WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) uses NCAA Football 14 to predict the winner of Northwestern at Iowa. In the interest of full disclosure, I feel compelled to say that I cheated a little bit in weeks past. In the simulated season, Venric Mark suffered a season-ending injury during the Ohio State game, so, in order to not
Read more
The WNUR Sports staff weighs in with their predictions for this Saturday’s football game between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Ohio State Buckeyes. If you want in on the action, simply leave your prediction in the comments below, or you can tweet them @WNURSports. Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas): Northwestern 34, Wisconsin 24. Northwestern’s coming off a tough loss, but they know
Read more
WNUR’s Nick Scoliard looks at the Ohio State Buckeyes position-by-position to preview Saturday’s match-up with the Northwestern Wildcats. The most anticipated game in Pat Fitzgerald’s coaching career is coming up this Saturday. Ohio State is coming to Ryan Field, along with Mike and Mike, College Gameday, and hopefully a lot of Northwestern alumni. No matter how much hype is fed
Read more
WNUR’s Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look back on Northwestern football’s non-conference slate of games and grades the team in four separate categories. What was the worst case scenario prior to the 2013 Northwestern football season? An injury in the already thin secondary? Kain Colter or Venric Mark going down? Trevor Siemian cutting his ridiculous head lettuce? Well, all of
Read more
WNUR’s Christian Flores (@Mr_C_G_Flores) speaks with Week 1 stars Collin Ellis and Treyvon Green about their battles throughout the last two years. Both have dealt tragic deaths in their families, yet have found ways to get their way back to the top of the collegiate game. This feature will also air during the WNUR Sports Kick-Off Show on Saturday prior
Read more
WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a statistical look at Northwestern’s 38-31 loss to Michigan Saturday with three up/three down. Things worse than Northwestern’s loss to Michigan on Saturday: 1) The cancellation of Blue’s Clues, 2) the movie Birdemic: Shock and Terror, and 3) seeing Betty White naked. There’s your perspective, Northwestern fans. It could be a lot worse.
Read more