After opening the season with four straight wins, Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Lisa Stone had high hopes of turning the program around in just her third year. Despite losing the ensuing five games -- most recently a heartbreaking 90-87
Despite being upset by Michigan Tech 4-2 last Friday night, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team retained its No. 1 ranking this week, receiving 24 of the 40 first place votes. While head coach Mike Eaves and Badger fans expected another
Kammron Taylor stood all alone at center court, arms aloft and jumping in ecstasy, urging the crowd that was chanting his name to share in his sheer unfiltered joy after hitting the deciding shot at the buzzer in Wisconsin’s 54-51
What an exciting month the men’s basketball team has had. Posting an 8-1 record, the Badgers recently knocked off UNC-Wilmington in a 40-minute nail biter thanks to junior guard Kammron Taylor’s final-second shot. Taylor also sunk the final shot at
Marquette came into the Kohl Center hoping to leave with a victory, but senior Ray Nixon prevented that from happening. Nixon saved his most impressive performance in the two schools’ battles for last, as he helped the men’s basketball team
After building a 17-12 lead heading into Sunday’s final match, the 184-pound weight class clash between Badgers’ freshman Justin Peterson and Huskies’ freshman Nick McClone, the Wisconsin men’s wrestling team seemed to have all but wrapped up yet another dual
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team used a furious second-half rally to climb back into the game Thursday night, but fell short to South Dakota State 68-65. The first half proved the downfall for the Badgers as they dropped their fourth
For the first time this year, the University of Wisconsin will have the opportunity to play a highly anticipated matchup at home, when in-state rival Marquette (6-2) visits Madison Saturday afternoon. Indeed, it will not only be the first "big"
Two down, four to go for the NCAA championship. But the UW volleyball team surely is taking it one match at a time, right? They haven’t even begun to think ahead to the Elite Eight, right? Nope. The No. 11-seeded
Joe Thomas has a pretty vivid memory of the last time Wisconsin faced Auburn. "I just felt like every time I tackled a guy, I felt like it was the same guy, but he was wearing a different number," Thomas
Claiming the Student Services Finance Committee violated viewpoint-neutrality laws when it cut their organization's proposed budget last month, representatives from the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation presented their case to the Student Judiciary Saturday.According to UWRCF representatives, SSFC held
The effort to recall Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz concluded Friday, with its proponents failing to garner the necessary number of signatures to succeed in their endeavor.According to Heather Mees, head of the Madison branch of Citizens for Responsible Government, which
An investigation into the workplace environment of the Overture Center for the Arts released Friday indicated the workplace atmosphere was dysfunctional and that former President Bob D'Angelo may not have been the only alleged harasser at the center.The investigation came
It may have colorful lights, a train chugging underneath it and hundreds of ornaments, but the "Capitol Holiday Tree" is causing a stir among those who work at the Capitol.The 35-foot Balsam fir has had the moniker since 1985, but
The University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation members said Monday they believe Student Services Finance Committee members unfairly discriminated against their staff expenditures among other viewpoint neutrality violations.UWRCF increased the number of student event coordinators within their organization from six
Beginning next year, professors at various United States universities, including the University of Wisconsin, will be able to give lectures in classrooms other than 400-plus-seat lecture halls as a result of the "Indo-U.S. Inter-University Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and
New York University announced Thursday it would move ahead with its previously announced ban on Coca-Cola products in response to the company's inability to comply with requests made by the NYU Senate.The University Senate passed a resolution Nov. 3 giving
State Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, unveiled plans to reform two kinds of taxation in Wisconsin Monday, setting his sights on repealing sales taxes for over-the-counter medicine and holding state corporations to their fair share of taxes.The legislative actions would rid
Both sides of the controversial University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Bible-study ban will meet face-to-face at the Capitol today.State Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, said his committee is expecting national media coverage of its informational hearing on the heavily debated UW-Eau
One of the sources of the crowds of students that flow out at "bar time" where Johnson Street crosses State Street will soon close its doors.Stillwaters Inc. will not continue its lease at 250 State Street and will not reopen.
