It’s pretty much common knowledge that NBA Superstars get preferential treatment from the refs. Other than that, how is it like pro wrestling? Is it as bad as the NBA telling a team’s players before the game that they will lose it?
Neal Broten for me too. I think he’s still the only player ever to win the Hobey Baker Award, The NCAA Championship, the Olympic Gold Medal and the Stanley Cup, plus the WHCA championship. The late 70’s and early 80’s was a great period for Minnesota hockey and Broten was a big part of it.
I like most of your post and agree Title IX will be hard to change. Title IX’s power is the Federal Dollars that flow into the schools. What might work is if schools completely removed financial support for athletics. And once there are no ties between Federal Dollars and athletics, then Title...
Niko has made a living out of coaching up ‘unproven’ talent, so the odds are good we’ll do better this year and hopefully be in the March Madness discussion.
She’s in 7th grade, so no concern. Unless she’s already playing varsity, I don’t think anyone should be offering her. And I hope Iowa did it with prior consent from the parents.
This is what I don’t get, where are all the Tommies and their posts that are polluting GopherHole? I just don’t see them. This whole debate seems to be a lot to do about nothing. It’s our Seinfeld crisis.
The mods have the ability to move posts that have gone off topic to a new thread and have done so before. I’m just not for a total ban of mentioning St. Thomas, or any other school, in a normal conversation, which is what the poll question was about.
As St. Thomas becomes more relevant in Div 1 sports, there will be news we’ll want to hear. We discuss many other teams here in multiple sports. Why relegate only St. Thomas to its own board? We weathered the NDSU onslaught, and we can do the same with St. Thomas, which so far seems a lot more...