George M. Bluth

Because the head dress is too heavy?

I'm sure their uniforms would be absolutley hideous.

FYI, it's FINALLY on ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iihf-finland/pop-out

Just following live stats from worldjunior2016.com, USA up 1-0. Dvorak @ 9:03.

This has switched to the USA game: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iihf-finland/pop-out

Please post if someone finds a different link. Youtube doesn't work on my work computer.

SCSU 3 Gophers 2 FINAL

Anyone else catch any Omaha-Miami game on NCHCtv last night? I only had it on for a couple minutes, but the camera guy was zoomed in waaaaaay too far and there was no audio. Just brutal.

Fun fact: If you Google Map Banks' address, it's Gay 90's in downtown Minneapolis.

I really thought I was going to be ok with all of this, but with the official announcement scheduled and coming up later, I'm very nervous about the results and sad that this is happening.

Let's beat Miami too! Go Roughriders!

I'm all for Roughriders, and if I had a vote, that's what I'd vote for. But since it looks like Fighting Hawks will prevail, I really liked the idea someone here had last week about going with an airplane/aviation logo for Fighting Hawks. Would make it a little more unique and might actually be something people could rally around.

I just don't get the people say they liked hearing it when the hockey team played in Providence. The announcer never used it as a nickname. He always said "NoDak," as in, short for North Dakota. You never heard him say, "the NoDaks," it was always, "he's been a good player for NoDak." Turns out we can still refer to the teams as NoDak if that's soooo important with a different official nickname.

I was kinda bummed to see Luke Johnson on the ice after he took that penalty earlyish in the third. So late and stupid. Was hoping Berry would bench him to send him a message about his dumb penalties.

I agree with everyone that we do need another run-off vote now should one of these not get at least 50%. Let's just say it goes FH - 40%, RR - 33%, and Nodaks - 27%. Yes, Fighting Hawks got the most votes, but it's a nickname that 60% of the people do not want. So much for being unifying. Narrow it down to two options, and you can get a true majority vote.

Based on the poll on the Herald's website, we're going to end up with Fighting Hawkes and a logo like this:

They could with any nickname though.....

It's been a long time since I've been to a football game, but why wouldn't the announcer say the full name? He didn't say 'Fighting Sioux?' But anyways, I think Riders is the clear choice based on this. Daks is obviously the worst.

Thanks for pointing this out! I forgot to go back and check on that. They also charged me $89.95 after telling me it would be $81. Email has been sent to them.

My renew date isn't until 9/27, so I'm waiting and expecting a charge that is inconsistent with what they have told me. I had the all-conference package last year and was charged around $80. This year they have the all-conference package for $90 or single schools for $80. I emailed and asked what I would be renewed for and they said I would be automatically renewed for $81.95. We'll see though.

Actually, no. Those don't sound as bad to me. Maybe because Illinois and Utah are shorter than North Dakota, I don't know. And on their website, they still refer to themselves as the Fighting Illini which is pretty good.

Roughriders Sundogs Fighting Hawks Nodaks North Stars Nodaks is just ok on it's own, but when you say "the University of North Dakota Nodaks," that just sounds ridiculous.

Red River should just do the same thing to Cedar Rapids. No way that team was in place before Red River had the name.

UMD has different ticket sale times for the Gophers and UND games. They go on sale at the arena at 9am on Nov 3 and 10am online/phone. http://umdbulldogs.com/sports/2013/8/20/Mens Hockey Ticket.aspx?