With Northwestern in the midst of a potentially special season, WNUR Web Director Eric Klaus looks back at one of the most successful teams in Northwestern history: the 1949 Rose Bowl Champions. On New Year’s Day 1949, the Northwestern Wildcats beat the California Golden Bears 20-14 to do something that no other Northwestern team has ever done: win a bowl
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The WNUR Sports staffers offer their predictions for Saturday’s football game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Michigan Wolverines, including the victor, score, and a player to watch. Jim Sannes (@JimSannes): Michigan 27, Northwestern 17. Although Michigan is sixth in the conference in rushing yards allowed per game, they have only given up 3.7 yards per carry
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) simulates this week’s matchup between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Michigan Wolverines with the help of NCAA Football ’13. For Northwestern at Michigan, a lot of the storylines in the simulation are similar to those in real life. The ‘Cats are underdogs for Saturday’s game, despite a higher BCS ranking.
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In this week’s Wildcat Football Podcast, hosts Sam Levitt, Ryan Connelly Holmes, and David Tyson discuss Northwestern’s upcoming game at Michigan on Saturday, the keys to stopping Denard Robinson, and how important a strong finish in the 2012 regular season would be for the Wildcats. Listen below!
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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 Drew D’Alelio (@DrewDAlelio) takes a look at the upcoming schedule for the Northwestern Wildcats as they head into the final stretch of the Big Ten’s regular season. The Wildcats are at a critical time in their season- the bye week. Both the coaches and players will have an extensive time to evaluate the season so far, but they’ll also take
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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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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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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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