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UW to face battered UM in regular season finale
By Ben Breiner | Mar. 4, 2010These are far from your normal Gophers.
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Don't get too excited - Olympics won't make hockey popular
By Jack Doyle | Mar. 4, 2010After an epic overtime thriller that left the U.S. Men's Hockey Team on the losing end of a 3-2 result, the sad reality of hockey reclaiming its place as fourth fiddle in the American sports landscape set in for many of the game's fans. Even after a dramatic Olympic finale like Vancouver's, the nation's concern for hockey already has dwindled as casual followers shift their focus to March Madness, the start of spring training or maybe this summer's World Cup.
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More international tournaments the key to hockey's popularity
By Scott Kellogg | Mar. 3, 2010Never in my life can I remember so much focus from the sports world on hockey than during the Vancouver Olympics. I was completely hooked, leaving games on in my apartment whenever I was home, whether it be the preliminary round or the gold-medal game. People I knew, who ranged from casual hockey fans to apathetic ones, became invested. The national media turned its focus away from college basketball, the NBA and the NFL offseason to the U.S.-Canada gold-medal game. The sport could not have asked for a better showcase.
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Emotional game against Iowa awaits UW seniors
By Scott Kellogg | Mar. 3, 2010Senior guards Trevon Hughes and Jason Bohannon will lace ‘em up and run out onto the floor of the Kohl Center for the final time when the Badgers face Iowa Wednesday on Senior Night.
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Suspension a good start, but WCHA has to stop hits to head
By Nico Savidge and By Pita Laffa | Mar. 2, 2010For a league that has gotten it wrong far too many times this season, this was an example of the WCHA finally getting it close to right.
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Seniors near last game as UW preps for Iowa
By Scott Kellogg | Mar. 2, 2010Men's basketball head coach Bo Ryan addressed the media Monday, four days after his team clobbered the Hoosiers on the road, 78-46, and ahead of Wisconsin's matchup with Iowa Wednesday in its final home game of the season.
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Badgers to face Purdue in Big Ten Tournament, Stone takes Coach of the Year honors
By Mark Bennett | Mar. 2, 2010The Wisconsin women's basketball team, which finished a program-best third in the Big Ten Conference with a 10-8 record, grabbed the fourth seed in this week's Big Ten Tournament.
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Disappointing season a product of inconsistency
By Ben Breiner | Mar. 2, 2010For a team accustomed to winning, and winning a lot, Saturday's final result was a cruel ending.
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Badgers sweep Michigan Tech for the second time
By Nico Savidge | Mar. 1, 2010HOUGHTON, Mich.—Looking only at the last time Wisconsin faced off against Michigan Tech, at the Kohl Center Dec. 4 and 5, you might think a pair of close wins at John MacInnes arena would be disappointing. Despite being obliterated by the Badgers the last time they met, getting outscored 14-2, Michigan Tech put up a better fight in an emotional final home series for their seniors, testing the Badger offense that was without its top scorer and frustrating junior goaltender Scott Gudmandson.
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UW falls in overtime to Iowa
By Mark Bennett | Mar. 1, 2010In a game featuring a wide range of emotions, the largest crowd of the season and postseason tournament seedings on the line, the Wisconsin women's basketball team played one of its most thrilling contests of the year Sunday evening.
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Wisconsin doesn't miss a beat without Geoffrion
By Nico Savidge and Maureen Backman | Mar. 1, 2010HOUGHTON, Mich.—It's not easy to replace the leading goal-scorer in the WCHA, or the player who quarterbacks your power play, or the one who harasses opposing offenses on the penalty kill, or the person who takes (and wins) a great deal of your faceoffs, or one of the team's captains.
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Wisconsin downs Marquette, falls to William & Mary
By Emma Condon | Mar. 1, 2010The Wisconsin women's tennis team split another weekend series, earning a 5-2 victory over Marquette Saturday and falling 3-4 to No. 51 William & Mary Sunday.
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Season comes crashing to an end with sweep
By Ryan Evans and Genevieve Globus | Mar. 1, 2010The Wisconsin women's hockey team came into this weekend's first-round, best-of-three WCHA playoff series with Ohio State with hopes of extending its season.
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Behind D'Alie's 21 points, Badgers rout Penn State
By Mark Bennett | Feb. 26, 2010The Wisconsin women's basketball team came out with a fury Thursday night against Penn State, shredding the Nittany Lions 71-39 in College Park, Penn. The 32-point margin of victory was the largest for Wisconsin this season. The 39 points also marks the second fewest scored by an opponent this season. Only SIU-Edwardsville scored fewer, with just 38.
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Indiana shows little resistance as UW cruises
By Nick Schmitt | Feb. 26, 2010The Badgers picked up just their fourth road win of the season with a 78-46 clinic over the Hoosiers last night, marking their largest margin of victory in a road Big Ten game since their 54-20 win over the University of Chicago in 1942.
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UW with a lot riding on Michigan Tech series
By Parker Gabriel | Feb. 26, 2010Maybe Michigan Tech is not the most prolific opponent Wisconsin has faced this year, and maybe the match up fails to grab the attention that becomes virtually commonplace in the WCHA, but good luck convincing the Badgers that this is a throwaway weekend. They have the chance to come back from Houghton, Mich., with a home playoff berth and sole possession of second place in the league wrapped up, and that stands as plenty of incentive. The puck drops from the MacInnes Student Ice Arena at 7 p.m. both Friday and Saturday in the second season series between the Badgers and the Huskies.
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Donovan and fellow Yanks paving path overseas
By Jack Doyle | Feb. 26, 2010A U.S. soccer player making it big overseas is like the Cincinnati Bengals having a season without one of their players being arrested: a rare and pleasant surprise. And just like the Bengals' ever-increasing number of players in jail, the consistent failure of American footballers across the pond has become a favorite punch line in the media. Once in a while, though, an attempt to play with the big boys pans out—Tim Howard, Clint Dempsey and, most recently, Landon Donovan. These occurrences are all too rare and must happen more often if the U.S. is to gain more credibility in the soccer world.
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Chance for win awaits against struggling IU
By Negassi Tesfamichael and Ben Breiner | Feb. 25, 2010For years Indiana was considered the gold standard of Big Ten basketball. Under Bobby Knight, it won three titles and 11 league crowns and was a consistent participant in postseason tournaments.
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Wisconsin in do-or-die scenario in WCHA Playoffs
By Nico Savidge | Feb. 25, 2010Wisconsin women's hockey head coach Mark Johnson might be thousands of miles away coaching Team USA at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, but some of the wisdom he taught his players at UW has been on the Badgers' minds this week.
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Privacy of NCAA athletes a perpetual issue in sports
By Ben Breiner | Feb. 25, 2010There is a sort of sickening cynicism taken to college sports these days.
