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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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

USA Today Sports Media Group

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

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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.

Chicago Sun-Times

Three Former Northwestern Baseball Staffers to Sue University, Former Coach

They will allege the university retaliated against them after they raised concerns about ex-coach Jim Foster.

Sports Illustrated

Ranking all 18 Big Ten helmets from worst to first after West Coast additions

What's your favorite Big Ten helmet including the addition of the four new teams? #B1G

USA Today Sports Media Group

Bet on it: Scandals move college football lines

A review of choice college football selections and big movers on the eve of the season must start with Iowa State and Northwestern.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Will Northwestern ever get out of its own way?

Plus: Illinois’ unblockable Jer’Zhan Newton, transfer QBs all over the Big Ten and the college game’s top five coaches.

Chicago Sun-Times

Northwestern University failed to protect women’s lacrosse player from sexual assault, lawsuit alleges

The lawsuit, filed by a student identified as Jane Doe, also alleges the school failed to carry out a thorough investigation after she reported the July 2022 attack.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mount Carmel’s Angelo Ciaravino picks Northwestern

What stood out to Ciaravino was the instant connection he had to Northwestern while on his visit this past weekend.

Chicago Sun-Times

Northwestern athletic director blasts football staffers for 'tone deaf' shirts supporting Fitzgerald

Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg blasted assistant football coaches and staff members for wearing shirts supporting fired coach Pat Fitzgerald at practice Wednesday, calling them “inappropriate, offensive and tone deaf” given the hazing and abuse scandal engulfing the football program and other teams

The Independent UK

Northwestern AD Expresses Disappointment in ‘Tone Deaf’ Shirts Worn by Coaching Staff

Wildcats football staffers appeared to honor former head coach Pat Fitzgerald, who was fired amid a hazing scandal within the program.

Sports Illustrated

Northwestern football staff raise ire with ‘offensive’ and ‘tone deaf’ shirts

Several Wildcats players and coaches were spotted wearing shirts bearing the message “Cats against the World” and the number 51. Fired coach Pat Fitzgerald wore No. 51 as an NU player in the 1990s.

Chicago Sun-Times

Northwestern Interim Coach Has Very Curious Response Asked About Shirts Supporting Pat Fitzgerald

Several Wildcats staffers were seen in shirts that appeared to show support for the fired football coach.

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College Football World Stunned by Northwestern Coaches’ Shirts That Seem to Honor Pat Fitzgerald

The longtime Wildcats coach was fired amid the program’s hazing scandal.

Chicago Sun-Times

If colleges won’t confront problem of abuse against student athletes, Congress must step in

Northwestern’s hazing scandal is just one example among many. If coaches and university officials cannot be trusted to protect vulnerable young athletes, lawmakers in Washington must do so.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Power ranking all eighteen Big Ten football programs after latest expansion news

It was a hard task, but we took a stab at it. #B1G

The Independent UK

As hazing scandal plays out at Northwestern, some lawyers say union for athletes might have helped

A decade after Northwestern found itself at the center of the push for college athletes to form a union for the first time, the spotlight is once again shining on the prestigious private school

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Northwestern Medicine surgeons perform rare ‘flipped organ’ double-lung transplants for 2, including county commissioner

Situs inversus is found in just one in 10,000 people, and it’s even rarer for those with it to need lung transplants. Northwestern Medicine doctors performed the surgery twice in a month.

Chicago Sun-Times

Don’t buy into report that Evanston would benefit from rebuilt Northwestern stadium

The opening pages read as if the billionaire sponsor of the project, Pat Ryan, had written them himself.

Chicago Sun-Times

Playoff atmosphere takes hold as Cubs beat Braves 6-4. Is it around this team to stay?

Over their last 50 games, the Cubs have scored more runs than any team in the majors. Add that to their strong defense, their improved relief pitching, their emerging running game and enough good vibes to power the team plane.

Sports Illustrated

Colts QB Competition Heating Up at Encouraging Training Camp

Anthony Richardson and Gardner Minshew are both displaying the playmaking abilities that coach Shane Steichen covets in his quarterbacks.

Chicago Sun-Times

End hazing where it often starts — in high school sports

Take a lesson from the Northwestern scandal: Every coach, school administrator and district superintendent must make sure no student athlete becomes a victim of hazing.

Chicago Sun-Times

(More) Big Ten expansion steals the headlines as college football training camps get rolling

Oregon and Washington cannonballing into the Big Ten pool? Really? Also: the latest at Illinois, Notre Dame, NIU (and Northwestern, too … maybe).

Chicago Sun-Times

Dan Webb on Northwestern hiring Loretta Lynch in hazing investigation: ‘a total waste of the university’s financial resources’

The former U.S. attorney, representing fired football Coach Pat Fitzgerald, says firing him violated his employment contract and his deal for a two-week suspension.

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