Wisconsin Radio Network affiliate WSAU will broadcast a five-hour special event called, “Heroin in Wisconsin; Save our Families” Seth Mela of WSAU will join hosts from WTAQ as well WHBL to engage the community in a discussion about the rising threat of...
Vermont Senator Bernie Sander announced to a crowd in Laramie, Wyoming that he won the Wisconsin Primary. In his speech, Sanders emphasized the momentum that his campaign generated by winning seven out of the last eight primaries and caucuses. At the time of the...
March Madness 2000, eighth seeded Wisconsin had already gone through Fresno State, upset first seed Arizona, and knocked off LSU to enter a matchup with conference rival Purdue in the Elite Eight. The Badgers had already beaten the Boilermakers twice in regular season...
It’s known as the Miracle on Ice. It was on February 22, during the medal round of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Team USA skated onto the ice against Russia, who had won gold medals in six of the seven previous Olympics and was heavily...
In the semifinals of the 1983 WCHA Playoffs, Wisconsin faced North Dakota in Fargo. Badger center John Johannson says it was a matchup he’ll never forget. “They had tremendous players. We had tremendous players. And it was about impossible to beat them in...
March 2, 1968. During Team Captain Joe Franklin’s final season at Wisconsin, the Purdue Boiler Makers traveled to Madison to take on the Badgers and Franklin pulled down a career high 27 rebounds in that game. It was nothing too surprising for a player who had...
April 8, 2006. The Badgers skated onto Bradley Center ice with some much earned confidence. Wisconsin was at the end of a stellar season that included an outdoor game at Lambeau, a win against Ohio State and sweeps of North Dakota and biggest rival Minnesota, and the...
December 3, 2011. The Badgers headed to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for the first ever Big Ten Championship game in the conference’s 115 year history. 15th ranked Wisconsin had met 11th ranked Michigan State once earlier in the season with the Spartans...
After Wisconsin men’s basketball won the national championship in 1941 the team struggled for decades. The program spent 42 years without a post season appearance and eked out fewer than 10 winning seasons. Then came former New York Knicks head coach Stu Jackson...
December 3, 1988. The Wisconsin Badgers took a perfect 3-0 record into their game against in-state rival Marquette, in the championship game of the First Bank Classic. It was the first time the Badgers had played in the brand-new Bradley Center, and they made the...
Detroit, 1990. The Wisconsin Badgers had just squeaked by Boston College in the national semifinals, 2-1. They faced off against Colgate in the title game in Detroit, as they looked to pick up their fifth national championship. Even before the puck was dropped,...
Dec. 2, 2009. When Wisconsin and Duke met in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in 2009, the Blue Devils were considered heavy favorites. They were a perfect 6-0, ranked 6th in the country, and they hadn’t lost in a Challenge game in ten previous seasons. That all began...
November 26, 2011. The #15 Badgers entered their last regular-season matchup with a chance to make history by playing in the first-ever Big Ten championship game. To get there, they’d have to go through #20 ranked Penn State at Camp Randall. Instead of the close game...
The most-played rivalry in Division I football continues this weekend when Wisconsin and Minnesota square off for Paul Bunyan’s Axe. The series goes back to 1890. The trophy was first given out to the winner of the game in 1948, and since then it has become a symbol...
September 27, 1997. After a season-opening loss to Syracuse, Wisconsin’s 1997 football team was riding a three-game winning streak heading into its matchup at Camp Randall with Indiana. It looked like the streak would end there with less than a minute left in the game...
September 9, 2000. A highly regarded Wisconsin team welcomed Oregon to Camp Randall Stadium on week two of the 2000 football season. Oregon’s Joey Harrington was one of the nation’s best quarterbacks, but on this day he was outplayed by one of the best cornerbacks in...
November 11, 2006. Wisconsin entered its game with Big Ten rival Iowa having lost four straight to the Hawkeyes. But first-year head coach Bret Bielema had the Badgers on a roll. Wisconsin marched into Iowa City with a 9-1 record, looking for historic win number ten....
September 12, 1981. The powerful Michigan Wolverines came into the 1981 season ranked #1 in the country. And they had no reason to believe they’d lose that top ranking after their opener at Camp Randall. Michigan had outscored Wisconsin by a combined score of...
November 18, 1961. The Wisconsin Badgers entered their game with Illinois with an unremarkable 4-3 record, but that was deceptive. The Badgers’ three losses had come at the hands of nationally ranked teams — #10 Michigan State, #4 Iowa, and #6 Ohio State....
November 10, 1962. The Northwestern Wildcats came into their game at Camp Randall undefeated and ranked #1 in the nation, but Wisconsin was primed and ready for an upset. The Badgers were having a great season themselves, with a 5-1 record and a #8 national ranking....
