john-plasencia Stories - Sippin' On Purple
USA! USA!
Woooooo!So, there's a reason for the flags. This summer, starting tomorrow, three of our boys in purple will be representing the red, white, and blue: football pre-froshes John Plasencia and Brian Smi...
Nationalism Week rolls on!
A short post for a day on which I'm one of about 30 people in the United States working, we'll catch up on our nation-representing athletes.First off, something I hadn't mentioned yet: some of our FIV...
Summer Nationalism Wrap-Up
So the international basketball/football season is officially over at Northwestern with John Shurna's New Zealand trip ending with gold, so, let's analyze what all this flag-bearing means for NU, play...
John Plasencia named World's Best Tight End
OK, not actually true. Technically, Plasencia is just the World's Greatest Tight End in the World under the age of 19 after being named to the IFAF Junior World Cup all-tournament team, but, hey, we'l...
I'm Thinking RB's.
So NU had its annual fall scrimmage Saturday, which means there's only twelve more days left until football season. I, as someone who lives in New York, didn't make the trek to Kenosha, Wisconsin, so...
Name of the Week: Syracuse Edition.
Earlier I said I'd be doing two polls every week. One of them is, as noted, just a simple "who will win on Saturday" poll. The other is something that I had a sense you guys were liking in my team pre...
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