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A Stovepipe Showdown
It took all season, but Northwestern finally encountered a team more practiced in the art of the fourth-quarter fade. Michigan State and Northwestern played a fraught battle, with both teams...
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Bowl Game Part V
It's nearly 2013, which means that Northwestern fans have an opportunity to recover from their New Years' revels, roll out of bed, scrape the vomit from their hair and clothing and extremities, and...
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It Has Been Zero Years since Northwestern Last Won a Bowl Game
Sometimes, you win football games. Sometimes, you lose football games. And sometimes, you eradicate a bowl drought nearly old enough to qualify for social security by jubilantly tearing a stuffed...
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Northwestern Basketball Coaching Search
They're all gathered from 'round the globe, in their purple regalia and their academic hats and their business-casual khakis. The Northwestern faithful are huddled together at the Rebeca Crown Center...
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A Football Is Coming
It has been an agonizing eight months since the Wildcats' triumph over the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. Since Northwestern's triumph over more than 60...
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Football Season is Here
Last night, thousands of people swarmed to stadiums bathed in light, bands serenaded them with fanfares invariably coming from the classic American 70s jazz rock songbook, the slightly-less-hulking men...
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BYCTOM Grainy Video Footage Edition
Kain Colter went down in a dazed heap several minutes into the game. Venric Mark spent a lot of time surveying the field from an exercise bike. Jared Goff emerged from his football pupa and sprouted...
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The Least Northwestern of Games
Last Saturday, the 'Cats opened the season at Ryan Field by hosting out-of-conference nemesis Syracuse. The 'Cats hoped to improve on their first game with the comforts of home: a reasonable time slot...
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Remember the Maine
A week after routing Syracuse, the Western Michigan Broncos rowed into Ryan Field and gave the 'Cats a first-quarter scare. The offense stagnated and the defense yielded large chunks of yards to a...
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FOOTBALL APOCALYPSE. BE ALARMED.
arricade your homes and places of business. The Football Apocalypse is here. As it is written in the Book of Football Revelations and the Associated Press, there will come riders from the East. They...
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Northwestern Football Post-Apocalypse
Have you spent the off-season resting? Have watched the Wildcats without couch seatbelts or bleacher restraints? Have you enjoyed a relatively non-taxing non-conference schedule spending all of your...
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Flew Too Close to the Sun, On Wings of Pastrami
Beware to those who fail to heed former Northwestern head coach/football sage Dennis Green's words about premature ass-crowning. We came into the season with the most ambitious expectations on the...
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Good Gravy
We should have seen this coming. All of the preseason hype, all of the accolades, all the sweet dreams of the Kolter-Mark option (which sounds like an exotic financial implement that could...
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You Maniacs
How is this possible?Michigan players dashed into action. They vaulted over benches and spun around sideline personnel. The holder came sliding in like a Beastie Boy navigating a car hood in the...
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Haturn Devouring His Hat
HAT-- Hat!Hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat. Hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat? Hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat hat; hat hat hat hat hat hat hat...
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Old Hat
Well, they got the hat.Northwestern's football season was plagued by misfortune and we spent a horrifying winter without the relief of a soothing, crappy bowl game. But (and you know this because it...
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Hope is Snake Oil: The 2014 Chicago Cubs
Spring training is winding to a close. The baseball season started last weekend as the Dodgers and Diamondbacks opened play to a crowd of dozens of puzzled Australians who were not told that baseball...
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So Your Football Team Can Theoretically Unionize
Northwestern football has been in the news lately, and it's not because of lofty expectations for next year or a dashing transfer, or a tragic Pat Fitzgerald fist pump injury, or because the football...
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So Your Football Team May or May Not Have Theoretically Unionized
In April, Northwestern football players voted on unionization. The results, however, won't be known for awhile. They will be revealed after the federal NLRB rules on the NCAA's appeal to overturn the...
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Big Ten Expandomania
After years of conference skullduggery, the day Big Ten fans have dreamed about is here. Maryland and Rutgers have joined the Big Ten, bloating it up to 14 teams and hundreds of possible teams. For...
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