The Sicatoka

The USHL Fargo-Moorhead Bears (folded) The USHL Fargo-Moorhead IceSharks (now the Chicago Steel) Take a look at the America West Hockey League home page. Note the list of teams on the left side of the AWHL homepage. The Fargo-Moorhead AWHL franchise.

You have to be academically admitted to the University of North Dakota to play hockey for the Sioux and from what we've seen here, you'd be lucky to get into Northwest Tech in East Grand Forks. If you really think you're that good, show us something to be proud of for a change.

The second installment of the series: Search for a coach. PS - I guess Bison transfer QB Stauss is eating up their D in spring ball. The Story. However, as the story says, You know what the knock on Stauss was? Average to low mobility.

Is there a rink at all in Vermillion? Practice in Vermillion but play games in the Sioux Fall Stampede rink?

From no to we're evaluationg everything in the length of a hockey season. Hey, it was September to April.

Wooo-hoooo! I get to correct Jim! A proposal was made and adopted by the NCAA after the DiPietro situation. What was adopted: To permit an individual prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment to enter a professional league's draft and/or be drafted without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility. Smaby will be drafted prior to initial enrollment, thus, no loss of eligibility. PS - Parise turns 19 in July so no issues there with eligibility either.

When your PK is hovering around 78%, are you sure you want a big PIM guy (beyond what you already have)?

There's a Bob Duncan on this list. Ryan Duncan calls him "Dad."

Call me skeptical, but are the Devils really going to sign a guy with a permanent medical condition that has prevented him from playing at full strength in the last two college seasons? Especially so when you consider that they own his rights and could leave him in college to make sure the treatment works (over a full season) at no cost to them. (The NJDs are notoriously frugal.) But hey, if they offered the money, at this point I couldn't blame David for taking the sure thing.

Based on the above .... For football: NDSU, Fargo, ND UNC, Greeley, CO South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, UT University of California-Davis, CA Cal Poly-San Louis Obispo, CA St. Mary

Let me toss a different idea into the mix. USD was concerned about money not long ago. Is there a revenue positive sport they could add? Is there one that already has interest built up in their region? For some reason I'm feeling obliged to type the words: Sioux City Musketeers Sioux Falls Stampede River City (Omaha) Lancers Lincoln Stars Tri-City (Kearney) Storm Thoughts?

How many Division I banners ya got? In light of recent NDSU moves, those do matter.

Hammy, I've stopped by POI for a visit. I haven't moved in and tried to take the best spot on the couch.

Let me point out three quotes: The most recent, from USD: From Roger Thomas, Athletics Director, UND, on March 17, 2003, speaking about proposed scholarship reductions in DII football: When he says "tip the balance" isn't he inferring going to DIAA? (Read the whole linked article for context.) And finally, the oldest, from Dr. Charles Kupchella, President, UND:

Cambridge says:

From Merriam-Webster Online (m-w.com):

Like I've said a couple of times so far, "Welcome to our house."

Well, with that thought in mind, here's to hoping the league coaches see things your way and pick Minnesota to win the league.

Kunitz's chippier style of play won't help his vote total. I think it'll come down to LeNeveu or Sejna and I have an easy way to decide it. Sejna versus LeNeveu: Penalty shot!

(I posted this once already in another thread.) Remember the cool kid in your neighborhood growing up? Everyone always talked about what the cool kid was doing or what they had. Everyone wanted to go over to the cool kid's house and hang out with the cool kid because they had all the best stuff, the stuff everyone else wanted. Dear Bison and Gopher (and recently appeared Duluth Bulldog) fans, Welcome to our house, SiouxSports.com.

Remember the cool kid in your neighborhood growing up? Everyone always talked about what the cool kid was doing or what they had. Everyone wanted to go over to the cool kid's house and hang out with the cool kid because they had all the best stuff, the stuff everyone else wanted. Dear Bison and Gopher (and recently appeared Duluth Bulldog) fans, Welcome to our house, SiouxSports.com.

I heard that there would be at least two Lamoureuxs at SSM next year.

Nothin' like livin' vicariously through hockey schools to get through the long winter, eh? Better to have played and lost, than to have never stepped on the ice.

"The Beas" has been named the DII Bulletin Player of the Year. He'd better sign a pro contract for big bucks. He'll need the money to build a place big enough to hold all of these awards.