The Sicatoka

Polls are human opinions. I prefer analytics like Massey ratings or Bradley-Terry* or hockey Pair Wise. *Best known implementation to fans here is the KRACH college hockey rankings.

Incredible. It's fiddy.

Remember: The world revolves around NYC and JFK airport. It's 8 hours from JFK to London; it's 7 hours JFK to LAX. No big deal.

Why not just go all-in and say ... ELEVENTY-BILLION to 2 Miami.

Electrolux. Sucks. C'mon ... I get nothing for that. Really?

What is that massive structure going in immediately north of Simplot? Are they expanding? Is it this? https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4508346-simplot-seeks-help-58-million-expansion-grand-forks-plant

This is massive and yet it garners few comments.

Um. Yeah. At least I have above ground discharge options on both my discharges. One neighbor's discharge line exists his house two feet below grade. He's looking at punching a hole in the side of his house in case his underground freezes up while the sump is still active. (We're both on private septic so no "dump it to the city sanitary sewer" option.)

If your sump pump hammers away at 20% duty cycle the constantly flowing water doesn't freeze.

The first time I met the man he was introduced to me as " ... the mayor of Mayville." I found out the rest after that.

Not sure for those, but I believe it's Nov 12 for the Moorhead Spuds.

An Ihry from Hope. Whodathunkit?

This found on Mafia's iPod. This happens in the Meadowlands. Coincidence? I think not. Fear The Mafia.

I suspect metal detectors showing up at large venues in ND recently has less to do with the venue management and more to do with their insurance carriers.

Electrolux is leaving, that sucks.

I see your 100 and raise you to 500.

Tickets go in the ticket forum.

So Wisconsin and Penn State are playing a weekend series: - Thursday (Halloween) at 7 Eastern - Friday at 6 Eastern Sorry, but that's not good for either of them or college hockey in general.

Add it to the list of pre-game restaurants I'd go to that have closed: Shangri-La Grizzley's New Chinese joint on Columbia that opened after Shangri-La Now Wild Hog #KissOfDeath

Employers look for workforce. Workforce needs affordable housing. I'm no fan of the standard, stale, three-story apartment building, but that's home for manufacturing workers and entry level professionals. Companies looking to place a facility look for things like workers and workers look for affordable housing (and initially that's apartments). If I were starting a company I'd look for a city with workforce. If I were looking at a job in a city the first thing I'd look for is where to live. It's all tied together. You have to think like a systems engineer: how do all the moving pieces mesh together.

You'd probably have a better shot with Midco Sports Net.

Sleeping on this notion ... Would that be all bad? The Canadian junior/major junior system works. Minor league baseball works. The NFL and NBA get free minor league systems, and much of it publicly subsidized. Make educational institutions focused first on educating.

Engineers, bay-bee!