At the end of each school year, The Daily’s sports staff honors some of the top athletic performers from the fall, winter and spring seasons. The following are The Daily’s selections for eight such...

Football The NFL draft will be held this Thursday through Saturday in Chicago, and defensive end Dean Lowry and superback Dan Vitale each have a good chance of hearing their name called. Writers Max...

Football Student-athletes, as the term conveniently reminds us, are still students. We cheer for them on Saturdays (and Sundays, and most other days of the week), but we also see them in our classes,...

Football The Wildcats just aren’t very good, and they never were. That’s what I wrote in the middle of the season, after back-to-back blowout losses to Michigan and Iowa scuttled Northwestern’s...

Football TAMPA, Fla. — If one puts faith in predictions, Northwestern’s loss to Tennessee in the Outback Bowl was unsurprising. Tennessee was the heavy favorite; ESPN gave the Volunteers a 77...