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Thursday Thoughts: College football must consider expansion in playoff format

By Bobby Ehrlich | Oct. 13, 2016

By almost all measures, the College Football Playoff is a perfect way to determine a champion. Except for one tiny, little problem: Some of the best teams in the nation get left out. Look, the CFP is a serious improvement from the old Bowl Championship Series, which featured no playoff at all and often had two teams that hadn’t quite earned it playing for all the marbles. The expansion to a four-team playoff was a good stepping-stone, but that is where the problem lies.

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Tough talk: Sports journalism still not a welcoming place for women

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Oct. 13, 2016

Trigger warning from the writer: This story contains quotes with violent and threatening language toward women. Last week I drove out to Ann Arbor to cover the Badgers’ football game against the Michigan Wolverines.

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Mondays with Rasty: 2016 matchup between OSU and UW has eerie similarities to 2010 matchup

By Zach Rastall | Oct. 10, 2016

Six years ago, Wisconsin and Ohio State met under the lights at Camp Randall Stadium on a night that Badgers fan will never forget. At the time of the 2010 meeting, Bret Bielema was in his fifth year as UW’s head coach and still searching for a true signature win.

Poor offensive play doomed the Badgers Saturday afternoon.

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Mondays with Rasty: Offense dismal in Wisconsin loss

By Zach Rastall | Oct. 3, 2016

The Wisconsin hype train finally hit a speed bump in Ann Arbor. The Badgers were not quite up to the task Saturday afternoon, as the power of Chryst was not enough to compel them to a win over Khaki Jesus and the Michigan Wolverines. It was an especially rough day for the Wisconsin offense, which looked more like the unit we saw scramble to a win against Georgia State than the one that was stellar in a 30-6 victory over Michigan State.

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Tough talk: Gaglianone's absence may have helped UW

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Sep. 30, 2016

When the Badgers’ injury report came out last week before their matchup with Michigan State, it came as a surprise that kicker Rafael Gaglianone would be sitting out.

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Mondays with Rasty: Hornibrook's poise in the pocket makes Wisconsin a legitimate contender

By Zach Rastall | Sep. 26, 2016

Are you a Wisconsin fan who forgot what it’s like to have a quarterback who can step up and make a throw when the team needs it on third down?

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Tough talk: Dakota Access Pipeline an act of terror

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Sep. 23, 2016

Bronson Koenig is mostly known for basketball on campus, but his Ho-Chunk heritage plays no small part in his life.

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Mondays with Rasty: Starting Hornibrook the right move

By Zach Rastall | Sep. 19, 2016

There’s nothing that gets the blood pumping quite like a full-fledged quarterback controversy as your team is about to enter the gauntlet in conference play. But after an extremely ugly win over Georgia State, that’s exactly where the Badgers find themselves as they prepare to travel to East Lansing to take on No. 8 Michigan State in their Big Ten opener.

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Thursday Thoughts: Year of the Badger? UW sports poised for runs

By Bobby Ehrlich | Sep. 15, 2016

Let’s put the cart way before the horse, just for the fun of it. Could this be the best year ever for Badger athletics?

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Lessons from college football's finest opening week

By Zach Rastall | Sep. 9, 2016

Week 1 of the 2016 college football season is officially in the books, and what a week it was.

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Column: Badgers' new football uniforms are a swing and a miss

By Bobby Ehrlich | Jul. 24, 2016

There’s no sense in sugarcoating it: Wisconsin’s new football uniforms are an absolute dud.

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Summer explodes with entertainment

By Jake Witz , Ben Golden , Maham Hasan , Samantha Marz and Erin Guarnieri | May. 2, 2016

Students can look forward to a much-needed break this summer and there is no better way to spend that time than to kick back in a cinema to enjoy the blockbusting lineup of summer movies.

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New column celebrates black girl magic

Feb. 12, 2016

From Beyoncé and her newest song “Formation” to pioneers like Shirley Chisholm, black women have paved the way for style, politics, culture, education and more since the beginning of time.

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Florida and Michigan revival not a shocker

By Rushad Machhi | Oct. 12, 2015

For two historically great programs, it is surprisingly surprising that Michigan and Florida are having the kind of success that they are this season. After spending the last few seasons in a dungeon of mediocrity, coaching changes at each school have thus far brought back the kind of winning and dominance generally associated with each program. However, most experts or random college columnist such as myself, did not see this kind of progress coming so quickly, as both teams were left out of both preseason polls, and many predicted it would take at least a couple years to return back to relevance. Yet, maybe we really should have seen the turnaround Jim Harbaugh’s Wolverines and Jim McElwain’s Gators are in the midst of this year, as there were plenty of potential signs that pointed in that direction for each program.

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Time crumbles things, even your all-time favorite record

By Jake Witz | Sep. 22, 2015

I’ve heard friends and music critics alike describe many an album as “timeless.” I more often than not agree with their selections; The Velvet Underground & Nico, Loveless and Endtroducing….. are just a few of the albums that still sound fresh when played today. But in the back of my mind, I fear that these albums just operate on a longer timeline, their relevancy decaying at an unnoticeable rate, but all the while still decaying.

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‘Leviathan’ has reputation as novelistic movie

By Austin Wellens | Mar. 24, 2015

It seems super easy to compare the latest Russian cinematic masterpiece, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan,” to the great literary works of Fyodor Dostoevsky or Leo Tolstoy; just look at the number of reviews that described the film as being “novelistic.” And to be fair, the comparison (especially to Dostoevsky) isn’t entirely ungrounded. The film shares its breathtaking scope (and runtime), band of fully realized and psychologically complex characters, questions of suicide/existence and overt, proud references to the Bible with the likes of “The Brothers Karamazov” and “The Idiot.” Plus the film’s wordless, eye-opening passages rank with the most awe-inspiring moments of prose in any language.

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Column: Reflecting on the highs and lows of being a sports fan

By Jim Dayton | Sep. 7, 2014

After the Packers were walloped by Seattle last Thursday night, it seemed like an appropriate time for Wisconsin sports fans to take a step back and let out a prolonged sigh.