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...

It was an opening-game test unlike any Northwestern football has faced in years. And the team passed with flying colors. The Cats won the battle in the trenches, holding No. 21 Stanford to 85 rushing...

Facing a key third down with less than six minutes to play and a narrow seven-point lead, Northwestern gave the ball to its redshirt freshman quarterback. Clayton Thorson dropped back to pass and eyed...

Three dancers and three Hero kids knelt in front of a table on the stage, face-deep in chocolate pudding-covered gummy worms. An hour into the penultimate block, the participants dove into an eating...

Last week “The Daily Show” host and New Yorker Jon Stewart began quite the uproar when he expressed his dislike for Chicago-style pizza: “Deep dish pizza is not only not better than New York pizza....