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Right. So you use my favorite shovel to avoid breaking yours. Nice neighbor!

I think it raises suspicion whenever someone tries to by ice cream in Grand Forks and the wind chill is -30.

You are grossly exaggerating the situation, which makes it easy to understand why you're ready to give up.

That's ridiculous. It would never fit over my Depends.

Not at all. I simply don't understand why someone would brag about giving money to a cause that he/she is obviously ready to abandon.

Have you been using my best shovel to pick up dog poop again? Don't make me go OJ on you!

Are you talking to me or Hockey Mom? I think that safety measure is too late for either of us.

Like that's anything new.

Isn't anyone going to yell at sappysieve for NOT posting this in the "former players" thread? Are we going soft around here or what? This guy deserves a beatdown!

When did he move to the Grand Cities?

Of course not! THETRIOUXPER helped me escape out the back door and took me for a ride in his white Bronco. Unfortunately, the wife and kids weren't fast enough to escape the dragnet.

I'm still free, but I'm wondering if I'll ever see my wife and kids again.

They're our big rivals in hockey and they're still playing us in hockey. Do you think that we will be big rivals with them in basketball and football? All that proves is that you like to waste your money. Which has been going on for more than 30 years. Yet after all that time, the majority of those allegedly victimized by American Indian nicknames don't believe that they're harmed by them. It wasn't funny. I'm sure you can see it. However, nobody's going to write a headline like that, not even USA Today. But if imagining it is enough to make you run away from the fight, then run away.

How it is that on Tuesday, a half dozen police cars and sheriff's SUVs can descend on my neighborhood with lights flashing and sirens blaring, three people can be led away in handcuffs and not one single word about the incident appears in the local news media? Is the Judy's Tavern scandal consuming too many news-gathering resources?

I'll play along for kicks and giggles. How many more D1 team will not play UND? Right now, the list of schools that will potentially play UND is considerably longer than the list that won't. Do we want a few politically correct schools to dictate what we should call ourselves? What if we pick a new name and they don't like that one, either? Is the lists going to grow so much that it kills a D1 move? Time will tell. How hard is it going to be to find a conference with our nickname? Maybe we should first have a conference tell UND that it won't be accepted because of its nickname before jumping to the conclusion that it's a serious problem. It could be a potential problem, but at this point, I'm not going to assume that it is until someone presents evidence otherwise. At what point is it smart to keep our name? Right now. What if the NCAA gets the votes and passes the measure? We'll burn that bridge when we come to it. I don't consider forcing the NCAA to actually follow its own constitution and bylaws a bad thing. Do you? How much more bad press can UND take? I'm not convinced that the publicity generated by this controversy is all bad for UND. In fact, I think most of it resonates quite well with a large majority of Americans. Until someone can produce an independent, scientific poll showing that most American Indians in the country are against using Native American nicknames for sports teams, I'd be willing to bet that the attention UND receives from the issue does it more good than harm. At what point do you even want to be called the Fighting Sioux? This point. You and your family members should visit the Sisseton-Wahpeton reservation and tell that to the family members of the late Woodrow Wilson Keeble, the man who's likely to become the first Sioux Indian to receive the Medal of Honor. Also tell it to the Sioux war veterans who came to Engelstad Arena to honor Keeble. I'm sorry, but no self-respecting UND sports fan would make this statement. I've never met anyone but change-the-name proponents who seriously think that Flickertails would be a good nickname. Perhaps if you could show me where such sidenotes exist for any of UND's current national championships, your statment would have some credibility. I suspect that most UND fans have greater limits than NDSU fans.

I thought you were serious up to this point.

Of course, as someone who's outcoached him, that's exactly what you should say.

Someone has to be the poster child for the ravages of alcohol abuse.

I also noticed that Wisconsin won't play several schools to which the NCAA has given exemptions. Not even the Badgers trust Myles Brand.

You're insensitive and need to attend re-education camp.

That was a joke, son! Jeez, I remember the days when you were a care-free, happy-go-lucky a--hole. Whatever happened to that guy?

I've met you and I can honestly say that you know a whole lot about nothing.

Let's be fair, guys. The story on WDAZ ran as a news story, not a sports story. There's a good chance that Sweeny had nothing to do with the decision to run it.

Apparently.

No. Sorry.