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I *guess* you've got a pretty good excuse, I'll do my best to cover (though if I'm left to cover alone, people should expect lots of multi-day digests). Thanks for your service to our country! However, I'm a little surprised you're headed off to Iraq, I could have sworn I saw in a news story that you were in Afghanistan just last month... That's pretty cool.

We'll see if I can sneak this one by Sicatoka... In it's highest scoring game of 08-09 women's basketball season, the Sioux routed Mayville State 111-27. Ouch

For yesterday... (where's the Doc, haven't seen in him in about 10 days!) In 2007-08, the School of Aerospace Sciences had 1113 men enrolled, vs. 150 women. However, the School of Engineering and Mines is even more male-centric, with 843 men to a mere 103 women. Gentlemen -- School of Nursing is where the ladies are at. 674 women with only 87 potential male suitors. profile stats

Yeah, you're thinking of this thread. My primary concern with the site name, if the nickname changed, would be that keeping the old name for the site would make it a lot harder for new fans to find it. Even if the name on the banner changed, the old URL would probably work forever. All that said, I'm certainly in no hurry. We'll see what happens.

In Spring 2004, 1114 students made the Deans' List. Belated congratulations to Chelsea Lynn Schmidt and all the rest. 6/8/04 -- UND Names 1,114 To 2004 Spring Semester Deans' List

For June 11 While visiting UND, if you want to stay in a hotel with a castle turret, your only real choice is the Settle Inn. Pick up the phone and call 800-571-1115

For June 10: One of the speakers at the 2009 North Dakota Society for Human Resources Management conference was Lane Harstad, former president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1116.

I found this article on Grand Forks school enrollment interesting. West Fargo passes GF school numbers The article jumbles all the relevant facts throughout, so rather than quote I'll extract: 1970 population/school enrollment G.F.: 40,000/12,732 West Fargo: 5,000/2,464 Today G.F.: 52,000/6,808 West Fargo: 26,000/6,902 It throws us a small demographic bone... Clearly the base was young family heavy. Does the loss of personnel there entirely explain going from 32% of the population in school to 13%? That's crazy (though perhaps not as crazy as West Fargo being at 50% in 1970). Is the long flatness in G.F. population about to be replaced by a massive slide? Has the stable population masked that all the young families are leaving while older people are moving in from the smaller towns? No kids in Grand Forks anymore?

1117 Regular season rushing yards by Milson Jones in 1980 (#7 all time record)

For yesterday... From the Quentin Burdick collection at the Chester Fritz Library...

1119 fans showed up to watch the Sioux women's hockey team lose to the Minnesota women's hockey team on Feb. 13, 2009. And that was with two Lamoureux's playing for the Gophers. box score

For June 6... If, while at UND, you choose to live at Hamline Square in a 2 bedroom apartment, you'll have 1120 square feet in which to spread out.

Ok, NOW I'm rolling in the aisles. The Caps had an off game right when they should have been putting the series away, but wow. Ouch. For the Pens fans -- at least it's not game 7, Pittsburgh will get a chance at redemption. Still just 2 wins away from the Cup.

Eerily similar, isn't it? No one ever thought the Pens would be a gimme, but as well as the Caps managed to handle them in the regular season, the 2-0 start felt pretty solid. It turned out to be a great series, I hope this one does too. Detroit has better goaltending than the Caps (excepting last night) and has been getting more balanced scoring. I also wonder how much being back on home ice is going to help make it easier to shut Crosby back off. My biggest question for Detroit is exactly what you said... why on earth did they give up with 8 minutes to go? Other than that, I'd still feel ok if I were a Detroit fan, they've overall played a better series to date. Affiliation disclaimer: none needed, I'm on record in this very thread as disliking each of the remaining teams Edit, oh, and on HD vs. SD... screen caps from Blade Runner Blu Ray vs. DVD. To me, the little points of light being sharp little points instead of blurs is very obvious when I'm watching t.v. (similarly with the crisp edges). However, for whatever reason about the way they see, some people just don't see it or think it matters that much. To each his own.

