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Northwestern’s decision to keep Pat Fitzgerald’s assistants is proof that Northwestern isn’t a serious placeThe “intellectual elite” are failing in Evanston. In the same week in which we discovered that Northwestern’s head football coach Pat Fitzgerald’s laughable two-week suspension should have led to his eventual firing for running a program that’s “allegedly” allowed hazing and racism to run rampant fo...

Mike Polisky stepping down as Northwestern AD is something we can all celebrateIt’s still a week where some states’ proposals to “placate” athletes’ desire to be compensated for their work and likeness still involve schools poaching 75 percent of said athletes’ income from such things. But still, it’s fun and satisfying to mark when a school has to take a step back, admit it w...

Turns out Northwestern’s controversial new AD has close ties to a mega-donorThe calls are growing louder for Northwestern University to reconsider its decision to hire Mike Polisky as athletic director....

Why won’t Northwestern talk about their new AD?

Early this week, Northwestern University announced the hiring of Mike Polisky as Athletic Director. To date, there has been no press conference, Polisky hasn’t spoken to the media, and Deadspin’s calls and emails to both the university and the athletic department, as well as Polisky himself, have go...