The Sicatoka

I'm not sure which is tougher to walk around campus this week with: - the perm - getting swept at DU - having home ice go into jeopardy

(I'll translate into surfer-dude language to make it easier for him. ) Yo dude, you tried to ride the tube but you wiped out bad. It was knarly. (OK, back to sanity. ) You are referring to two separate facilities in your juvenile, under-informed manner. First The Ralph, which is ice hockey and basketball. Then, the The Alerus Center.

The want something they can market on both sides of the border. To Manitobans, "The Forks" is The Forks Marketplace in downtown Winnipeg.

A "grain bin" with something in it (like a banner) is better than an empty field. An ag school guy should know that.

San Jose State is another one projected to have trouble with the new 15000 rule. Purely speculation, but aren't they nearby a Big Sky member too (like Idaho is)?

The subject of today's Philosophy 101 lecture: When is a 27-0 blowout in your favor a no-win game?

And the NCAA accountants all harmonize in with a big-ol' Cha-ching!

Another creative solution ....

Here are the rules that go into effect on August 1, 2004: Section 20.9.6.3 had all kinds exceptions prior to this (stadium size, or in a conference that averages so many, or etc.). Those are all gone. I can't find them right now, but the "move you down" rules are also already on the books and go into effect on the same date. The neutral-site loophole is in the first one.

Perms? Nails? Bikini Waxes? Exfoliating Facials? When someone sent the free "day of beauty" passes to U of M attention "the Gopher hockey" team, I think they may have meant the womens team! Next time they need an "exfoliating facial," I'm more than sure Mike Prpich would be more than willing to help.

The new rule (into effect this fall) is that you must average 15000 per home game to stay DIA or you'll be moved down to DIAA. (WYO points out some ways that you can try to do it, like use a non-home field as a home field for one game.) Here's the list of 2002 DIA average home attendance teams that averaged less than 16000 (close enough to worry): Connecticut North Texas Louisiana - Lafayette Houston Wyoming Troy State Arkansas State Ball State Akron Buffalo Middle Tennessee State Idaho Eastern Michigan San Jose State Kent State Louisiana - Monroe

I know of one as well. It is more like 13,500, has a roof, and has a DII national football championship banner in it that starts with a "2". Here's a hint.

Congratulations on the new football-only conference. What are your Mens Basketball Womens Basketball Baseball Softball Mens Cross Country Womens Cross Country Mens Golf Womens Golf Womens Soccer Mens Indoor Track Mens Outdoor Track Womens Indoor Track Womens Outdoor Track Womens Volleyball Mens Wrestling teams going to do for a schedule now? Put another way: One down, Fifteen to go.

tboneund: About your signature, Karl Goehring is 5' 7", or 67 inches, tall. That means he is 67 times the height of a puck.

If someone offered me $1,000,000.00 to sign my name, quit school, and go to work for them (at a salary beyond the $1 MM no less!) you bet I would. Let's put this in perspective: $1,000,000 at 5% interest is $50,000 per year just for having signed. Do you make $50,000 annually now? These guys guarantee themselves that level of income for life. The better question in this context, however, is this: With the real prospect of no 2004-2005 NHL season, how many NHL teams are going to be offering big bonuses and contracts between now and a new collective bargaining agreement?

The work of the SSSS gets noticed. Read it while the link is still good.

Holy smokes! We agree on something! "Risk-averse" is an excellent economic characterization. And you hint at an "I-29" commuting pattern. I know a couple or two who live in Hillsboro and one communtes to Fargo and the other to Grand Forks each day. In the last census data I heard reported, Cass, Burleigh, Morton, Grand Forks, and the reservation counties held or added people; the rest lost. Oh, one other county added people: Traill (meaning non-GF or Cass County I-29 towns Hillsboro and Reynolds plus Mayville/Portland and Northwood). Could the Senator who promotes the Red River Valley corridor be onto something?

Based on the Monticello shots, Moorhead could have skated six all night, ..... and still won by 24.

They spend $2,000,000.00 on a state-of-the-art arena sound system and it's not right. Every other arena I've been in has no bass. The Ralph has bass. To me the only error in the arena is the level of the suites relative to the top row of seating in the lower bowl.

How could you leave the Albany River Rats off that list!

Sure, Bismarck and Fargo grew. Grand Forks "held serve" through the flood of 1997. But the state's population still declined. That tells me that all that's happening is that the small towns are going to collapse because all their people are moving into the three or four main cities in the state. When all the small towns are empty the growth of those cities stops. Why isn't there more growth in ND when it seem to have all the factors working for it? To me there is a deep-seated almost hyper-conservative economic nature in this state. That nature allowed ND to show positive numbers during the national economic downturn; however, that same nature didn't allow ND to boom like the rest of the country during the big growth of the two decades before it. Put another way, surrounding states seem like stock investors. North Dakota seems like a bond investor.

Three! The old REA banners were given to each team's captain/designate. The championship banners in the old REA had the geometric logo on them. The geometric logo didn't exist before 1976. Please explain 1959 and 1963. I'm thinking that set precident.

Forgive me for interjecting (I'll probably end up owing an ice cream cone or two); however, the past is far from lost and decently honored in The Ralph. Walk that lower outer concourse: the All-Americans, the old outdoor statue from old REA, the photos and murals. Walk that upper outer concourse: the NHLers, the Sioux Hall of Fame, and more photos and murals.

Uh, 'beersong,' you have to change your handle. I'm pretty sure I heard "The Beer Barrel Polka" at UND hockey games long before it was done at the DECC which means only a UND fan could use that handle, right?

OK, if Sioux fans oh-me-oh-my shouldn't do a lap, maybe they should take a cue from this guy .... and pee on him instead.