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Title IX, while serving an understood purpose, has seemingly also driven an end to certain men's sports such as gymnastics. With so few programs left, you wonder how long until they just cancel the sport entirely or the NCAA just no longer recognizes it. I was disappointed but not surprised as today...

We were supposed to do Hawaii March 2020 also. Looking at fall of 2021 now.
Our big trip this year is now Duluth for the weekend coming up.

This is on point...

Maybe this is the turn for 2020 because MN actually getting the #1 pick feels like winning the Powerball.

The kit is $120 or so, a comparable Weber natural gas grill is $850-$1150 (which is 2x-3x a LP grill). Where are you seeing this? I have sold Weber grills for almost 25 years and with Weber’s MAP pricing they have consistent pricing at all retailers nationwide and to special order a NG one is less ...

So I'm looking to convert my Weber LP grill to natural gas. I can buy a kit to do this from a 3rd party. Weber does not support this and if you do it, it voids any remaining warranty on the grill. For safety reasons, they say buy a new grill of the type you want. Anyone do this? Anyone have recomme...

So I'm looking to convert my Weber LP grill to natural gas. I can buy a kit to do this from a 3rd party. Weber does not support this and if you do it, it voids any remaining warranty on the grill. For safety reasons, they say buy a new grill of the type you want. Anyone do this? Anyone have recommen...

Curious to see if the Big 12 or ACC follow the PAC 12 and Big 10 lead. Clearly don't expect the SEC will do so until a southern conference of a different name goes first.

Wild lose 3-2 to Colorado in their post-season-pre-season-summer camp restart game.

Anyone else throwing $80 away to have your mug on a cardboard head at Target Field?

No... Me either...

Can you call it a season if it doesn't make it to double digit games?

I endorse solely for the benefit of Fake Don Lucia.

Fun times.
Hadn't visited in a couple of weeks and this was fun catching up right here.

Union 32 in Eagan has "temporarily closed indefinitely"

Even stopped curbside and takeout...

4 teams, 2 home and 2 away. Split across Thursday, Sunday day or night, and Monday. Could be done. Especially if no fans to clear out.

I don't necessarily understand the DH rule piece of this - but whatever.

I wonder if the free Twins ticket vouchers for the 2020 season I got at fan appreciation night last year will be good for 2021...

And in other mentions:

Tyler Nanne = Big Ten Sportsmanship Award

Sammy Walker & Brannon McManus were All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.

Since the previous season is closed:

This isn't really "other" sports as much as "all" sports - but anyway. Link to Coyle's presentation to the Board of Regents this week. It's not very useful without the context of the discussion, which isn't surprising. Doesn't say anything about cost saving actions outside of the obvious. Doesn't sp...

There is a special ring in Hades for people who schedule a 5pm meeting on a Friday. It's not like people don't have more meetings and more compressed workdays already. Jeez... Just before I took my 6 week parental leave, we were just starting to get into video conference calls. Then my job had a st...

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Fri May 01 9:32 pm

Karlsson wrote: ↑
Fri May 01 5:56 pm
Sven canned by KARE. Leaving it at that.
I'm missing something here, but I liked Sven, when I actually *watched* the news.

Sven got a little controversial in his social media work as of late, you can find it if you want to look for it.
Rough day for local media.

Sam Rennes to the rams. 7 Gophers accounted for.

Rodney Smith to sigh with the Carolina Panthers. So, 5 drafted and 6 “selected” this week.

5 Gophers drafted. Sweet draft year for the team.

Kamal Martin to Green Bay at 175 (Rd 5. 30th pick)
Two compensatory picks in the 5th round so 34 total picks.
2/3rd through 6th round Coughlin still on the board - I'm a homer and I know it, but I'm surprised.

I expected Winfield and Johnson to be gone by end of 3 and all four to be gone by end of 5.

I think Tyler is also a 3rd round talent but the odd knock on his character seems to be a thing for some reason.

I really hope they have to redo that championship photo/trophy wall again real soon...
Aslo, I want the backlit classic goldy.

A bit surprised we don't see at least 2 Gophers in the first 3 rounds. I thought Coughlin or Martin would have a shot in the 3rd.

