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This. When I dropped my season tickets I didn't go buy Lynx season tickets. I think you  might see some Vikings fans taking a...

And its your choice to go spend your dollars on something other than Gopher football or basketball. But I doubt that the 25,000 more...

This assumes that entertainment dollars must be spent, burning a hole in one's pocket. Someone like me? If I'm not going to a football...

I've spent plenty of time in MSP and enough time in both Des Moines and Omaha and would dispute that. Des Moines is a metro of over...

I know people that barely leave the county that make it a point to attend the international games.

In the 80s and 90s, a sellout for a Vikings game at the Metrodome was not a guarantee and GM and other businesses in town would buy up...

I don't mean to imply that having big league sports in town doesn't have some effect on the interest in Gopher sports but I think the...

That's a loser's mentality. There are more people in the metro than the entire state of Iowa and nearly twice as many than the entire...

And those games are late in the season with worn down kids.

I doubt that our "peer" competitors mentioned above give away too many tickets with Red Baron pizzas, either.

Who should pay for it? How many sports ate enough to not be an embarrassment?

This is really the only thing that makes sense these days.

I can't see the B1G taking the Big 12 teams above they could have taken them very recently. I don't see the SEC teams leaving the SEC...

I'm no Tommy but I will say those are impressive figures for a school with an undergraduate enrollment of less than 6,000 when compared...

From whose pocket cometh loan payments? And I don't disagree that there is horrific bloat in higher ed. I've seen statistics that show...