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That's pretty close to right. .500 is the first measurable risk of dropping to #2. Winning only 2 of the 6 makes it a very real possibility. Less than that makes it very likely. It's tough to imagine QU not being a 1 seed.

I remember the good old days when JBB and Nano had that "board for the banned", one of its threads was a nixon-style enemies list. I think I was #2

Chart of the year. And yes, they are playing this weekend. From Small rankings moves likely for UND in bye week

Ah, good old Danny's -- the trip where I did NOT meet AZSIOUX, despite sitting at a table next to him at a bar all night (BW3 maybe?)

And what an odd saga the Redskins name has been over the last few days... Redskins nickname takes beating at symposium NFL.com Redskins name change demanded at Smithsonian forum Washington Post Redskins want you to know their nickname is common NFL.com We are very proud to be called Redskins redskins.com Redskins use high school athletic director to defend team name USA Today Washington Redskins proudly defend their name in the dumbest way possible deadspin.com D.C. mayor backpeddles on Redskins name change NBCSports

I feel like there have been a lot of American Indian nickname stories lately... Braves reject screaming Indian logo

I managed to break siouxsports' email a few days ago and didn't realize it until today. Sorry if you received a bounceback or didn't get a registration email in a timely fashion. I think everything is working now and all recent registrations have been approved.

What would it take total? The thing that scares me about football is all costs are x85-100., but I'm in the happy to chip in but can't round up others group.

Apparently the Caps just don't like lockouts... Caps as low as it gets, but they've been here before Record through 11 games 1995 2-7-2 2013 2-8-1 Points 1995 6 2013 5 GF 1995 20 2013 25 GA 1995 30 2013 41

Five Guys was actually inspired by the fries. The guys wondered if they could take the boardwalk fries experience (specifically, Thrashers from Ocean City) and replicate it in a city burger chain. Hence the fresh cut potatoes, peanut oil, and intentional boardwalk style instead of fast food style.

California. Though a few states around there, too. e.g. Vegas, Arizona. They were pretty much the first on the "fresh ingredients" burger craze, you can watch them julienne the potatoes, etc... But, they reasonably steadfastly refused to expand outside the region until Shake Shack and Five Guys started expanding. It's good enough that I used to try to stop in each time I was in the region, but unlike some comments above I've certainly never felt like I had to wait in a line longer than the average McDonalds. Never eaten at a Sonic, though the idea of an old fashioned-style drive through with roller skating carhops seems pretty awesome to me, as long as the food's tolerable. I remember going to the A&W in GF as a kid and getting the big frosty mugs. What a treat.

Yep, you guys are getting a little personal. Try to avoid it, please. As to standards for moderators -- we have no problem with mods getting involved in debates (since we draw volunteers from frequent posters, no one would agree to it if they had to quit participating), they just recuse themselves from moderating that particular discussion.

Usually good advice. My favorite exception is still this one, where BC is guaranteed to finish #1 or #2 if they lose, but could fall to #3 with a tie. Silly PWR.

To be clear, they're definitely not going away. As practical matter, we want to emphasize the content unique to SiouxSports a little more. I think the link aggregation is quite useful myself, but we've had some problems with people thinking at first glance that the site is nothing but links to other people's stuff. So, instead of getting the whole left column the news links will probably get part of a column to the right, but there will still always be the option to click on the "news" tab/link and get the full page version.

First, I always meant to try to add basketball at the same time we went D-I. Obviously I'm behind. There's definitely a redesign in the works, I'm still really hoping this summer (likely coinciding with a rebranding?) The biggest challenge to just adding the basketball scores is finding an automated source. (The hockey community is good about sharing this stuff, football I still do by hand but its easy because games are almost always Saturdays; you really can't just scrape ESPN.com, they don't like that). Ideally, there would also be some non-GF Herald content. On hockey there's a ton, including some exclusive to SiouxSports. On football, there's at least one notable blog out there, though we haven't successfully recruited anyone to write regularly about it here (though I also haven't tried in years). While the new design is definitely still going to include the news links, the now four-year-old attempt to make the front page sort of a reddit for UND sports clearly didn't take off quite like I could have imagined, so I'm definitely going to place additional emphasis on the original content and less on links to gfherald.com.

Downtown Horns touts a mix of musical influence and background And then he comes home and writes articles about UND hockey.

Yeah, the active ones (that have a mechanical shutter that flips open and closed something like 60 times per second) are over $100. The passive ones (that just have filters that block half the image for each eye, like at the move theater) can be quite inexpensive. Opinions are very mixed on which is "better". http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+passive+or+active+3d+better

Even before his goal, the Caps announcers were effusively praising Frattin, far more than anyone else on the team. He's also the only player who I remember them mentioning his alma mater.

Once you're that big, if you want a flat panel, Panasonic plasmas overtake the LEDs that dominate at smaller sizes. The reason is the blacks and the viewing angles, but don't take my word for it... http://reviews.cnet....6475_7-569.html Other posters are correct that rear projection can look good at even larger sizes, or actual projectors/screens are neat if you have a dedicated video room.

UND settling into a more natural rating for its performance. If they win they climb, if they lose they fall. But, UND is still the single most volatile team in the PWR this weekend. The season outlook continues to track the original prediction from a couple weeks ago.

Ack, of course. (though I think you meant *cough* ) Frankly, I think the coaches have been beating it out of him. To me it's sort of the same as when a young running QB hits the NFL -- he has a couple awesome years of run & gun, but if that doesn't win a Superbowl the coaches start trying to coach the run out of him. Then everyone's surprised that he's not quite as dynamic an individual as he used to be. They let Ovechkin be himself for a few years and then had to make some changes because they were exiting the playoffs "too early". Now he's a cautious, two-way, setup player. Still very valuable to a good team, but he's not on a particularly great team anymore, so can't carry it by himself because he's been trained not to. IMHO.

Ouch At least last night they didn't look completely lost like they did the first two games. The short season is going to be tough on teams that have undergone personnel changes. Detroit, Philly, and the Rangers are also all looking rough early. With only 42 games, these missed points are going to keep someone out of the playoffs.

It's just part of each scoreboard on ESPN, you can talk about the game. Like this: http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/conversation?gameId=330262464

Then you should tell more people about it Be sure to mention that it's Lakes-free!

Ok, the forum is now telling IE10 to render in IE9 mode. I expect that to fix the problem, but may also cause some other weirdness. Let me know how it goes.