Giuliani Swore He’d Never Root For The Red Sox
Breaking promises before he even gets elected. Maybe the Devil made him do it. Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani declared himself a Red Sox fan on Tuesday, but as recently as…...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Giuliani Is A Traitor
Well, that does it. He’s out. No way I’m voting for a guy who will switch his allegiances like this. “I’m rooting for the Red Sox,” Giuliani, owner of four…...
Monday, October 22, 2007
Help Out A North Dakotan
College football fans are undoubtedly aware of the fact that North Dakota State University upset the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers this last weekend in football. Now NDSU running back…...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The Absurdity Of The University Of Minnesota’s Refusal To Play “Fighting Sioux” Teams
Katherine Kersten, writing in the Minneapolis Star Tribue: An Associated Press story in the Star Tribune reported that a U of M policy discouraging the school’s athletic teams from competing…...
Monday, October 01, 2007
Fighting Sioux Hockey Starts off Ranked Number One!
Was there ever any doubt? There’s a lot of expectations for this years Fighting Sioux Hockey Team. We’ve made it to the Frozen Four three years in a row with…...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Fargo Forum To Fight Sealed Records Order In Fighting Sioux Case
Good on them. Forum Communications Co. plans to fight a judge’s decision to seal documents in the University of North Dakota’s lawsuit with the NCAA. Matthew Von Pinnon, editor of…...
Barry Bonds Home Run Ball To Be Branded With Asterkisk, Sent To Hall Of Fame
Remember that poll about what should be done with Barry Bonds’ record-breaking home run ball that I linked to a while back? Now you know the outcome. I was still…...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
NCAA Wins Over Judge, Gets All Future Court Records In UND Logo Dispute Sealed
Sigh… Grand Forks, N.D. (AP) A judge has sealed all future documents in the University of North Dakota “Fighting Sioux” nickname lawsuit against the NCAA. Northeast Central District Judge Lawrence…...
Monday, September 17, 2007
What Should Happen To Barry Bonds’ Record-Breaking Home Run Ball?
The guy who got it is asking for the public to vote on it on his website. I picked “brand with an asterisk and then send it to Cooperstown,” but…...
Shelley Duncan Now Ranks Above The Coolest Yankees Ever
Coolest autograph ever… What’s better is the Boston Herald whining about it. Even if Duncan ends up with a lackluster career, that autograph is now a bit of baseball history…...
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Indian Veteran’s Group Now Withdraws Support For “Fighting Sioux” Nickname
I wonder who leaned on them. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s Veterans’ Group board voted 3-2 Wednesday night to rescind their two-day-old support for UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname…...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Veteran’s Group On Standing Rock Reservation Says UND “Fighting Sioux” Nickname Is Ok
For what it’s worth: The governing board of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s Veterans Group is supporting the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname Ed Black Cloud is chairman…...
Friday, August 24, 2007
MSNBC Reporter Gets Owned By Internet Parody Site, Al Sharpton’s Fighting Dolphins
This from an MSNBC article about Mike Vick’s legal woes: But at the same time, Sharpton argued that the prosecution of Vick was overkill. “If the police caught Brett Favre…...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Are Baseball Umpires Racist?
That’s the headline from Time Magazine. Bad calls by the ump are as much a part of baseball as home run records, rabid fans and watery beer, but a new…...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Holy Cow! Phil Rizzuto Dead At 89
One of the game’s best in his own right, he played in the shadows of giants like Dimaggio and Mantle. So long, Scooter. ...
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Say Anything Fantasy Football Year #2
Last year our fantasy football league sucked, mostly because I got busy and kept forgetting to set my roster for the week and keep up on managing the league. But…...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
When Bush Snubbed Barry
Nobody likes Barry Bonds: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush didn’t watch and didn’t call, but the White House offered his congratulations for Barry Bonds’ record-breaking home run Barry…...
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Barry Bonds Ties Hank Aaron On All-Time Homeruns List
Update: Here’s the video, if you care. Highlight: Bud Selig never takes his hands out of his pockets. ...
Monday, July 30, 2007
Iconic 49’ers Coach Bill Walsh Dead At 75
Sad, but probably good that his suffering is over given his long battle with leukemia. (07-30) 11:50 PDT —Bill Walsh, the imaginative and charismatic coach who took over a downtrodden…...
Saturday, July 14, 2007
The Greatest Play In Baseball
This week I had the TV on and saw the “Best Damn Sports Show’s” top fifty plays. It was very interesting, but they left what I consider the greatest play…...
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Author Rejects Honorary UND Degree
Because of UND’s “Fighting Sioux” logo and nickname. Minnesota author Louise Erdrich has rejected an honorary degree from the University of North Dakota because it continues to use the “Fighting…...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
What’s The One Thing Baseball Has Been Missing All These Years?
Cheerleaders. And now the nation’s pastime, and the only real sport in the world, has ‘em courtesy of the Florida Marlins. Why we didn’t think of this 100 years ago…...
Saturday, March 31, 2007
General Tried To Warn Bush On Reality Of Spc. Tillman’s Death
Apparently then-Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal sent a memo to a four-star General at the Pentagon stating that it was “possible” that Tillman was killed by friendly fire and that national…...
Sunday, March 25, 2007
I’ll Kill A Snitch
Funniest SNL skit I’ve seen in a long, long time. ...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Star Tribune Columnist: Illinois Shows North Dakota How To Be Honorable
I had to laugh when I saw this column from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s uber-liberal columnist Nick Coleman. Essentially, Coleman is using the University of Illinois’ decision to get rid of…...
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Every Single Super Bowl Commercial All In One Post
In case you missed some of ‘em. And on a related note, did the Super Bowl commercials represent a commentary on Iraq? One doofus at the New York Times with…...
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Sports Diversity
While we’re on the subject of sports and cultural diversity, why do people always complain about the lack of diversity in the NHL (which is dominated by whites) while we…...
NCAA To Win Rosa Parks Award Thanks To A Group Of UND Students
Why? Because of the NCAA’s ban on Indian mascots and nicknames. The same university that is suing the NCAA will honor the organization with a human rights award on Friday.…...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Are We Going To Find Out The Truth About Bonds And Steroids?
Perhaps, if the feds can put Bonds’ name to a positive “anonymous” drug test conducted by MLB. AP - The names and urine samples of about 100 Major League Baseball…...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Dartmouth Director Of Athletics Apologizes For University Of North Dakota Hockey Team
A letter to the editor of the Dartmouth school newspaper written by Dartmouth Director of Athletics Josie Harper: I am writing to strongly denounce the historical and recent affronts to…...
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