WNUR’s Michael Stern (michaeljstern23) looks to Nebraska’s transition from the Big 12 to the Big Ten to try to find out why the team has struggled more than expected, especially defensively. Trying to find a story line about this weekend’s Northwestern-Nebraska game led to watching Ndamukong Suh sacking Colt McCoy in the Big 12 title game of 2008. Naturally this
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WNUR Sports’s Jeffrey Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) previews the Nebraska Cornhuskers as part of our summer Big Ten Preview series. To check out our previous previews, click: Illinois | Purdue | Michigan | Indiana Nebraska spent its first two Big Ten seasons feeling around the division. In 2011, the Cornhuskers’ inaugural Big Ten game was a 48-17 bell ringer at Wisconsin. Nebraska
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look at the statistics behind the Northwestern Wildcats’ 29-28 loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers with three up/three down. MY BRAIN!!! As a Northwestern Wildcat/New York Jets fan, things couldn’t get much worse for me this weekend. The ‘Cats dropped a heartbreaker to the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Jets exhibited perfect incompetency in failing
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By: Benjamin Goren Saturday at 2:30 CST, the Cornhuskers of Nebraska (4-2) will ride into Evanston to play the Northwestern Wildcats (6-1). The Cornhuskers, coming off of a bye week, will be looking to rebound from their 63-38 drubbing at the hands of Ohio State. Nebraska brings with it a powerful stable of rushing options, leading the Huskers to the
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WNUR Sportsathon Co-Director Greg Mroz (@TheeMrClean) takes us on another magical journey through the Big Ten, breaking down a week that was, in the words of Greg’s favorite rapper, dysfunctional. Big Ten Ballin’: The Gridiron Squad Volume 3: We Out Here Tryin To (Dis)Function Before Saturday, I had this great idea for what this week’s column would look like. My
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