The Sicatoka

The "Minnesota Rule" is bad enough (Gophers always play in the night semi-final); but according to the following link, Fox Sports North isn't covering the other semi-final. http://www.foxsports.com/named/FS/Regional...&categoryId=298 They will cover the third place game however. If they are covering the Friday night semi-final and the Thursday play-in game, why don't they turn on the cameras Friday afternoon? People will survive missing this "hot" Friday afternoon line-up: 2:00 PM NBA Action '03-'04 2:30 PM Big 12 Showcase '03-'04 3:00 PM On Campus '03-'04 3:30 PM 54321 4:00 PM Spinks vs Mayorga at Boardwalk Hall (rerun from Sunday night) Politely let them know what you think here: http://www.foxsports.com/named/FS/Feedback What the heck, tell the league officials too (from the WCHA website): bmcleod@du.edu clabelle@du.edu gshepherd@mailstation.com dspencer@mailbag.com Let's make some noise.

The Fox Sports North website says they aren't showing the Friday afternoon semifinal. Yell at them here: http://www.foxsports.com/named/FS/Feedback

What? Are you "anti-diversity"?

I think the SDSU 40 point mens loss was a karma-thing after the SDSU women put down their host C-SP by 35 (74-39).

No shootouts this weekend (except for the 3rd place, Saturday afternoon, game). From my copy of the current NCAA Ice Hockey rulebook: My "19 overtimes" is possible, not probable, but possible.

How about a "Woog's Line-Ups" sign? "Lundblum" Which other names has he mangled? EDIT: More "great minds" stuff, eh PCM?

What I'm trying to say is this: I'm OK (not happy, but OK) with the Minnesota Rule as long as UND is the #1 seed.

As much as I don't like the "Minnesota rule," in one way right now it works in UND's favor: - they catch the winner of UAA and CC on Friday afternoon after their night game - UND will have the extra rest going into Saturday - hopefully UM and UMD will go 19 overtimes

Back to atmosphere. I detected two noteworthy items Saturday: - Give the crowd something, anything, and they'll jump in and make noise*. - It was as loud Saturday, without the students, as any other night this season. This tells me we all need to be pulling on the same rope in the same direction. * The first shifts of the third told me that the team wasn't planning on playing on Sunday so I woke up just like they did.

This is so wrong in so many ways: 1. I never wear the black leather jacket in the arena during a game. Too hot. 2. "... his hair slicked back ..." My hair is never slicked back. (Rick, PCM, anyone else: Bite your tongues.) 3. Miller Fright? Blasphemy! The tap handle shall always be in the shape of a canoe if I'm not with my friends "Jack" or "Jim" or "Johnny." However, someone did get one thing right: "I wouldn't advise punching The Sicatoka if you know what's good for you."

I was trying to help you. I thought you might have forgotten that RT can't communicate (your own words). By reminding you of your opinion I was hoping to save you the time of analyzing what RT said. See, I'm here to help. And tony, control what you can control. Why not treat others as you wish to be treated and clean up the anti-UND stuff in your house? Then you'll have a real point to drive home.

But tony, why analyze what RT says? You seem quite consistent in insisting that RT can't communicate. http://siouxsports.com/forums/index.php?ac...highlite=thomas So why then even bother analyzing what he says? Obviously he can't communicate when he says: "With the development of facilities, staff and finances, we feel the University will be well-positioned to change levels of competition, if such a move would be in the best interests of Fighting Sioux athletics."

From Virg Foss' column: Forgive me but, Virg, B-S. That's B as in B; S as in S. I saw the replay. Campion's arm was up for the hold. After the whistle one of Sandelin's players took a stupid run at a Badger, thus the second call. The first penalty was called by Campion; the second the Bulldogs forced Campion to call (clear, obvious, and after the whistle). There's no "special rule book" for the last game of the regular season. In this case the Bulldogs did it to themselves and the referee got it right*. * I feel so unclean after those last five words.

Depends on who you ask. Knowing what I'm doing this weekend and next: No.

Top four PWRs get the top four seeds. Next four get the two-seeds. Etc. Etc.

I hope that is a very loud, very eye-opening, wake up call to the hockey players who play home games in The Ralph Engelstad Arena, and I'm not talking about Shantell Rivard's players.

(This may sound really bad in a way to some. Apologies in advance.) The folks in Grand Forks and Fighting Sioux hockey fans become so "attached" to the guys who don that Sioux jersey it just feels like they are "natives sons" to Grand Forks. Look at all the attention guys like Brad DeFauw got when he made his first appearance in The League. Thus, maybe the luster comes off a bit when "another" guy we all associate with Grand Forks makes it into The League. It's no disrespect intended toward Mr. Olson's accomplishment. (Bravo to him.) I think we're all just .... I don't know, used to it, when a guy gets there and really don't see how big of an accomplishment it really is.

Here is the link to the Roger Thomas interview soon to be in the published edition of UND's "Dimensions" magazine.

If you're in Fargo, why aren't you going in person? The students will be on Spring Break. There should be seats available.

From the NCAA:

There's this guy in red named Suter that worries me.

Don't be bad-mouthing dome teams: The Alerus Center - Home of Fighting Sioux Football

Seven: North Dakota South Dakota St. Cloud State Minnesota State (Mankato) Nebraska - Omaha Augustana and newcomer to the NCC Minnesota - Duluth

Be nice to "Back to Back." That material works great with their elementary school classmates.

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."