Q&A: @FauxPelini prefers ‘wild pants’ to Northwestern Wildcats
Bo Pelini's alter ego is a Chicagoan who normally bats out tweets while watching Nebraska games at a sports bar or friend's house. Not Saturday. The brains behind the equally...
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Trespassing Evans Scholar will keep scholarship
The Evans Scholar who ran onto the Ohio Stadium field during a Buckeyes game is getting a mulligan. Ohio State engineering student Anthony Wunder pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal trespassing,...
At midseason, Big Ten gets scant national respect
If you love Big Ten football — OK, we'll settle for like – you don't want to examine USA Today's Sagarin ratings. The league's highest-rated team is Michigan State, at...
Northwestern would go all out to prevent another Hail Mary
After Nebraska stunned Northwestern last year on a Hail Mary, the prevailing question was this: How could you let that happen? Given what has transpired this season in the Pac-12,...
NU lands 4-star forward Aaron Falzon
Northwestern's basketball program got a huge boost Monday when it secured an oral commitment from Aaron Falzon, a four-star forward from Newton, Mass. Falzon, who reportedly received scholarship offers from...
Grading Northwestern’s performance vs. Minnesota
Halfway through the season, Northwestern is halfway to bowl eligibility. And with a remaining slate of Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, Notre Dame, Purdue and Illinois, the Wildcats should get to six...
Gophers TD return stuns Wildcats 24-17
MINNNEAPOLIS — Kyle Prater was said to be "beating himself up" over a fourth-down drop that essentially turned out the lights out on Northwestern's 24-17 loss to Minnesota. Prater shouldn't...
Northwestern expects physical test at Minnesota
Pat Fitzgerald begins his analysis of every opponent by examining its special teams. "It's less to do with scheme," he said, "and more about attitude, will, 'want to' and consistency."...
Teddy Greenstein’s Big Ten football picks
A lot of tough games this week, and I'd love some help. Katy Perry, you killed it on ESPN's "GameDay" last week. Can you lend a hand? Michigan State (minus...
Video cameras becoming fixture in college locker rooms
Before his team flipped its season at Penn State, coach Pat Fitzgerald held up a sign in the Northwestern locker room that read, "TRUST YOURSELF." "Right here. Right here," he...