NDSU grad

I once saw a bag of sunflower seeds advertise they were non-'GMO'. While technically correct, all frickin' sunflower products are 'GMO' free.

Oops, guess not. Seriously, this is like shooting fish in a barrel. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3479986/

I cite PNAS, you cite something called foodrenegade.com. This is why I will never be convinced. Science is on my side. But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. You'll eat what you want to eat. I'll eat what I want to eat. But your side will never win, because the consequences would be too devestating.

Glyphosate does not kill gut bacteria in the ridiculously miniscule amounts that may be on food consumed by humans. The only vitamin synthesized in the gut is K, all others must be consumed in food or are synthesized elsewhere. Glyphosate is a very weak chelater, much weaker than citric acid. Should we quit eating fruits too. There is no U.S. food disaster. Like I said, our country has produced, by far, the best food system this world has ever known. When balancing availability, cost, and nutrition no country can even come close.

Like pinkie swear? For full disclosure, I'm not doing this off memory, but I do have a pretty decent background in biochemistry so I have a pretty good understanding of it. Basically the shikimate pathway produces essential aromatic acids, not minerals. Minerals would be things like Ca, Mg, Fe, etc., which a plant gets from the soil. Plants, some bacteria, algae, and some fungi contain this pathway. Animals do not. Plants that are glyphosate-resistant have a gene inserted into them that is native to a soil bacterium. The plant metabolizes glyphosate before the herbicide can kill it. If you're really interested in the process, here's a good link from PNAS http://www.pnas.org/content/103/35/13010.full Can I absolutely guarantee 100% eating food that has been produced from some genetic transformation process will not be harmful? I guess not. Nothing in life is 100%. Can you absolute swear the organic industry isn't harming us? Probably not. However, I feel very good about the science behind these biotechnological innovations and think it's sound. I also believe organic food activists are out to destroy the best food-producing system the world has ever seen. Is it perfect? No. We have real problems with childhood obesity and nutrition, but going after GMO's is not going to change any of that.

Yep. I love talk about biotechnological advances that have transformed the science of feeding the world. Oh, and you have no idea how the shikimate pathway works, and it's glyphosate, not glyphosphate.

Why?

The only thing I'd disagree with is the not strong up the middle comment. You were probably referencing our safeties which definitely is a huge question mark, but on the line we do return Tanguay and Schaetz and have other guys who saw meaningful minutes last year. DeLuca will have to step up big time. I'm not as high on him as other Bison fans. I think he drops too far back when in coverage and is slow to make run/pass reads. Of course, those things are easy to fix and he definitely possesses the physical tools to be really special.

Alabama and Ole Miss play on the 19th. Could be pretty hard to compete with that.

I believe at a minimum Langdon Area would consist of at least parts of the following school districts: Alsen, Milton, Osnabrock, Hannah, and Wales.

While mindlessly browsing the internet came across these games on youtube that documents Edmore's run to the state championship game in 1982. Some of the players mentioned in previous posts are playing in these games. First link is vs. Munich in Region 3 championship game. The next three are the state tournament games vs. Anamoose, McVille, and Divide County, in that order. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1bS9J22hVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6dleWDIV-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42DP6K8MdwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbB4uDo4i0

I have no idea if there is a formal agreement between those conferences and ESPN3 to air games, but a quick look shows 7 of 16 NDSU conference basketball games on ESPN3 and all but 2 of the regular season conference football games. All the football playoff games and the Summit League tournament were on ESPN3. It would be awesome to get more content online, especially now that I joined the technology age and got a Roku.

Not a Division 1 player. Fun as hell to watch in high school though. Hear he might go to BSC and play baseball and basketball.

I know the 93 team was arguably the best in school history and had a very good chance of winning it all, but I believe the 94 team still made the postseason and had Chris Gardner, Todd Johnson, and Travis Tuttle on it.

There won't be single game tickets available in the first 15 rows. You'll have to find somebody willing to give up season tickets. I'm thinking it would take $200-300/ticket, possibly more.

That's an interesting link. Why the huge drop from 93 to 94? If I remember right, you guys still had a very good team in 94 even though you lost Guldseth and Jacobson from the year before, right? It looks like other than that huge drop in one year, attendance has been relatively stable as long as you guys fielded good teams.

It's expensive and time-consuming. My 5 year old is just in an initiation program in Minot, but I have friends whose kids are in the pee-wee level. They're travelling overnight 10-12 weekends a season during USA Hockey season. One friend has his kid on a summer team and they're playing about 6 tournaments from May thru August; all out of town. They're also practicing ~ 3 times a week and playing tournaments/games in Minot pretty much every weekend they're not travelling.

He's a good basketball player, but not DI caliber.

Tigers. Played in what was literally a Quonset attached to the school. So narrow the three point line didn't extend to the baseline. I think Tolley last had team in 86, Donnybrook in 87, Lansford in 90, and Carpio in 91 (know that one for sure). I think Sherwood survived until the late 90's/early 2000's.

Combined with Mohall to form the MLS Mavericks. Carpio, Donnybrook, and Tolley dissolved.

Interestingly, with the exception of Deering, there is still a high school in every one of those towns. Granville is part of TGU, though, and does not field it's own sports teams. My old district, 24, is down to 3 teams: Mohall, Kenmare, and Glenburn, out of the original 8.

That list must include club teams, because bowling is not an NCAA sanctioned sport at NDSU.

The only NDSU program suffering right now is women's basketball, and that's a stretch calling it a major sport.

So does the American back fill to stay with 11 or add 3 to go 12? I presume they go after C-USA schools, but looking at that list of schools it doesn't look very attractive.

That makes sense. Their tier 1 contracts are ABC and Fox, correct? So I would presume this would be a case where market is the number one priority for expansion. I would think Cincy is a shoe-in. Who's the 12th?