The Latest Breaking News from Pat Fitzgerald

Five starters return on defense from a team that won the Class 8A title last season. The new starters stepping in are nearly all seniors.

The former Wildcats coach will assist one of the top Illinois high school football programs this fall.

Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg blasted assistant football coaches and staff members for wearing shirts supporting fired coach Pat Fitzgerald at practice Wednesday, calling them “inappropriate, offensive and tone deaf” given the hazing and abuse scandal engulfing the football program and other teams

Wildcats football staffers appeared to honor former head coach Pat Fitzgerald, who was fired amid a hazing scandal within the program.

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.

Several Wildcats staffers were seen in shirts that appeared to show support for the fired football coach.

The longtime Wildcats coach was fired amid the program’s hazing scandal.

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.

A decade after Northwestern found itself at the center of the push for college athletes to form a union for the first time, the spotlight is once again shining on the prestigious private school