Fields To Transfer From Northwestern
Two-sport athlete Arby Fields will be leaving the football team and plans to transfer.
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Two-sport athlete Arby Fields will be leaving the football team and plans to transfer.
With the Big Ten Conference winning the Big Ten/ACC Challenge for the first time in eleven tries last season, both Illinois and Northwestern looked to do their part this year in ensuring that conference bragging rights would stay in the Midwest for at least one more year.
John Shurna scored 21 points, Drew Crawford added 19 and Northwestern shot a blistering 64.6 percent in a 91-71 victory over Georgia Tech in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on Tuesday night.
We learned in the last season of "Mad Men" that Don Draper never finished high school. Now he--and the series--is in college as the focus of a Northwestern University seminar.
The Northwestern Wildcats have won their fourth straight game as they faced Creighton. Northwestern hasn't started 4-0 in 17 years.
Technically nothing is official until the final BCS standings come out Dec. 5, but if it's up to the Rose Bowl representatives, the Wisconsin Badgers will be playing in Pasadena on New Year's Day.
Northwestern was given no chance as they faced Wisconsin. Montee Ball's four touchdowns and Venric Mark 94 yard touchdown return was too much for the Wildcats to handle.
The final week of the 2010 Big Ten football season will be the Northwestern Wildcats toughest game to date.
Despite the fact that both offenses headed in the same direction all game, the Wildcats are open to playing in Wrigley Field again.
Wrigley Field football is dead. Or is it long live football at Wrigley Field?
Under the conditions set forth at Wrigley Field Saturday, all we saw was Illinois and running back Mikel Leshoure put on a spectacle as the Illini beat Northwestern 48-27 in front of a sellout crowd of 41,058 fans.
Saturday's Illinois-Northwestern football game at Wrigley Field was a historic experience for fans of both teams, in more ways than one.
It sounds like the "losers walk" rules that kids use when playing football in their back yards. Whenever Illinois or Northwestern score on offense Saturday, everyone has to switch around and face the other way for the next drive.
The 104th edition of the rivalry between the Northwestern Wildcats versus the Illinois Fighting Illini, set to take place this Saturday at 2:30 PM, has a different feel to it, with historic Wrigley Field playing host to both schools in a pseudo-home game for the Wildcats.
There has been plenty of talk about Saturday's Northwestern and Illinois football game at Wrigley Field. Most of the talk has surrounded the safety of the players. Today an announcement was made to help protect them.
Another season for the Wildcats and another season they will be chasing the team's first NCAA Tournament appearance.
Northwestern University journalism students probing whether a convicted murderer should be set free used secret recording devices to interview witnesses, possibly violating state law.
Despite safety concerns, there's way more good that will come from Saturday's football game at Wrigley Field than bad.
Two weeks ago there was talk of Illinois winning as many as nine games and playing in a Post New Years' bowl game. Loses to Michigan and Minnesota in consecutive weeks have instead dampened those dreams and now the best the Illini can hope for is a 7-5 finish.
November is a slow time for the bars around the home of Cubs baseball. Local taverns are ready to welcome Northwestern and Illinois football fans for Saturday's game.
Did the Wisconsin Badgers run the score up against Indiana or are the Hoosiers just that bad?
The traditional red marquee at Wrigley Field is turning purple as the Northwestern Wildcats take over ballpark for the Allstate Wrigleyville Classic on Saturday.
After trailing 17-7 in the third quarter, Northwestern caught an interception to near the goal line to kick-start a comeback. For the fifth time in six seasons, the Wildcats have defeated Iowa.
Northwestern seems to have lost their momentum, giving up 35 points in each of their last two losses. Saturday they take on Iowa and hope to overcome their tough defense.
