WNUR’s Michael Stern (michaeljstern23) takes a look at the graduate transfer rules that both the Northwestern Wildcats and Wisconsin Badgers have used to their advantage within the last few years. When Northwestern plays Wisconsin Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium, the Wildcats will catch the Badgers in an opportune year. For the first time since 2010, Wisconsin enters the season without
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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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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) 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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WNUR Sports Direcor Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) breaks down Northwestern’s 42-41 victory over the Syracuse Orange by giving the Three Up/Three Down for the ‘Cats. The fact that I am still fully functioning and able to write this column may go down in history as one of the most unpredictable medical marvels of all time. The ups and downs of Saturday’s 42-41 victory
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Photo Credit: BleacherReport.com WNUR Sports Directors Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) and Zach Kisfalusi (@zKisfalusi) along with Christian Flores (@Mr_C_G_Flores) sat down to discuss the youth of the 2012 Northwestern Wildcat football squad. The three discuss Northwestern’s offensive and defensive lines, the secondary, superbacks and quarterback and what impact the lack of experience will have on the Wildcats’ success for this season. The
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