Football Before the season, coach Pat Fitzgerald laid out his expectations. “We don’t hide from the goals that we have,” Fitzgerald said, “which are to win the Big Ten West, to win the Big...

Football Clayton Thorson stepped forward in the pocket, released the ball just as two Rutgers linemen converged and hit Flynn Nagel for a crucial fourth-and-4 conversion late in last Saturday’s...

Football PISCATAWAY, N.J. — On an afternoon when almost everything seemed to go wrong for Northwestern – the offense had little success in the air, the run game was missing its two most experienced...

Football PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Northwestern needed something, anything, to work offensively. So the Wildcats turned to a freshman running back with two career yards — and it worked. With Clayton...

Football PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Northwestern, by most measures, played very poorly. But it was still, barely, enough to win. Despite trailing for long stretches of the second half and failing to...