Sippin' On Purple: FanShots

Women's Lacrosse vs. Duquesne, 3/12 at 3pm

2010-03-12T00:52:17Z

Women's Lacrosse vs. Duquesne, 3/12 at 3pm

All eyes will be (and should be) on the basketball team tomorrow against Purdue at 6:30pm. But if you're not planning on being in Indianapolis for the game, you should head over to Lakeside Field for the second NU Women's Lacrosse home game, this time against Duquesne.

3pm. Plenty of time for you to cheer for the team, get a quick dinner, and find a TV or watch party for NU vs. Purdue.

Ranking the Big Eleven's Stadiums

2010-03-10T20:27:38Z

Ranking the Big Eleven's Stadiums

Somehow, Welsh-Ryan Arena isn't the worst.

Northwestern basketball trivia

2010-03-09T20:58:46Z

Northwestern basketball trivia

To get everyone fired up (or perhaps depressed) for Thursday's Big Ten tournament opener, test your knowledge of the starting lineups NU has used for each of their opening round games.

Big Ten Awards announced

2010-03-09T01:11:49Z

Big Ten Awards announced

John Shurna 2nd team all-conference for both the coaches and media, Jeremy Nash makes the all defensive team, Drew Crawford named freshman of the year by the media. Only real surprise was Bo Ryan not getting coach of the year.

NU Football Team Parties in the USA

2010-03-07T00:27:55Z

NU Football Team Parties in the USA

I'm not doing DM, but the Wildcats, as well as some guy wearing a hot dog costume, are, so here's video of them dancing along to what was my previous favorite song (I've moved on to Ke$ha).

Credit where credit is due, NBN is covering the bejeesus out of DM. The reason I was checking their site is because a friend of mine was telling me that he performed a set at the show 20 minutes ago, and that the video is already online. Pretty crazy.

NU Women's Lacrosse Home Opener 3/6 at 1pm

2010-03-06T18:02:53Z

NU Women's Lacrosse Home Opener 3/6 at 1pm

(ed note: I know nothing about lacrosse, but, 5 time national champs! if anybody knows about lax/consistently goes to games, we should talk.)

Do people read these? Anyway, if you're in Evanston watching the Indiana game on TV, be sure to head over to Lakeside Field (by SPAC) for the NU Women's Lacrosse team's home opener against #5 Georgetown.

1pm. You should be there!

Twitter virus infects Sippin' on Purple

2010-02-23T14:35:50Z

Twitter virus infects Sippin' on Purple

yeah, so I've been planning to start doing this for a while, and now that Rodger has started tweeting I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon. Of course, I didn't realize that through the magic of SB Nation, my posts will go out on Rodger's twitter feed, so you'll be getting two tweets every time I post a story. My advice? Read them twice.

Just kill me now.

2010-02-21T17:42:59Z

Just kill me now.

It's February 21, 2010, and, I, at the request of some of the powers that be at SBNation, have a twitter. Follow me, or whatever it is that you do.

I sorta hate twitter, but plan on using this twitter for everything that makes this blog what it is: NU sports, occasional jokes, and of course, random hip-hop videos. So if you like the blog... read it, I guess.

We play Illinois tonight.

2010-01-23T19:42:56Z

We play Illinois tonight.

I'm putting this fanshot up as a public service announcement: students, we have wildcards that let us get into games for free, yes?
Well, word is, that's not necessarily true tonight. According to friends of friends of friends, there is a limit on the amount of students that will be allowed in tonight for the first time I've ever heard, and that's final, and if you get there too late, have fun watching at Buffalo Wild Wings. If this is true, I'm a little mad at the athletic department, but hey, it should be crazy tonight, so leave early.

Kevin Coble Makes Backwards 65 foot shot

2010-01-22T19:26:17Z

Kevin Coble Makes Backwards 65 foot shot

Come back soon please Kevin.

Bring Your Champions, They're Our Meat

2010-01-08T19:41:26Z

Bring Your Champions, They're Our Meat

Not to take anything away from Roger here, but a small reminder to occasionally check out "Bring Your Champions, They're Our Meat," an irregularly published NU blog that this week brings us mediations on Keanu Reeves' QB names in movies, houseboats, and the death of Portuguese, English, and Spanish explorers.

Hitler would've kicked the field goal.

2010-01-06T20:20:17Z

Hitler would've kicked the field goal.

There's officially too much coverage of Northwestern basketball.

2009-12-30T20:33:21Z

There's officially too much coverage of Northwestern basketball.

Not that I'm complaining. I'm loving it. Deadspin (which for those of you who don't know, has been the premier sports blog on the internet for a long while) now has what looks like it'll be a weekly feature, "So You Think NU Can Dance?", written by NU alum Benoit Denizet-Lewis.

Northwestern Basketball is ranked!

2009-12-28T17:50:54Z

Northwestern Basketball is ranked!

#25 in the country. Wow.

Hear me.

2009-12-22T18:57:20Z

Hear me.

Today's a basketball day, and I don't have a major post for today, but if you'd like to hear me talk Northwestern football, I'll be on Team Speed Kills' bowl preview podcast tonight at 8:10 Evanston time. It's live, so you'll get to determine I know nothing about football in real time.
Judging from the effect that my dulcet tones appearing on BHGP's podcast days before the NU-Iowa game had on our chances, I'm confident.

Alabama Bloggers on Auburn and Tiger fans

2009-12-15T17:31:15Z

Alabama Bloggers on Auburn and Tiger fans

The gentlemen from Roll Bama Roll help out with some useful information about the Auburn offense, the (ahem) educational traditions at Auburn, and some great ice breakers at Tampa bars.

He wasn't lying.

2009-12-06T22:34:10Z

He wasn't lying.

GAHHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHH
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Yeah.

LTP says Outback.

2009-12-06T22:28:19Z

LTP says Outback.

He's the only source that has this as of right now other than he-said she-said stuff, but, uh, I'd be confident in what that guy says. He's got the best NU blog out here on these internets, and I'm betting he's not going to lie about something like this on us. Because if he is, I'm getting excited right now for no apparent reason. And then I'll be mad.

Outback!

From the Mouth of a Wildcat

2009-12-04T17:16:17Z

From the Mouth of a Wildcat

You have to love just how supportive the Wildcat cheerleaders are.

Basketpollin'!

2009-12-01T00:27:39Z

Basketpollin'!

If you liked what I did about NU's 18 votes in the college football AP poll towards the end of the last post, well, good news for you. FBC, whose site name is getting remarkably hard to agree with, did the exact same thing for the basketball team's 15 votes in their AP poll, robbing me of a post, but allowing me to put up one of these, giving the site a nice influx of this lavender color, pause.