The Sicatoka

That game is just football moving to what soccer, and sadly hockey, have become: Low scoring defensive mindset stalemates where the games are not decided by talent but by "a bounce".

Rebounds? I thought you were talking Fowler, not Rubio.

Either NDSU has been slandered or is lying. After seeing the polar opposites presented by the Robbins and Larson I believe any investigative effort should come from outside NDSU. Its the only way to ensure a complete and unbiased fact finding.

We don’t know the issue is caffeine.

The NCAA needs to look at this Ben Newman fellow and his various endeavors. NDSU’s relationship with him (payments, access) should be explored as part of a self or State evaluation.

... and the front page of the Sunday Fargo Forum.

Fact is Robbins’ NCAA career is over because of a failed post game substance test. What that does is open the door to follow up questions and not all of them will be pleasant or polite. And it’s a reasonable basis for a greater inquiry by media (no comment) or the State (given claims by the mother of State employees being involved) or the NCAA (to evaluate some of the parties involved or how certain things are being done by certain parties).

The NCAA needs to look into this curious Ben Newman fellow. And his travels. And his offerings. Follow the Benjamins. All will become clear.

Thome hasn't played since the Duluth series. Ryan Anderson "ran the door" in the CC series as Thome didn't even dress. See PDF page 17: https://fightinghawks.com/documents/2019/1/30//Notes_020119_DU.pdf?id=8300

It's a maroon and gold thing. They all seem to get it.

Any wonder such things are on the NCAA naughty list?

That's probably some sort of rules violation.

Which probably explains why the NCAA has chemicals found in them on the naughty list.

The biologic half-life of caffeine is 5-6 hours in an average adult. Now put that to a college athlete, with say double the muscle mass, and having just played a game. I'd guess the bio half-life was down in the 3 hour range that day by exertion and excretion. And now, having said that, tell me he took that "pre-workout" supplement ... pre-game? Could it be caffeine? Sure. Was it? As I said, I'd be surprised. It'll probably be in the big, completely transparent NDSU self-audit study and report they'll put out Monday uncovering and exposing every relationship and detail.

I'm saying I'll be very surprised if it comes out that the issue was caffeine.

Travis Beck's reply to Kolpack's tweet says so much in so few words. "Pound the Stone" is a Newman catch-phase. And that's Beck's answer to the Kolpack story on Robbins.

Yes it is. But he's also admitted 'supplement'. If it really was too much gulping Big Gulps, sure; but, it's not. It's taking in something they'd been warned about. And they got caught. Now some of the other interesting practices (self-testing) and characters (Ben Newman) are coming into the light.

No, the openly refuting of the claims of their starting FB and his NDSU Athletics HOF mother should also be raising eyebrows. "Robbins family, meet undercarriage of bus. The gent there already is Mr. Newman (as placed by some former NDSU players, e.g. Travis Beck)."

Frankly, I do not believe NDSU should be investigated. I believe this Ben Newman fellow should be and wherever his tracks may lead que sera sera.

Who's Tomey? Marissa's on the team? No, wait, she's Tomei. Our goalie Peter Thome is out indefinitely. The article says the injury was January 10. That's pre-CC series.

So Robbins stopped at the 19th and University Stop-n-Go pre-game and grabbed a 64 oz fountain Dr. Pepper (more caffeine than even Mountain Dew) and whizzed a post-game positive. I have a cold adult-type beverage of your choice for you if the chemical that caused the fail was caffeine.

The claim is the issue is this "Clean Victory" crap. But we don't know for sure; we just have claims. So I went and found the NCAA's list of explicitly banned stimulants: So none of those are in "Clean Victory" products? OK ... so other than getting caffeine at the local Qwik-e-mart ... where'd those controlled substances come from that were detected in Robbins' sample?

A student with a legal script for a medication is a smoking gun?

Ben Newman's name has come up. "Clean Victory" has come up. <-- interesting name for a supplement product And look what it took me 15 seconds to find: https://www.cleanvictorysupplements.com/pages/team

Yes, yes they do. So then why are they (a former starting FB and a HOF WBB player) risking alienating all Bison-dom by making the statements that were made and accusing a 'trusted staff member'? Given they have the most to lose and least to gain and still they did it I'm saying I believe them more than the AD.