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(11/05/06 6:00am)
Penn State senior running back Tony Hunt entered Saturday's game
against the Badgers averaging nearly 100 yards per game and having
scored 10 touchdowns. Junior quarterback Anthony Morelli has only
thrown for seven touchdowns so far this season, and the second
highest touchdown total on the team is two, held by sophomore wide
receiver Deon Butler.
(11/01/06 6:00am)
In 2003 it was Ohio State. Wisconsin students marked their
calendars for the home game against defending National Champion
Ohio State. In primetime, in the pouring rain, in a tie game, Lee
Evans out-ran the nation's fastest defensive back, Chris Gamble,
and caught a 79-yard touchdown in stride for the winning score in a
much-anticipated, unforgettably monumental upset.
(10/29/06 6:00am)
It took nine games and nearly two months, but the Badgers
finally played a close one. Through the first eight games the
Badgers had never won by any fewer than 14 points and, in their
only defeat, lost by the very same margin.
(10/26/06 6:00am)
The 7-1 UW football team is home for the Halloween weekend this
year to play Illinois as they try to avoid a truly frightening
result: A loss to the 2-6 Fighting Illini.
(10/19/06 6:00am)
The last time the Wisconsin Badgers traveled to West Lafayette,
Ind., senior defensive backs Robert Brooks and Scott Starks hit
Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton with just over two minutes remaining,
forcing him to fumble away the ball and the game, as Starks picked
up the loose ball and dashed 40 yards for the game-winning,
season-saving score. The play was eventually named Pontiac's Game
Changing Performance of the Year, providing proof that a Wisconsin
miracle had given the country goosebumps.
(10/15/06 6:00am)
The Badgers carried their prior two weeks' success on offense
into this week's game against Minnesota, blowing out the
beleaguered Gophers 48-12 to retain possession of Paul Bunyan's
Axe.
(10/12/06 6:00am)
A Division I athlete on a college campus doesn't have to do or
say a whole lot to be considered down-to-earth. He has to nod
indiscriminately to fans as he passes, dole out verbal salutations
with liberty and award a select but sizable few a high-, low-, or
medium-five if and whenever possible.
(10/08/06 6:00am)
In the first half against Northwestern, Wisconsin surrendered
nine points, muffed a punt and turned the ball over three times. So
in spite of a strong second half, the Badgers had plenty of
mistakes to dwell on after the game. Instead, following a 41-9 win
over the Wildcats, they were pleasantly casual.
(10/05/06 6:00am)
The Badgers are not likely to get too worked up over tomorrow's
game at home against Northwestern. They don't have much to prove,
as a win this weekend would not prove much of anything.
(10/01/06 6:00am)
The Badgers played about as well as they possibly could have
Saturday, assuming that scheduling a game against a Division II
opponent or scout team isn't possible.
(09/21/06 6:00am)
This Saturday the Badgers will be in Ann Arbor, Mich. to play
No. 6 Michigan, who defeated No. 2 Notre Dame this past weekend. If
their 47-21 win over the Irish is any indication, the Wolverines
appear to have hit their stride, just in time to avenge last year's
loss to the Badgers.
(09/17/06 6:00am)
After last week's win against Western Illinois, the Badgers
vowed not to become complacent with the day's performance or
satisfied with the game's result. The defense was particularly
critical of its performance, allowing 80 rushing yards and eight
third down conversions (out of 16 chances).
(09/13/06 6:00am)
It's been seen a thousand times: the sitcom's male chauvinist,
who believes that women are primarily complainers with severely low
pain thresholds, agrees to wear a pregnancy suit, as long—he'd
say—as the females in his life shut up about how hard it is to have
a kid.
(09/10/06 6:00am)
A score of 34-10 against a Division 1-AA opponent surely sounds
underwhelming. Relative to expectation, a 24-point margin of
victory is scant. But to be troubled by the Badgers' sub-par play
is to overlook their understandable lack of urgency.
(09/04/06 6:00am)
For once, the Badgers' repetitive and near-sighted mantra made
sense; on Saturday against Bowling Green, they did play hard, and
were finally able to go 1-0. But while starting the season with a
win is nothing new, almost everything else was.
