jimdahl

Happens a few times a year, major media continues its inability to distinguish North Dakota towns/Universities. Still, you might hope the STrib would know N.D. better...

Conversation moved here because this is where discussion of posting standards belongs. The standard we try to use is that posting something solely to try to aggravate/get a rise from other posters is smack/trolling; a commonly identifiable pattern is an attempt to counter a positive statement with an off-topic negative one (e.g. in a discussion about how the hockey team is doing well, an opposing fan countering, "yeah, how'd your equestrian team do?" == irrelevant smack). Second, I don't really understand the misconception that smack is reduced to non-smack by the addition of smiley faces, but I just don't agree. Rather, I've noticed a strong correlation between smiley faces and the presence of smack. Comments are welcome.

He seems to have the pulse of this UND alum/fan (from the articles Sicatoka quoted). On former NDSU rivalry: On D-I: On how to start the job: His financial experience:

No doubt that if Fargo's gambles in RFID manufacturing pay out like this one did, that will also be great news for the region economically. However, I still don't understand the need to turn good economic development news for the region into divisive Fargo vs. G.F. smack; please confine that sort of thing to the appropriate sites.

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Defense analysts weigh in on pros and cons for Grand Forks Air Force Base as BRAC deadline nears

I think there's a difference between arrogance and self-confidence. Most kids grow up assuming they'll someday be rich, or a famous politician, or a rock star, or own a UND athletics web site. While 80% turn out to be wrong and lead nice quiet lives like the rest of us, I promise you that every single person who does achieve greatness came from that pool of always being sure they would. No one plays competitive youth sports without assuming they'll make it to play at high school. I mean, really, you think there are a bunch of peewees out there just enjoying some good exercise and planning on dropping out before high school? Many may not make it, but I think all plan on making it.

A couple of SD's designs also include a buffalo. It's nice to have a monument -- their leading designs are: Mt. Rushmore w/pheasant, Mt. Rushmore w/buffalo, and Mt. Rushmore w/wheat. Rounding out their top 5 are a Bison (looks a lot like ND's!) and a pheasant. Since we didn't get Sioux hunting Bison as even an option, I guess I have to go with Diggler's blank design.

Twins stadium plan approved by Hennepin County. I'm not much of a baseball fan, but the loss of one of its two major tenants could accelerate the fiscal doom of the Metrodome. That, of course, could have significant impact on the Vikings (teetering on the edge of being sold?) and the Gophers.

Rally for the base, May 7, 10am

That was precisely my point -- as I said in my post, it was a "pleasant surprise" to me, too, to notice UND's scores when I hadn't stayed home to follow the game. In the regular season, it certainly didn't include all D-II scores each week (just as it doesn't seem to have all I-AA scores), but it usually included UND. It was much more common in the rotation on ESPN2 than 1, but I can still catch that update at any bar. Could we all drop the I-AA football championship's tv coverage? The whole topic arc is irrelevant smack that the Bison fans are trying to goad you into; UND isn't going I-AA any time soon and NDSU has never and won't for sometime set foot near any such game.

No contract other than for the Frozen Four, but the rise in coverage has been ongoing for a few years and no college games were directly shown in the channels/timeslots of NHL games (even though the college broadcasts would have occurred regardless, you could argue that the absent NHL increased the popularity of those broadcasts). I live way out of the college hockey core market; five years ago there were only two UND games per year even available on satellite and you could barely beg a bar to pull them in. This year, I literally walked into a bar on a March Madness weekend and their tv's (which were marked with what games they would be showing all night) were schedule to be showing two basketball games and a college hockey game at any given time. The FSN's have shown regional college hockey since their inception a few years ago, which covers UND when it plays big market teams like UMN, UW, BC, etc... When CSTV was starting up a couple years ago, it intended from the start to have college hockey as a weekend night anchor, and UND does have significant marquee value in the sport. The only surprise to me this year was ESPNU's coverage, but with them hunting for college sports in a saturated market, adding hockey makes perfect since as it's still considered one of the "big" team spectator sports, even if the smallest of the biggies. My other personal pleasant surprise this year (being out of market) was the addition of UND's football games to the ESPN tickers, which came in handy more than once when I was out during UND's game. I just need ESPNU/CSTV to increase coverage of D-II football (of which UND is arguably one of the marquee teams) and I'll be set

The Capital Times is finally reporting that UW is not going to the Lefty McFadden, but UND is. Apparently Wright St. wants to use the facility to have a midnight basketball scrimmage , so they had to change the Lefty McFadden dates.

The page sprig linked to included a link to this sample. That will let you know how your machine handles their streaming. The other thing that can go wrong is if the web server or data host becomes too congested to handle the traffic its getting, but with Akamai as a host, I'd be surprised if that became an issue.

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Wellness Center well on its way (Grand Forks Herald) I don't recall if this has been posted before: Promotional video (big! and a tad self-important, but it is a promotional video)

(Emphasis in quote mine). That was the call I heard in Columbus after the game. A significant part of the glove was in the goal, it included the part of the glove we all presume the puck to have been in, but there wasn't any definitive proof that's where the puck was. Thanks for the pics Melissa -- the quality was apparent from the excerpts that you put on USCHO, but the volume was a pleasant surprise. With the Sioux in it, we had decided to sacrifice playing media/photographer to watch the games.

Wow, nice for Bowenkamp. I had heard he went to tryouts, but nice to see him get a shot. A draftee from North Dakota, ex-Cavalier High/NDSU player, Rob Hunt, was drafted as a center for the Colts.

Of course fans of rival schools love to smack each others' teams, schools, etc... and love to see their rivals smacked. I'd fully expect to see such a piece written by a juvenile fan on a Gopher or Duluth message board, I'm just surprised to see it written by a "journalist" in a Michigan newspaper. Next week write a piece about how you'd have to be crazy to be a Duluth fan because Michigan is so much better and you'll see their board fill with puzzled statements wondering why you feel the need to smack Duluth to make yourself feel good about being a Michigan fan. You might even see one fan on a Duluth rival's message board express their support for you.

No one is saying he (or you) are wrong to like a Michigan sport better than a UND sport. People are only pointing out that they honestly prefer a UND sport because his article stated that it's "crazy" to think cheering for the Fighting Sioux could be as rewarding as cheering for Michigan. No one is trying to deny him his right to prefer Michigan, we're just claiming that we find being fans of UND just as rewarding as he finds being a fan of Michigan. The question on the table is still why someone writing a piece on the greatness of Michigan athletics would feel the need to buttress his claim with a hatchet job on thousand-mile-away, non-rival, out-of-division, UND athletics. (See previous postulating).

What we're all questioning is why reassuring the Michigan campus about their "national importance" in sports had to involve slamming UND, a small D-II school that doesn't really compete on any of the same stages. It's a somewhat rhetorical question, in that the timing of the article and the digs within it makes it obvious that the motivation was UND's success in the NCAA hockey tournament. UND has been out there going to championships (including in a sport in which it competes with Michigan) while Michigan hasn't. Your article stated that you hate to see UND do well, which makes it seem like UND's success got under your skin to the point that you felt compelled to write an article to reassure the world that Michigan athletics are inherently superior to North Dakota athletics because they have more fans. I suspect 97% of your Ann Arbor readers wondered why the hell you were even comparing Michigan to UND, and you failed to convince us (any newly minted Michigan fans, feel free to correct me).

Isn't he the pirate who was always chasing Guybrush Threepwood?