GopherPete wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 16 9:58 am
This one's for the guys...less splash if you hit the sides of the bowl, or right in the middle?

Side, hitting the bowl vs. the actual water in the bowl. Unless you have a firehose stream (kudos i f you do).

This was a big travel year for us and we're hoping we get to do some of it:

- Hawaii (Spring Break) - CANCELED
- Detroit (Forzen Four) - CANCELED
- Vegas (July 4th) - Guys trip
- Sonoma (August) - 20th Anniversary

Holding out hope.

That was totally on purpose...

Drove the 494 loop today. Hit the McD drive-thru to start and DQ Drive-thru to end. 72.5 miles. Moderate traffic.

Well, wrong thread, but we renewed our hockey tickets yesterday for the season that may never be or may be shortened or may be without fans or or or or

Today was a rough update day for new cases and deaths.

I wonder if planned or if accelerated. 'CCO was trying to trim costs and maybe he wasn't going to retire now but was told or given an incentive to do so?
Not saying that's true, just wondering. They did remove Esme Murphy from the radio side.

JC65 wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 08 5:01 pm

(I'm not an expert, but I am a rewards member at Holiday Inn Express).

Well fortunately, it appears your rewards status will be extended until 2022.

Stay at home order until May 4th. Peaking into July. Can we get a second opinion? This doesn't change much. The two weeks prior to the stay at home order and the last two weeks have been the same for us. Bars, restaurants, entertainment industry, sports, and schools were all already closed through ...

VOTE! Don't let Harvard do it again...

More of a bummer than sticks in my craw, but I've been getting lit up with past Frozen Four memories over the past couple of days (which will continue for the next several)... a constant reminder of where I won't be this week. And, a realization it means we likely have to go to Detroit in the next c...

https://twitter.com/evegoe/status/1247554468318765062?s=20 The broader impact to the U is astounding. Didn't know they had that many revenue generating activities. Given the proximity of things on campus (large lecture halls, housing, sports venues), it's hard to fathom that any of that is allowabl...

Delta continues to impress me. Just got an e-mail letting me know they have already decided to extend any status through 2021 regardless of if you requality, that any miles accrued in 2020 will just roll over into 2021 toward 2022 status, and flexibility with a number of other travel benefits. I get...

We hope our daughter keeps busy until 12:00 when starting at 8:30 each day. Certainly not over burdening here yet (8th grade).

HockeyBum wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 04 12:50 pm
I'm thinking about driving the entire 494/694 loop today just for fun. That's how bored I am.

This I could wrap my head around. Also thought about driving to Rochester just to wave to my parents from the car...

Kudos to Delta for doings their best to do what’s right in challenging times (their potential bailout aside, still better than United) https://view.o.delta.com/?qs=37b7f9557368599d751e9ff805b45b318e3b5a0e5d2a0bbf8fb14620cab1ea44da3abb0b4f55f2fb7ddf3776a63bed44ce38990c66ee360e5b27b9550491015a60d5fc72...

Costco was a morgue today (which is good). I ran over between conference calls to avoid being one of the weekenders. We needed a few items. They had everything normal in stock (including paper towels and all meats) except for toilet paper. Ran to Target for 2 things we couldn't get at Costco and sam...

This turned out about how you'd expect.
The Athletic ranks the local NHL broadcast teams.

https://theathletic.com/1710155/?source ... aMB_Slnr2k

When do we hold the best quarantine hair competition?
Who's all in on rocking their best 80's hairband hair?

I have not seen spam specifically (or my filters are doing their job), but I was shocked to find out just how many Orgs. knew how to reach me to explain their actions in battling COVID-19. And, how little some of them really needed to reach out. But, thank you State Farm, for telling me how you're p...

We need to get to widespread testing in order to work back toward some type of normalcy. Hoping we can get there.

frozen4champs wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 31 4:21 pm
Time to vote again for the Gophers stick salute

Need to get our vote on, we're losing this thing.

53 new cases reported in MN, down from 73 yesterday and more in line with our flattened growth vs. exponential growth. Though, hard to say if that's due to good social distancing and stay at home efforts or lack of testing. Those 53 new cases came from 958 new tests (5.5%). So far MN has done 19,780...

