WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) explains why Northwestern’s win Saturday was their best game of the season by looking at the statistics behind the game. This stupid No-Shave November thing is finally showing that it does have a positive side. During Northwestern’s 23-20 victory over Michigan State on Saturday, I nervously stroked the sparse peach fuzz on my upper
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The WNUR Sports staffers offer their predictions for Saturday’s football game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the Michigan State University Spartans by giving their victor, final score, and a player to watch. Jim Sannes (@JimSannes): Northwestern 20, Michigan State 17. While Northwestern’s rush defense has struggled a bit in Big Ten play, they have been outstanding overall this season. LeVeon
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) uses NCAA Football ’13 to simulate Saturday’s contest between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Michigan State Spartans. Simulations are, by definition, not always realistic. This one is no different. Week 11 of the simulated season still has Arkansas sitting on top of the NCAA. Does that mean I should stop? No way!
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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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The WNUR Sports staffers offer their predictions for Saturday’s football game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Michigan Wolverines, including the victor, score, and a player to watch. Jim Sannes (@JimSannes): Michigan 27, Northwestern 17. Although Michigan is sixth in the conference in rushing yards allowed per game, they have only given up 3.7 yards per carry
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) simulates this week’s matchup between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Michigan Wolverines with the help of NCAA Football ’13. For Northwestern at Michigan, a lot of the storylines in the simulation are similar to those in real life. The ‘Cats are underdogs for Saturday’s game, despite a higher BCS ranking.
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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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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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