the second consecutive year Curl has secured first-team Academic All-American selection, and she joins former Badger Sara Bauer as the second UW women’s hockey player ever to earn the award in back-to-back seasons.
Wisconsin has one remaining uncommitted top class of 2025 target
Wisconsin football’s class of 2025 is nearing its final form with the recruiting cycle beginning to slow now three full weeks into the dead period. Big Ten media days are this week in Indianapolis, Indiana and training camp begins before the end of the month. Wisconsin’s currently-listed class of 2025 which is close to what the group will look like when it arrives on campus next summer.
EA Sports College Football 25 Features A Number of Former Wisconsin High School Football Standouts
EA Sports College Football 25 arrived this week and has taken the sports world by storm. Discussion on one of the most highly anticipated video games in recent memory has filled my X (formerly known as Twitter) timeline and every other social media page as you scroll through. The reviews...
Wisconsin has been a constant in College Football Playoff rankings
The Wisconsin Badgers boast the 14th-most appearances in the College Football Playoff rankings since the format began 2014. UW has entered a given week ranked within the ranking’s top 25 on 32 occasions since 2014. For reference, Oregon holds 38 appearances while Penn State has reached the ranking system 36 times.
Fall Camp Preview: Five True Freshman to Watch
MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin opens up fall camp next month in a highly anticipated 2024 season. Here's a closer look at five true freshmen who could make an impact for the Badgers in year one... Cornerback. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. --------------------------- Wisconsin didn't go through the battle of pulling Lucas out...
Top Five Questions We Would All Love to Ask Greg Gard
A lot of times the answers we want to know about our teams are shrouded in the infamous "Coach Speak." In this scenario we gave Badgers' head coach Greg Gard some truth serum and asked him all our burning questions. 1. Did the transfer portal go how you had hoped?
Mallards rally, score seven unanswered to beat Pit Spitters at home
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The Madison Mallards beat the Traverse City Pit Spitters 7-4 at the Duck Pond on Friday night. Madison was down 4-0 in the bottom of the sixth, before they scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth, then five runs in the bottom of the eighth.
Badgers Add Another Official Visit to a Busy September Weekend
The Badgers have added another official visit in September that is shaping up to be one of the most important weekends of the calender in 2024. Ryder Frost is now scheduled to visit Madison on September 14th, joining other top recruits Amari Allen, Davion Hannah and Tommy Ahneman. Frost, a...
Penn State vs. Wisconsin: Key Players, Coordinators, and Matchup Preview
In preparation for the upcoming college football season, the Wisconsin Badgers are analyzing their schedule, including the game against the Penn State Nittany Lions. Penn State, under coach James Franklin, has been successfully returning to prominence in recent years but has faced challenges in crucial matchups. Penn State had the...
WATCH: Wisconsin women's basketball leaders gearing up for 2024-25 campaign
Wisconsin’s women’s basketball team showcased upperclassmen Serah Williams, Halle Douglass and Natalie Leuzinger in their first practice footage of the offseason on Tuesday. Wisconsin kick-started its offseason practices weeks ago, but the Badgers had yet to display their three longest tenured players honing in on their skills this...
123rd Wisconsin State Amateur Championship: Day 4 Report Card from The Legend at Merrill Hills
Garrett Jones, Madison. The former University of Wisconsin golfer, by our research, becomes just the third golfer in Wisconsin State Golf Association history to win the WSGA "State Am Slam," a quartet of championship that includes the State Amateur, the State Match-Play, the State Junior and the State Four-Ball. Jones...
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