Sports
Football: Longtime Badgers beat writer passes away at 56
By Bobby Ehrlich | Oct. 6, 2014Husband. Father. Brother. Friend. Journalist. Badger. The UW-Madison community lost one of its own Friday as Wisconsin State Journal writer Tom Mulhern passed away from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the age of 56.
Volleyball: Badgers take down Illinois
By Ryan Weinkauf and Colleen Degnan | Oct. 6, 2014The No. 6 Badgers (3-1 Big Ten, 12-2 overall) beat No. 16 Illinois (3-1, 11-4) in their fourth match of conference play. Saturday night’s match at Huff Hall was filled with intensity throughout all four sets with scores of 25-17, 25-22, 11-25 and 25-23.
Women's Hockey: Wisconsin sweeps Minnesota-Duluth on the road
By Zach Rastall | Oct. 6, 2014Thanks to strong performances from a variety of players, the No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers (4-0-0 overall, 2-0-0 WCHA) cruised to a road series sweep of the No. 10 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs (1-3-1, 0-2-2) in their WCHA opener.
Women's Soccer: Badgers split Big Ten weekend
By Matt Davis | Oct. 6, 2014This weekend, No. 13 Wisconsin (5-2 Big Ten, 11-2-0 overall) faced Ohio State (2-4-0, 5-7-0) and No. 7 Penn State (7-0-0, 12-1-0) to start a three-game home stand. In the first game against Ohio State on Friday night, the Badgers dominated from the start and came away with a 2-0 shutout.
Men's Soccer: Wisconsin falls to Michigan in overtime
By Jarek Petras and Sam Morgan | Oct. 6, 2014The Badgers played in another long game this Friday, and again they were left wondering. Wisconsin lost a tough overtime game at home against Big Ten opponent Michigan, 2-1.
Football: Wisconsin stunned on road at Northwestern
By Jake Powers | Oct. 4, 2014EVANSTON, Ill.—Wisconsin began its Big Ten schedule with a humiliating road loss to Northwestern Saturday in a game that should have served as a springboard into the rest of conference play.
Men's soccer returns home to face Michigan
By Jarek Petras | Oct. 2, 2014The once revivable season is starting to look worse and worse for Badger men's soccer. After two straight shutouts, Wisconsin has to come up with answers quickly.
Heisman Watch: Week 6
By Jim Dayton | Oct. 2, 2014This is the third edition of the Heisman Watch, a weekly feature tracking the candidates for college football’s most prestigious award. To read last week’s piece, click here.
Volleyball: Badgers head down south to face streaking Illinois
By Sam Karp and Ryan Seib | Oct. 2, 2014The Badgers (2-1 Big Ten, 11-2 overall) will continue their Big Ten campaign this Saturday when they travel to Champaign, Ill., to take on No. 16 Illinois (11-3, 3-0). The Badgers are on a two game conference winning streak and will be looking to extend their streak against the Fighting Illini.
Gameday: Trotters taking twin steps to success
By Jim Dayton | Oct. 2, 2014In spring practice, the Wisconsin coaching staff decided to move Michael Trotter from safety to linebacker, giving him the chance to play alongside his twin brother, Marcus, for their final season.
Gameday: Five things to watch for Northwestern
By Brian Weidy and Tom Walsh | Oct. 2, 20141. More touches for Corey Clement
Gameday: Wildcats on the rise as Badgers visit Evanston
By Jake Powers | Oct. 2, 2014After suffering an 0-2 start to its 2014 campaign, Northwestern will attempt to lead a resurgence after consecutive wins in its last two games.
Gameday: Northwestern rises, Michigan shoots self in foot
By Jack Baer | Oct. 2, 2014Here’s a quick explanation of our voting methodology: We had 10 voters on our staff rank the conference 1-14 and awarded points in an inverted structure (first place gets 14 points, etc.) Without further adieu, here’s how that shook out.
Gameday: Week 5 sees strong conference matchups across the country
By Grey Satterfield | Oct. 2, 2014No. 15 LSU at No. 5 Auburn
Column: Wild Card round brings instant excitement
By Jack Baer and Clay Thomas | Oct. 2, 2014Well… that Kansas City Royals game was fun. Twelve innings of multiple ties and lead changes, truly memorable plays and heroes like Brandon Finnegan, Brandon Moss and Jarrod Dyson all in front of an electric crowd and in winner-take-all, no-tomorrow stakes? Yeah, I’d like to see more of that.
Men's soccer: Badgers continue recent struggles with shutout against Marquette
By Jason Braverman | Oct. 2, 2014In a match between intra-state rivals, No. 12 Marquette (6-2-0 overall) defeated Wisconsin (1-6-1) 2-0 Wednesday for the team’s sixth consecutive shutout.
Women's soccer: Wisconsin rolls into Big Ten road trip
By Bobby Ehrlich | Oct. 2, 2014After two Big Ten road shutouts to defeat Indiana and Purdue, No. 13 Wisconsin takes on Ohio State (2-3-0 Big Ten, 5-6-0 overall) Friday and No. 7 Penn State (5-0-0, 10-1-0) Sunday to begin a three-game homestand.
UW opens WCHA play against Minnesota-Duluth
By Zach Rastall | Oct. 2, 2014Coming off a season-opening sweep of the Lindenwood Lions, No. 2 Wisconsin (2-0-0) will look to keep things rolling as UW heads into Duluth for its WCHA opener.
Volleyball: Wisconsin sweeps Northwestern en route to dominating road win
By Colleen Degnan | Oct. 2, 2014No. 6 Wisconsin (2-1 Big Ten, 11-2 overall) continued Big Ten play Wednesday night, defeating Northwestern (2-1, 12-2) in three sets at the Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston, Ill.