The Sicatoka

It's been brought up before and the southern schools shoot it down because their season would get too hot.

What attorney wouldn't want a shot at a part of the take of a possible anti-trust ruling against the NCAA? I mean the NCAA only has a six beeeee-llion dollar TV deal. Just off that notion alone I'm pretty sure UND has top-tier representation.

I'll grant you that unskilled manufacturing is moving to cheap countries, but an intellectual property based economy with associate higher-skill and technology manufacturing (e.g. bio-tech) is still possible here.

I show Walski as a "scratch" on a game day, meaning someone else dressed ahead of him, not that he left the team. And remember, that's my (admittedly wild) guess and speculation.

Parise - AHL, maybe Albany because I guess they're familiar with another family member Stafford - Buffalo's organization Spirko - somewhere in Europe is the common whisper

At risk of repeating myself, Do that and all of the other things mentioned will come because of the money in the local economy.

My predictions (* are freshmen) for some game in October or November: Duncan-Toews-Kozek Watkins-Oshie-Zajac* Genoway*-Kaip-Miller Porter-Fabian-VandeVelde* Chorney-Lee Jones-Finley Radke-Bina Lamoureux and TBD* First PK -- Watkins/Porter/Jones/Finley Second PK -- Kaip/Oshie/Chorney/Lee First PP -- Chorney/Lee/Duncan/Toews/Kozek Second PP -- Bina/Radke/Oshie/Porter/Watkins Scratches -- Alexander, Foyt, Martens, Walski, Marto*, magical-mystery walk-on forward or late signee* Yes, I have them only bringing in Zajac, Genoway, VandeVelde, Marto, a TBD goalie, and a walk-on/late signee. I see them letting LaPoint, Trupp, and Forney play the year in juniors. Maybe Trupp becomes the "magical-mystery" forward and plays, but I doubt it. And yes, I list no Parise, Stafford, or Spirko.

I'd put that under the same "yup." The NCAA plays field lacrosse, but just the same I've wondered what the big room with curved corners in the new UND Campus Wellness Center is for. (See room called "Multi Activity Court" in link.) The goals (ends) look almost more like indoor soccer.

I listen to ND radio stations for news (and sports, OK, 'sport', meaning hockey) and yet I'm bombarded with this "Wilf" bozo and his purple clowns. When I want to talk quality team in purple I'll talk Paul Pearl.

Yeahright. Nice try. The name "Wilf" appears 243 times in the (Red)StarTribune in the last three weeks. http://pd.startribune.com/sp?aff=3&keywords=Wilf "Favre" appears just 36 in the same timeframe in the Wisconsin State Journal. http://www.madison.com/archives/simple_sea...it=Begin+search

Dude, that's way too easy to mess with. It involves the words "Ziggy Wilf" and "stadium."

SIEVE! (I'm tellin' ya, someone has to make a little emoticon that does the "SIEVE!" arm motion. )

How soon they forget: UND came up an OT goal short of having this be a seven-year run of WCHA command.

Naw, he's probably more like the guy from "Chappelle's Show." http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:OavB.../negrodamus.jpg

Yup. And nope. Yup to expose lacrosse. Nope because the Swarm play "box lacrosse" (indoor in a hockey rink) and the NCAA plays "field lacrosse" (on a football/soccer sized field). Overall the "yup" still wins in my mind however.

My signature line on USCHO: Kober skated with what I had the honor of watching. If Kober speaks of Oshie (and probably Toews too, if folks asked) in the same breath as the Hrkac could we have a true prophet, or unthinkably two, in our midst?

Uh-huh, uh-huh, but that ain't Fabian.

Chay Genoway Darcy Zajac Can-ya hook-a-bro-tha-up?

Now I have to find the receipt and return that flag to the scuba shop. http://geocities.com/slulek/images/flag_dive.jpg

But my sources (and you) tell me Cullen is pretty slow when it comes to getting to autographs. I could be a contender!

I think the record is skipping. - "Hey, we got a great young big D!" - "What an unremarkable freshman year." - "Oh my, what a sophomore year turn-around!" - "Why's he leaving after just his junior year?" Dare I say apply those to Commodore, Greene, Smaby, and I'd expect Finley too. To Matt Smaby I say thank you for staying for a junior year (you could have taken TBL's money a year ago) and leading by example and setting the standard for what will be the most capable defensive unit in the WCHA next year. Helping those four freshmen learn and develop, and become four battle-tested sophomores, is more valuable to Sioux hockey than we'll ever understand.

Womens* or mens** basketball offers roughly the same number of scholarships as mens lacrosse (12.6). Nobody questions running a basketball program with that attendance. * DI max 15, DII max 10. ** DI max 13, DII max 10.

And all this comes back to what I've said for quite a while now: Answer "cost" or "conference" and you have the answer.

Second season and 2500 season ticket holders. Looks to me like lacrosse works where there are hockey fans and a facility. Another thought: Using the "25%" figure from star2city and those 2500 Swarm season tickets, that'd give an estimated and scaled 600 season ticket holders for UND lacrosse in season two. Those 600 season tickets would immediately give a higher average lax attendance than UND baseball, volleyball, or womens hockey.

I'm reading that the same way you must be. And the number for 2003 and 2004 picks was 30%. What I noticed is: I think what you'll see is more guys signing before age 22. That gets you a three-year deal.