MafiaMan

If the NCAA got its undies in a bunch over William & Mary's feather attached to its "W&M" logo, imagine how bad the hammer would come down on "Spirit" with an Indian-head logo?

I realize that they have played more often, but it's hard to call the Notre Dame/Navy game a "rivalry" when one side of it has won 74 out of the 87 games played in its history. If you're playing the "total meetings" card, surely you can't rank Stanford/Notre Dame (28 meetings) ahead of Michigan/Notre Dame (41 meetings), can you? Oh, wait...now it all makes sense. One of these things is not like the other ones. It's only a "rivalry" if Notre Dame is actually LEADING in the all-time series record. Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame!

I have a hard time believing some of the good folks who will eventually populate this nickname-selection committee will go along with a future UND nickname that "honors" war-mongering white guys (along with, egads, segregated units of "colored" soldiers) who used guns to kill Spanish soldiers. Monarch Butterflies, Blizzard, and Sparkly Unicorns all score quite high on the "it won't offend anyone" scale.

Oh the disgrace of Montana State 86'ing a date with the Bison. That would never happen to schools like Notre Dame and Michigan, would it? I mean, can you imagine one school's AD simply being handed an envelope before a game which, when opened a day later, revealed the intention of ending the rivalry? I'm not going to carry the water for the Bobcats here, but by buying out the Bison game, MSU was able to add in a 6th home game as well as a trip to Dallas TX to play SMU - as opposed to making two trips to eastern North Dakota.

I think they were actually considered "Progressives" or "Bull Moose"...

I know you can spare 3 minutes of your day to watch it.

Couldn't agree more with what you're saying. The state of ND has beaten to death the propaganda, er, idea, that Roughriders, Teddy Roosevelt, and North Dakota, are synonymous with each other. They're about as close together as Wolverines and Spartans are in the Detroit area. Besides, don't we need permission from descendants of actual Roughriders to see if they indeed approve of the "honor" of such a nickname? I still like the idea of Mustangs...but not the horse kind...the P-51 kind. Of course, though, there's that damn condom thing again...d'oh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07mBfR8erMY The World Cup summarized in 3:00...

Meanwhile, UNDBIZ harkens back to his days at Berg Elementary School in Dickinson...3rd grade English class...where he learned to use the ' correctly...

NDSU English 345: How to correctly use an apostrophe (that's this thing ')

Paging NorthDakotaHockey or Blackheart...ROAD TRIP?

Boy, wouldn't that be nice! Discipline on the bench will be a welcome change too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJb2iLvOKE Video is 4:09 long...skit ends at 3:05 mark though.

But recruits will love it if it's the trendy new CHROME pink facemask, won't they? Paired with the equally trendy matte pink helmet?

You're preaching to the choir, Bubba!

16 goals, 22 assists, -14 last year in 76 games with the Panthers. Nick Bjugstad sticks around for his senior year and we might have a different defending NCAA hockey champion this upcoming season.

I know, I know...I'm Lawrence Welk in a Jay-Z world... I also bend the bills on all my baseball hats.

Remember this goal and subsequent celebration? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnM8KZwleg Actually, he started his career with the organization now known as the Phoenix Coyotes, but I bet Winnipeg Jets fans will feel more of a connection to Teemu than anyone in Arizona would.

You cracked the code...I just started my internship with Nike this morning.

Well, I'm no jersey expert...but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

That Notre Dame uniform and odd helmet is a monstrosity. Miami? You mean the orange and navy Syracuse uniforms?

Speaking of Notre Dame...

And if you had told me that "traditional" schools like Notre Dame, UCLA, and Nebraska would wear the garbage that Adidas has put them in, I'd have said 'no way.'

I thought you were talking regular zones now...my bad.

Talk about crapping all over tradition...this one is called "LA Steel." I kid you not.