Chris Collins and Northwestern’s Men’s Basketball team open play Friday night at a renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena against Houston Baptist. WNUR’s Jason Dorow (@jasondorow) and Ben Goren (@BenG412) break down Northwestern men’s hoops on a podcast, available at our Soundcloud site by following the link below: https://soundcloud.com/wnur-sports/wnur-sports-mens-basketball-preview-2014-2015
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WNUR’s Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes you behind the scenes of WNUR Sports’ broadcast in Lincoln, Neb., this weekend, showing the travel schedule, broadcast set-up, and faces behind the microphones. My legs were numb. My mouth involuntarily hung slightly agape. I just stared at the field in total disbelief. After Nebraska’s game-winning Hail Mary, the next ten minutes were a total
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WNUR’s Sammy Levitt and Jim Sannes speak with the voice of Northwestern Wildcats football and men’s basketball, Dave Eanet, about his time at Northwestern. Eanet, a WNUR Sports alum, talks about his love of broadcasting, his childhood broadcasting dreams, and his feelings after Northwestern’s 2013 Gator Bowl victory.
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Big Ten Network Lead Studio Analyst and former WNUR Sports broadcaster Dave Revsine talks about his experience at Northwestern as part of WNUR’s Third Annual Sportsathon. Revsine describes the role WNUR Sports played in the development of his career and a time when he briefly thought current Miami Marlins radio broadcaster Glenn Geffner had fallen to an unfortunate demise. This
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WNUR SportsVoice Producer Ben Goren explains how WNUR Sports has positively affected his Northwestern experience as part of WNUR’s Sportsathon. If you would like to contribute, click here, select “WNUR” under “Give to Other Northwestern Areas,” and thank you for your help. I’ve been watching Northwestern athletics for quite literally about as long as I have been alive. Born into
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WNUR Sports is proud to announce that the third annual WNUR Sportsathon will be taking place October 26th-27th. Sportsathon is the lone fundraiser for Northwestern’s student-run radio station to try to raise money to upgrade equipment, go on road trips and market the products WNUR Sports has to offer. WNUR Sports will be taking over the airwaves from 5:00 pm
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WNUR Public Relations and Finance Director Greg Mroz (@GregDMroz) and Cast Director Eric Klaus (@EKlaus1) recap Tuesday’s 1-0 victory for the Loyola Ramblers over the Northwestern Wildcats softball team.
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In case you missed it, click here to check out this week’s edition of The SportsVoice. The show begins 55 seconds into the file. Hosts Joe Misulonas, Tralon Williams and Ben Oreskes assess the firing of Northwestern men’s basketball head coach Bill Carmody, discuss the future of the program and debate which direction NU should look for its next coach.
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In a letter addressed to Northwestern Athletic Director Jim Phillips, Ben Goren explains why Bill Carmody should keep his job as head coach of the basketball team. Dear Jim Phillips, This year was bad. Really bad. 13-19, only four conference wins and nine straight losses was hard to watch and a massive disappointment for a team that came in to
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In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, Joe Misulonas explains why Northwestern will have a much harder time matching the successes of other small basketball programs like Butler and VCU. As the men’s basketball season comes to a close, the speculation about Bill Carmody’s future with the team will begin. Will Northwestern give him another year with Drew Crawford and
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In lieu of Northwestern’s close loss to the 16th ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, Joe Misulonas ponders the existence of moral victories in this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner. Last night was a pretty tough loss for Northwestern. Coming off a five-game losing streak in which they hadn’t played very well, the Wildcats needed to win the rest of their games
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In this week’s edition of Joe’s Corner, Joe Misulonas looks at the nearly unprecedented career of Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse coach Kelly Amonte Hiller as she nears her 200th career win. The Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse team is heading on a two-game road trip this weekend. Tonight, they play the North Carolina Tar Heels and Sunday afternoon they will play the Vanderbilt
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