Northwestern Wildcats

NCAA Tournament: Florida turns back Minnesota, 78-64

2013-03-24 17:45:00

AUSTIN, Texas -- Mike Rosario scored 25 points and Florida used an overpowering first half to roll past Minnesota and into the NCAA tournament round of 16 for third consecutive year with a 78-64 win Sunday in the South Regional. The No. 3-seeded...

USC women's lacrosse team debuts Saturday against Northwestern

2013-02-08 18:00:00

There will be big doings for USC athletics Saturday at the Coliseum. And no, Matt Barkley did not get another year of eligibility. This has to do with lacrosse, which brings to mind one of two things for most of us: a medium-sized city in Wisconsin or a...

Northwestern downs Mississippi State in Gator Bowl

2013-01-01 12:30:00

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Behind huge interceptions early and late, No. 21 Northwestern beat Mississippi State 34-20 in the Gator Bowl and snapped college football's longest postseason losing streak Tuesday. The Wildcats (10-3) earned their first bowl...

Georgia pulls away in fourth quarter to beat Nebraska

2013-01-01 14:05:00

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Aaron Murray threw five touchdown passes to set a Georgia bowl record, including two in the fourth quarter, as the sixth-ranked Bulldogs beat No. 23 Nebraska 45-31 in the Capital One Bowl on Tuesday. Murray shook off a pair of first-...

Chris Dufresne's look at the season's college football bowl games

2012-12-12 18:41:00

ESPN's "Octomom" family of networks hopes you enjoy this year's cavalcade of commercials and center snaps as it furiously tries to secure the two games it doesn't broadcast. Conspicuously missing from the lineup is Ohio State (12-0) vs. Louisiana Tech...

Times college football rankings: Five California schools make the list

2012-11-28 15:33:00

Rankman has rarely been this excited about two recently "dropped out" teams playing on a Thursday night in Piscataway, N.J. The showdown between Rutgers and Louisville now features two teams representing three different conferences. Rutgers is joining the...

College football TV lineup for Saturday

2012-11-22 20:20:00

MORNING Georgia Tech (6-5) at No. 3 Georgia (10-1) 9 a.m., ESPN Kids spilled into the streets of Athens, Ga., after Stanford's win over Oregon put Georgia on a controls-its-own-destiny track to this year's national title game. But the Bulldogs...

UCLA fans want the front page, but team has to earn it

2012-11-17 00:00:00

Unbuckling the mailbag: Question: If UCLA beats USC, will The Times let them be in the Sunday sports page headline? Phillip Para Answer: That's a tough call but we can probably make a one-time exception to get UCLA out on the cover, especially if the...

College football rankings: Alabama, Oregon, Kansas State, Notre Dame

2012-11-08 00:00:00

Rankman's steadfast "Never play on Election Tuesday" rule came back to bite Toledo when the Rockets forfeited their poll position by joining Mitt Romney in the loss column. Toledo, located in swing-state Ohio, lost to Ball State. Otherwise, it was...

Four-team playoff could be necessary this season in college football

2012-10-29 20:10:00

This weekend's very impatient, 6-year-old kid-like, takeaway question is: Why wait? Can't we just convene a council of BCS bishops and start the four-team playoff now? It would be just like college football to have two spots available this year for four...

Lane Kiffin of USC finds more controversy, by the numbers

2012-10-26 13:00:00

Unbuckling the mailbag: Question: Is this really a big deal? One USC football player changing his number shouldn't warrant this much attention. Devin Willis Answer: I'll grant you that one USC jersey swap against Colorado at the Coliseum is not as...

Things are heating up in college football

2012-10-19 16:05:00

Here is some weekend pigskin to chew on: —How hot will it get for Texas? You thought things couldn't get worse after the Longhorns got scorched by Oklahoma last week at the State Fair of Texas. Friday, though, came word that "Big Tex," the 52-foot...

The Northwestern Wildcats, a third- and fourth-grade football team, won the Newport-Mesa Friday Night Lights gold division championship.

2013-05-26 00:57:00

The key to the No. 2 Wildcats' midfield defense, Flibotte was named Most Valuable Player in the American Lacrosse Conference tournament after helping hold then-No. 2 Florida nearly 12 goals below its season scoring average in an 8-3 title-game victory.

2013-04-14 00:00:00

Nnanna Egwu is defended by Northwestern's Mike Turner during the first half.

2013-02-17 00:00:00