The Sicatoka

The only way this will get resolved one way or the other is out in the open. At least a couple folks understand that. http://plainsdaily.com/entry/dem_leaders_call_on_backes_to_make_ncaa_meeting_open_to_public/

I'm somewhat stunned by this development. I found the situation where RadioFM (790 KFGO/740 The Fan KVOX) was home of Bison Athletics on the radio but the RadioFM sports director was also the voice of UND Football to be a most peculiar alignment. That was Dan Hammer. No, wait. Now it's Jack (former NDSU first base man, " ... track it down, Marge! ... " ) Michaels. Compound that with (as someone mentioned) that RadioFM (740) has picked up the official NCAA broadcast of all three Frozen Four games. (Here's where I tell you to listen to 970 WDAY-AM and Tim Hennessy. Don't be fooled.) Part of me wonders if KFGO isn't having "buyers remorse" when it comes to local college athletics if they are picking up "a regional niche sport" Frozen Four broadcast and are going back to a most peculiar, almost contradictory, sports director alignment (where your sports director is the voice of the rival of who the station carries). Say what you will, but I'm quite sure that the T-wolves or Wild (or Bison M/WBB) don't draw as many listeners in Fargo-Moorhead on a Friday or Saturday night as Fighting Sioux Hockey did.

+1 for you for knowing it's "Sica-toka", not "Sic-atoka".

It's either acceptable or profane. There's no other criteria, especially skin color of the speaker, that should ever apply to a word.

It would be interesting to know the monikers of the high school teams on the reservations of those 11 tribal chairs.

Some tribes consider the owl sacred and good; others consider it a sign of death or evil. http://opossumsally.homestead.com/NDN2/owls55.html

So will they put a couple feathers on this?

This letter to the LA Times wants to rename the LA Dodgers the LA Yang-nas. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/29/opinion/la-oe-furgatch-yangnas-20110329

Is that you, Gwoz?

UND is getting a DOME! UND is getting a DOME! :D http://und.edu/features/april-fools-people.cfm Posted: APRIL 1 <-- think about it ...

The ND SBoHE is *not* made up of people that have ever run public education institutions. Thusly, they follow the lead and "asks" of the university presidents more often than not (e.g. the were badly burned by giving all the "asks" of former NDSU president Chapman). It would not surprise me if the SBoHE is acting upon the "ask" of Dr. Kelley. I can only only opine it, I can't prove it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

The NCAA was a day early.

You have to know it's April Fool's Day when you read ... 1) They don't share 2) They don't have "profits"; they're a non-profit doncha-know 3) Student-athletes should be happy getting an education while they, the NCAA, have a $12,000,000,000.00 television contract

The NCAA's biggest fears right now would be: - to be declared "for profit" - to face a real anti-trust action - to be declared a "public actor" Those would all come Federally, not from Bismarck.

Then again, maybe Indiana needs to win a conference FB game ... for a couple seasons.

Mainly sandbagging preparations. And all the NDSU student-athletes are available to help.

If so, I hope he got it in writing. For that Big Ten logo (and Big Ten Network annual check) I'd trade "Fighting Sioux" faster than a Frattin snap-shot off the draw. There. I said it.

Knowing roughly Shaft's age and making some assumptions about his son's age (and about someone being willing to "argue" on Facebook with a daddy said so "trump card") I fully expect that his "invited into" should more accurately say something more like "play teams in" (refering to the moniker policies at UMinn, UWisc, and UIowa).

"Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious." -- Simone

April 22. But does that work for everyone involved? http://plainsdaily.com/entry/und_ncaa_meeting_set_for_april_22nd/

Here's to hoping the UM-Duluth team is focused on North Dakota just like their fans are. Signed, The Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Hey Cardinal, Federal Communications Commission Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau Consumer Complaints 445 12th Street, SW Washington, D.C. 20554 or http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm I sure hope the new kinder gentler FCC doesn't decide you folks had a "wardrobe malfunction" today.

It may be the 2010 manual, but I expect not much has changed: I don't see the other 12 (of the 16 in post season) getting tickets to the Frozen Four in that. All I see are the semifinalists (the Frozen Four) getting rights to 600 tickets per institution. Source: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/champ_handbooks/ice_hockey/2010/10_1_m_icehockey.pdf , Section titled "Tickets", page 24.

Dude, you can't give out what you don't have. UND only got 600 tickets from the NCAA.

OK, so the University of Southern California isn't really "regional" (unless you consider Oxford and India Institute of Technology "not regional"), but here's something that can happen at USC in March, but not at UND. Brrrrr .... cold. Be careful! Link is probably PG-13. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371313/USC-officials-appalled-fratboy-caught-having-sex-girl-roof-hundreds.html Favorite quote from the article: A member, ... indeed. And that's the news from Southern Cal ... {insert "Trojans" joke here}