Hail to Thee, Northwestern

Ah, yes. Another gold star for the old alma mater.

Let's see. When I was there, three basketball players and a football player shaved points BELOW the spread, an unheard-of arrangement at the time. Our coach back then was such a class act that he later responded to a rape victim who was ON HIS TEAM by suggesting that she just wasn't a very good kicker. A different football player died on the practice field with his teammates running sprints twenty feet away from the attempts to resuscitate him. That led to an ugly lawsuit where the boy's mother and the school spent four-plus years smearing each other in the press. Then yet another football player was accidentally shot to death by his best friend. And now this.

I'll say this. For a school without a strong athletics tradition, we're finally catching up to the Florida States and USC's of the world. All we need are a couple drug arrests and some sexual assaults and we'll be ready for the top 10.

Go 'Cats!