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Cam Newton completes a 50 yard pass ... to Cromartie.

At all the games. Totally connected. Knows how it all should be. Are we sure we shouldn't call you the new "Kauk"? Who's your "Gretzky"?

Ah yes, KVLY's "bubble headed bleach blonde*" ... I stood next to her by the bar in a trendy Fargo pub one evening. She wasn't one of the three best looking in the room and didn't come across as more than a news reader (not so sharp). PS - What's this "NFL" non-sense. There's hockey tonight. * © Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" circa 1985

Pairwise is the worst possible system out there ... except for all the rest. I'd use KRACH because it's the most objective. What I don't like is that most think some guy named Ken came up with it out of the clear blue sky. KRACH is actually based on a very respected mathematical model called the Bradley-Terry Method. Bradley-Terry was first used to model chess master rankings from tournaments where there wasn't time for every master to play every other master. http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Bradley-Terry_model

Why didn't we send a Matthews sized bag with Nick Schmaltz? Carry on!

This is KVLY wanting more money from Cable One. I just checked my (Midco) DVR and I don't see a single series recording on NBC and just one from CBS. (There's a couple from ABC/WDAx and a couple friom the CW which is also WDAx and a bunch from nationals like USA and TNT.) I think the KVLY/KXJB folks are over-valuing their product. Signed, Not a Cable One fan

More proof of why politicians need to stay away from the details of the operations of college athletics.

< ding! > Winner! Tell 'im what he's won, Johnny!

How much leash does Eaves have in Madison? Down 4000+ season tickets and now a season like this ...

What a move! 3-1 'mack! And of course comes the mandatory penalty against 'mack to try to get the ground squirrels back in it.

Somebody tell the Canadian goalie he's pitching a shut-out. 4-0 Canada. Congrats to the Danes on avoiding relegation.

But both are solid engineering schools.

Good linemen are like money and goaltending: There is no such thing as "too much".

I was notorious on my American Legion team for coming into the dugout after the first inning and telling our pitcher he was tossing a no-no (if appropriate).

Why am I suddenly hungry for cupcakes?

No Holes! No Holes! No Holes! What else to you cheer for ... a bunch of Danish. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVU23knqZw Nuts. 2-0 Canada. Yeah, yeah, ... but I was hoping for a Holy Cross kinda game.

Dang. Too soon. 1-0 Canada.

Shhhh ... but the Danes just survived the opening ten minutes ... shhhh ... don't wake the sleeping beavers ...

A knee is not supposed to move the way Fabbri's did ... ouch.

Bartender, I'll have what Mafia's having.

Gerlach is a 98. With Rowe bailing out Gerlach can't be the replacement. I think we'll be hearing a name for this fall at forward.

Is it making them cross ... or are they just getting bounced. </ obligatory back Czech jokes >

My observations on Team USA: Fasching -- he'd go to the corner but never came away from the boards with the puck. Eichel -- he forgot he had teammates; he was trying to win it by himself USA defense -- small, quick, but I saw nobody that I expect to have a 10-year NHL career (there were no "Cam Fowler" types) USA powerplay -- I don't like the changes v. Russia; they should've left Schmaltz and Matthews together on the second unit; if Eichel needed a shooter on the first unit put Larkin there I might be a homer, but guys I'd take from Team USA in order: Larkin, Schmaltz, DeLeo, Matthews. (You can keep Eichel and that goalie.) We're on a SWE v. CAN crash course. PS - Any of you pilot types available to get Nick Schmaltz back to GF in time for a game v. the U18s?

Can you watch the stream directly off NHL.com with that?

Sedevie had a decent college career at BSU. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=67724