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Before the 2013 college football season kicks off, WNUR Sports will bring you coverage of Northwestern and the rest of the Big Ten. Today, WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) breaks down the Illinois Fighting Illini. The good news for Illinois football? A lot of the team’s offensive production returns, and this season […]

WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) previews Northwestern’s women’s basketball team and imagines a world where a key player doesn’t transfer. Compared to the high expectations for the football and men’s basketball teams for their upcoming seasons, Northwestern’s women’s basketball team will enter 2013-2014 with relatively little fanfare. At some level, this makes […]

Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look back at the season that was in Northwestern Wildcat athletics and hands out his awards for Male and Female Athlete of the Year and more. First of all, thanks to all of the service members and veterans, including my father Mark, for doing what they […]

WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander previews today’s match-up between the Northwestern University Wildcats women’s lacrosse team and the University of North Carolina Tar Heels as the two teams fight to claim a spot in this year’s national championship game. Coverage of today’s contest begins at 3:30 at 89.3 FM in the Evanston/Chicago area and WNURSports.com worldwide. It’s […]

WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) invents a few changes to the rules of NCAA women’s lacrosse to draw more fans and make the game more exciting. In case you hadn’t heard by now, Northwestern has a really good lacrosse team. Their recent stretch (this is their ninth consecutive trip to the Final […]

WNUR Sports Director Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas) compares the end of Northwestern’s lacrosse season to the end of a TV series. Last week, NBC aired the series finale of “The Office.” A beloved comedy show came to a sweet end which tied up all the character arcs and delivered the bittersweet moments fans expected for the […]

Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look at the last time the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team was not in the Final Four and what has happened in the nine years since then. If I were looking for a way to accurately sum up Northwestern women’s lacrosse’s 15-7 defeat of Penn State Saturday […]

Click on the player below to listen to highlights from Northwestern’s 15-7 win over Penn State in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Divison I Women’s Lacrosse Championship. Michael Anders and Ryan Holmes had the call for WNUR Sports. With the win, the Wildcats advance to their ninth consecutive final four. This year’s final four will […]

WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander previews tonight’s NCAA lacrosse quarterfinals matchup between Northwestern and Penn State. Northwestern will meet the Penn State Nittany Lions in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Friday for the right to play in the NCAA semifinals. So, you could say this is kind of a big game. Even more so this holds true for […]

WNUR’s Greg Mroz sat down with Northwestern Wildcats baseball head coach Paul Stevens to discuss the team’s season as they head into their final weekend of play for 2013.

WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) asks how Northwestern football would have fared in the past two years if Dan Persa never tore his Achilles. In light of the recent buzz surrounding Northwestern football’s recruiting class, it might seem appropriate to do a “What If” that involves Northwestern signing a famous, top-5 recruit […]

WNUR Sports Director Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas) looks at Northwestern football’s recruiting class of 2014 and how the Wildcats have drastically improved their recruiting success. In my column from February 8th, I expressed my disappointment with the Northwestern Recruiting Class of 2013. The Wildcats recruiting class ranked 51st in the nation this year, even though the […]

Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) profiles the career of Northwestern women’s lacrosse’s Taylor Thornton and shows where she ranks among Northwestern’s all-time greats. Sunday, in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse tournament, Taylor Thornton lost her mind. The senior for the Wildcats dodged, ducked, dipped, dove and dodged her way […]

Click on the player below to listen to the highlights of Northwestern’s 15-8 win over Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship. Ali Cassera, Taylor Thornton and Alyssa Leonard each scored three goals for the Wildcats. With the win, Northwestern advances to the quarterfinals to face Penn State.

WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) asks what the state of women’s college lacrosse and Northwestern athletics would be if Kelly Amonte Hiller wasn’t the head coach at Northwestern. The NCAA Women’s lacrosse tournament starts this weekend with the Northwestern Wildcats holding the #2 overall seed. The Wildcats have won the last two […]

Click below to hear WNUR’s Ryan Holmes talk to Northwestern softball head coach about the end of the regular season and the upcoming Big Ten softball tournament. WNUR Sports is your home for Northwestern Wildcats softball.

WNUR Sports Director Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas) compares Northwestern lacrosse to another athlete who has dominated his sport: Floyd Mayweather. Last weekend, two champions put their reputations on the line and won significant victories. Saturday night, Floyd “Money” Mayweather demolished Robert Guerrero in a 12-round bout which never felt close. He improved his career record to […]

On the court, former Northwestern Wildcats women’s basketball star Kendall Hackney could do it all: hit a three, knock down a jump shot, post up on defense and grab a rebound. Now, she finds herself starring in a new role – Northwestern’s Waa-Mu Show. Hackney found a way to finally realize her love for theater […]

This past June, Cody Stevens of the Northwestern Wildcats baseball team was hit in the head during a summer-league game in West Virginia. The result of the blow was a blood clot in his brain that nearly took his life. While red-shirting this season, Stevens, a junior, is using his injury to try to help […]

In this week’s “What If,” WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) compares the streak of Northwestern women’s tennis team to others in college sports. This week’s “What If” doesn’t really have a “What If.” Sorry. My brain is fried from a combination of midterms and the fact that the Northwestern women’s tennis team […]