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Griz TD

17-13 Sioux

UND down by only 3 going into the 3rd.... despite our offense. Need a stop on this first possession. C'mon special teams and D!

OK.

7-13.. Griz.

Sutton TD

Nice return by Hawkins!!!

Is it just me, or does it seem that no matter what it is hockey, football or horeshoes... UND always get called for penalties when they play tough and finish plays. The zebras hate us in every sport. I wonder if I am just biased.

Oh where art thou, Kelby K and Cogswell Cannon....

QBs and Hardin seem out of sync. Still early.

No problem.. it was a small loss of one yard on the first sack.

That should be 2 for the good guys!

That's right. Thanks! I must be getting old and my memory is lagging.

Very true. But I think the keywords there are "in the Great West." There has not been much excitement at all for any team that has come into the the Alerus Center since we joined the Great West. Let's face it. The Great West was needed to help scheduling and to help those teams like UND who are in transition. It does and has done nothing to get fans excited (the product on the field hasn't helped matters any either). If Mussman can get the team competing at a consistent quality level to the point where fans can get excited about the team again and once we get to the point where we are FCS playoff eligible, then I see the Alerus attendance trending upward again regardless of who the opponent is. A lot of "ifs" there, I know. I guess the bottom line I am trying to say is that playing in a transitional conference and the dismal product on the field have coupled to effectively kill attendance far more than the teams we are playing or not playing.

Sorry about posting twice.... trying to up my post count!

Not to start a pissing match here with SU posters because I do have great respect for that entire program, but I truly will love to see teams like Cal Poly come in to the Alerus on a consistent basis. Ever since the time arrogant ol' J.T. O' Sullivan strutted up here to the "sticks" er, I mean Grand Forks and got blown out of the building from the crowd noise, I've really enjoyed that team as a budding rival. Cal Davis is another quality team I will enjoy seeing come to town for football. Then there's our old NCC foe UNC, it will be good to rekindle that "friendship" on the gridiron. As far as the other sports, it's still to early to tell, (although, the Montanas and Weber States will be fun to play in men's b-ball) but I am sure as the years go by and we see more of these teams more often at the Betty, they too will become exciting foes to go and watch. I would imagine that in the early years of the Missouri Valley or the Summit there were a handful of teams that appeared less than enticing to the casual fan, but as years have gone by, those teams have become more recognizable, and some of those have created must-see match-ups when they come to the dome. I see the same happening in the BSC.

Very exciting game. Just got back. In the waning seconds of OT, Wiebe chases down the puck after a scramble in the neutral zone then skates in on a break away down the left side only to have two OSU players eventually catch up to her. Nonetheless she's able to snap one that catches the wide side of the net passed the late glove of the OSU goalie. Game Over. 3-2 Sioux! Sudden death with 14 ticks left. Wiebe's first of the year!

The Big Sky Conference is my newest facebook "Friend"!!!

Agreed. So far, it looks like New Hampshire, who was ahead of UND in the polls, took back-to-back losses to unranked teams; I haven't seen the complete weekend results from across the country to get a clearer perspective on what the forth-coming poll might look like. So, at least, with the Sioux taking one from the Number 1 team in the land coupled with two NH losses, the Sioux should inch up a bit. I am sure Idalski could care less about the polls, though; just nice eye candy for us! Way to go, ladies!

Here's another candid shot of Josh wearing his fave Sioux cap! http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20336634_20726619,00.html

I remember a St. Patty's Day near-spanking that instead turned into a heartbreaker in overtime. St. Cloud State defeated North Dakota 6-5 to claim the 2001 WCHA Final Five Championship. Derek Eastman scored the game-winner in overtime after UND scored three goals in the final ten minutes of regulation to force the extra session. I was at the game in the nosebleed section among a throng of raucous and somewhat cocky Husky fans... With about 13 seconds left (that sticks out in my mind because I raised my eyes to the jumbotron one last time before the faceoff) the Sioux won the draw in the Husky end and sent the puck back to the point where Travis Roche launched zinger that beat the St. Cloud goalie. From my vantage, I could distinctly see the black of the puck move the twine in the back of the net. All I remember is leaping and screaming for joy and almost falling down 10 rows of Xcel seats; thank goodness my wife steadied me on my way down! It sucked to lose in OT, but the pain was easier to take after such an unfathomable comeback to tie it up in regulation. I will never forget that game.

Another stat I heard is that Phil has won 10 of the last 19 NBA championships. Pretty impressive no matter what you think of the guy's views.

I thought it was a well-written article. Just very horrible logic. I would think we should be praising this kind of stuff, as it effectively kills the legitimacy of the anti-nickname mumbo jumbo better than anything else can. And the best part is they are doing it to themselves. So, three cheers for faulty logic. Hip, hip horray! Hip, hip horray!, Hip, hip horray!

Just go to Tu-Uyen Tran's "City Beat" Blog and comment till your heart's content.

Many on here have reflected on the 2001 game at the X against St. Cloud. I was at that game, too. If you can ever be in St. Paul on St. Patty's day -- do it. Anyway, I was in the nosebleed section opposite the goal the Sioux shot at in the third. We were surrounded by the most obnoxious and cocky St. Cloud fans EVER! The fact that we were only down 1 goal with a few ticks left in the game was unfathomable, considering how deep of a hole we had been in. I will never forget Roche skating onto the ice. I leaned over to my mom, who was at her first Final 5 game. I told her if the Sioux win the draw and get it back to Roche ... we have a shot. Sure enough, true to script, Lundbohm got the puck back to Travis on the left point with 11 seconds to go. In my mind's eye, I still can see the back of the net give as the puck sailed into the twine. It seemed like eternity for the red light to come on, though it was surely instantaneous. I must have leaped 10 feet at that point. Even though, we lost in sudden death, the near comback tempered the Husky fans big time and their mood was more of relief than cockiness. I also remember reading about a young woman who was watching the 1997 Final 5 championship against the Goofs at one of those Sioux game-watching parties down south, maybe in Arizona. She was wearing Sioux gear like many in the room. After Peter Armbrust's game winner, the party erupted with joy except for the young woman. She was in tears in front of the TV. Another Sioux fan tried to allay her grief, informing her that it was the Sioux that, in fact, scored and had won. That's when she informed him that Peter was her brother. Damn, it's great to be part of the Fighting Sioux nation!