The Daily Northwestern is covering the Outback Bowl live and online this afternoon, sending two reporters and a photographer to Tampa for the Wildcats’ football game against Auburn. The newspaper is live game-blogging (or glogging) with Cover It Live, a web-based tool that allows live commentary during any event, not unlike the the glogs offered [...]
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