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The WIldcats are the athletic teams of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The school colors are purple and white and all teams compete in the Big Ten conference. The women's lacrosse team has won the National Championship five times and the football team has been ranked No. 1 twice in school history. Famous athletes include Joe Girardi, Mike Adamle, Luke Donald, Betty Robinson, Todd Martin, Otto Graham and Matt Grevers.
The WIldcats are the athletic teams of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The school colors are purple and white and all teams compete in the Big Ten conference. The women's lacrosse team has won the National Championship five times and the football team has been ranked No. 1 twice in school history. Famous athletes include Joe Girardi, Mike Adamle, Luke Donald, Betty Robinson, Todd Martin, Otto Graham and Matt Grevers.
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FAU basketball interlude; GDT Pic of the Day
FAU Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsLet???s shift our focus away from the Burrowing Birds of the gridiron and on to the Owls of the hardcourt, who are a surprising 3-1 considering the absence of Carlos Monore. But first something i trust will cheer us......Tags: NCAA Tournaments, Basketball, Sports, Randy Moss
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Coleman earns spot on U.S. Olympic team
Ellis Coleman already was YouTube famous. Now Coleman and his "flying squirrel" move that went viral are headed to the London Olympics. The 20-year-old from Oak Park High School became the youngest member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic wrestling team Sunday...
Tags: Jake Herbert, Wrestling, Schools, National Collegiate Athletic Association, ESPN (tv network)
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Ritter prototype for NU soccer player
Senior Chris Ritter could stand as the archetype for a Northwestern soccer player. Ritter's New Trier High School teams won state titles his sophomore and senior years, yet college coaches were not clamoring for his services. "He was a good player,...
Tags: Indiana Hoosiers, Kentucky Wildcats, Illinois Fighting Illini, College Sports, Soccer
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Collins can benefit from Fitzgerald's experience
Chris Collins and Pat Fitzgerald both grew up as sports stars in suburban Chicago. Both Collins and Fitzgerald are 38 and born in 1974 — Collins eight months earlier in April. Both enthusiastically view each day as an opportunity to improve and...
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Northwestern plays so tight it strangles itself
INDIANAPOLIS — Inside a cramped Northwestern locker room where 73 years of NCAA tournament futility hung in the heavy air, John Shurna tried in vain Thursday night to explain how his team blew a 75-68 overtime loss to Minnesota.
"To be honest I'm...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Basketball, College Sports, NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
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Northwestern athletic director did what he had to do
Jim Phillips began the toughest day of his tenure as Northwestern athletic director at 8 a.m. Saturday by telling the father of his son's seventh-grade basketball coach how much he respected him. The meeting with Bill Carmody lasted long enough to...
Tags: College Basketball, Indiana Hoosiers, Wisconsin Badgers, Bill Carmody, Illinois Fighting Illini
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Badgers' Ball back in running for Silver Football
The accent has been removed from the second "e" in Montee Ball. Apparently it was slowing him down. Before the season, Wisconsin's star tailback asked that his name be pronounced "Mon-TAY" to reflect what's on his birth certificate. But he got...
Tags: Bret Bielema, Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Purdue Boilermakers
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Sports on TV
MONDAY'S TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS ++++++++++++++++++++ || MLB || Orioles@Angels (T) || MASN12:30 || || Atlanta@Cincinnati || ESPN7 || || C. base. || Maryland@Clemson || ESPNU7 || || NBA play. || East semi.: Chicago@Miami, Gm. 1: || TNT7 || || West semi.:...Tags: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, National Hockey League, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Sports Organizations, Baltimore Orioles
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NU lacrosse an inspiration beyond playing field
Michael Jordan called to wish the Northwestern women's lacrosse team luck. So did Wayne Gretzky and singer Eddie Vedder, the Evanston native who offered the Wildcats pearls of wisdom before and after their latest NCAA title. "Those are the kind of things...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Lacrosse, College Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Paulina Gretzky
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A-Z guide to Northwestern basketball
The essence of Northwestern basketball trivia, repeated Sunday during CBS' broadcast of Duke's loss to Louisville, is that the school hosted the first NCAA basketball tournament, in 1939. The Wildcats were denied a bid that year, and the bracketologists...
Tags: Indiana Hoosiers, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Illinois Fighting Illini, Basketball
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Big Ten gets it right with realignment
It's a legendary move by the Big Ten... Leading the league into a new era. When Rutgers & Maryland join the conference next year, the 14-team Big Ten will split down the middle, with two divisions of 7 teams, appropriately named east & west. Indiana,...Tags: Indiana Hoosiers, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Illinois Fighting Illini, Purdue Boilermakers
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Signing day something for recruits to cherish
My mom was sold on coach Gary Barnett. And that meant she was sold on Northwestern. Can you blame her? A free ride to an education along the shores of Lake Michigan? That's what mothers want when their sons are being recruited to play football....
Tags: Iowa Hawkeyes, College Sports, Football, Sports, High Schools
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