NCAA rejects mascot appeal

[RichH]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_on_sp_co_ne/ncaa_indian_mascots

Another blow to the Fighting Sioux nickname.

CHN has Sioux reaction:
http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2006/04/28_ncaarejects.php

[Trotsky]

I don't understand why NoDak doesn't just pay the Sioux whatever the asking shakedown price is.  It isn't like they are hurting for cash.

[RichH]

In addition to the above news, the NC$$ also made another announcement of tangential interest:

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/NCAA/2006/04/27/1554048-ap.html

Gist: the NC$$ has heard the complaints of the fans and media about there being too many meaningless bowl games rewarding mediocre teams, and an overly confusing and ineffective BCS system.  The solution: add MORE meaningless bowl games and an extra BCS bowl game which will certainly simplify the process.  Brilliant.

Of note: There will be an NC$$ bowl game played in Toronto.  PRECEDENT!!!  Let's get the Frozen Four in Canada. Post-haste.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote RichH]
Of note: There will be an NC$$ bowl game played in Toronto.  PRECEDENT!!!  Let's get the Frozen Four in Canada. Post-haste.[/quote]
At one time there was a bowl game in Havana.  Maybe they could move the College World Series there.

[billhoward]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote RichH]
Of note: There will be an NC$$ bowl game played in Toronto.  PRECEDENT!!!  Let's get the Frozen Four in Canada. Post-haste.[/quote]
At one time there was a bowl game in Havana.  Maybe they could move the College World Series there.[/quote]
The Tank MacNamara cartoon strip often referred to a bowl game situated in Kohler, Wisconsin. Named, or course, The _____ Bowl.

[billhoward]

[quote Trotsky]I don't understand why NoDak doesn't just pay the Sioux whatever the asking shakedown price is.  It isn't like they are hurting for cash.[/quote]

Having failed to wipe out the Indians in the 1800s, we're now paying the price of our incomplete genocide and more generous settlement with the Indians that we had anticipated. (We thought "you can set your own laws" meant they could decide if the tribal speed limit was going to be 35 or 45 mph.) They're pissed and they're taking it out in every way possible, setting up casinos, selling cut-rate cigarettes that aren't taxed, and now making life miserable for the few colleges that didn't already wimp out and just call themseleves the Big Greed (sorry, typo, Green; the former would refer to the NCAA) instead of Indians, Braves, whatever.