Northwestern hazing scandal
News coverage and commentary on the Northwestern University hazing scandal that led to the firing of longtime football coach Pat Fitzgerald.
Six days before the Wildcats’ opener at Rutgers, Braun explained — poorly — that he was taking the completely unusual step of barring players from interviews during a game week.
More than 1,000 former Wildcats athletes signed an open letter.
Ryan Fitzgerald, a junior, will be the Ramblers’ starting quarterback this season.
On ‘team culture,’ motivational T-shirts and hazing: Does anyone have an original thought in sports?
There’s too much groupthink and mimicry, as the Northwestern scandal shows.
Former assistant coaches Dusty Napoleon and Jon Strauss and former baseball operations director Chris Beacom say they blew the whistle on former coach Jim Foster’s alleged bullying in November 2022.
The lawsuit, filed by a student identified as Jane Doe, also alleges the school failed to carry out a thorough investigation after she reported the July 2022 attack.
Several Wildcats players and coaches were spotted wearing shirts bearing the message “Cats Against the World” and the number 51. Fired coach Pat Fitzgerald wore No. 51 as an NU player in the 1990s.
Northwestern’s hazing scandal is just one example among many. If coaches and university officials cannot be trusted to protect vulnerable young athletes, lawmakers in Washington must do so.
Un portavoz de Northwestern dijo que la escuela está comprometida a abordar los problemas relacionados con el hazing.
The conference realignment going on across the country has everything to do with TV money — gobs of it.
The former U.S. attorney, representing fired football Coach Pat Fitzgerald, says firing him violated his employment contract and his deal for a two-week suspension.
The senior athlete from Hersey committed to Northwestern on Monday, a milestone in interim coach David Braun’s efforts to bring some stability to the troubled program.
One lawsuit also alleges the former Northwestern University football player had his Afro cut off by upperclassmen players at the team’s camp in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The experience led Ramon Diaz, now 36, to try to kill himself by overdosing on painkillers in 2006. “My experience playing football at Northwestern University haunts me to this day,” Diaz told reporters Wednesday.
Lynch will make her findings public after examining the university’s accountability mechanisms, the university announced Tuesday.
“Northwestern” isn’t just a name on the schedule anymore. It’s also a code word for what not to do.
Warren Miles Long, a former running back, and John Doe 2 join a growing list of former student-athletes coming forward with lawsuits detailing similar allegations.
Simba Short, who played defense for Northwestern from 2015-2016, and another player filed suits with civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Chicago firm Levin & Perconti.
It would have been nice if he had acknowledged that some former players might have been hurt by the hazing scandal.
Wildcats players decide to not attend Big Ten Media Days.
“This entire situation, it’s distressing,” Gragg said in an interview with ESPN.
Michael Schill fired football coach Pat Fitzgerald only after the student newspaper, The Daily Northwestern, published details of the hazing. This week, he granted the newspaper his first public interview on the scandal.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke about the new lawsuit Monday afternoon on behalf of former student football player Lloyd Yates, Last week, Yates said that sexualized hazing was commonplace on the team.
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