WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) analyzes Northwestern’s 50-14 drubbing of Illinois Saturday by the numbers and questions the motivational strategy of Illinois coach Tim Beckman. To say I was nervous when Illinois took a 7-0 lead seven minutes into Saturday’s game would be a gross understatement. The Illini had just capped off an 11-play, 78-yard drive with a Donovonn
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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.
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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 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’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 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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The WNUR Sports staff offers their predictions for Saturday’s football game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers as they pick the victor, final score, and a player to watch. As we head into Week 8 of the NCAA football season, we also head into Week 8 of these predictions. We have seen the good (Sam
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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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By Benjamin Goren The inability to close games that so plagued the Wildcats in their 2011 campaign struck again in Happy Valley today as Northwestern was beaten by the Nittany Lions of Penn State 39-28. Northwestern walked in to a blustery Happy Valley hoping to go 6-0 for the first time since 1962, but Penn State had other ideas, outscoring
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The WNUR Sports staff offers their predictions of Saturday’s football game between the #24 Northwestern Wildcats and the Penn State Nittany Lions in Happy Valley. Raise your hand if you thought at the beginning of the year that the Northwestern Wildcats would be 5-0, the Minnesota Gophers would be 4-1, the Arkansas Razorbacks would be 1-4 and that Taken 2
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