Eager Badgers set for home opener
By Jon Bortin | Sep. 7, 2006The Badgers ready for this Saturday's first home game as Coach Bielema emphasizes the action is on the field and players, not himself.'
The Badgers ready for this Saturday's first home game as Coach Bielema emphasizes the action is on the field and players, not himself.'
It's been said numerous times before, but the most frustrating cinematic failures are those that display spurts of brilliance and promise before devolving into complete crap. OutKast's new musical ""Idlewild"" is one such waste of potential, time and talent.
A case that may allow Wisconsin prisoners to receive state-funded sex-change hormones is the latest debate between attorney general hopeful J.B. Van Hollen and current Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager.
Following a successful showing in Milwaukee last weekend, the UW men's soccer team looks to bring its impressive play home as it hosts the Middleton Cycle and Fitness Invitational this weekend.'
One arrested in Monday's sexual assault.'
On Idlewild, the new album from OutKast — also the soundtrack to their recently released film of the same name — there is much to explore. It is worth skipping past a few half-baked show tunes and questionable experiments to hear music made by two'
One of the Democratic nominees for Secretary of State, Scot Ross, hit campus to urge students to vote for a fresh politician to replace incumbent Doug La Follette after holding office for 28 years. '
Last Thursday, state attorney general candidates Paul Bucher, Kathleen Falk and J.B. Van Hollen blamed current state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager for the death of Department of Justice agent John Balchunas in October 2004. The challengers connect t'
A student group introduced its effort to legitimize Madison Halloween festivities Thursday, marketing it as ""Freakfest,"" an open-air music festival. '
The news hit Madison and hit it hard.
The UW System Board of Regents voted Aug. 18 to take away all university funds from companies ""that support or abet acts of genocide"" in Sudan, in response to the three-and-a-half-year conflict between Arab and African Muslims in Darfur.
As the book closed on another season last December, the Wisconsin volleyball team regrettably had to say goodbye to two outstanding seniors, outside hitter Aubrey Meierotto and middle blocker Sheila Shaw. But when the new season dawned in August, three of the country's finest high-school standouts from last year stepped onto the court of the UW Field House with expectations of not just filling the void left by Meierotto and Shaw, but also taking the Badgers to the next level.
A 23-year-old Madison woman was sexually assaulted early Monday morning on the 500 block of University Avenue, according to police.
U.S. Rep. and governor hopeful Mark Green, R-Green Bay, announced a plan to invest $25 million of state funds into new human embryonic stem cell research that would not destroy embryos. This controversial announcement has stem cell champion and Green's opponent, Gov. Jim Doyle, skeptical of Green's motivations.
In 2005, the UW men's soccer team burst out of the gate, winning three of their first four matches. Unfortunately for the Badgers, the next month would bring only one victory in nine contests. Six of the losses came by only one goal and three times UW lost in overtime.
First impressions. They may or may not be a good index of where the Wisconsin Badger football team is headed in its first year under new head coach Bret Bielema.
In light of the recent decision made by the State Elections Board ordering U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Green Bay, to relinquish $468,000 of Political Action Committee contributions, Democrats and Republicans alike have clamored for the creation of a bipartisa'
Two decades ago, UW-Madison demonstrated an unwillingness to support atrocities against human rights when it divested funds from all companies assisting the apartheid institution in South Africa. Now, as the university implements a similar policy against '