Badgers raring to start season
Saturday marks the end of the summer slumber that many Badger fans have suffered through the last three months, as the Wisconsin Badger football team takes on the Akron Zips in the opening game of the 2008-'09 season.
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Saturday marks the end of the summer slumber that many Badger fans have suffered through the last three months, as the Wisconsin Badger football team takes on the Akron Zips in the opening game of the 2008-'09 season.
As I sat around the other day, watching my roommates play Madden '08
Listen up football fans, this is important. Class is about to start, and I am your teacher for Football Etiquette 100
This is the end'¦ my only friend, the end.
For the fifth-straight season, the Wisconsin football team will head to Florida for its bowl game, and for the third time in the last four years, the bowl will take place in Orlando.
The Wisconsin Badger football team accepted an invitation Sunday to play in the Champs Sports Bowl on December 27 against the Florida State Seminoles of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The invitation marks the seventh-straight year in which the Badgers will end their season playing in a bowl game, a school record.
This Friday the Kohl Center will witness a strange event. Nine weeks into the college hockey season, Wisconsin will finally play on its home ice for a second straight weekend. The opponent for Friday and Saturday is No. 15 Alaska
A little over a year has passed since the unfortunate death of Washington Redskins' strong safety Sean Taylor to a fatal gunshot wound. Most know the story, but for those who don't, Taylor was recuperating from a football injury in his Palmetto Bay, Fla., home when an armed robber shot him in the leg, hitting his femoral artery.
No picture better exemplifies the Wisconsin football team's season than that of senior tight end Travis Beckum. Beckum, who missed the first two games of the season with a hamstring injury and later fractured his fibula against Illinois, had to be carted onto the field during Senior Day introductions.
This Friday, the Kohl Center will once again be shining bright and jumping, full of thousands of people watching a sport they love. However, these faithful fans will not be watching basketball or hockey.
As snow began to fall at Camp Randall during the third quarter of Wisconsin football team's 35-32 win over archrival Minnesota Saturday, the scene was profound. Down 21-7, the Badgers, seemingly reborn with the fresh snowfall, began to play like Badger teams of old with a pounding running game and a suffocating defense.
After running for 441 yards against Indiana last Saturday, it seemed obvious where the praise would be handed out. Sophomore wide receiver David Gilreath, junior running back P.J. Hill and freshman running back John Clay - having all rushed for over 100 yards - were the apparent choices, but only Gilreath received co-MVP honors.
At the end of last weekend's sweep of Michigan Tech, the Wisconsin men's hockey team sits fourth in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings. After starting off the season 0-6-1, the Badgers have rattled off three straight wins, and seem poised to make an impact once again in arguably the best conference in college hockey.
Call it getting back to basics and running the ball, playing aggressive or, of course, playing Wisconsin football, the Wisconsin Badger football team found something in Bloomington, Ind., Saturday that they have lacked for the majority of the season.
The 2008 Wisconsin football team has done everything besides live up to expectations this season. The team currently sports a 4-5 record and has only one win in six Big Ten games.
Nothing feels better than winning, and after the 0-6-1 start by the Wisconsin men's hockey team, that phrase could not be truer. Last Saturday, after entering the third period against North Dakota at Ralph Engelstad Arena down 2-0, the Badgers came out with their guns a' blazing, and scored five goals to put the team's first notch in the win column.
Leadership on any sports team ultimately comes from the top, and if the Wisconsin football team's 25-24 loss Saturday to Michigan State proved anything, it's that the Badgers are definitely lacking in that department.
Late last week, the NFL reported that several players had violated the NFL's steroid policy, testing positive for a banned weight-loss diuretic. Several of the players testing positive are Minnesota Viking defensive tackles Pat and Kevin Williams, as well as New Orleans running back Deuce McAllister and defensive linemen Will Smith and Charles Grant.
Toward the end of Wisconsin's 27-17 win over Illinois Saturday, UW head coach Bret Bielema did something completely out of character. With time running down and the Badgers in possession of the football, Bielema's offense graciously took a delay of game penalty, stopping the clock with six seconds left in the game.