Saturday turned out to be a perfect day in Madison. The weather was beautiful—a welcome change from the week where it rained nearly every day—and Badger football fans flocked to Camp Randall Stadium with a universal feeling of excitement.
The Wisconsin women’s volleyball (3-7 Big Ten, 15-8 overall) team lost a tough-fought match to Indiana (2-8, 10-12) Friday night.
The Wisconsin Badgers (3-1 Big Ten, 6-2 overall) run game catapulted the team to victory yet again, but this time the team has Paul Bunyan’s Axe to show for it for the ninth straight season.
When Bill Snyder ran the “Wildcat” offense at Kansas State in the late 1990s, the name made sense. After all, they are the Wildcats.
UPDATE: The UW Athletic Department issued a statement clarifying the suspension, saying: "The reduction means that Kerdiles will miss Wisconsin’s first 10 regular-season games, which includes the two games already played against Northern Michigan last weekend. He will be eligible to compete on Friday, Nov. 30 in Wisconsin’s game at Denver."
Marcus Lee, a highly regarded basketball recruit out of California, verbally committed Wednesday to play for Kentucky beginning in the fall of 2013.
Following a successful home stand last week, the Wisconsin women’s soccer team (3-4-1 Big Ten, 10-5-1 overall) prepares for a tough road trip. The Badgers are set to face the Purdue Boilermakers (2-5-1 Big Ten, 7-7-2 overall) Friday and the Indiana Hoosiers Sunday at noon.
Conventional wisdom would say that 121 meetings between two opponents would be enough to settle a score.
After being swept last weekend against Minnesota-Duluth and being shutout in a series for the first time since 2001, the No. 9 Wisconsin women’s hockey team (1-2-1 WCHA, 3-2-1 overall) look to get back to their winning ways in their first home series of the 2012 season against Bemidji State (0-2-0,1-3-0) Friday.
The Wisconsin men’s soccer team (1-2-0 Big Ten, 5-6-3 overall) has won consecutive games for the first time this season.
It was a disheartening night in Minnesota for the Badger volleyball team, who faced a strong No. 10 Gophers squad.
Rivalries define the Big Ten. Flashback to Oct. 29th last year. Under the lights in Columbus, Ohio, quarterback Braxton Miller heaves a forty-yard bomb with 20 seconds left in the game.
In what was the Wisconsin football team’s (2-1 Big Ten, 5-2 overall) best performance of the season Saturday, the Badgers seemed to find what was missing offensively in the team’s shakey start to the season.
Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner, cancer survivor and hero to many, is now inching closer and closer to being perceived as a performance-enhancing drug user in the court of public opinion. The worst part is that this transgression did not take me by surprise.
The Wisconsin women’s soccer team (3-4-1 Big Ten, 10-5-1 overall) faced off against Northwestern (0-8-0, 4-10-2) Friday night. It was a special night for the Badgers, who celebrated senior night for seven seniors.
The Wisconsin men’s soccer team (1-2-0 Big Ten, 4-6-3 overall) picked up its first Big Ten win of the season as it bested Michigan (1-2-1, 4-6-1) under the lights at the McClimon Soccer Complex Saturday night.
The Wisconsin women’s soccer team (1-4-1 Big Ten, 8-5-1 overall) will play the first of its last two home games this season on Friday against Northwestern (0-6-0 Big Ten, 4-8-2 overall) at the McClimon Soccer Complex at 7 p.m.
The Wisconsin women’s volleyball team (2-4 Big Ten, 14-5 Overall) will head to Nebraska to take on the No. 3 Huskers Friday night and then to Iowa Saturday for a match against the Hawkeyes.
The Wisconsin men's soccer team (0-2 Big Ten, 3-6-3 overall) suffered another shutout loss Wednesday night at the hands of the Milwaukee Panthers 1-0. It was a free kick in the 50th minute that lead to a scrum in front of the Badger goal and the ball was hit in by Panthers' senior midfielder Jamie Bladen. Wisconsin falls to 15-16-6 in the instate rivalry against Milwaukee.
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