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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Joe Ruklick. The former NU basketball player died on Sept. 16 at the age of 82.

Men’s basketball leader and former NBA athlete Joe Ruklick dies at 82

September 23, 2020

The first time former Chicago Tribune sportswriter Neil Milbert heard of Joe Ruklick was on television in the 1950s. A high school student in Northeast Iowa at the time, Milbert watched Ruklick play...

The shrieker does her thing. Emily Harriott was asked to stop being so loud at basketball games last week.

Northwestern ‘shrieker,’ upon being silenced, briefly becomes a quasi-celebrity

January 14, 2019

Anyone who has been to a Northwestern men’s basketball game in the last three-plus years has likely heard a loud, high-pitched shriek reverberating within Welsh-Ryan Arena or wherever the Wildcats are...

Alumni Perspective: Northwestern’s D.C. journalists leave press box behind at Big Ten Tournament

March 12, 2017

Men's Basketball We were scattered across several sections of the Verizon Center on Thursday and Friday night in Washington, D.C., journalists who would otherwise be confined to the press box or a...

Men’s Basketball: Chris Collins signs undisclosed contract extension

May 26, 2015

Men's Basketball Coach Chris Collins has agreed to a contract extension after his end-of-year meeting with athletic director Jim Phillips. The Chicago Tribune broke the news around 9 a.m. Tuesday...

Football: The oral history of the Pat Fitzgerald era

Football: The oral history of the Pat Fitzgerald era

February 18, 2013

On Jan. 1, 2013, Northwestern won its first bowl game in 64 years, ending the nation’s longest bowl-win drought. The Wildcats’ head coach Pat Fitzgerald, a college football Hall of Famer and member...

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