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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleChicago 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...
View ArticleNorthwestern 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleNOBODY 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...
View ArticleLET '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,...
View ArticlePunter 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...
View ArticleAbrupt 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...
View ArticleNorthwestern 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...
View ArticleNorthwestern 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...
View ArticleMiniature 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...
View ArticleYou 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDuck 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...
View ArticleWorst 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....
View ArticleWinning the Argument
One of the defining features of the early 2000s that went hand in hand with the increasing spread of the internet was a clear dichotomy between old-fashioned "dumb" and new-fangled, stats-inflected...
View ArticleThe Chicago Cubs Have Spiraled Into The Toilet Zone
It is a quirk of American professional sports where many teams are heavily incentivized to be bad, and avaricious owners and their penny-pinching henchmen in the front offices can sell the move as...
View ArticleThe Chicago Bulls Are Still Inept But Are No Longer Doing Funny Espionage...
If you read about or listen to anything involving the broader world of the NBA you will not likely see a lot about the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls exist in a phantom zone of NBA discourse, seemingly...
View ArticleThe NFL Has Been Very Unfair to Our Beautiful Quarterbacks
The idea of attending an NFL draft seems like one of the most nightmarish sports-associated experiences a person could have. I can’t imagine spending hours on my feet listening to Roger Goodell bleat...
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