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The Great One also holds 61 NHL records. But some people think he's overrated because he couldn't fight. The bottom line is, I don't think anyone will ever touch some of those records.

This attitude must change or we'll never win anything significant in football again. This is another example of the lowering of expectations that I have seen in all our sports; but it is especially prominent in football. Our long-term goal is to be a top-notch FCS team in the Big Sky Conference and an annual contender for the FCS championship. If we don't think like a champion, we'll never be a champion.

Yeah, if you want to overpay for it.

I might have to get a couple of seats from the old place. Are they still selling that stuff?

I think the measly buyouts were the work of Tom Bunning. Faison won't be that stupid.

As long as there is a big, fat buyout clause I guess I could live with them backing out.

I think that is some kind of St. Patrick's Day jersey. I think I saw a cloverleaf on one of them once. Somebody can correct me if I am wrong.

4-0 Hawks. They are getting back to their dominant regular-season form.

What I find interesting is that fighting is considered "part of the game" in hockey, but in most other sports, it is not tolerated at all. Fighting in the NFL or NBA means a stiff fine and/or suspension. Fighting in MLB (with the exception of the occasional pitcher-hitter fights over pitch location) is also met with a zero tolerance mentality. Is it the sticks? Is it the fact that hockey is faster than all the sports I listed above? Or is it based in the origins of the game and the working-class, blue-collar environment from which it emerged? I wonder what everyone else thinks because I think it's a combination of all of those things.

"knuckle-dragging neanderthal"? C'mon Dave, you are better than that.

The year the Alerus Center opened (2001), we had a bunch of night games before hockey started and they were well-attended by everyone. Of course, that was an awesome team and the Alerus had the novelty factor, but I still like night games better than those 1pm kickoffs. I think the reason we went away from night games after that was that Dale Lennon didn't like night games, so they stopped scheduling them. At least we don't have those stupid 11am "sunrise kickoffs" that the B1G has had for years. That would really bite; I like to sleep in on Saturdays sometimes.

I have renewed my football (and hockey) tickets and I am looking forward to the coming sports season.

Last season pretty much proved that the WBB program has seriously declined from the heights of winning three straight D-II titles in the 1990's. It can be argued that, for the first time in 20 years, the MBB program is in better shape than the WBB program. In order to climb out of this hole, serious reconstructive surgery is needed and I am impressed that Brewster is willing to do the dirty work to get the program back to winning. I am thinking that the final years of the Roebuck regime were not good ones for the program; now it's time to build a program that can win conference titles and get to the Big Dance once in a while.

While I don't agree with all of DaveK's rantings, that is what a message board is for. You don't have to like what he posts or agree with it, but I like having a diverse selection of opinions on here, whether they are in the majority or minority.

Good for the Rangers. All of the whiny, complaining post-game press conferences don't help you win games; all they do is provide unproductive distractions at the worst possible time in the season (the playoffs). Torts has had success in the NHL (see Tampa Bay 2004), but after a certain point in time, his antics and his sandpaper personality wear thin with the players, the fans and the media. He needs to smooth over some of those rough edges and I think he'll have more success.

Waving off a totally legitimate goal so you can call matching minors for roughing for an incident that happened well behind the play was a case of the officials potentially deciding the outcome of a game. If the Red Wings had scored in regulation or in overtime, the outrage over this would have consumed the entire offseason. But all's well that ends well, I guess.

It will be much more difficult to cram more and more kids into GFRR as the south end continues to grow. But I guess keeping the GFRR athletic parents happy is much more important, right? That is the REAL reason this nonsense is allowed to continue.

Our Men's BB program hasn't been great for about 20 years, so our fans have gotten used to it. But I think they are (finally) moving in the right direction.

It's the same tired old crap from the Mild (I mean Wild). Have a nominal winning record, sneak in the playoffs as a 7 or 8 seed and lose in the first round in 5 games. I called this last summer when everyone else was going bananas about Parise and Suter. It will take this franchise years to recover from the Rip Van Winkle regime of Jacques Lemaire and Doug Risebrough. The team has changed some in the past couple of years, but it's still primarily built on 60 minutes of backchecking by the forwards and eeking out wins with a 1 to 2 goal per game offense. That might work in the regular season against crappier teams, but once you get in the playoffs, you can't shut the really good teams down all the time. Chicago is proving that this year, as if it needed any proving. Somehow, I don't think Parise and Suter signed those big contracts to keep playing the same tired old system that doesn't work. They better go and get some depth for this team or else tickets will become much easier to get as people go find something entertaining to do instead.

I didn't realize the slummit was a multi-bid basketball league? Oh wait....... And the BSC has had an FCS champion as recently as 2010 (Eastern Washington). And they likely will have more in the future. Buttfootball. ButtRPI.

Does the gym have drinking fountains at one end?

Exactly! If the diversion opponents think we should move Fargo out of the flood plain, then I welcome their ideas for making it happen. But I think the price tag would make everyone blush.

Oh really Mr. Genius? Please use your infinite wisdom and tell us just how Fargo could have "chosen" to fix their flooding problems "a long time ago". -A levee system like GF has? Doesn't work in Fargo because of topography. -Move the city out of the flood plain? Way too expensive. -The "waffle plan" as developed by the EERC? It would take several feet off of a major flood, but it certainly is not a solution itself. -Basin-wide water retention and control, including the "waffle plan"? Probably the best overall solution, but it will take years to implement and Fargo could get flooded several times before any plan could be implemented. The diversion is the best possible current solution to the annual flooding problem in Fargo. Of course, thanks to selfish, self-centered people like yourself, it will be like pulling teeth to get it built. Come to think of it, it's people like you that fight tooth and nail against all of the ideas I have listed here because they infringe on your property rights. Never mind that a city of 100,000+ people is constantly in danger of flooding; you just don't want to be bothered with any aspect of it. How North Dakotan of you! You sound like some of the people in North Dakota back in 1999 that didn't want the Legislature to give Grand Forks one penny of state money to help build our current flood protection system. Of course, these same people wouldn't hesitate to ask the government for help if they were victims of a natural disaster of some kind. But heaven forbid that Grand Forks ask for any help. History is repeating itself, and it looks just as ugly as it did 14 years ago. It is high time that people like yourself "choose" to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem. But I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

As long as Bison fans want to come on here and troll for attention, they will get it thrown right back into their faces. Go Darell Go!

Being a great FB player and being smart are sometimes two entirely different things. That being said, I hope the Vikings don't draft him. Too many question marks, too many red flags.