North Central College focused on repeating as national champs
Expectations are high once again entering this year as the No. 1-ranked team, but it's business as usual in Naperville.
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Expectations are high once again entering this year as the No. 1-ranked team, but it's business as usual in Naperville.
Football season is here, and every team has championship dreams. One local college team has achieved that dream and is now focused on reliving it. North Central College football has a target on its back after a season that ended with its second D-III national championship in three years.
CBS 2 Sports Director Marshall Harris caught up with the most experienced player in Division I.
Northern Illinois University quarterback Rocky Lombardi began his seventh and final college season with a huge upset win over Boston College.
It's the first test for Luke Altmeyer as the Illini's starting quarterback after transferring in from the University of Mississippi.
The Chicago Football Classic started in 1997 to inspire Black teens to attend historically Black colleges and universities.
A 25-year-old tradition is back in Chicago. The city’s Football Classic will return to Soldier Field on Saturday. But first, a pep rally took over Daley Plaza with the banks and dancers from both Central State University and Mississippi Valley State facing off.
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against this summer over a growing hazing scandal involving the football program and several other sports.
Lately, Northwestern football practices have been closed to the media, and no players will be made available before the game this weekend.
Illinois coach Bret Bielema has announced Luke Altmyer will be the starting quarterback for Illinois when it opens the season at home against Toledo on Sept. 2.
Approximately 1,000 former Northwestern University athletes have sent a letter condemning hazing while defending the school's culture.
With Northwestern's football program still embroiled in a hazing scandal, some coaches and staff showed their support for fired coach Pat Fitzgerald on Wednesday at practice, a move athletics director Derrick Gragg called "offensive and tone deaf."
With Northwestern's football program still embroiled in a hazing scandal, some coaches and staff showed their support for fired coach Pat Fitzgerald on Wednesday at practice, a move athletics director Derrick Gragg called "offensive and tone deaf."
"The shirts are inappropriate, offensive and tone deaf," Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg said.
Another lawsuit has been filed on behalf of player Tom Carnifax, one of four players who recently came forward at a press conference.
Sources confirmed to CBS Sports that the Big Ten entered exploratory discussions on another round of expansion with four Pac-12 schools
Until Wednesday, no one within the Northwestern athletic department had spoken publicly despite CBS 2's repeated requests for interviews.
Northwestern University's interim football coach and athletic director spoke for the first time on Wednesday at Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis about the hazing scandal surrounding the program.
Northwestern University's interim football coach and athletic director spoke for the first time on Wednesday at Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis about the hazing scandal surrounding the program.
Northwestern University's interim football coach and athletic director spoke for the first time on Wednesday at Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis about the hazing scandal surrounding the program.
The players said they don't want the event to be 'dominated by the hazing issue and steal the focus away from football.'
The Northwestern University football team will not have any player representatives at this week's Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis, the annual event where players and coaches around the conference speak to reporters ahead of the upcoming college football season.
Former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates is represented by attorney Ben Crump.
A fourth football player is filing a lawsuit against Northwestern University on Monday amid the ongoing hazing scandal. This time, legal action is being taken by a former quarterback over allegations of hazing and sexual abuse.
Head coach Thomas Hammock is trying to lead his team to bounce back after a 3-9 season last year.
