Wisconsin football received a commitment from highly-coveted class of 2026 running back target Amari Latimer on Saturday. 

Latimer, who recently whittled his list of finalists down to the Badgers, Michigan Wolverines, Florida State Seminoles, Georgia Bulldogs, Texas Longhorns and Tennessee Volunteers, received over 40 overs during his recruiting process. The top-ranked running back officially visited Wisconsin the weekend of May 30 and makes his link to the program permanent with his decision.

247Sports, On3 and Rivals all list the 6-foot, 215-pound running back as a four-star recruit. 247Sports’ composite considers him the the No. 288 overall player in the class of 2026, No. 17 running back and No. 33 recruit from his home state of Georgia. Of note, the Tyrone, Georgia, native will reunite with his older brother Geimere Latimer, who transferred to UW this winter following a stellar season on defense at Jacksonville State.

While his decision to commit to Luke Fickell’s program was far from a no-doubter, recruiting outlets linked Latimer to Madison weeks ago. 247Sports Wisconsin insiders Evan Flood, Jon McNamara and Nick Osen all released crystal ball predictions connecting him to Wisconsin as far back as May 8.

A stick-swinging Wisconsin motorist went berserk and thrashed another driver’s car in the middle of traffic during a road rage rampage caught on camera.

The explosive footage captured the blood-soaked driver, identified as Mike Chaltry, storming out of his car and violently smashing the windows of a white Nissan behind him with a stick on a busy downtown Milwaukee freeway Tuesday afternoon.

The Nissan quickly backed up during the chaotic attack and then lunged forward, nearly pinning the frenzied man against another car before attempting to speed off, the dramatic video showed. 

But Chaltry followed the car on foot and landed a few final whacks before the fiery clash fizzled out. 

“I’m not the one who started it,” Chaltry told WISN 12 News following the tempestuous scuffle, admitting that he’s now the “face of road rage” in Milwaukee. 

“I mean, he was driving like an idiot.”

Chaltry claimed the intense encounter began when the other driver recklessly tried to cut him off on the highway as their bumpers nearly collided. 

The loose cannon recounted how the hot-headed motorist allegedly followed him off the highway before walking up to his driver’s side window when they were stopped at a light and punching him multiple times in the face — prompting Chaltry to grab his stick and start swinging.

“He sucker punched me through the window of my car and broke my nose – I got stitches,” Chaltry told the outlet, noting that he “didn’t see it coming.”

“He put my life in danger three times. When he hit me on the highway, when he punched me in the head and when he tried hitting me with his car. I think you saw that in the video. There’s no need for that. I just don’t get it. I was angry, but I had good reason to be angry. He didn’t.”

Cops later arrested the unidentified Nissan driver for suspected battery — and hit him with citations for driving without both insurance and registration, the local outlet reported.

Chaltry also faces possible charges for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property after his case was referred to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.

• The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that UW Health is not legally obligated to recognize its nurses’ union or bargain collectively.
• Act 10, a 2011 law, effectively ended collective bargaining for most public employees in Wisconsin, including UW Health nurses.
• The ruling upholds previous decisions by lower courts and the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.
• UW Health nurses argued the hospital operates like a private entity and should be subject to collective bargaining laws, but the court disagreed.

MADISON – UW Health is not legally required to recognize its nurses’ union or engage in collective bargaining, a unanimous state Supreme Court ruled.

“When we examine the statutory language along with the statutory history, we conclude that Act 10 ended the collective bargaining requirements formerly placed on the (University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics) Authority,” wrote Justice Brian Hagedorn in an opinion released June 27.

The court’s ruling upholds previous decisions by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission and a Dane County Circuit Court judge.

It also brings to the fore the lasting impact of Act 10, the 2011 state law engineered by Republican former Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin. Hagedorn, the author of the court’s unanimous opinion, provided legal counsel in the creation and defense of the law, and Jacob Frost, the Dane County judge who previously ruled in UW Health’s favor, appeared to have signed a petition to recall Walker over the law

The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission ruled in November 2022 that UW Health is not required by law to recognize UW Health nurses’ union or to engage in collective bargaining. The union had been formed a few months prior to the commisssion’s ruling, with help from SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin.