The blog formerly about a daily dose of mostly Minnesota sports rants and raves with a sprinkling of general sports commentary and a pinch of jaded-malaise regarding the world around us

March 28, 2012

Gophers to NIT Final and You Guys Are Officially Lame


First trip back to the finals since that one time that a non-existant Gopher team beat Georgetown. I do not believe there was a champion that year. Also, you guys are lame. I give MCA a passing grade for his Gopher hockey post, but the rest of you get an F. We tried to resurrect this blog with a free form jazz odyssey. Some of our teams are now on the verge of winning some stuff and there is still no chatter. This blog could be going the way of party-room chat phone lines and Intellivision.

March 26, 2012

Bring on BC


The Gopher's making the Frozen Four has to everyone a little excited, even MCA, right?

Picture courtesy of the Minnesota Daily, article here:

http://www.mndaily.com/nuevo/nuevo/2012/03/25/minnesota-advances-frozen-four-win-over-und

March 15, 2012

RTS' College Basketball Tickets


I know I have run this into the ground and I do not think you guys care, BUT what else are we talking about?

This is pretty much it for college basketball. I can only remember going to two Iowa games my sophomore year, one against MSU and one against OSU. Those are obviously missing. Clearly, my resume of tickets is a far cry from say someone who went to Duke. Quick rundown of the tickets:

The three Iowa Vs NU tickets from my Chicago years. I am guessing I did not have the NU student ID.

The Minnesota at NU game was Clem Haskin's last regular season game as the Gopher's head coach. After that he only coached two more games. Minnesota lost in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament to Illinois. The scandal broke the day before the NCAA tournament and they lost to Gonzaga the next day. He did not return.

Jan was nice enough to take me to a non-conference game against Nebraska, my only trip to the barn.

Georgia Tech Vs St Johns. GT's arena is nicked named the tit. From the outside, the building looks like a joke from the Naked Gun.

The last ticket is Iowa Vs Minnesota at the Target Center in a wrestling dual. It was the largest turn out ever for a Minnesota wrestling match. I am missing a ton of wrestling stubs. Season tickets in college were only $5. I also saw the Big Ten tournament one year. That was a whole weekend of camping out in the stands watching wrestling. Most of the Minnesota wrestlers were MN state champs when we were in HS, which was kind of cool.

March 12, 2012

Pitchers and Catchers Report, FTLOSBW Yawns

















March 6, 2012

The NFL Bounty Fallout


I can't even get into the discussion of this as I read a headline from Peter King of "What could have been if Saints got called for Favre hit" that made me immediately sad. On my printer is still tapped the 2009 schedule where I tracked "W's" and "L's". It's forever a heartbreaker for me, I can't go back and even look, I have perspective now but will never be able to understand what happened.