WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look back at the numbers behind the first nine games for the Northwestern Wildcats this season on their way to a 7-2 start. We are currently nine games into the NCAA season, and Northwestern still has a shot (albeit, slim) to make it into the Big Ten Championship game. That one sentence
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WNUR’s Greg Mroz discusses the Leaders and Legends division races in Volume 10 of his weekly column, B1G Ten Ballin’. Volume 10: Through The Looking Glass With week 10 of the Big Ten season upon us, we can now start to understand where this conference is going. The conference is having a down year and as a result, the Big
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look at the historic seasons of Kain Colter and Venric Mark along with the rest of the numbers of Northwestern’s 28-17 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes. How ‘bout them Wildcats??? People before the season (including me because I’m an idiot) were tweaking out about losing the likes of Dan Persa, Jeremy Ebert,
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Highlights: Northwestern football defeats Iowa, 28-17 by Wnursports on Mixcloud WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) was on the call as the Northwestern University Wildcats defeated the University of Iowa Hawkeyes 28-17 at Ryan Field on Saturday. Kain Colter stole the show in front of the homecoming crowd at Ryan Field with three rushing touchdowns and another through the air.
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WNUR’s Nick Scoliard recaps Northwestern’s homecoming game victory over Iowa. Well, it wouldn’t be a Northwestern game if it didn’t come down to the fourth quarter. As close as it seemed, the ‘Cats held off the surging Hawkeyes to claim a 28-17 victory heading into a much needed bye week. The ‘Cats were up by 25 in the middle of
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The WNUR Sports staff offers their picks for Saturday’s game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, including their predictions of the victor, final score, and a player to watch. Danny Moran (@DannyJMoran): Northwestern 20, Iowa 17. This is assuming Mick McCall improves his play calling and attempts to make Kain Colter a legitimate passing threat. The
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WNUR’s Tralon Williams previews Northwestern’s homecoming game against Iowa. The ‘Cats are 6-2, JA Adande is the Homecoming Grand Marshall and the first round of midterms are coming to an end. Needless to say the spirits in Evanston are running rather high. Well if your good spirits are in full swing right now, I recommend that you stop reading this
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) simulates Saturday’s match-up between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Iowa Hawkeyes using NCAA Football ’13. You might want to look away, Wildcat fans. We’re two-thirds of the way through Northwestern’s season. A great chance to step back and look at how well this simulation has fared compared to real life. At first
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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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WNUR Co-Sportsathon Director Greg Mroz (@TheeMrClean) takes a look at the Big Ten Conference, including a preview of a possible battle of two surprise undefeateds. Volume 5: No Church in The Wild In this year’s Big Ten, nobody can achieve salvation. It isn’t like anyone committed a crime, but nobody is really that good. That we have determined. Yet, Big Ten
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WNUR Co-Sportsathon Director Greg Mroz (@TheeMrClean) previews the action throughout the Big Ten this week. This segment will also air during the WNUR Sports Kick-Off show on Saturday before the game between Northwestern and South Dakota. The pre-game will start at 1:30 above Walker Terrace with kick-off from Ryan Field at 2:30 with Zach Kisfalusi (@zKisfalusi) and John Castellanos (@JJCast15)
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WNUR Co-Sportsathon Director Greg Mroz (@TheeMrClean) previews the action throughout the Big Ten this week. Mroz mentions all 12 games being played, including the big headlines for each contest heading in. This segment will air during the WNUR Kick-Off show on Saturday, with the pre-game show opening at 1:30 and kick-off at 2:30 from Ryan Field with Jon Rosenberg (@BigJonRosenberg)
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