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Madison's Board of Estimates met Monday night to listen to budget requests from several public service representatives and began to dissect the mayor's 2008 operating budget.
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Madison's Board of Estimates met Monday night to listen to budget requests from several public service representatives and began to dissect the mayor's 2008 operating budget.
If you would have told her four years ago, at the start of her junior year in high school, that she would someday be a starter for the No. 9 collegiate volleyball team in the country, she would have laughed at you.
Playing in Madison for the first time in five weeks, the No. 9 Wisconsin volleyball team (6-0 Big Ten, 14-0 overall) marked its homecoming with a pair of impressive sweeps against Purdue (2-3, 9-7) and Indiana (3-3, 12-6) last weekend in the UW Field House. Massive crowds, including a season-high 7,074 attendees during Saturday's match against the Hoosiers, fueled the weekend romp that keeps Wisconsin at the top of the conference standings with a perfect record in the Big Ten.
EVANSTON, ILL. - o The No. 9 UW volleyball team (11-1 overall, 3-0 Big Ten) started off its second weekend of conference play with a challenging match at Northwestern (1-2, 10-4), where it held off the Wildcats for a 30-28, 30-20, 25-30, 30-24 victory Friday night. The Badgers fought to take a two game lead to start the night but faced a surge from Northwestern that caused them to lose the third before coming from behind to take the last game and walk away with their third conference win.
The little flashy indicator pops up in the bottom corner of the screen every time SportsCenter shows highlights from a college football game. Somebody makes a big play, and zing!,"" we are instantly notified that the kid is a ""Heisman hopeful."" Every team has one. USC has John David Booty, Arkansas has Darren McFadden, Florida has Tim Tebow, Oklahoma has Sam Bradford ... and they are all vying for the most coveted individual award in college football.
Redshirt freshman setter Nikki Klingsporn has not seen much time on the court since joining the UW volleyball team last fall.
In the first conference match between any two teams in the Big Ten this year, the No. 9 UW volleyball team (1-0 Big Ten, 9-1 overall) defeated Illinois (0-1, 8-3) Wednesday night in four games, 39-41, 31-29, 30-14, 30-20.
à ¥With a somewhat successful non-conference campaign behind it, the No. 9 UW volleyball team (9-1) starts the Big Ten season tonight with a match against Illinois (8-2) in Champaign. Compared to nearly every other conference in the country, the Big Ten is arguably the most difficult league, with five teams currently sitting in the AVCA Top 25 standings and a slew of players who rank among the best in the country in every statistical category. The Badgers were picked in the preseason as the runner-up in the Big Ten come year's end, but with the senior experience they have on their roster, they stand a good chance of challenging No. 3 Penn State for the conference title.
The Wisconsin men's soccer team heads to Engelmann Field in Milwaukee Friday determined to extend its three-game winning streak against No. 20 Gonzaga in the UW-Milwaukee Panther Classic.
It's been the talk of the nation for two weeks now, and deservedly so. Michigan, a perennial powerhouse in the world of college football, lost its first two games of the year in embarrassing fashion despite a preseason No. 5 ranking - one of those games to a Division I-AA opponent and the other a 39-7 spanking by an unranked team.
Not very often does a freshman join a Division I volleyball team and finish her first-year campaign with all-conference honors, all-region honors, and team-high totals in kills and service aces. In fact, no freshman has ever achieved such a decorated record in her freshman year in the UW volleyball program.
A new season brings plenty of new reasons for Badger volleyball fans to be excited about their team this year.
In its first regular season action under new head coach Paula Wilkins, the UW women's soccer (0-1-1 overall) team came out winless after two games in this weekend's Georgia Nike Invitational Tournament in Athens. After a double overtime shutout performance against Vanderbilt (1-0-1 overall) Friday afternoon, the Badgers received their first loss of the season when they were overcome by host team Georgia's (0-0, 2-0-0) offense Saturday.
Seeing its first regular season action of the year, the No. 11 UW volleyball team (3-0) wasted no time getting down to business as it recorded a trio of sweeps at the 2007 InnTowner Invitational Tournament held in the UW Field House last weekend. The Badgers tallied victories against in-state rival UW-Milwaukee (2-1) on Friday night and against Gardner-Webb (0-3) and Syracuse (1-2) Saturday.
The spring exhibition season has passed and fall competition is months away, yet the UW volleyball team has been busy gearing up for a summer full of challenges and changes. The squad will be looking forward to a trip to Europe and the addition of two highly touted recruits to the team this offseason that should help the team to prepare for another run into the NCAA Tournament at the end of this year.
A public hearing was held Wednesday by the Committee on Financial Institutions to discuss the future of the state divesting interests from Sudan.
For most Badger basketball fans, Sunday's loss meant trouble for their office pool brackets. But losing a few dollars in an office pool might be the least of sports fanatics' worries, since any form of unlicensed gambling is technically illegal.
New legislation introduced Thursday calls for an update to the current state law regarding volunteer firefighters who die in the line of duty. This proposal would provide benefits for the families of those who suffer fatal heart or respiratory ailments while on the job.
Metal fans rejoice! The new wave of American heavy metal is in full effect, and at the helm are Lamb of God. They are coming off of the hugely successful 2006 release of ""Sacrament"" into an equally successful multinational tour with metal giants Machine Head, Trivium and critically-acclaimed French metalmeisters Gojira. John Campbell plays bass for Lamb of God, and somehow still has his sense of hearing. The Daily Cardinal caught up with a geographically disoriented Campbell in a phone interview between shows.
Wisconsin has always bred loyal cheeseheads, but a new ranking shows the state may be boasting a new crowd.