(08/29/06 6:00am)
Flipping a coin can produce two mutually exclusive events: heads
or tails. Fielding a potent offense, however, does not exclude the
possibility of fielding an equally formidable defense. But when it
comes to the strength of Wisconsin's two units, the uneven
distribution has been so consistent that it has begun to resemble
the result of—what else?—a coin toss. Entering the 2004 season, the
Badgers boasted a veteran linebacking corps, Jim Leonhard and the
best defensive line in the country. The offense cooperated that
same season, buying into the apparent ""take turns"" philosophy as
they stumbled without a consistent passing attack or any healthy
members in the backfield. In 2005 the trend continued. John Stocco
passed with greater proficiency than any other quarterback in UW
history, and Brian Calhoun breathed life into a dormant rushing
game. Meanwhile, the defense graduated its most significant
contributors—politely injuring the young and promising
replacements—and made sure never to steal the spotlight from its
counterpart. As you might expect, 2006 will be no different. The
injuries on the defensive line have healed, the athletic
linebackers have experience and the previously questionable
secondary is beginning to hit its stride. On the other side of the
ball, the offense graduated the majority of its talent last spring
and watched injuries plague the new class this fall. Brandon
Williams and Jonathan Orr left vacancies at receiver filled by
juniors Marcus Randle El and Paul Hubbard. However, Randle El
recently suffered a season-ending knee injury while the tight end
position became a former linebacker free-for-all when Owen Daniels
and Jason Pociask graduated. Andy Crooks and Travis Beckum are the
linebackers contending for the spot, but ex-quarterback Sean Lewis
is also expected to compete. Every skill position will be earned by
an inexperienced player at the college level, which is considerably
worse news considering the fact that Stocco's recent knee surgery
will likely sideline him for a few games. Therefore, the defense
must be ready. Both Jamal Cooper and Matt Shaughnessy—Wisconsin's
answer to NFL-bound defensive ends Erasmus James and Jonathan
Welsh—suffered ACL injuries that kept them out for the better part
of last season, making the bookends of the defensive front one of
the most-rotated positions on the field. With the two of them
healthy, however, it will likely be one of the positions that head
coach Bret Bielema can rely on most for consistent output. Behind
them are senior captain and middle linebacker Mark Zalewski,
sophomore DeAndre Levy, who will play left outside linebacker, and
fellow sophomore Jonathan Casillas, who will patrol the right.
Zalewski is on the watch list for several national awards and
clearly the leader on defense, but the secondary has grown up due
to the emergence of senior Roderick Rogers—who could very well be
the team's best all-around player—and the steady development of
senior Joe Stellmacher. When asked how much of the team's success
is riding on the defense's performance, Bielema had this to say:
""We're going to rely on everybody. We're going to rely on offense,
defense and special teams because we're a program that has to have
a complete game out of all those phases to have success."" Ben
Hubner can be reached for comment at bphubner@wisc.edu.
(05/04/06 6:00am)
BEST MOMENTS1. BURISH (2x)
(05/01/06 6:00am)
If executed perfectly, a farewell can be a beautiful thing. And
as sad as good-byes can be, there is something glamorous about
them. When we are forced to part, we think about what we are
parting with. Often, upon reflection, we are more grateful for what
we had and proceed with a degree of humility we should have carried
with us all along.
(04/25/06 6:00am)
I suppose you know a debate is warranted when it's discussed on
PTI.\ But maybe it's just in the best interest of Kornheiser and
Wilbon, or even the producers of the show for that matter, to
supplement potentially dead air with a question that nobody had
even considered or cared about prior to it being proposed. I kept
this in mind a couple weeks ago when The Studio Voice asked, ""What
do people care more about: the NBA Playoffs or the NFL
Draft?""
(04/18/06 6:00am)
If I could explain which athletes people like the most and
why—exactly why—I could let some sports management agencies in on
the secret and help athletes manage and manipulate their images.
Once I hone what I will call my likability algorithm,\ I could tell
athletes what to do and say—more thoroughly than they are
instructed now—and as a result they could collect sponsorships with
the same regularity that I would then (for my innovation and great
wealth) be appearing on the cover of ""Forbes.""