WNUR’s Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) examines Northwestern football’s last two seasons to try to determine which of the two was more likely to be a fluke. Time machine time, kiddos. Let’s take a ride back to January 1st of this year. Northwestern had just defeated Mississippi State, 34-20, to take the program’s first bowl victory since 1949. It was also only
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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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WNUR’s Jim Sannes, Josh Walfish and Lynden Ostrander sat down to discuss all things NFL Draft in anticipation of Thursday’s first round. You can listen to this podcast two different ways. If you would like to listen to the entire podcast, click the first play button below. However, if you would like to listen to the podcast in individual segments,
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes @JimSannes takes a look at Northwestern football’s class of graduating seniors and the numbers behind their careers. While reading this article, it is best if you imagine a slow jam playing in the background to commemorate the sadness associated with the departure of Northwestern’s seniors. I prefer this, but you can choose whatever best suits
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Check out the highlights from Northwestern’s victory in the Gator Bowl! The ‘Cats won a bowl game for the first time since 1949, beating Mississippi State 34-20. NU finished 10-3, their first 10 win season since 1995. Mike Anders is on the call.
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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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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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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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