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Here's the NCAA news article. It's a bit dull, but contains some real nuggets of insight into how the NCAA plans to deal with the Indian mascot issue: http://www.ncaa.org/news/2002/20021014/awi...de/3921n08.html So, the big news seems to be that the NCAA is now going to make schools with Indian mascots regularly certify that they're using them respectfully. As long as Florida State and Illinois are there for us, any resolutions from the NCAA will be similar toothless. However, the interesting point is the crackdown on tournaments/championships at Indian-mascot schools. Sounds like if we want to hold a tournament in Engelstad we have to obscure every Indian-head logo and every sign that references "Sioux". Looks like they're also encouraging conferences to adopt the same rules for conference tournaments.

I like the part where a fan challenged that they wouldn't win national championships anymore once they moved D-IAA, and the athletic director answered, "It's not like we've (SDSU) been banging down the doors for national championships (in Division II)." Remember that NDSU pledged not to move without a conference affiliation. However, when their Big Sky plan fell through, they pushed the move through anyway. In the end, it's what the administration wants that counts.

It must be a new policy. I definitely remember players winning both rookie and either offensive or defensive POTW in the same week. Parise wasn't even nominated for rookie of the week, so it's probably fair to assume he wasn't eligible.

Stats unchanged-- after 2 games, Parise is still averaging 4 points per game

I don't know the correct terminology either, but the winner of a match is the team that wins 3 of 5 games. Unfortunately, UND was actually swept (24-30, 27-30, 24-30) by SDSU tonight Since I went to college, volleyball has apparently switched to what's called rally scoring. That means that someone gets a point on every serve. Traditonally, you can only score when you served, and you play to 15. In rally scoring, whoever wins each serve gets a point, and you play to 30. I've seen one college game in rally scoring (UW vs. Penn State) and don't like it nearly as much. The problem is that once a team is behind 7 points or so, there's no coming back. It used to be that you could stage a reasonable comeback because even if your opponent gets a "sideout", you just have to get the serve back without allowing a point. Now that sideout is a point instead. Apparently the switch to rally scoring was because matches under rally scoring last a predictable length, making them more suitable for television

Yeah, you can't really have two losers for a contest. It also seems incredibly unfair for it to be recorded as a loss for UND when there was an ineligible player on the field. The most common forfeitures are in end of season tournaments, in which the winner of the tourney forfeits the win, but the loser get nothing. I think, however, that regular season games are very different because their outcomes still determine post-season eligibility. It seems to me that the best solution would be to call it a "no contest", but count it against UNC when determining playoff berths. Unfortunately, the NCC hasn't asked me for my opinion (yet).

When you look at UND's site, the text gives the assist to Notermann but the box score gives it to Bochenski. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/mhocke...RELEASE_ID=1442 Not sure how such a thing goes wrong, but most media outlets (including USCHO and SiouxSports.com) just post the officially released box score. Attempting to correct it wouldn't be a good precedent.

Dying to know how it turned out? UND broke yet another set of streaks! They won a long-fought match in 5 games. Watch for the Sioux to make a big jump in the rankings after passing this test. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/wvball...RELEASE_ID=1444

Can't complain about 4 points in the first game. So far he's well ahead of the Sioux single season points per game record of 2.42 set by Hrkac

I remember going to a volleyball game in college now and then. There were usually about 100 fans and not so many wins. Though I don't know much about them, gotta give props to this year's volleyball team. They're now 21-2, including the first win over NDSU in 65 matches! The last win over NDSU was in 1976, before the NCC even had women's sports. The attendance at this year's victory over NDSU was 1212, a UND record. UND's only conference loss so far was to conference leader, Augustana, who is currently undefeated in the conference. UND gets a chance to even the score TONIGHT in Augustana. However, Augustana is apparently quite a powerhouse. In addition to having an 18-game winning streak against UND, they've won the last 11 matches in three games (including the game at UND earlier this Fall). Congrats, ladies, and good luck!

Because the Argus Leader only keeps articles up for a week, it's about to expire. Just so everyone gets a chance to read it, I'll risk (yet another) lawyer sending me copyright-violation nastygrams and reproduce it here:

It depends if you're talking about authentic Chinese, or the more common Americanized Chinese (which can be operated in good conscience by Chinese-Americans).

The hockey games are always on: http://134.129.201.91/gfwireless

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The way I read it, I'd be really surprised if forfeiture comes about. The situation is that he had 3 incompletes which he had to retake at CSU before he could transfer to UNC. Though he took the courses, the transcript that CSU sent over didn't yet include a grade for one of the three, the interior design course. Cutlip claims that he really took the course and got a grade, so I can't imagine a severe punishment -- it was a simple clerical error (though UNC should have verified his eligibility BEFORE letting him play 3 games). On the other hand, if it turns out that he didn't really finish that incomplete, then I think there would be a very good chance that the games would be thrown out. The NCAA won't do anything until they know his real status in that course. In fact, the issue isn't even before the NCAA until UNC decides to self-report it, which they haven't yet. As of today (Wednesday) UNC had not officially been able to confirm the status of the course with CSU.

Forgive my stadium construction ignorance, but what does "a sports bubble... over Memorial" mean? I've heard that a lot, and never really understood it. Are we talking some sort of dome-like roof? That seems like a pretty expensive retrofit. Whenever I hear about the "sports bubble", I always picture a big plastic bubble that makes Memorial Stadium look like a giant snowglobe (not what everyone's really talking about, I suspect)

http://new.in-forum.com/articles/?id=20414 If UND doesn't move up but remains competitive with NDSU in football, I would think that NDSU would not want to play a D-II team that might actually beat them, especially if NDSU has playoff hopes. If, however, NDSU develops into a much stronger team than UND, I would think UND would quickly lose interest in getting pounded every year by a former competitive rival -- I suspect it would be very painful for a lot of UND fans to be forced to admit that NDSU's football team was actually decisively better. Just my prediction -- unless they're in the same division, the UND-NDSU games will eventually end. Personally, even in situation #2, I'd love to see it continue for the bragging rights on those rare occasions UND does win.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/n...ews/4235254.htm

OK. UND 1-1 (loss to UNC) NDSU 0-2 (losses to Augustana and USD)

The nice thing is that she seems to be getting hers in the end. It's a shame that she's penniless so won't really be affected by the fine: http://www.startribune.com/stories/1405/3334453.html

Though I guess I haven't heard anything specific about those games, I would think they would be covered by UND's normal internet broadcasting facilities: http://www.undalumni.org/broadcast.htm

I was using the word "editorial" in the colloquial definition of meaning "opinion piece" -- I didn't mean to imply that it was the opinion of the Forum editorial staff, per se. To correct myself -- the above was an opinion column that appeared in the Fargo Forum on the sports page that was written by a regular salaried Forum columnist (the important distinction being that it wasn't a letter submitted by someone from Grand Forks who is part of the conspiracy)

http://new.in-forum.com/columnists/article...ist=mikemcfeely It seems the Forum has joined the vast Grand Forks conspiracy of thinking there might possibly be (gasp!) some challenges in moving to D-IAA. Select quotes in case you want to avoid registering:

And #12 USA Today. Clearly those being polled think something has changed between this year and last. Of course, pre-season polls also have even more of a "tradition" and reputation weight than regular season polls.