WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) previews the week 10 match-ups around the nation and takes a look at where the virtual Northwestern Wildcats stand. Even though Northwestern has a bye this week, the simulated show must go on. While Northwestern players rest their pixelated legs for the home stretch of the season, here’s a recap of the
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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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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 Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) simulates Saturday’s match-up between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Iowa Hawkeyes using NCAA Football ’13. You might want to look away, Wildcat fans. We’re two-thirds of the way through Northwestern’s season. A great chance to step back and look at how well this simulation has fared compared to real life. At first
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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 Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) simulates Saturday’s game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers with the assistance of NCAA Football ’13. It seemed like a good idea at the time. In my mind, this weekly column would serve as a fairly accurate, entertaining way to predict the winners of big college football games
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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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The WNUR Sports staff weighs in with their predictions and previews for Saturday’s football game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers. Okay, so, last week was bad. It was ugly. It was brutal. It was hard to swallow. No, we are not talking about Northwestern’s loss to Penn State. We’re talking about our predictions
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) profiles Northwestern redshirt sophomore linebacker Chi Chi Ariguzo. Ariguzo leads the Wildcats with 6.5 tackles for loss and has been named Northwestern’s defensive “Big Playmaker of the Game” four out of the six weeks this season. Ariguzo discusses with Sannes how his injury last season may have helped him, Northwestern’s improved rush defense, and
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