The Sicatoka

As goes the sack count, so goes the secondary coverage. I didn't see much pressure on opposing quarterbacks and as such they had time to stand back, look down field, survey, study, contemplate, have coffee and a danish, check their Facebook account, relook, resurvey, and then fire to the receiver that came open (because no secondary can cover for that long).

Carry permit: REVOKED.

Excuses are like {bleep}: Everyone has one and it's usually full of {bleep}.

Just remember that NDSU suffered a Freudian slip (showing who they wish they really were) when they named their mascot ... ThUNDar ...

That's just as low of a blow as the other.

You can call me a lot of bad things, but you need to take that one back.

See all the bad things the Fighting Sioux moniker causes.

... because there's no guarantee a first-round draft pick will stay in college more than two years to begin with.

It's probably too "trendy and now" ... but ... Dagger (Not bad, but I like "Green Reaper" better.)

I'm assuming you mean "all sports", not just hockey.

They eliminated the School of Communications and yet some of the clowns, er, I mean wonderful tenured faculty, from that cess pool of indoctrination based like-think, er, I mean fabulous department still are at UND.

The "Fighting Sioux" moniker caused all of this, from social problems on the reservations to LSSU being SOL with the CCHA. It probably causes potholes and chronic halitosis too.

You just stop on the spot on the circle that works best for you (or at least that's how the NCAA does it).

Honestly, between Slim and None. And Slim? He's on a train. Which train?

If the NCAA backed off now it would be them admitting they were wrong, and they are never wrong. They thought they were wrong once ... but they were mistaken.

After an ugly summer of flooding, Minot has a chance to win Coca-Cola's "Live Postively" park restoration contest. The residents of Minot are voting to restore Oak Park. It also had the only Splash Pad in town for kids to go and cool off. You can vote as many times as you want. Every vote helps. Hey, everything helps Minot at this point. To vote go to: http://m.livepositively.com/park_details.jsp?parkId=11775

What I find most disturbing about this is that most campus administrators today, the ones that write these "code of student conduct" documents, were the (WARNING: massive stereotyping and generalization to follow) campus insurgents back in the 1960s and 1970s. They were the ones that said don't trust anyone over 40 and were proud when their actions caused campus disruptions. Now that they have the power they are acting exactly the way they claimed they never would if they were in charge. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Want the fundamental issue?

According to Schlossman's blog, seems the former UND blueliner who recently signed with Detroit will be wearing jersey #64. A couple years ago we were all excited to be getting a Dell; the Red Wings are getting a Commodore 64.

How's that any different from me walking up to a UND coach and saying "There's this kid you really need to take a look at."

SCSU? The school that dropped Homecoming because they couldn't afford it? The school that almost dropped football in the last year because they couldn't afford it? That SCSU? They have money issues across the board in athletics. They're not in a position to make a deep fiscal commitment to hockey. But the moniker thing does make me smirk all the more.

My hunch says Notre Dame is looking out for Notre Dame. You'll know where they got the most of what they wanted by where they go.

You'd burn up just about all your space for non-conference games.

Providing the by-laws might show that UMTC and UW might have been able to change or get an exemption to the Big Ten "if six play we play Big Ten" rule ... but they didn't.