[NU Sports] NU football and the march of technology

[Roy S. Lamberton]

Hang on to your phones - there is a Big102Go app for iphone and droid, but Comcast won't
allow it in their area for some reason.

ESPN3 is available anywhere you can get it on your computer thru the browser on your
phone. And I works very well altho watching a 3x4" picture is nowhere near your 50" TV in
the basement.

I love the WGN app.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
juliepmcfarland
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:09 PM
To: Cynthia Dueltgen
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU football and the march of technology

We downloaded the WGN app on our iPhones and listened to it that way. It was awesome!


On Sep 7, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Cynthia Dueltgen <cdueltgen at alumni.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> I had a similar experience this weekend being unable to watch the game
> live. I used the tunein app on my iPhone to listen to WNUR in my car
> (through the stereo's iPod connection) and as I wandered around the
> fairgrounds I'd gone to with my parents. In California! It was genius.
> I didn't miss a play except during coverage dropouts, which were not
> as frequent as I expected considering how bad AT&T's coverage is here.
> 
> -Cynthia
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The technological marvels of the 21st century have allowed me to enjoy NU football
games at a distance in a variety of ways. Prior to this weekend, the most interesting was
probably when I followed the last few minutes of that big double-OT win over Minny back
in--2007 I think--by refreshing an ESPN web page on my old Blackberry while on a hike in
the mountains of North Carolina. It was actually a fairly exciting way to keep track of
the game, but was a far cry from being there, or hearing a live radio call.
>> 
>> For this weekend's game, we were going to be on the road early heading to a getaway in
Michigan. Initially I thought this would be no problem, as we can usually get WGN radio
coverage on the whole route. The Cubs-induced switch to ESPN 1000 for this game scuttled
that, as reception faded below the noise threshold right about the time the pre-game show
was ending.
>> 
>> Fortunately, we were able to pull up wgnradio.com through an internet radio app on the
(newer) Blackberry. And, aside from a couple of short drop-outs, we enjoyed the entire
first half of Dave and Ted's call via the speaker on the cell phone while doing 80mph up
the west coast of Michigan.
>> 
>> Arrived at our destination at halftime, unpacked, plopped the cell phone on a table in
the living room, and enjoyed the rest of the game, with much better sound quality than I
can get from WGN over the air up there. Pretty cool stuff.
>> 
>> As for the game, what a nice win that was. Colter performed as well as I expected, it
sounds like our defense has a chance to be pretty good, and there were glimmers of hope
for the running game. Now if we could just figure out how to stop those 3rd-and long
situations.... (don't we say that every year?)
>> 
>> Tom
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