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COLUMN: UW football schedule upgrade welcome, but home fans may not notice

During the 1960s and '70s, UW fans were treated to non-conference home games against Notre Dame, LSU, Penn State, Oklahoma, TCU, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, USC, UCLA, Arizona State, Washington, Washington …
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Huskies Back On Track With Win Over Penn State Kaitlin Inglesby got the win in …

FULLERTON, Calif. – The No. 18/16 UW softball team improved to 21-7 with a huge 13-2 win in five innings on Saturday afternoon against Penn State (6-15) at the Judi Garman Classic in Fullerton, Calif. Junior Kaitlin Inglesby (Portland, Ore.) improved … See all stories on this topic »

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Last look: UW at Penn State

Penn State's Kevin Montminy and Nick Colella were off too far and Jackson was able to get up the left sideline quickly and into the frontcourt. “I think they were kind of waiting for me, to trap or something,” Jackson said. “I don't know. “They kind of …
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Lion Tamers: Badgers upset No. 7 Penn State at Kohl Center

The second half of action proved to be just as exciting as the first, every time Penn State would try and pull away, the Badgers would fight their way back into the game. UW took its first lead of the second half (36-35) at the 18:02 mark on a 3 … See all stories on this topic »

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UW regular-season finale at Penn State set for 2:30 pm start

12, 2012 9:34 a.m.. Tweet. Email; Print; |(0) Comments. Madison – Wisconsin's regular-season finale on Nov. 24 at Penn State is to start at 2:30 pm. (Central), Big Ten Conference officials announced Monday. The game is to be televised by ABC. Comments …
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This Week In Badger Athletics: Sept. 24-30

4 Penn State (12-1, 2-0) on Friday at 7 p.m. On Saturday, UW takes on No. 23 Ohio State (10-4, 1-1) at 7 p.m. Both matches are in the UW Field House. Last week: UW opened Big Ten play on the road last weekend, downing Northwestern 3-1 on Friday before … See all stories on this topic »

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Penn State tips UW men on late goal

Freshman Kelton Cheney scored in the 82nd minute, the first goal allowed by Rau and the Badgers in more than 300 minutes, and Penn State posted a 1-0 victory in a Big Ten Conference men's opener at the McClimon Complex. UW (2-3-3) was outshot 23-8 …
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UW opens Big 10 play home vs. Penn State

UW opens Big 10 play home vs. Penn State. By Jeff Potrykus of the Journal Sentinel. Aug. 30, 2012 10:02 a.m.. Tweet. Email; Print; |(0) Comments. Madison – Wisconsin's 2012-'13 men's basketball schedule, not including tip times, was released Thursday.
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Tuskegee airman George Hickman dies in Seattle at 88

George Hickman, one of the original Tuskegee airmen and a longtime usher at University of Washington and Seattle Seahawks games, has died at age 88.

His wife, Doris, confirmed Monday that he died early Sunday morning in Seattle.

Hickman was one of the country’s first black military pilots and ground crew members who fought in World War II.

In 2007, he and other Tuskegee airmen traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor that Congress can give. In 2009, he attended President Barack Obama’s inauguration as a special guest.

Hickman was a beloved figure at Seattle sporting events, and could often be seen shaking hands and hugging fans, athletes and reporters. He personalized the often anonymous job of ushering, and most regulars to UW games knew him by first name. Many athletes came to expect hugs, handshakes or pats from him before games.

“Things will be a little different right before we go out on the court not being able to shake the hand of George Hickman,” UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar tweeted Monday.

Romar recalled Hickman games, doling out handshakes and encouraging words even when the team wasn’t doing well.

“He is a guy that if everyone came forward and said how he touched their lives we would probably fill up that arena,” Romar said, adding: “He helped make history. He helped put African-Americans on the map in the military.”

Hickman worked a number of posts, including usher and press box attendant, at Huskies games for several decades. He also serves as a press box greeter at Seahawks games. He raised the 12th Man flag before the Seahawks game against the Baltimore Ravens last November.

“He was just a wonderful man,” Doris Hickman said Monday of her husband.

The grandson of slaves, Hickman nurtured an interest in aviation as a curious boy gazing up at the sky above St. Louis.

That passion evolved from buying model airplanes to joining the segregated pilot training program in Tuskegee, Ala., and later to a nearly three-decade long career at Boeing in Seattle.

He served in the Army Air Corps from 1943-45, which trained African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft, and was part of the graduating class of 1944, according to a 2012 Army profile.

He was initially eliminated from pilot training in 1943. As a cadet captain, he was effectively blocked from flying when he called out white superior officers for the mistreatment of a fellow black cadet. “I felt like I had really been mistreated,” he told the AP in 2009. But undeterred, he graduated from the program as a crewman.

“There was nothing better in the world. In that biplane, the guy wires between the wings were like musical instruments,” he told the News Tribune of Tacoma in a 2011 interview.

But he also recalled in a 2009 Associated Press interview the humiliation of being pushed off sidewalks in the South and spit at while in uniform.

In 1955, he met and married his wife in Amarillo, Texas, while volunteering with her mother at a local library, according to an Army profile. Doris Hickman was drawn to her husband’s character, she said in that interview, because “he has always put others first and tried to make the world a better place.”

He moved to Seattle in 1955 to work for Boeing as a B-52 engineering training instructor and executive in the aerospace division, according to the News Tribune. He retired in 1984.

Op-ed: Mark Emmert faced UW culture that went "horribly awry" before Penn State

When NCAA President Mark Emmert announced the severe penalties against Penn State last week, he could just as easily have been talking about Montlake and the University of Washington, where he served as president before agreeing to take over the … See all stories on this topic »

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