The Sicatoka

Kinda-but-not-really? It was still ESPN. LHN served a purpose: It prevented a "Pac-16" from forming and kept Texas with ESPN.

REA has one of the best production rooms around. They used to run the football feed over to REA and send it out from there. (Do they still?) Does any collegiate athletics department ... manage its own rights and and its own streaming service?

So many things just fell like dominos: the Summit ROY enters the portal, an abstract Tweet by a UND BB insider, USD relieves their MBB HC with no real stated cause, said ROY makes visit to USD ... where there's smoke. But short of a formal complaint, the NCAA ain't doin' nothin'.

... more specifically, UND Athletics, and more specifically UND Hockey should the roads not be viable (or when Midco contracts an away game).

Undeniably. An overpass requires mounds on both sides to support the bridge deck and ramps. West Fargo had huge trouble with settling at Veterans and I94 exchange during construction. You can see some settling where they've piled mounds for the new 64th Ave interchange in south Fargo. Is that area in Grand Forks better? Both (over, under) have gold-letter pros and red-letter cons.

It's a day of the week that ends in "Y", and Jake Sanderson is hurt again.

Tyson Jost on line one, Jake. We know what'll happen against bigger, stronger, faster players. See: Beijing.

You're just trying to suck up to @Goon by praising his nephew.

About that ...

No Kleven No Sanderson Against the biggest team in the NCHC Friday. Johnson, Bast, and Ferner had best be ready. Sure am glad they made hay when the sun was shining and have PWR no worse than 8 locked up.

ONE finalist from the NCHC. Numbers three, four, six, nine, and ten in PWR; one Hobey finalist. Biggest Snubs? Ethan Frank, WMU, national leader in goals Ronnie Attard, WMU, but hey, the USOC/USA Hockey snubbed him for Beijing too ... < your nominations here >

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2022/03/16_Hobey-Top-10-Announced.php

... will not be someone in green. Nathan Smith, Minnesota State Dryden McKay, Minnesota State Matty Beniers, Michigan Luke Hughes, Michigan Devon Levi, Northeastern Yanev Perets, Quinnipiac Bobby Brink, Denver Ben Meyers, Minnesota Brian Halonen, Michigan Tech Bobby Trivigno, Massachusetts

Negotiable. An underpass would require a drainage/sump system; an overpass requires some serious preliminary dirt work (settling).

... because they are unpassable. Closing Interstate 29 is not like closing down part of University Avenue for a parade. You are literally putting an arbitrary stoppage (albeit temporary) on interstate commerce; that would garner Federal attention. (Weather is not arbitrary.)

Another link ... https://darik.news/northdakota/mcfeely-blog-und-opening-its-athletic-tv-rights-to-bids-expects-competition-for-them-inforum/202203504743.html

What would that be, fifteenth, sixteenth season? If he's not careful, he'll be playing the opposite corner from his own kid.

This is not recruiting ...

So, who would be televising suitors ... Midco, obviously. They've built up the franchise. WDAY-TV. But they just spent the bankroll to get NDSU away from KVLY. WDAY-TV did recently acquire KVRR-TV so might they want programming there? And KVRR has nice OTA coverage. KVLY-TV. They just lost NDSU Football. Are they good with network feeds on Saturday afternoons. Bally Sports North (formerly Fox Sports North) could be the wildcard. Radio broadcast? iHeartMedia Grand Forks, the current radio home. Might Flag Family Media take a run at it? Scott Hennen (the REA PA guy before Darrin Looker) is an executive there. They have both WZFG-AM and WDAY-AM in Fargo now, but no Grand Forks presence. Would KNOX-AM Grand Forks, radio home back in the way back day, make a bid? All interesting. I'm sure of almost nothing in this crazy world. What am I sure of? Whoever gets "radio" will be mandated to have this person as play-by-play.

"Before that, Jost became just the second UND player ever selected in the top-10 of the NHL Draft (Jonathan Toews)." <-- That sentence is incorrect.

I wish there was some set standard for presenting that information.

Jake Sanderson ... anyone? Fifth overall ring any bells?

Right now NDSU has exactly zero juniors and seniors on their MBB roster.

Small thinking. An underpass (not a full interchange with ramps) improves city access to the industrial park as well as helps the Alerus problem. If you're going to spend any money, get more than 12 hours of usage a year from it. And an underpass at 17th Avenue would make the industrial park more attractive to businesses.

That ain't happening. You don't get to close interstate highways like that.