Carr did this last year, too, didn't he?
He may be back.

I have been on a whirlwind of cleaning/organizing. And yes I know it is a way to control my environment, but I’ve always been a bit OCD this way. I spent 3 days cleaning my office top to bottom. Every book off the shelf, dusted and re-cataloged. Weird things discovered, lots of things thrown away! ...

Well, we made it until 12:45pm of distance learning day 1 before our teenage unleashed all the fury of hell on us. She finished all of her assigned daily activity by lunch, so after lunch we said you need to read or find school related activities you can do until 2pm. In her eyes, we clearly belong ...

It helps keep the alkies out of the hospitals due to withdrawal symptoms, which can be fatal. Also helps limit crowds due to hoarding. If that were such a major concern, Denver would not have tried to exclude them in the first place. Additionally, alcohol still would have been available from places...

Wow, that's MN passive aggressive right there. I think the question is what additional things will now close (i.e. Hardware stores, home goods stores, craft stores, etc.). I could call Home Depot essential - if my water heater breaks and I need a part... It feels like more of the same and an extensi...

I've enjoyed the work from home factor for those of us who don't usually do. Animals, babies, side conversations, TV's - they all bring levity to my day.

I feel like that was a bit of a weather humble brag question...

This year's team was competitively bad to watch. So many games they were in and could have (should have) won. Next year you may not even have that sense of hope they should/could have won...

Dr. Gupta on CNN mentioned 40-60% getting infected. If we let that happen at one time we are just accelerating natural selection for the less healthy. So, it’s getting everyone exposed at a manageable rate. Or this could possibly overwhelm hospital and clinic capacities to the point we're not just ...

I said he’d be back and he is. Who knows what may have impacted that. Maybe the team makes a run in the B1G tourney.

But he’s back.

Dr. Gupta on CNN mentioned 40-60% getting infected. If we let that happen at one time we are just accelerating natural selection for the less healthy.

So, it’s getting everyone exposed at a manageable rate.

Ha! We were out at 8am and after a 90-minute 5 store run were able to get some paper towels, toilet paper, and cleaning supplies. It felt like Christmas.

Bigbeer wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 19 1:20 pm
Hearing Seattle is getting a shelter-in-place order tomorrow.

This will grow beyond just Seattle. Especially when places like Florida can't seem to do it on their own.

And because everyone thinks they can fix the broken QB of another team, or are desperate to do so.

In case you're wondering what "self absorbed" looks like: https://www.yahoo.com/news/aint-serious-miami-spring-breakers-074801407.html This is why we have to forceably close everything, because people aren't capable of self-managing. Those "kids" are all going to go back to their homes and relative...

So the Vikings are up to 12 draft picks in the 2020 draft. I imagine some of those will be traded away either for talent or to move up in the draft as I don't see how they successfully execute all of those. As a Bears fan, I'm a big jealous. I don't think we ever have more than 4 and usually only ge...

I wonder how many guys scheduled their Big V's for Thursday/Friday thinking they could head home and watch NCAA hoops the rest of the weekend? Same with Masters' weekend. :shock: Me. On both weekends (though the Masters was also because I had a buddy planning to come to town to watch a standup come...

Now that testing is becoming more widely available and kits are available - I would expect a rise in confirmed cases both due to spread and just awareness. Two weeks agoI was down and out for 2 days with a cough, fever, and very flu-like symptoms. Was it the flu? Was it a cold? Was it COVID-19? I wo...

Cam none too happy about it either. He had a candid reaction to the team saying they have agreed to allow him to be traded as if it was his idea.

frozen4champs wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 17 2:35 pm

This is my dream scenario... get a paid relocation to FL just ahead of retirement.

Our dog is even sick of us...

Desperate for live entertainment I turned on Monday Night Raw...
They did 20 minutes of live stuff and are now showing the January Royal Rumble match. Oh well...

You need to at least see the last 20 minutes of "Once Upon a Time in a Hollywood"
If you want the traditional Trantino sequence, anyway.

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