The Sicatoka

Forget my "kicker": Has NDSU ever pulled off a conference Trifecta or Grand Slam?

Can Steve Johnson coach women? Now, before you jump all over me, yes, Steve Johnson (as in former Lincoln Stars coach, Luke's dad) can coach. I believe he's back living in Grand Forks. But can he coach women? And yes, coaching women is very different than coaching men. I don't mean skills, I mean connecting to them and understanding communications and motivation. And before you slay me for that, I'm looking at a women's national championship team coach who is telling me this.

Has NDSU pulled off the Grand Slam in the Summit? OK, even the Trifecta (as the Summit) doesn't have football. Surely NDSU has won DI conference regular season titles in FB, MBB, WBB, and WVB all in the same academic year ... like UND just completed the Grand Slam in the DI Big Sky ... with the kicker of being the reigning NCAA DI men's ice hockey champions.

You must mean the SHAC, not Scheels (hockey) Arena.

The Conference Grand Slam. How many times has that been accomplished in any conference?

The Conference Grand Slam. How many times has that ever happened in any conference?

Photos or it never happened.

Access at that location is turrbull.

This is Al Carlson pitching the bird at Standing Rock for the DAPL mess. The SRST's casino is already bleeding red from the secondary effects of the DAPL protests. Carlson is reminding them that he could completely put them out of business by allowing State owned casino just outside BisMan. I'm sure he's of a mind that would love to take out the rest of the tribal casinos at the same time. It's copious quantities of the Carlson Kabul and their cohorts conniving and contriving conspicuously. <-- I have to stop listening to Too Tall Tom's weather forecasts. < facepalm >

Mr. Lewis has some work to do before he can take over for ... ... this insurance huckster.

Again, crabby-guy says, "Restaurants are not an economy." This, THIS is an economy ... or not. Fargo-based Vanity to close about 140 stores after filing for bankruptcy protection http://www.inforum.com/business/4227086-fargo-based-vanity-close-about-140-stores-after-filing-bankruptcy-protection

Moderator note: The links that didn't work (that I fixed, < patting self on back >) were truncated. I'm guessing the post came from an iPad where you think you copied the whole link but you didn't. (It happens with mine too.) Make sure when you copy a URL on an iPad (or anywhere for that matter) you get the whole link. An easy way to test it before using it: - copy the link - open a new tab in browser - paste the link (you can paste more than once) If it works, you got it; if not ...

To be a really good basketball team you need three "dudes" and nine adequate for the level players. < Disclaimer: I am not a great basketball mind, just a casual observer; but, it sure looks that way at any level I look at. >

Let's see ... the 2016-2017 UND in the NHL "shinny team" (must have appeared in 1 NHL game this season): Toews Oshie Stafford Parise Zajac Nelson VandeVelde Grimaldi Schmaltz Caggiula Rowney Greene Forbort Simpson Chorney Stetcher Ladue Dell McIntyre _____________________________________ Looks like Jordan Schmaltz got called up to STL; but, he still hasn't met criteria. When he does, we get our 20 man game day sheet! Malone went to STL (assigned to AHL) as part of the deal with WAS so he might end up here yet.

For those of you not in on the joke ... I give you MSNBC's Cal Perry, or as he'll now forever be known: Floating Buffalo

Black Worms? Black Garters? ... No. Wait. That's something very different ...

I'd take Ms. Gardner more seriously if her letter was more substance than platitudes. http://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/letters/4226847-miranda-gardner-und-students-want-say-budget-cuts Define which program cuts concern you. Explain why they shouldn't be cut. And not in generalities. Oh, wait, You can't? Because they haven't been enumerated yet? I see. The State is cutting the budget allocation 20%. There will be pain. Until you (meaning anyone) internalize that reality, you (meaning anyone) has no business making the decisions.

UND is 3-1 against UNO. UND is 3-1 against SCSU. UND wins either of those head-to-head tie breakers. Most importantly, UND controls its fate: Win two and play at home on March 10.

"WRONG." -- DJ Trump They are ... The New Four Horsemen. Santiago, Olivera, Gordon, and Johannesson

Now they're trying to use "prophecy" to stop the pipeline. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/tribe-puts-black-snake-prophecy-at-center-of-pipeline-battle Why didn't we know about this before? The UND Black Snakes has a certain ring to it.

I like lower case d . IALTO.

That is so much hokum. And it keeps being spewed out there are gospel. (None of that is aimed at you BWSE.) Division I is an athletics designation, the NCAA, the National Collegiate ATHLETICS Association. Some folks < cough, in Fargo, cough > sold that notion and it is bunk. University rankings in terms of research and scholarship matter far more when it comes to faculty salaries.

UND owns the soccer field it plays on. UND did not own the baseball field it played on. Now, about the softball field ...

The Power 5 want their own sandbox for football. The Power 5 want their own sandbox. It's all about the Benjamins.