The Sicatoka

Not good news coming out of MVFC member Southern Illinois. Seems they could use someone to make some tough calls to manage their finances. https://dailyegyptian.com/79417/sports/siu-athletics-running-on-cumulative-deficit-of-26-million/

One more reason why ratings are down: The self-loving self-ingratiating “look at my hair and make-up and clothes” high-maintenance diva below ... and the blonde in the photo too. https://goo.gl/images/6dNqir

Kinda hip kinda now kinda cool kinda wow. IALTO.

Hey, ... take a knee.

The coverage is, well, not watchable: Too much sniff-sniff feel good stuff and "with the athletes" stuff, no medal ceremonies, and not enough actual sport. Toss in a little fawning over a dictator's little sister and ... VOILA! Ratings. Crapper. < harrumph, harrumph, harrumph >

I have no insights, just a peek at stats, but, what if Huber is instead of Keane? We need scoring and Keane hasn't been "offensively dynamic" in quite a while.

Wait a dadgummed minute here ... Norway > Slovenia > USA? Ludwig Hoff > Troy Terry?

I'm pretty sure I see my monorail in there!

My plan: April 15, 2017 (post NCAA Championship game) The six NCAA conferences, in conjunction with USA Hockey, take their teams' active rosters, subtract any seniors, add in any admitted freshmen (for fall 2017). Then they eliminate all non-US players from the list. Then the conference (by coaches consensus) create the Americans-Only All < conference name here > team. The conference's team is coached by selection of a coach by whatever mechanism the conference chooses (reigning champ, vote of coaches, vote of media, draw straws, this); however, the chosen coach must be American (obviously). Additionally, the leagues are ordered 1-6 by league-wide 2016-17 KRACH finish. July 2017: The start of single elimination play. Yup, no round-robin; one game, save costs. At site chosen by USA Hockey (assume bid process): Thursday -- 1 and 2 seed get byes Afternoon session: 3 plays 6 Night session: 4 plays 5 (winners advance to ...) Friday -- Afternoon session: if 6 won, plays 1; if 3 won plays 2 Night session: 4/5 winner against 1 or 2 (based on winner of Thu afternoon game) Sunday afternoon -- Friday's winners play for a trip to South Korea to be "Team USA". League adjusts its conference schedules for 2017-18 schedule to account for stars gone to Olympics.

The case I mention is not Roers so I don't know.

US scores on the power play ... and gives one right back 25 seconds later. Yeesh.

Did the US send the Mighty Ducks to PyongChang? Yeesh. The US breakout tonight is a goal line to near blue line pass to a center who proceeds to go to the far blue line 1 on 3 and shoot four feet wide. Double yeesh.

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Just a test ... carry on.

... then that's when the trouble started ...

Props to you for the use of "apex predator".

So did this harm Dean Bresciani?

Would folks rather we have a president that no other university is interested in?

Here's the IIHF explanation.

All Wolanin needs in that photo is a bowstring.

No. That's the move you make when you know your "A game" isn't better than what you're up against. When you know you're not better you go with the 'trickeration'. When you know your "A game" is better ... well ... you go with it.

I did not know Fetch was on the SUI Olympic team. That must be him. https://deadspin.com/swiss-olympic-skier-appears-to-be-some-sort-of-escalato-1823016506 So, two new sports: - reverse ski jump - warehouse bobsled

I know a guy from Warroad that likes to joke that 2/3 of Canadians live south of him. http://brilliantmaps.com/half-canada/