West Lot Pirates

08/29/2024

Our 2024 Season Preview and Week 1 episode is available at http://westlotpirates.com

We cant wait for Saturday - look for us under the red pirate flag in the lot across from Tech on Sheridan Road — the “West Tech Lot”, if you will 😁😈

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07/17/2024

Check out our summer preview series to get prepped for the Big Ten season!

USC, UCLA, Oregon, Michigan State, and Rutgers previews are all available at www.westlotpirates.com or find us on any podcast app by searching "West Lot".

Your Weekly Northwestern Sports Podcast

07/08/2024

We're BACK! And it's SUMMER PREVIEW TIME!

We start with the new west coast Big Ten squads who are not on Northwestern's schedule. Up first: the USC Trojans!

We’re back! Our “season premiere” episode takes us into our Summer Previews. We kick things off with a look at one of the newest members into the Big Ten, the USC Trojans. Having …

11/01/2023

🚨🚨🚨NEW EPISODE!!!🚨🚨🚨
Coming off a fantastic win against Maryland, the Cats move into November sitting at .500 with a game against Iowa at the Friendly Confines where there's a fairly good chance the final score will read like a Cubs box score.

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10/18/2023

🚨🚨🚨NEW EPISODE!!🚨🚨🚨
With the Bye Week done, we had the chance to sit down with
Bradley Locker and David Gold from Inside NU to dive deep into the first half of the Wildcats' season. David also shared his top five moments from recent land commission meetings on the stadium!



https://westlotpirates.com/2023/10/17/episode-550-bradley-locker-and-david-gold-from-insidenu/

09/27/2023

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨🚨
Who wants to relive that amazing Saturday evening with us?! Settle in for our podcast celebration of what was a truly epic night for the and all its fans.



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09/13/2023

🚨🚨🚨NEW EPISODE!!!🚨🚨🚨
It's been a minute since we had the chance to review a Northwestern win, so let's all revel in it! Today we relive the big win over UTEP and look ahead to this weekend's tilt against Duke.



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Your Weekly Northwestern Sports Podcast

08/28/2023

It's finally time for our 2023 preview of Northwestern! We went deep on both the Cats' offense and defense in our latest podcast, taking a hard look at the challenges facing these units, where they can excel, and what needs to fall in place.

We’ll also be back later this week to preview the matchup with Rutgers.

As we approach the start of the 2023 College Football season, we can finally turn our attention to our in-depth preview of this year’s Northwestern Wildcats. On paper, it may look grim, but a…

07/12/2023

This week we recorded the most difficult episode of our ten years doing this podcast. We went over the whole hazing scandal leading up to the firing of Pat Fitzgerald and try to make some sense of everything.

Where even to begin. This has been an incredibly difficult weekend for anyone associated with and fans of the Northwestern program. With the investigation into the hazing scandal finishing and lead…

09/06/2022

Today we celebrate our 500th Episode!!!!

We are thrilled to have Joe Spivak join us to share stores from his career & his training for the WWE, plus his thoughts on this weekend's opponent, Duke!!




https://westlotpirates.com/2022/09/06/episode-500-joe-spivak/

08/29/2022

Saturday was straight 🔥🔥🔥!!!

Re-live the incredible victory over Nebby with us on this week's podcast!

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07/23/2022

If you’re fan, and you’re not familiar w Homefield Apparel… go check them out immediately and set your alarm clock for their collection to drop tomorrow (7/23) morning at noon eastern!

When you shop the sweetest Wildcat threads you've ever seen, use our offer-code WESTLOTPIRATES for 15% off.

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11/23/2021

Today, we celebrate the amazing Northwestern Field Hockey team as they brought home their first ever National Championship!

We also debrief from the Northwestern Wildcats game at Wrigley, and ask some tough questions, before looking ahead to this Saturday.

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09/30/2021

48+ hrs til Cats-Huskers. Whether you're confident or terrified going into Saturday, this game is always tight.

This week's podcast focuses on how Nebby shutdown the Spartans last weekend, how our could attack them, & what the path to victory looks like.

Stream at http://westlotpirates.com or search ‘West Lot’ on your fav app!

09/16/2021

“We’re 1-1, baby.”

