Skip Myslenski

His team was down 21 when Northwestern linebacker Malcolm Arrington seized the moment that altered the script Saturday at Ryan Field. Arrington intercepted Minnesota quarterback Adam Weber late in the...

They are certainly intelligent. They must be to be admitted to Northwestern. But sometimes brains can be a bane. That is what Wildcats senior center Trevor Rees avows as he...

Later, after all the twists and turns, ebbs and flows and crosscurrents that cut through this game, Northwestern receiver Ross Lane was as honest as he is sure-handed. "Before the...

The memories are still there, fresh enough to access at the drop of a question. Now, in the wake of Tyrell Sutton's lingering injury, Northwestern junior running back Omar Conteh...

All through a sunny Saturday at Ryan Field, Northwestern had performed with a passion and a purpose and a persistence it had lacked in so many of its earlier efforts....

He is discussing the carnage that was the Ohio State game, and dancing across his face are indications of surprise. Northwestern safety Reggie McPherson is told he appears stunned over...

This time Northwestern took the sin of starting slowly and raised it to a high art form. That's not to say that later got any better for the Wildcats, whom...

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald is as constrained as a stoic in his public appearances. Rarely does he evince extreme emotion, and always he massages any question to deliver the point...

This was the last game of the first quarter of its 12-game season, and Northwestern was in search of not only a victory. No. Against Duke under the Saturday night...

Getting offensive: Duke quarterback Thaddeus Lewis threw for two touchdowns and four interceptions in his first two games. But Saturday he was a little short of brilliant. In the first...