PCM

The skating treadmill is really paying off tonight!

Chris Porter, my neighbor.

Happy birthday to you!

Minnesota goal waved off for man in the crease. Still 0-0 against CC.

Gopher goal is under review for man in the crease.

Minnesota takes a 1-0 lead on CC.

Gosh, you certainly have a nice avatar.

Yep.

Nice to see a Fighting Sioux Sports Network ad on the Gopher Network.

Twins?

I've got my Sioux jersey on.

He's due for a breakout weekend. T.J.'s been generating chances. They just haven't been going in for him. This would be a good weekend to reverse that trend.

"Why don't you knock it off with the negative waves Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here. Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?" - Oddball in "Kelly's Heroes"

You're such a pessimist.

So, knowing this: And knowing this: How many people have to object to Indiana's "Hoosiers" nickname before the NCAA considers it hostile and abusive? My grandfather was a hoosier. North Dakota's primary industry is agriculture. Therefore, we are a state of hoosiers. Many of us are the descendants of hoosiers. Why should Indiana be allowed to use a nickname that degrades and demeans North Dakotans for the sake of promoting basketball? I'd like to see the North Dakota Legislature pass a resolution objecting to the University of Indiana's offensive nickname. South Dakota's legislature would probably follow suit. It's time to end the tyranny of the majority and get the anti-Hoosier crusade rolling.

From WorldNetDaily: BOYS NAMED SIOUX Are feathers 'hostile and abusive' to Indians? NCAA bans them in college logo, while students plan protest I'm not sure how "Sioux" made it into the headline, but I like the linkage.

I think you're completely missing the point. It's a different situation because even though the word "hoosier" originated as a race-based derogatory term, Indiana natives have turned it into a positive term with which they readily identify. However, if some Indianans deciced that they were now offended by the University of Indiana calling its athletic teams the "Hoosiers" because of the term's derogatory origin, shouldn't they have just as much right to demand that the university change its name? Would the NCAA back them? Let me put it another way. I once had a Native American tell me that he opposed UND's nickname because, "They're not Sioux. They're a bunch of white boys playing hockey." If someone said, "They're not Hoosiers. They're a bunch of black boys playing basketball," that person would rightly be labeled a racist. The situation is different only because the targets of the original "hoosier" snub chose not to take it that way, chose not to make it race specific (even though it was) and chose not to claim sole ownership based on race.

You don't? Did you read the story about Charlotte Westerhaus?

The same can be said for the word as "Sioux," which is somehow acceptable when members of certain tribes readily identify themselves as Sioux. But when someone outside the tribe uses the word, the meaning suddenly becomes derogatory. Given the derogatory origin of the word "hoosier," natives of Indiana could play the same word game if they were so inclined. I believe that was The Sicatoka's point.

Today we have this factually challenged tidbit from an article in Mother Jones headlined "What's in a Name?": Given the fact that Ralph Engelstad died years before the NCAA issued its ban and he's already donated the money, it's rather difficult to understand how he could make such a demand.

I could tell the touching story of how YaneA sacrificed her food storage containers in the name of Fighting Sioux hockey, but I wouldn't want to be held responsible for people crying at their desks so early in the morning.

Nice comeback. If only it made sense.

Classy.

By that standard, you are the most beloved person in the county.

Nah. That's an enitrely different emoticon reserved for special people.