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On "On American Soil"
The times you see someone using the phrase “on American soil” in 2023 are in a Congressional hearing where a representative named something like Ladd Hacklin gets incredibly angry about children’s toys...
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The P.J. Fleck Fiction Issue
Northwestern came off the high of its commanding victory over UTEP, an important win that indicated that the Wildcats would be closer to normal bad this season rather than apocalyptically bad. The...
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Northwestern Won a Second Game
It sure did not look like Northwestern would win a Big Ten game this season, and the Wildcats did little to dispel that notion as they headed into the fourth quarter down 31-10 in a bleak and abandoned...
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The Matt Rhules: A Guide to Success on the Football Field and in Life
Northwestern emerges from its bye week looking like something nearly impossible to imagine at the beginning of the season: a normal sort of crummy Big Ten West team. The last two games were about...
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Lock In Success The Mike Locksley Way
All week long the football pundits were screeching about the twisted hideousness of an Iowa-Minnesota matchup. Look at this disgusting freak football, they all said about a Peak Big Ten West game...
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Going Iowanfinite: The Rise of a Football Revolutionary
Reports of the death of Northwestern's football program have been greatly exaggerated. The team, reeling from the fallout from the hazing scandal, the firing of Pat Fitzgerald, the promotion of a...
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Football Leadership Book, by Luke Fickell
Everyone spent all week saying that the Iowa game was going to be repulsive and disgusting and set back the game of football forever etc. and the casinos said I bet you don't think they can score the...
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Journey to the Heart of Madness: Ryan Walters's Guide to Success in Football...
When people say college football is predictable they mean that Alabama and Ohio State are in the playoffs every year and the same half dozen programs are in position to win the big championship that...
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Bielem It! The Bret Bielema Motivational System
EVANSTON-- Throughout the game, the scoreboard flashed ominous warnings about how anyone who entered the field of play would be captured and thrown into an oubilette, but when the clock hit zero,...
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I Will Never Tell You The Secrets of Success on the Field and In Business by...
After weeks of making fun of the Big Ten West for being a collection of hideous punt-lummoxes, Northwestern and Illinois went out there and put on the highest-scoring game in their history that was one...
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Northwestern Punts to Victory in Las Vegas Bowl
ESPN's mandate to put something, anything on television in December led to this: a Saturday night matchup between a Northwestern team that disappeared from public consciousness after Pat Fitzgerald was...
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Boo Buie Makes It Happen
The last time Northwestern’s men’s basketball team tried to follow up its greatest season of all time, they were not able to get back into the tournament. They weren’t able to conjure up the small...
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Northwestern Turns Unwatchable Slog Into Overtime Thriller
The NCAA tournament does not care how a team wins its game, only that they win. If they play one of the worst halves of basketball possible or an opposing player temporarily forgets that basketball...
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What On Earth Is College Football
College football is not exactly built on the sturdiest frame at the best of times, but this season has unleashed the largest amount of organizational chaos in decades. The upheaval left dedicated fans...
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Potemkin Stadium
At some point they must have played a football game. But at Northwestern’s opener against Miami on Saturday, the only thing anyone wanted to talk about was the hastily-constructed pop-up stadium...
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Heartbreak At The Lake
One of my favorite Northwestern football relics is a poster from the 2005 season that says “Not Afraid to Work Overtime” and shows various Northwestern football players in a construction worksite...
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Cooler at The Lake
EVANSTON I have made fun of the Temporary Lakeside Stadium as a desperate gambit after Northwestern failed to find anywhere else in the Chicago area to play and were forced to hastily pile up some...
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Northwestern Drops A Five-Burger
The beginning of the first quarter in Seattle looked like a quintessential welcome to the Big Ten moment for Washington. The Huskies were at home playing a Northwestern team they expected to beat...
View ArticleBig, Bad, Indiana
In the end it was not surprising that Big, Bad Indiana came into The Lake with an overwhelming army of Hoosier fans and threw a struggling Northwestern team into the not at all briny deep. The Hoosiers...
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College Parked
The Padres decided to go with Dylan Cease on three days rest. He had never pitched on short rest in his life, but it's the playoffs, the mustachioed righty was the best pitcher in the Padres' rotation,...
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What A Bad Idea!
You can look at Northwestern's loss to Wisconsin in two ways: either the great Daemonic Powers of Ryan Field fueled by the sacrifice of millions of soggy hot dogs and plus size midwestern asses to the...
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The Quarterback of Monte Cristo
Iowa and Northwestern can be reasonably relied on to put together a truly obscene display of disgusting Iowa-style football and the first half gave all of the twisted perverts who opened up a browser...
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The Fine Print Bowl
When Kevin Warren, then the Big Ten Commissioner, went out shopping the rights for the glamorous new Enormous Ten, he was pitching the television networks on the excitement of Ohio State and Oregon,...
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Crimson Homecoming
WRIGLEY FIELD- Wrigley Field was red. It was strange to see so much red in the stands at Wrigley like the entire park had been taken over by Jim Edmonds cosplayers. Northwestern had chosen this venue...
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The Big Ten's Own Rules Could Not Prevent More Northwestern Basketball
After a series of injuries and ridiculous, hard luck finishes torpedoed Northwestern's men's basketball season they have managed to wash up on the shores of the first round of the Big Ten Tournament....
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