The great joins us to take stock of the after week 2, discuss NU’s long-running September struggles, and prep for Saturday’s Duke matchup.

Stream at www.westlotpirates.com or search ‘West Lot’ on your fav podcast app.

09/01/2021

GAME WEEK!!!!!

We finish our preseason work with a rundown of the NU 2-deep for week 1, the revenge matchup against MSU, and our 2021 season predictions for the :

https://westlotpirates.com/2021/08/30/episode-464-northwestern-vs-michigan-state/

Suffice to say, we are FIRED UP for Friday night and this team.

If you haven't listened to our Offensive and Defensive deep dives, or our other summer opponent previews, check those out as well!

https://westlotpirates.com/2021/08/19/2021-preview-roundup/

08/23/2021

Two weeks until football. If you haven't already, time to start bingeing your way through the West Lot Pirates 2021 previews!

One convenient link to all our preview content:

https://westlotpirates.com/2021/08/19/2021-preview-roundup/

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07/16/2021

49 days til kickoff — celebrate in 3 easy steps:

1 - Watch our 2021 hype video!
http://bit.ly/2021Hype

2 - Pick up a WLP hype tshirt - all proceeds support
Evanston Community Foundation
http://bit.ly/WLPtshirt

3 - Rock your shirt to rep the podcast!

07/14/2021

This week our summer previews turn to Sparty - 2021’s opening night opponent! Our appetite for revenge on this episode is palpable.

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06/23/2021

We have started our B1G Summer Preview podcasts!

Over the next two months, get our deep dive on each B1G team and non-con NU opponents. Here's links to our summer preview primer, and our 1st two previews!

Summer Primer: https://westlotpirates.com/2021/06/10/episode-459-derrick-gragg-and-summer-preview-primer/

Ohio State 2021: https://westlotpirates.com/2021/06/14/2021-summer-previews-ohio-state/

Indiana 2021: https://westlotpirates.com/2021/06/21/2021-summer-previews-indiana/

04/29/2021

🚨 2021 NFL Draft Reaction Show LIVE TONIGHT at 7pm CT with !

📢 We react in real-time to each & every first round pick!

🗒️ Who do the 49ers take? Lance, Fields, Jones? Falcons going Pitts? etc

📺: youtu.be/Iq7aJVwduEg

Gary & Chris (from Winning Cures Everything) team up with Sam, John & Scuzz (from the West Lot Pirates) for a live discussion during the 1st round of the NFL...

04/23/2021

Just one week until the most NFL Draft in history! Who better to break it down than fellow alum, NFL expert, & writer !

To get the episode, search ‘west lot’ on your fav podcast app or visit westlotpirates.com

04/16/2021

On this week's podcast, we start our ramp-up to the NFL Draft with a great conversation with Tim Chapman of www.wildcatreport.com to talk about his new book, ChampioN Underdog, the story of the 95 Rose Bowl team.

Tim's book goes really deep into the players and their stories from that team, with interesting parallels to Transfer Portal, current NU guys in the draft, etc.

Check out our conversation at www.westlotpirates.com and find Tim's book on Amazon!

03/04/2021

This week we were thrilled to talk w Jordan Ash on NU hoops, Chicago HS bball, & his new Garbage Time podcast - especially episode 2, an important convo on player development & transferring w fellow former Wildcats Barret Benson & Isaiah Brown.

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02/24/2021

If you missed it last week, we dug into the Collins era at of Men's Hoops Northwestern, compared the highs and lows to his predecessor, and pondered the path forward for this program.

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02/08/2021

Signing day was last Wednesday, so we dove deep with
on NU’s 2021 class, the transfer portal, program trajectory, etc. It was a really fun conversation w one of the most knowledge NU super fans out there!

We also had fun reminiscing the return of the NCAA video game!

https://westlotpirates.com/2021/02/03/episode-449-signing-day-with-nufbrecruiting/

For the first time in a few years, there was some actual drama to the February Signing Day. Northwestern brought in two highly regarded WR signees today and to talk about them, and the rest of the …

01/22/2021

Tuesday was HUGE for the so this is a huge pod!

1st: Ryan Hilinski’s tape, exp at S. Car, & what he brings to NU

2nd: Jim O’Neil’s history, scheme, & what this means for the evolution of NU’s D

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