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Lancaster's veteran leader named AP Coach of the Year; four Flying Arrows players make the all-state first team.

Pittsburgh head coach Paul Chryst is poised to be the University of Wisconsin’s next football coach, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported late Thursday night.

There were many highlights for the University of Wisconsin wrestling team in a 45-0 victory against Indiana on Thursday night at the UW Field House.

With a pair of third-period goals Thursday night, the Janesville boys hockey team took a 3-1 victory over visiting Madison Memorial in Big Eight Conference play.

The Madison East boys basketball team turned back a frantic late rush by host Middleton to pull out a 57-56 victory in Big Eight Conference play Thursday night.

The Lakeside Lutheran girls basketball team remained undefeated Thursday night, racing to a 51-30 victory over visiting Fond du Lac Winnebago Lutheran in non-conference play.

He takes a charge to end the Spartans' frantic late rally.

Senior forward Tanner Bruchs scored 16 points Thursday night, helping the Poynette boys basketball team erase a nine-point halftime deficit to take a 45-40 victory over visiting Reedsburg in n…

A fixture on campus for more than 60 years, retired UW-Madison vice chancellor and arts journalist Art Hove died Tuesday from a rare neuromuscular disorder. He was 80.

It would appear University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has isolated his first priority in the search for a new football coach.

Melvin Gordon’s run of postseason honors continues to pile up.

WASHINGTON — The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminality.

Let's see, Bret Bielema is out. And I'm guessing Bo Pelini won't be asked to make it a three-team coaching swap among Nebraska, Oregon State and the University of Wisconsin, either.

He says an experience in his own business changed his mind about the program.

Some are looking at the policy as a new source of revenue for tribes similar to cigarette sales and casino gambling while other tribes -- including some in Wisconsin -- are opposed to legalizi…

Gary Andersen declined an opportunity Thursday to explain his rationale for abruptly stepping down as University of Wisconsin football coach.

Local officials are working to hire temporary private security soon to keep watch over at the building at night.

Coach Andersen left in part because UW-Madison's high academic standards kept out some of the athletes he recruited.

The biggest impediment to public discourse are people such as the writer of Tuesday's letter to the editor "Madison needs to hear conservative voices."

The media regularly dismisses the cultural mores of a people as secondary to "the rule of law and order." This emphasis on property rights and contract law ignores the meaning of life and expl…