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WNUR’s Predictions: Northwestern football versus California

The WNUR Sports crew offers their predictions of Saturday’s season opener between the Northwestern Wildcats and the California Golden Bears. Have a prediction of your own? Feel free to leave it below in the comments or tweet @WNURSports to prove that you’re smarter than our – ahem – “experts.” Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas): Northwestern, 38-21. Cal keeps it close, but the

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Northwestern Offensive Line Preview

Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) previews the 2013 Northwestern Wildcats offensive line, a unit that will need to replace three starters after a productive 2012. There are a lot of units you can point to for helping Northwestern win ten games last year. Venric Mark and the running backs brought explosiveness to the offense, Kain Colter and Trevor

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Northwestern Superbacks Preview

Former Northwestern superback and current WNUR Sports staffer Christian Flores (@Mr_C_G_Flores) takes a look at Dan Vitale and the rest of the Northwestern superbacks to evaluate their projected role for the season. Northwestern’s offense has been getting fans excited each of the last three years, and that doesn’t change this season. The Wildcats lost very few starters on either side

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The NUmbers Guy: 2012 Northwestern Football Awards

WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes): reflects on the 2012 Northwestern football season, presenting awards for Team MVP, Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year, and the Position Unit of the Year. SO MANY EMOTIONS!!! Coach Fitz’s post-game speech made me want to blabber non-sensically for the rest of my existence and just let the tears flow. Having only been

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The NUmbers Guy: Iowa Analysis

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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The NUmbers Guy: Minnesota Analysis

WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look at Northwestern’s 21-13 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers by pointing out the six statistics that defined the Wildcats’ track to a 6-1 start. You betcha, dose dere Nordwestern Wildcats are bowl-eligible, eh?? Sorry, I’m still trying to oppress my inner-Minnesotan after this weekend. Any trip back to the Motherland makes

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The NUmbers Guy: Penn State Analysis

WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look at Northwestern’s 39-28 loss to Penn State Saturday and explains why Wildcat should still be optimistic about the rest of the season. If you’re anything like me (and I pray to all of the possible higher powers that you aren’t), Saturday was probably a pretty rough day for you. How do you recover

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The NUmbers Guy: Vanderbilt Analysis

WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) breaks down Northwestern’s 23-13 victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores Saturday by giving the three up/ three down for the ‘Cats. Vanderbilt is a better school than Northwestern and this year has a better football team. Vandy 20 @nw 14. — Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) September 7, 2012 This is how the second half of my

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Interview with Pat Fitzgerald: Vanderbilt Preview

WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) sat down Friday with Northwestern Wildcat head football coach Pat Fitzgerald (@coachfitz51) to discuss the season-opening victory against the Syracuse Orange and preview Saturday’s home-opener against the Vanderbilt Commodores. Fitzgerald discusses the roles of Trevor Siemian and Kain Colter, struggles of the Wildcat secondary and the debut of true freshman Ifeadi Odenigbo. This interview

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