The Sicatoka

Yup. And do some prep work: - Do sound check levels before using a cut. Don't have to dial it up or down when it's playing. Know where to have it set, set it, and play it. - Have 15-20 second cuts from songs ready for short breaks. Have 65 second cuts for TV breaks. And don't use the long boring slow dull 30 second intro to a song; instead, lose the intro and grab the high-energy cut that comes after it and use that in the breaks*. * For example, and not that REA has done this, don't use the quiet slow guitar intro from Metallica's "Enter Sandman." Don't be locked into using a song from the beginning. Grab a fast, loud cut somewhere in the song, in this case where the lyric "... off to never-never land ..." bites in and goes to a hard guitar riff. By the way, that proposed "Enter Sandman" cut is what I'd run as an opponent heads to the sin bin "to feel much shame."

Why speculate about what ice times were available: http://www.maxsolutionsonline.com/ENGELSTA...2762&center=378

Enough said.

Sorry, I can't control the routing of I-29 (not any more at least).

The few times Anderson did "throw 'em" the other guy got the worse end.

Driven past all the NDSU stockyards at 19th Avenue North and I-29 lately given the recent thaw? "The Grand Cities" can't approach that level. "Malodorante" indeed.

And that's still twice the rest of you.

No, no, no. Thomas Vanek is college hockey's "Randy Moss."

When The Great One was in Edmonton, he had a whole posse of bodyguards: "Cement Head," McSorley, and don't kid yourselves, Glen Anderson was out there not only because he had a great shot, but he could also deliver a great (right cross) shot.

I hope you're kidding around. PS - Sioux is easy to spell. Remember it this way. Between S and X you can put the vowels in order: S-A-X S-E-X S-IOU-X!

Just like after any other regular season series, after Saturday's hockey game UND had no obligation to Tech until Thursday afternoon. (The road team gets a WCHA mandated skate on the game rink on Thursday.) Everyone knew that going in. UND let them keep their stuff in REA until Monday. UND advised them to get rooms at the casino in TRF plus MTU would have had REA-TRF all to themselves (ice, weight room, everything) this week. Tech made the decision that they decided was best for them.

Do I have to give the "The Odds 101" lecture again? The odds are set so The House breaks even no matter who wins. Minnesota's 8-5 means that yes, they have a contender, but they also have a lot of fans willing to "lay down" on them. More people putting money on a team means that The House has to shorten the odds. It's best looked at in college football: Say Ohio State is playing Toledo. OSU has a huge following. Everyone wants to bet on OSU and no one on Toledo. That will imbalance the books for The House (they'll have to pay out) if OSU wins. How do they level them? Offer points to people to bet on Toledo. More money on Toledo is more money to balance the books. The odds are set such that no matter who wins The House doesn't lose money: A fans pay B or B fans pay A; and of course The House takes their "handle" off the transaction.

Ballard? Five-on-five - I'd want him out there with a defensive defenseman to cover his runs to the offensive end. That's normal for any offensive minded defenseman. Power Play - Yeah, you want him out there. He's most dangerous with time and space, like the power play. Penalty Kill - Forgive me, but I'd take North Dakota's Schneider, Jones, Fuher, Greene, or Marvin (yes, Lee Marvin, watch him PK some time) over Ballard on the PK. He seems out of his element in that mode.

The regional at CSP is a Friday, Saturday, Monday final regional. Then, the Elite Eight isn't for 12 days after that. It'd be easy to shift that around a day or two and still give the regional champion time to rest and get to the Eight. Never worry about working out schedules when home playoff games are at stake. It just happens.

If it hits 4500 again, sell!

Ask and ye shall receive. From here: I also found this interesting compare and contrast document from LSU.

Based on what I've read in the Fargo Boosters thread how about: Tech Spring Break '04: Grand Forks!

Go Stars Go Kings Why? Dallas Stars head coach Dave Tippett: UND - 1981 to 1983. LA Kings head coach Andy Murray's son Brady plays for the good guys. Me, a homer? Ne-e-e-ver.

A couple weeks ago you could have said Landon Wilson but he's since been traded to Pittsburgh.

I've always liked Thomas Vanek -- college hockey's "Randy Moss"

I didn't choose to omit anything. I borrowed the definitions from this site. Next, please re-read what I stated: It was a UND VP for Research quoted in the Fargo Forum who said (paraphrased) that UND was at a competitive disadvantage for certain Federal research dollars because they aren't allowed to bid because they aren't a land grant. I'm not claiming it. A man who knows the system is stating it.

Normally, any qualified researcher/school can go after a grant. However, a subset of Federal research grants require the proposer to not only be qualified but to be at a school carrying the "land grant" designator. That locks qualified groups from even bidding on the work. (That's paraphased from a recent Fargo Forum article quoting a UND VP.)

My only prediction for the first round: Doug Woog will mangle SCSU #15's last name as badly as he mangles UND #5's last name at least once on the weekend.

Stay nine nights and get the season ending loss free!

You asked. I answered and stated my point of view. Yet, another ad hominem attack surfaces.