It's funny, despite being in Middle School in Grand Forks during the Hrkac Circus, I have absolutely no memory of UND athletics from that time. I know my family weren't big fans, but you'd think I'd have noticed it on the news or in the Herald or something. Once I was at UND I started going to hockey games with my brother at the Old Ralph. These were the days of ~2-3000 attendance, so getting there early wasn't required, but we did anyway so we could get the same seats on the aisle in one of the short rows in the student section each time (GA, and free for students, of course). About an hour early did it, even for the Gopher games. It was also right when UND was starting to give NDSU some games in football, and finally broke the streak. I have some overly romanticized memories of a freezing Thanksgiving weekend at Memorial Stadium, of listening to football games on the radio on cool Fall days, and of stopping by this crazy new restaurant in the strip mall -- Dagwoods (original location, when smoke free was controversial). Then in Fall of 1996 I moved away from North Dakota. I'd been writing Sioux Hockey and Football web pages for a couple years for me and my friends to keep track of the schedule and of how each game flowed (oh yeah, that one with the big comeback!) I thought it would be really nice if that could become a site that I, as a distant alum who didn't have access to Sioux info (neither Herald nor UND Athletics were publishing on the net yet) could use to keep up with the Sioux.

Weston Dressler was named the CFL's top rookie last season after catching for 1123 yds and 6 TDs for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Former Sioux Weston Dressler named CFL's top rookie

For yesterday, According to the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, the population of people in North Dakota with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome could be as high as 1124. FAS slides

I don't know the Fargo cable lineup, but the game is on Versus and CBC.

For May 30.... Feel like channeling Mark Felt? Want to get a tip out there and prefer the credibility of ink on dead trees? Reach for your landline and call: Wayne Nelson, Grand Forks Herald, (701) 780-1127

The NCAA has been after fantasy leagues for years. See this thread where they considered use of players' names to be illegal commercial use (even though it was simply use of factual stats, the promotion of which the players themselves had nothing to do with). As long as the NCAA continues to punish its members for things outside of the core mission of association membership (i.e. college athletics), lawmakers need to take a look at whether membership is truly voluntary and the NCAA's legal status in wielding this much power over society. Is the NCAA a monopoly? Is the NCAA a cartel? Is the NCAA a state actor?

My guess is no. One of the big concessions the state negotiated in the settlement agreement was that the Sioux nickname is supposed to be able to be displayed in appropriate historical context. I don't have it in front of me, but if they got it worded well enough championships won as the Fighting Sioux should be displayable as such. A lot of people were justifiably upset by the settlement, but examined in the context of a loss being an inevitable outcome, the settlement might have locked in some important points (that most of us probably considered common sense so didn't see as the victories they may have been).

If merchandising were the concern, UND would change the name every 6-8 years. Everyone who cares about the Sioux name is going to stock up on current merchandise, hardcore, once its retirement is official. I would think easily 3-5x a normal year's sales. Assuming UND doesn't botch the new nickname choice (as discussed above), then normal sales rates will resume with the new logo and nickname for new students/fans. However, as the arenas start to fill up with the new logo, hangers-on will start to supplement all their Sioux gear with replacements with the new nickname and logo so they can fit in (remember how quickly the Brien logo forced the replacement cycle to move). That will eventually reach near 100% replacement for all still-active fans (discounting those who have retired as fans because of the change, which I would expect to be small percentage-wise in the medium term.) That will be significantly more UND merchandise sold in a 4- to 6-year span than if we stuck with Fighting Sioux.

Dateline Feb. 23, 2004: The University of North Dakota has named 1,132 students to the 2003 Fall Semester Deans

For yesterday... The Chester Fritz Library's Great Plains Native American Culture, Heritage & Issues video collection contains: source

I think most of those are fine discussions, but if you manage to pull any of them out of the former players thread, I think we'll all appreciate it