The Sicatoka

And Fighting Irish I believe is the "G"-rated, prime-time, version of the slur first first yelled at Notre Dame teams. I believe Notre Dame initially heard from opponents something far less kind: F______ Irish.

Never trust the Fargo Forum to get a hockey story completely right. Trust Brad: http://www.areavoices.com/undhockey/?blog=50130

fourwindsboy: Did you try striking up cheery, jocular banter with her? It does take two to tango.

How in the world did she pick that one? Uh, ... Campbell is married to Brad Pascall, an employee of Hockey Canada ... and a guy who skated in the old Engelstad Arena a couple times.

I have two concerns: 1. Do you always view people by the color of their skin ("caucasions" <sic>) and not the content of their character? 2. Say you are correct and the name changes: You will have great emptiness in your life. Which windmill will you tilt at next?

(Sorry sagard, but this is too easy, and you set it up so well.) A Gopher fan acknowledging Canadian MJ? Isn't this just a path to more "25 year old Canadians" in the NCAA? (You know I had to do it.)

I thought sand volleyball was just voyeurism gone Olympic. Those "uniforms" the women wear ... pretty soon you won't be able to print the Olypmic logo on them because there isn't enough material. Here's your next NCAA championship platform photo. Pretty sad when the NCAA starts selling that "product" (cough-sex-cough) now too. Oh, but I'm sure we'll hear it's about the student-athletes ... I think I'm going to call NOW and tell them that's "hostile and abuse" toward women.

For some reason this is on repeat mode today ... I'd like to dedicate it to Mr. Longie. http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Eagles/Get-Over-It.html With thanks to Don Henley and the rest of The Eagles.

Omaha and Kearney explored it in the past and the Nebraska legislature had none of it. (It's all about the Huskers.) It was a linked story here at one time. It's mentioned here. The notion's been around since the NCC started shedding teams; however, UNO has massive budget and personnel problems right now. Not. Gonna. Happen.

Many people look at Ritchie Smith and all they see is JQ Paulsen and Joe Chapman. That situation has little to do with this one.

Can you read? It has been brought up there. Not. Gonna. Happen. It's all about "Big Red" in Lincoln.

Chicken. Dinner.

Not. Gonna. Happen. Ask the Nebraska Legislature.

fourwindsboy: Given that 2 of 3 people you say are being harmed just yesterday said that, no, they do not believe they are being harmed and do favor UND's moniker, are you sure you're not the one tilting at windmills?

Yeah, but the Swedes reneged on part of the deal: They sent back Jaques L. and Doug R.

I have a simple question for the gallery: Which would be worse for humanity? A) global warming B) global cooling Hint: Think about land suitable for growing food before you answer. Imagine if the wheat belt extended further north, or ended at Omaha. Now, back to flood 2009: Folks, this one's not over for people in Valley City, Lisbon, and all the areas affected when the Sheyenne busted out downstream of Lisbon (Davenport, Walcott). The area north of Fargo where the Rush, Maple, and Sheyenne all come together to spill into the Red will be a lake for the foreseeable future and that affects many people also. Let's not forget about them.

There are five, yes, five, Chippewa tribes in Michigan, but CMU only had to get approval of the nearest one to them. The other four are on the record against CMU's moniker.

Folks, all I see is ... N-U-D. ... Nuds? And that's what other folks first exposed to it will see also. So is the plan to get rights to that Prince tune? ... lets go crazy, lets get NUDs ...

Now that would be great comedy and theatre on the reservations. Control what's yours to control.

Folks, we're just short of Huxley's "Brave New World" and that's the road to Orwell's "1984". To the PC Crowd: I know you think Huxley and Orwell wrote those as instruction manuals or road maps to where you'd like society to be; however, those were warnings about the dangers of an overmanaged society.

This is an issue for the Sioux people to decide. It should be decided by Sioux people. That's what we've heard. Yet I find ... So a Mandan, Hidatsa, or Arikara judge will be making the decision for the Sioux. Pardon me while I sit here smirking.

I don't seem to recall the golden rule as quite that, but I can work with it.

Spirit Lake goes to the polls on April 21.

You don't replace seniors with freshmen. You replace seniors with juniors. You replace freshmen with new recruits. (This is where the monkey standing on the rock that overlooks the valley holds the lion cub up into the sunlight for all the creatures to see.)

I've seen Fink play in the USHL. He can be reasonably effective. (Note the words "shooter", "scorer", "flashy", "power", etc. aren't here.) How much he can be is up to how much he wants to develop.