Over the last two years, the Wisconsin women’s volleyball team has enjoyed great success, winning the Big Ten championship last year and making it all the way to the national championship game in 2013.
If you took a bunch of aliens and showed them a NFL game and asked who the most important player on the field is, odds are that the aliens would point to the quarterback. Heck, even Roger Goodell might be able to figure that one out. This importance has typically led to many of them being drafted with the first pick, and sometimes even both of the first two picks.
With 0.4 seconds left on the clock and the regular-season finale with Illinois tied at 59, Devin Harris stepped up to the free throw line at the Kohl Center and buried his foul shot, giving Wisconsin the 2002-’03 Big Ten Championship. A few months earlier, in late November of 2002, Jim Leonhard snagged two interceptions against Minnesota, earning Wisconsin a 49-31 victory, bowl eligibility and returning Paul Bunyan’s Axe to Madison.
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The 14th Ironman brought roughly 2,500 amateurs to compete in the 140.6-mile race.
In dramatic fashion, Wisconsin came away with as close at it gets to a soccer buzzer beater.
Coming off a loss at home to Illinois State last week, Wisconsin battled to double-overtime draws against both Milwaukee and Kentucky while on the road this weekend.
In many ways, Wisconsin’s win over Miami (OH) was like a party for the Badgers. There was dancing on the sidelines and in the stands, there was shuffling on the field and it was a coming out for a number of rising players. Wisconsin got its groove on early, and boogied their way to a 58-0 victory.
At 6-feet-6-inches and 250 pounds, Troy Fumagalli is nothing short of intimidating. Now imagine his massive frame on the pitcher’s mound, hurling fastballs in the upper 80s.
Some say first impressions are everything. Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst probably doesn’t agree.
1. Dealing with injuries
Fresh off a 26-7 win over Presbyterian Sept. 5, Miami (1-0), of the Mid-American Conference, comes to Madison Saturday to take on Wisconsin (0-1) in the Badgers’ home opener.
21 Wisconsin ran the ball just 21 times against Alabama, its fewest rushing attempts in a game this millennium.
Week one of the 2015 college football season is in the books, and the Big Ten has once again come stumbling out of the gates. Utah spoiled Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan debut, BYU bested Nebraska on a last-second Hail Mary, Penn State and its porous offensive line lost to Temple for the first time since the FDR administration, Alabama rolled over Wisconsin, Marshall beat Purdue and a failed two-point conversion was the only thing that kept Indiana from falling to FCS school Southern Illinois.
Throughout the offseason, the Badger faithful looked forward to the first game, a showdown with national powerhouse Alabama.
Sports editor Jake Powers caught up with Grace Remington, sports editor for Miami University’s student newspaper, the Miami Student, to discuss the RedHawks’ outlook heading into Madison.
The Badgers (5-1) passed their first big road test of the season and bounced back from a rough open- ing weekend, sweeping No. 18 North Carolina and beating Louisville 3-1 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge last weekend in Louisville, Ky.
Near the end of the second quarter Saturday against Alabama, Joel Stave took a three-step drop, planted his back foot and slung a 22-yard pass to Alex Erickson, who was running a corner route along the right sideline.
It’s September and the New York Mets stand alone atop the NL East standings. It should be a time of excitement for fans as their team seeks its first postseason berth since 2006, but instead the Mets have become the talk of baseball for all the wrong reasons.
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