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College football no longer the game we once knew

This is what happens when the only thing schools care about is winning.

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Big Ten Power Rankings: Where’s MSU Football land after earning a season-opening win over CMU?

See where the Spartans land in our first edition of Big Ten Power Rankings for the 2023 football season

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Northwestern loses 24-7 to Rutgers — yes, that Rutgers — in first game without Pat Fitzgerald

Everything about this game was strange, starting with a matchup of bottom-of-the-barrel teams taking place in a national CBS telecast on a Sunday.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Rutgers rolls Northwestern 24-7, as Wildcats play 1st game since hazing scandal shook the program

Northwestern lost to Rutgers 24-7 in the football team's first game since a hazing scandal led to a coaching change, investigations and multiple lawsuits

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Big Ten football power rankings after Week 1: Sifting through opening week.

After one week of play, we now have some game film to come up with our first Big Ten football power rankings of the 2023 season. What would be your top three? #GoBucks

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Ranking the best defenses in the Big Ten for 2023

Ranking the top defenses in the Big Ten ahead of the 2023 season:

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Ranking the best offenses in the Big Ten for 2023

Ranking the best offenses in the Big Ten heading into the 2023 football season:

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Northwestern interim coach David Braun has a funny way of showing ‘transparency’

Six days before the Wildcats’ opener at Rutgers, Braun explained — poorly — that he was taking the completely unusual step of barring players from interviews during a game week.

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Northwestern’s latest stadium proposal exploits existing racial tension in Evanston

Digging up support with a $10 million workforce development plan is a vile and deliberately divisive tactic, a reader writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fur-st week back: Chicago college campuses welcome students, emotional support animals for new school year

Emotional support animals — sometimes referred to as comfort or assistance animals — offer companionship and can help manage depression, anxiety and specific phobias, according to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Northwestern doctors say long COVID detected even after patients tested negative

Potentially millions of people across the U.S. showed so-called long-COVID symptoms in 2020 even though they initially tested negative for the virus back then, researchers find.

Chicago Sun-Times

Northwestern throws ‘Hail Mary’ for Ryan Field stadium rebuild

If NU successfully pushes the proposed new stadium through Evanston City Council, the wounds to the community will take generations to heal, lawyer Steven Harper writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Big 10: on Illinois’ QB decision, Georgia’s three-peat hopes, more Northwestern nonsense

Which name goes on the Illini’s QB1 line will speak volumes.

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Polling Place: Which is your team — Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame or another?

We also asked which Bears running back excites you most — Khalil Herbert, D’Onta Foreman or Roschon Johnson — and whether or not the Sky will make the WNBA playoffs.

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Where Things Stand With the Northwestern Hazing Scandal

With the Wildcats’ season-opener just over two weeks away, the number of lawsuits is only expected to continue to grow.

Chicago Sun-Times

Northwestern reduces events held at Ryan Field, residents continue to oppose rebuild

In a statement, Northwestern University President Michael Schill said they have taken into consideration neighbors’ concerns and will drop the number of concerts held in a year from 10 to six.

Sports Illustrated

Checking the Temperature of College Football’s Coaching Hot Seats

Insiders say the coaching carousel should stop spinning this year, but there are still a handful of coaches who should exercise caution.

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Pat Fitzgerald to Volunteer at Chicagoland High School After Northwestern Firing

The former Wildcats coach will assist one of the top Illinois high school football programs this fall.

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The Independent UK

Former Northwestern athletes send letter defending school's athletic culture

Approximately 1,000 former Northwestern University athletes have sent a letter condemning hazing while defending the school’s culture

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald is a volunteer assistant at Loyola Academy this season

Ryan Fitzgerald, a junior, will be the Ramblers starting quarterback this season.

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Former Northwestern athletes condemn hazing, defend university

More than 1,000 former Wildcats athletes signed an open letter.

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On ‘team culture,’ motivational T-shirts and hazing: Does anyone have an original thought in sports?

There’s too much groupthink and mimicry, as the Northwestern scandal shows.

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Ranking all 18 Big Ten football stadiums by seating capacity after addition of West Coast teams

Where do the stadiums of the four new Big Ten teams on the West Coast fit into the Big Ten with stadium capacity? #B1G

The Independent UK

Northwestern sued again over troubled athletics program. This time it's the baseball program

Three former Northwestern baseball staffers filed a lawsuit against the university alleging their contracts were discontinued as retaliation for reporting misconduct in the program

Chicago Sun-Times

3 former Northwestern baseball staffers sue the university

Former assistant coaches Dusty Napoleon and Jon Strauss and former baseball operations director Chris Beacom say they blew the whistle on former coach Jim Foster’s alleged bullying in November 2022.

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