The Sicatoka

So basically, just so everyone understands, a state with "no affiliation" with TR's Roughriders has been flying a replica of the Roughrider battle flag as the State flag for over 100 years. I guess bringing North Dakota Roughriders teams onto the playing surface led by the State flag ... would make complete historic sense.

"I am an expert witness, because I say I am." -- the man who appeared from a cloud of smoke (aka Lucifer) Reference: "Garden of Allah" by Don Henley

I went and looked at the DOJ source for the Fargo Forum graphic. It seems said "thugs" have gone west (Bismarck and Minot) moreso than north. Their violent crime rates are climbing fasters than Grand Forks', which isn't to say Grand Forks hasn't seen an increase also, but at a slower rate. (West Fargo's is climbing rapidly also, but that's probably a proximity effect from Fargo.)

The article Cratter borrowed the graphic from pointed out that FPD has a low "cops per 1k of population" relative to similarly sized midwestern cities. Fargo wanted growth, growth, growth, ... and they got it. And everything that comes with it. That graphic says it all.

We had a coach that was happy to compete and go toe-to-toe. We canned him.

Do we decide on "winners and losers" now, after the draft, or do we wait until Wednesday night and the completion of the first day of the free agent signing period?

Roughrider mascots "for the children" are already built in: And then there's the "Captain Obvious" answer: wire-rimmed glasses and Stetson hat wearing ... TEDDY bears.

The expression is "blood, sweat, and tears". If you are sweating bloody tears please seek medical assistance. Blood should not come out of your tear ducts or sweat glands.

I just went to NDCC 54-02-02. http://history.nd.gov/state-flag.html

After dealing Lucic and Hamilton, suddenly BOS has the 13th, 14th, and 15th picks in the first round, and Marty Jones. Think that's enough to get the 2nd overall pick away from BUF so they can go "Mauer" and keep the hometown boy (Eichel) in BOS? I'm not sure why else BOS loaded up like that. Or has BOS gotten that old and this is their trigger to youth for the future.

The Big XII added West Virginia. Now they need folks to go with them. Cincinnati and Memphis would make sense to fill in the gap to WVU (the Big XII outlier).

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Is FPD still in disarray as a department, even after (former) Chief Turnes' dismissal? Is FPD overmatched by what is coming into the city (as Dan says, violent element)?

NDSU has the 8th worst ratio in all of Division (347 schools). Two of the seven worse than NDSU? Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and The Citadel. Both were all male schools not that long ago. I guess I just don't understand how NDSU's surveys don't find interest in womens tennis and womens hockey. NDSU's club teams do fairly well in those. I guess I also don't understand why a public land grant would want (be proud of?) a ratio that looks more like 1975 than 2015.

So, where is (as Paul Harvey used to say) "the rest of the story" on this one? We have detail after detail about the South Carolina killer of nine. How is it we don't have more information about a US Government employee, a USAF airman, who commits double homocide?

There's a lot of feel-good showmanship in pulling down those flags. I won't be surprised in what gets run over in the process. But what'll they blame the next time a nutbag goes off?

Oh no, Dan. No. Anything but positive press about Fargo makes NDSU1980 so, so mad that he feels abliged to "neg rep" me (at another site) for anything that ever happens in Fargo and is reported in the media and then noted here. So, no, Dan, just no. No ink. Everything in Fargo is duckies and bunnies, rainbows and unicorns. < play Kumbahya here >

Masterfully played.

One trick pony knows one trick.

You mean the soft, four-eyed, "from money", straight out of the lap of luxury, wimpy kid from NY? North Dakota toughened him up.

Some don't like "Roughriders" because Teddy wasn't native to North Dakota; he was adopted. Well, were there wolverines in Michigan when U of Michigan took that name, based on a state nickname? The answer is somewhere between "nope" and maybe a few that went extinct 200 years ago. http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/wolves.html We know at least two Roughriders lived in North Dakota, including the most famous.

Dress not for the job you have, but for the job you want. The major public university in many midwestern states uses the state nickname as the athletics nickname. Jayhawks, Hoosiers, Gophers, Hawkeyes, Cornhuskers, Badgers. You have to act like the bigs to be thought of like the bigs. They all have nicknames (whether or not they use them much or not); they have nicknames ... based on a state nickname. Thank goodness for some, any, association with a Congressional Medal of Honor winning, Nobel Peace Prize winning, former US President who said he would have never been President without his time in North Dakota. Otherwise, we'd be staring "Peace Gardeners" in the face (because we've already used "Sioux" state and "Flickertail" state).

I thought the NCAA had an "on ice" limit of one "C" and three "A". If so, they'll have to rotate. Also, I see this as a sign that LaDue and Stetcher are gone after this season.

To believe that UND's nickname status is not used against it by opponents (everywhere from the recruiting trail to the playing surface) is naivety writ epic. Admit it: If the tables were turned, you'd use it.

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