Northwestern offensive linemen Brandon Vitabile and Paul Jorgensen discuss the team’s loss to Ohio State and how they can build off of the performance heading into Saturday’s match-up with the Wisconsin Badgers. The two also discuss a secret weapon for the Northwestern offense – their own receiver skills. WNUR’s Preston Michelson (@PrestonMich) and Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) have the story.
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WNUR Sports’ Jim Sannes speaks with Geoff Mogus and Ian Park about the Northwestern Wildcats offensive line position battle. Mogus and Park, along with Paul Jorgensen, won the open competition at left guard, right guard and right tackle respectively. The duo talks about remaining cohesive throughout the battle and discusses how offensive line trips to Applebee’s help them develop chemistry
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Earlier this week, Northwestern Wildcats head football coach Pat Fitzgerald sat down with WNUR Sports Directors Jim Sannes and Zach Kisfalusi to preview the ‘Cats’ match-up with the Illinois Fighting Illini. Coach Fitz talks about Northwestern’s victory over Michigan State, the 2012 class of seniors in their last home game, Big Ten expansion and the intensification of Northwestern’s rivalry with
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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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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 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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By: Benjamin Goren Saturday at 2:30 CST, the Cornhuskers of Nebraska (4-2) will ride into Evanston to play the Northwestern Wildcats (6-1). The Cornhuskers, coming off of a bye week, will be looking to rebound from their 63-38 drubbing at the hands of Ohio State. Nebraska brings with it a powerful stable of rushing options, leading the Huskers to the
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Volume 8: No Standards Are we not supposed to be the conference that represents toughness, grit, and the epitome of power football? Well, based upon the first BCS standings, the answer is a definite no. For the first time in a long time, the Big Ten has no teams in the BCS Top 25. Ohio State would be in there,
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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 Kevin Harris Thanks to junior running back Venric Mark and the Northwestern defense, the Wildcats (6-1, 2-1 Big Ten) became bowl eligible for the sixth consecutive season. With rain pouring down at TCF Bank Stadium, the Cats secured their sixth win of the season 21-13 against the Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-2, 0-2 Big Ten), despite the fact NU had
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