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The Great Shushing
Northwestern’s final game on The Lake finally took place in the sort of tempestuous weather you would think you would get from putting a stadium next to a giant body of water in the type of Midwestern...
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The Lake Takes a Final Encore/Reviewing the Insane Joe Maddon Book
Northwestern's Temporary Lakeside Stadium has been temporary for a long time. Hastily put together after whatever other stadium measures the athletic department were looking into fell apart, the...
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Northwestern Triumphs over 2025 Playoff Team
There is not really an upside for Northwestern playing an FCS team. A Big Ten program should be expected to clobber FCS opponents, and anything less than that sends out alarm bells. Anything good the...
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College Football 2026: I Will Sue Your Ass
If you are a fan of college football in 2026, then you have to hold two thoughts in your head at the same time: the sport has resolved its original sin by allowing players to get paid and ending the...
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World Cup Review: The Guys, The Main Guys, and The Big Guy
I do not regularly follow any soccer league, not because I have any issue with the sport but simply because I believe that I have reached my personal limit of how much of my brain can be dedicated to...
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The NBA Draft Culminates With The Historic Selection of Another Northwestern Guy
When anyone talks about the NBA draft in 2026 as historical, you should assume they are talking about it as the second consecutive year a team selected a Northwestern player. Last year, the Thunder...
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Chicago Bulls at the Trade Deadline: Guards! Guards!
Anyone who is a fan of the NBA needs to hold two rotten truths in their head at the same time: that about a third of the teams in the league are desperately trying to lose, and that intentional losing...
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Northwestern Finally Conquers Pizza City
As a football expert, if you were to ask me what the turning point of the 2025 Game Above Sports Bowl was, I would point out that it was when Central Michigan turned the ball over on three consecutive...
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What I Told You There Was A Game... Above Sports?
Well, they didn’t win the Hat. They played in a the middle of a snowstorm that required the grounds crew to replow the field at halftime like they were zamboniying an ice rink and they had to do the...
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NOBODY BEATS THE NORTHWESTERN WILDCATS IN A BASEBALL STADIUM 8 TIMES IN A ROW
My understanding is that the standard for a Big Ten West-style game is that it is an unwatchable slog with teams whose competence passing the ball is so low that it seems intentional or almost...
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LET 'EM OFF THE HOOK
No person has ever better explained the feeling of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory better than former Northwestern head coach Dennis Green when he screamed “they are who we thought they were,...
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Punter Perfidy
Northwestern was hanging in there on the road against USC in the Coliseum. The offense was leaning on the Trojans and gradually spilling across the field like a gravy stain spreading over a paper...
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Abrupt Movement
It was all in front of the ‘Cats. Nebraska was reeling, coming off a complete dismantling at the hands of Minnesota. There were rumors circling around Matt Rhule and Penn State. And everyone in...
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Northwestern Shuts Out Purdue With Oozeball
After Northwestern went into Penn State, beat them at their own homecoming, and decapitated their coach, it would be understandable if they struggled against Purdue. It was a big week, the last game at...
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Northwestern Consultants Announce Restructuring of Penn State Football...
You would think that losing to Northwestern would get more coaches fired. But much to the chagrin of deranged message board posters who not only demand that every coordinator, coach, and official not...
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Miniature Homecoming
On the first drive of the game, University of Louisiana at Monroe effortlessly ran through the Northwestern defense until a flea flicker left a Warhawk receiver streaking alone towards the endzone. ULM...
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You Had Better Have a Coach If You Want to Beat Northwestern At The Lake
The titanic Showdown On The Lake between two Big Ten bottomfeeders scraping for a rare conference win turned out to be a tense, exciting game that came down to the final seconds where Northwestern...
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The Winning A Big Ten Game In 2025 Bowl
From the final score, it looked close enough. I saw that Northwestern lost to mighty Oregon by only 20 points at The Lake while I was out of town and away from a television, and I was actually pretty...
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Duck Off
Northwestern looked so lousy in the opening game of the season against Tulane that it seemed that the ‘Cats could struggle against FCS jobber Western Illinois in the home opener on The Lake. It was...
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Worst Dressed
There is not much to say about Northwestern’s opening game against Tulane other than they got their butts kicked very badly and it stunk. The Green Wave won 23-3 and it could have been worse than that....
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