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Wisconsin is making a change. In a stunning move, Paul Chryst was fired as the Badgers’ head coach, the university announced Sunday night. The news comes a day after Wisconsin was blown out 34-10 at home by Illinois. The Illini are coached by Bret Bielema, who won three Big Ten titles as head coach at Wisconsin from 2010 to 2012. “After a heartfelt and authentic conversation with Coach Chryst about what is in the long-term best interest of our football program, I have concluded that now is… Source link

A year after winning just two games, Iowa State is moving on to the Sweet 16. The Cyclones, the No. 11 seed in the Midwest region, upset No. 3 seed Wisconsin 54-49 in the second round of the NCAA tournament. And they did it in front of a largely pro-Wisconsin crowd on Sunday night in Milwaukee. The Cyclones (22-12) had a 2-22 record in 2021 but have now won two games in the NCAA tournament in their first season with T.J. Otzelberger as head coach. Gabe Kalscheur led the way for ISU in what was… Source link

Things turned ugly immediately after No. 15 Wisconsin’s 77-63 victory over Michigan on Sunday. In the postgame handshake line, Michigan coach Juwan Howard and Wisconsin coach Greg Gard got into a verbal altercation that turned physical when both teams convened near the scorer’s table. Howard was upset that Gard called a timeout in the final minute of the game when Wisconsin held a big lead. Howard said something to Gard as they shook hands. Gard grabbed Howard with his left hand to stop… Source link

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – A La Crosse Co. man who is charged with entering the U.S. Capitol when it was breached on January 6 was tracked down after Google handed over records showing a mobile device linked to him showed he was inside the building that day. The suspect, identified as Abram Markofski, is one of two men recently charged by federal prosecutors in connection with the assault on the Capitol building while electoral votes were being counted. A Dane Co. resident, Brandon Nelson, was… Source link

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A group of small Wisconsin newspapers have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Google and Facebook’s control of digital advertising threatens the publications’ existence and violates antitrust law. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the lawsuit claims the monopoly will have a profoundly negative effect on American democracy. One of the attorneys representing the Wisconsin publications says newspaper publishers have filed about a dozen similar complaints in other… Source link

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A group of small Wisconsin newspapers have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Google and Facebook’s control of digital advertising threatens the publications’ existence and violates antitrust law. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the lawsuit claims the monopoly will have a profoundly negative effect on American democracy. One of the attorneys representing the Wisconsin publications says newspaper publishers have filed about a dozen similar complaints in other… Source link

MADISON, Wisc., and SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today announced it is launching a Virtual Career Center (VCC), built on Google Cloud. The VCC will connect Wisconsinites to career services, relevant job opportunities and dramatically expand access to key resources across the state, via an innovative, data-driven, and easy-to-navigate online platform. This $2.9-million project brings together Wisconsin government… Source link

Entering Friday, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams held a 29-0 record in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Wisconsin basketball held a 4-42 record at Mackey Arena, the site of the Badgers’ first-round matchup against Williams’ Tar Heels. Lies, damned lies and statistics. Improbability became emphatic reality in West Lafayette, Indiana, on Friday, as the ninth-seeded Badgers blew out North Carolina 85-62 to snap Williams’ unbeaten streak, which went back to his first March Madness in… Source link

The Wisconsin Badgers’ 2020 football season saw sophomore ILB Leo Chenal, freshman RB Jalen Berger, freshman OLB Nick Herbig and others break onto the scene and make their names known. The team would not have had the same success without these guys and what they did on the field, as Chenal and Herbig were two of the driving forces on defense and Berger was far-and-away the best option in the backfield. Going into any season there will be hype given to certain players and positions, hype… Source link

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count. Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Biden’s victory by about 20,600 votes. With no precedent for a recount reversing such a large margin, Trump’s strategy… Source link