The Sicatoka

He's setting click (and radio show callers) bait, and some bit.

Humor, true karma, would be to find out Evander Kane and DeShawn Watson have the same agent (Pariah Sports Management?). Not sure even Mike Rowe would want that job.

There's no way I'd go to China short of a full guarantee that I could leave immediately upon my request no matter my health status. (And I'd trust that guarantee as much as three-day old gas station sushi.) Covid still locking down cities: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/major-chinese-city-locks-down-to-control-covid-outbreak.html And now a new virus (hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) on the move in China: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/doi/10.46234/ccdcw2021.272

Use of that logo tells me the Nebraska media team is performing at the same level as their football team in the B1G.

With Sanderson wearing the USA jersey for a period of time, 6 and 24 had better grow some whiskers and quick, and 2 and 7 need to quick making blind passes to open spaces.

Not big news in the real world, but in fashion world it's Nygard is a pariah. He's facing a long list of ugly charges.

It would be bad, very bad, for CC if the hockey players' claims of boosters causing heart issues came to fruition. The $750 million endowment would merely be the start of a settlement. That's the fear those who mandate need to understand and take heed of: If the unspeakable happens, someone will come to break you mercilessly.

Bowl season is (almost) over. Guys from those teams are jumping in now.

You can keep your Doug Woog Memorial First Half Champions trophies.

@Blackheartif "Ricky Bobby" don't work for ya, how's about Stevie Ray?

Why play? Television money. So the talking heads have something to blather about. Because coaches have bonuses on the line based on the outcome.

"The Wildcats will be the primary tenant at the 3,000-seat facility, which is currently under construction." 3000 seats does not scream "moving to NCAA DI". Then again, what's Robson at CC hold? 3400.

"We have some teams not dressing a full roster. We have other teams using defensemen at forward so that they can play." What's safe for the players? I'd say you need 15 skaters. A lot of the times in games coaches "shorten the bench" to three lines and four defense, so that's 13 skaters. I'd say you have to have a goalie and a dressed backup. If you can't roster 15 + 2 for a scheduled game, you forfeit, you take a "1-0" loss and all the ramifications (PWR) that come with it. And about using defensemen at forward, um, let's start a list of UND D that have played at F on a game day roster.

I heard the NHL on SiriusXM guys talking about how recently and NBA team played a game with four guys on long-term deals (rostered players) and four guys off the street on ten-day contracts to get to the NBA required eight dressed players for a game.

PCM and I used to talk about how neither of us could recall "Sparky Vahthisnam" going to the wall in a scrum and not coming away with the puck.

< words here about vaccine passports and real reason not going to restaurants ... >

You are vastly misinterpreting what was written. Chipman heard the number of what it would take to save women's hockey. It was too much for him even, with a daughter on the squad. Ponder that: Dad had to disappoint his little girl. Put another way: Millionaire chair of the ownership group of the Winnipeg Jets found the cost to keep women's hockey unpalatable to even him, as a businessman and as a father. Dare I make a bold statement: Was UND losing donations to Athletics because some folks didn't want the money going down the firepit of women's hockey and UND making a tough economic decision and cutting the program restored the faith of some donors in the stewardship of UND with their monies.

Is Michigan worried that they aren't used to playing back-to-back nights and Western is. Michigan still has two first-rounders in their lineup and they're ducking Western? SPOILER ALERT: When Michigan's application to join a better conference in hockey arrives, the NCHC will reject it.

... I would think in time for U-18. We are talking about two US citizens trying to repatriate.

This is no disrespect to their skill positions, but most of NDSU's banners are because they had the best OL in the competition.

I'm old enough to remember when you could tell a flu was running through one of Gino's teams because everyone had their own marked water bottle on the bench and didn't use anyone else's.

The NHLPA needs to talk to the NFLPA and figure out how the NFL got testing of asymptomatic stopped.

The USA had to be moved aside somehow, yet you can't completely hose them over (as in last in pool and relegated). And thus there is the reason this is not a relegation year. Happy Gold to Canada. < puts tin foil hat back in desk drawer >

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