The Sicatoka

I guess I knew condors were big, but suddenly I realize how big.

So why'd he (the mascot/bird) go down the tunnel? Did he get an unsportmanlike conduct and DQ (2 and 10) for knocking that guy down?

Tater should start doing his Travel Log "Captain Kirk" style ... "Travel date Thirteen ... Two ... Ten ... the team... is trapped ... by an engulfing storm ... at this strange, alien, place, called ... Sisseton. Supplies. Short. Search party sent out to survey the area. Survival. Unsure." </William Shatner voice>

Having someone tie them covers that issue.

... when the day goes down on Watertown ...

Hotel parking lot ... it can't be any worse than the ice in Omaha.

Someone tie his shoes for him.

Honest analysis: Why were those guys put at risk on ice that Coach Hakstol will only call "playable" in the post-game interviews. Lincoln Coach Johnson told the UND folks he wouldn't put his players back out onto that ice after the USHL game. I question why the game was started. I question why the game was continued after they broke (with a drill) one of the cooling tubes. (It was 3-0 already.) Outdoor games are a novelty show that has lost its novelty. As soon as someone loses a high-value asset (player) because of crappy ice the novelty is done. And really, this generation never really played outdoor pond hockey. This is a generation of rink-refined, indoor only kids.with rare exceptions. Say what you will in response to this, but the weekend would've been a total bust for Omaha (school and city) if not for UND fans (now stuck on I-29 somewhere in SD). The only way the weekend could've gone worse for UNO is if they'd have lost a player on that mess of a "rink". Why say all this? Imagine the tables turned ... We've built multi-million dollar hockey facilities with all the greatest innovations for play and player safety ... so we can play on a slushie, or a bag of wet crushed ice.

Sure am glad this isn't recruiting weekend ...

The officials should deal with this "pre-arranged" non-sense by calling each of them (the first second they step on the ice) for 2 and 10 "unsportsmanlike" and send them to nice warm early showers.

In 2001 UND had just transitioned into two new facilities. Anyone that's ever moved into a new house knows for the first couple of years there are unexpenses that have to be dealt with.

I answered that already:

NCC 2.0 {yawn}

UND over the Bobcats tonight ... twice. (Women won too.)

Go here, http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=451&f=2368&t=11267090 , and look for someone called siouxfan.

Welcome to a little place I've heard called "off the rails and in the ditch": http://www.wacsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10100&ATCLID=206317161

That high? On a side note, after watching a lot of popcorn get eaten at UND's expense (conference, moniker) seems it's time for UND fans to chow on some and watch someone else go through the wringer for a while.

Speculation from the south (no, further south) ... http://terryvandrovec.tumblr.com/

Seems the much beloved "Dakota 3" just might find themselves up the creek.

Uh, Muss and brother Muss commercials are stale no matter who they are for. Time to cut some new material. Seems they've called Zach Parise and he's cut a UND radio spot. Why not call Chris Kuper and ask him if he's willing to do the same. <-- See how I looped my diversion back to football.

Yesterday was signing *day* so fax early, fax late, no matter. Actually, this is a signing period. (I won't speculate for how long because I'll surely be corrected if I do.) If they got another DB (specifically CB) all the better.

Best officials I ever was on the ice with brought the captains to the scorer's table during warm-ups and set it down simply and early: "Two hands on your stick and your stick on the ice. If your stick isn't on the ice it better not be touching anything. And if you hand isn't on your stick it had better be empty." It sounded great but I figured they were trying to sound tough before the game. Thirty seconds in I felt a stick tap on my outside shoulder as I went into the corner for a puck. They called it. I was stunned. Thirty seconds into the powerplay I grabbed a defenders stick to move it out of my way to establish position to screen. So much for the powerplay ... We adjusted fast. It can be called that way.

I saw the initial contact between AndyMac and the stinkin' badger and figured "penalty" (because it was AndyMac). But then I realized: (a) AndyMac's stick rebounded above his shoulder from the contact with the stinkin' badger, and (b) there were no orange arm bands going into the air. That's when I realized (as the officials must have also) that to hook someone down it's pretty tough to have the stick that applied the hook recoil that far away from the impact.

Too slow again, amigo.