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I didn't check out the roster, but maybe they're getting players from southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan (Brandon, Boissevain, Estevan, etc.). Or maybe there are some kids coming down to play from the Alberta oil sands region, if their parents get jobs in the Williston Basin? Interesting nontheless.

Who knew? Williston State has a hockey team, and they knocked off THE Arizona Wildcats. http://www.williston...1871e3ce6c.html

Hopefully the students will show because it's on a Thursday night, instead of going home to mama and papa on the weekend-- at least they might stay for the first half.

^^What an arrogant punk. Typical.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I would say "different" as opposed to "better," given the different time lines for D-1 entry and transition and the conference affiliations. I try to be as objective as possible, though, I admit, I tend to be a little more lenient or sympathetic to shortfalls and optimistic or hopeful for the team's future than fans from other fan bases would be -- but delusional -- I don't think so. If you are too objective and realistic about your team, it makes being a "fan" no fun. In fact, one is probably not a "fan"atic at all, in the truest sense of the definition.

So huge!!! I looked at the recruiting tapes on Tuilagi that were posted and at some of the warm weather schools that we were competing with and I thought -- no effn' way. Wow! I may have to become a regular at Spring ball and the Green and White game this spring. That's how excited I am.

That is so freakn' awesome! What a charmer she is. Her dad looks like he could still lace 'em up for UND.

As far as I can gather, this reality show, ala "Ice Road Truckers," is still in the pilot stage, shopping for a network to show it. Whether it makes it to prime time or not, it's an interesting look at life in Williston these days. http://www.fishingbuddy.com/boomtown_girls

I was going to say that, too, but I thought it was too obvious.

Yeah, but you gotta remember that .... 1. the game didn't mean as much to them. 2. they were looking past UND toward the SDSU game. 3. (my personal fave) they were "playing down" to UND. 4. they didn't show up to play, as it was a "meaningless' OOC game. 5. they would win 9 out of 10 games against UND. 6. Pat Sweeney "homered" Dom Izzo so much, causing Dom to say nice things about UND, that the balance of the universe was thrown off enough to favor a UND victory. 7. but football. 8. but(t) hurts. Take your pick. Heard 'em all before. Listen, NDSU is a very good team in bastekeball, football, volleyball, soccer, etc., relative to other teams in FCS and the mid-major level. There is no denying it. UND, too, is fielding very good teams relative to its competitive landscape. But the arrogance and excuses from both sides just gets nauseating.

It goes for both of you.

Idalksi won't have to recruit very hard to get this elite player -- in 2018! She sounds like a chip off the ol' block. I saw her dad score a beauty of a goal in the 1987 NC game at the Joe in Detroit. http://www.leaderpos...6005/story.html

Looks like this is shaping up to be the year of the walk-on. Nebraska paper says Sam Foltz is going to be a Husker under Pellini. http://www.theindependent.com/sports/fyfe-foltz-johns-to-walk-on-at-nu/article_5367d400-463d-11e1-8526-001871e3ce6c.html

Stat Nerd, here. OK, so JoLam and Mo are 1 and 3 in scoring in the nation, respectively. Jo (25 G, 37 A, 62 PTS) and Mo (22 G, 34 A, 56 PTS). Jo is putting up nearly 2.5 points per game. That's impressive! But get this little factoid, of Mo's 22 goals, 17 of them are of the meaningful variety, as in either game winners, short-handed goals or power play tallies. Mo makes hers really count! Source: http://www.uscho.com/stats/overall/division-i-women/2011-2012/

Growing pains in Dickinson. Good problem to have? http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/article/id/54793/

Nice move by UND and the State Board! This is a clear example of UND serving the state's current needs. Meanwhile, down south.... http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/347821/ Not a good sign for the nanoscale industry.

^^^^^^^^^^This. Bingo!

I like it. I thought it was fun. And if the players like and it gets them pumped, so be it.

Point is they've been using it for years, even decades. It is nothing new. You just are noticing it now because of the loss of the nickname and the emotions are still so raw.

Relax. There's no vast conspiracy taking place before your eyes. Wayne, Tom Miller, Schloss, Virg before him, and Kevin Fee, when he was there, and countless other sports writers that have been at the Herald have been using the term "Green and White" for decades as a substitute for "Fighting Sioux" and "UND" in their writings. Before you might have read right over it without even thinking about it; now you are more sensitive to it, and rightly so. My access to online Herald archives, which go back to 1995, show more than 4,100 references to the term "Green and White," and many of them are instances where "Green and White" was used as a substitute for "Fighting Sioux," or "Sioux." And I would wager a bet that I would find thousands more examples if the archives went farther back than 1995. "Green and White" also is the common term that is associated with the annual spring football game at UND, as in the "Green and White intersquad game." Below is the earliest example that I can find in the Herald archives. It is from a UND hockey game story about a series with Alaska Anchorage. Notice the quote from then-UND coach Dean Blais. I never knew Blais as someone who was anti-nickname or someone who wanted the name change to something else. Take the usage of "Green and White" for what it is: something that Herald reporters have been doing for years. Not some silly plan to sneakily and subliminally plant the seed for a new nickname in the collective mind of the public that reads their sports stories.

Chris Wiseman decides he wants to be a Yote afterall. http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncfrecruiting/on-the-trail/post?id=5310&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fblog%2fncfrecruiting%2fon-the-trail%2fpost%3fid%3d5310

I am sure he knows this already. He wouldn't be worth his salt as an AD if he didn't. But, it might be good to show him how important this issue is to UND fans. All that said, if you feel the need to remind him of the importance of having an FCS opponent vs. a lower division visitor, please, please, please, be respectful.

This should be filed under a thread called "Media Stories NOT on the Sioux name," but there isn't one, so I highjacked this one. The first link below is about the most important meeting of the year for the NCAA, which is going on this week, when they talk about the most pressing issues facing the organization and its members, and nary a mention about American Indian team nicknames. I realize that the NCAA isn't going to discuss pending litigation out in the open in a setting like this, but the point is, the story linked below goes through a litany of major challenges that the NCAA faced in 2011 and will face down the road, and the Spirit Lake lawsuit doesn't even appear as a blip on the national radar screen. I've also included the full agenda in the second link below. This controversy has been a major flare up, at least regionally, for the past three years, and it still has not resonated with the national public to even merit a brief mention in a nationally respected higher ed trade publication in a story about major concerns for the NCAA. There's still a lot of work to do if the nickname is going to be saved. http://www.insidehig...nual-convention https://www.planning...n/soe/index.cfm

More FYI on Hanson. http://blogs.fayobserver.com/batten/January-2012/UNC-takes-double-hit-at-QB

I am extremely happy with what seems like a quality "get" for UND. After looking at his UNC career bio, it looks like he was used in a limited number of situations and didn't really fair that great, not many attempts and yet a couple of picks against lesser competition, such as Georgia Southern. He's stuck behind a to-be junior QB with another to-be sophomore waiting in the wings. His high school credentials look solid, you could even say stellar. I really like his size (6'6" 215 pounds) and the potential maturity he'll bring to the young QBs. At least, with that kind of size, he'll be able have good down field vision and be able to throw over the O-line without bonking the ball off their helmets or allowing the D to get a hand on it. Looks like he has roots in Kansas City and likes playing pick-up basketball on the side. He was a business major at UNC.