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Does anyone know if the video with the UND-NDSU "Fire and Ice" segment is still available? I've always wanted to add that one to my library. Having it on DVD would be even better.

He mistakenly assumes that all "Norskies" are like him, just as he mistakenly assumes that most Native Americans agree with him.

Nailed it.

I've added a few new pictures from Saturday to the North Dakota-Canisius gallery. Wouldn't you know that the Sioux would score three goals in 44 seconds as I was trudging back up the stairs to the press box? http://siouxsports.com/hockey/showgallery.php?id=4

That's what I heard, although I didn't see it. I didn't think Notermann deserved a misconduct. He skated over to Durno, who grabbed him by the facemask and held on. I didn't see Notermann do anything that I thought warranted a penalty.

You asked for it, you got it. http://siouxsports.com/hockey/showgallery.php?id=5

It's not only nutty, but funny as hell. Here's a clue for Karasik: You can't complain about having your right to privacy violated when you're voluntarily in a public place. And since when did a booth supporting Israel and the Israeli flag become anti-Semitic? It's no wonder SCSU is getting sued for anti-Semitism. Some of the university's professors don't even know what it is.

Anyone else here think that JBB is the SiouxSports.com version of Happy on USCHO?

I'll see what I can do for you, forecheck. When you're staring at Wolfman Jack's photo, don't forget to play the song "Hair" on your stereo.

I've added a gallery with some photos from the Friday night game against Canisius. They can be viewed here: http://siouxsports.com/hockey/showgallery.php?id=4

I have to give Canisius a lot of credit. They are trying hard to build a good program and are very appreciative of Dean Blais and UND giving them a chance. Tim Dillon, the Canisius AD, was at the post-game press briefing and gave lots of support to head coach Brian Cavananaugh. In two seasons of covering the Sioux home games for USCHO, that's something I've never seen before.

Less consistency and cohesiveness would be better? Um...okay.

If I get to pack heat, I'm in.

At least Bob Babich managed to find a new job.

Who wants to tell the Native Americans that they have no right to use the word "casino," which is derived from European languages? Gosh, the possibilities are endless.

Or Best Buy's revenge.

He's a media star, thanks to Dirty.

Both times when Finger went into the box on Saturday, I looked for your sign, but I never saw it. Sorry.

I like it! And it doesn't matter if anyone else got it as long as Finger did. Good work, forecheck.

5 December, 2002 St. Cloud Times DeLand column: Sioux nickname feud shouldn't be an issue Dave DeLand Staff Writer If you're looking for a challenge, get a large group of people together and try to get 81 percent of them to agree on something. Anything. It isn't easy to do, certainly not on any substantive issue. And yet, as the St. Cloud State men's hockey team prepares to renew its rivalry with North Dakota and revisit the controversy over the Sioux nickname, we can apply the 81 percent quotient even to this hotly debated subject. In March, the Peter Harris Research Group released the results of a poll of 352 American Indians (62 percent of them residents of reservations) about the use of Indian nicknames for sports teams. Those results were surprising - particularly to caterwauling proponents of abolishing such nicknames. Said the Harris report: "Asked if high school and college teams should stop using Indian nicknames, 81 percent of Native American respondents said no. As for pro sports, 83 percent of Native American respondents said teams should not stop using Indian nicknames, mascots, characters and symbols." Despite what you hear from activists and from those who have made the issue a rallying point for white liberal guilt, the American Indian population as a whole doesn't see the issue of sports nicknames as a problem. So, why has it become one? Why are we wasting so much time, energy and resources fighting a battle that doesn't concern the overwhelming majority of those who ostensibly are the most directly affected? Because, in the brave new world of political correctness, it takes only a small group to cause a major ruckus. Nowhere has the P.C. flag flown higher than at St. Cloud State, where protests have accompanied all recent visits by the North Dakota men's hockey team (although not for other lesser-attended sports). SCSU's administration has made several sanctimonious pronouncements on the subject, as well as entreaties to the NCAA. All of this comes from a school that in recent years has been accused of racism, sexism and ageism, and that on Tuesday agreed to spend $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit charging anti-Semitism. There may be no university in the nation that has more well-publicized discrimination problems than St. Cloud State, which is absolutely the last institution that should be telling North Dakota how to conduct itself on such matters. On Friday, the SCSU hockey team gets its first look at North Dakota's opulent Engelstad Arena, which since it opened last year has become a focal point for the bitterness, strife and stratification between activists and those who revere the Sioux nickname. The arena and its grounds are sprinkled with Sioux references; in effect, the "Taj-Ma-Ralph" is the late Ralph Engelstad's $104 million, one-finger salute to those trying to abolish a tradition that Engelstad was a part of as a North Dakota player half a century ago. Perhaps the most valid perspective on all of this comes from North Dakota goaltender Marc Ranfranz, who is one-eighth Sioux and whose father is president of the Flandreau-Santee Sioux tribe in South Dakota. "I hope, for myself, that they don't change (the nickname)," Ranfranz said in an interview with U.S. College Hockey Online. "I honor it. I enjoy it. I think it's a great nickname and logo. It makes me feel proud when I come into the rink and see the Sioux logo all over." And if calling North Dakota the Sioux doesn't bother Ranfranz, or 81 percent of American Indians, why should it bother the rest of us? If the same people who are so zealous and adamant in their efforts to change nicknames instead devoted those resources toward changing the bleak realities faced by American Indians on many reservations, the world would be a much better place ... No matter what it called its sports teams. This column is the opinion of Times sports editor Dave DeLand. Contact him at 255-8771 or by e-mail at ddeland@stcloudtimes.com

I've added some new pictures from Saturday night's game to the UND-SCSU photo gallery. You'll have to scroll down to see the new shots. http://siouxsports.com/hockey/showgallery.php?id=3 There are a lot of shots of individual Sioux players, but not too many action shots. I might have to go back to shooting from the corners rather than directly behind the net. I was getting better stuff from the corners. Unfortunately, the fans who sit at ice level on the corner seats don't like me there because I sometimes block their view, even though I try not to and I try to avoid overstaying my welcome.

Some might even say "goose bumpy good." But not me.

I think he shot and Moreland stoned him. But I believe that right after that, there was a big scrum in front of the net that resulted in a charging penalty when Motzko leveled Parise.

I have posted photos from Friday night's game against the SCSU Huskies here: http://siouxsports.com/hockey/showgallery.php?id=3 I didn't get many decent action photos. There are quite a few pictures of SCSU players because I'm trying to help USCHO build up their photo library of WCHA players. I'll try to rectify that tonight by shooting the Sioux during warmups at the Saturday game.

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