I found this blog For Here Men are Men it offers a really good perspective on the B.C. Eagles and it also has some great press links from the Boston area newspapers about the up coming game with the Boston College Eagles. While I hate the Boston Globe political leanings they do have one of the best sports pages in the USA.
Sioux Hockey a Relgious Experience
Like most of us didn't already know this, but this is a nice aritcle from the Belleville News-Democrat I must add that it is a horrible name for a news paper, but I digress.
ST. LOUIS - Ryan Johnson knows there will be a lot of North Dakota green at the NCAA Frozen Four hockey tournament in St. Louis this week.
The St. Louis Blues winger still speaks in reverent terms of his 1 1/2 seasons with the North Dakota Fighting Sioux, who face Boston College on Thursday in the semifinals at Scottrade Center.
"It's a religion," was the first thing that came to Johnson's mind when asked about a tradition that includes three straight Frozen Four appearances and five in the last eight years. "In Grand Forks, with the beautiful facility they have and the support the city gives that team. It's unbelievable.
"There's not many other colleges in college hockey that have the tradition and history this program has."
Ex-Blue Tony Hrkac and Johnson's brother, former NHL player Greg Johnson, each were All-Americans with the Fighting Sioux, who won their first national championship in 1959. Hrkac played for UND's 1987 national champs while Los Angeles Lakers coach. Phil Jackson is another famous North Dakota alumnus
Ryan Johnson will have to miss the Frozen Four tournament with the Blues on a season-ending road trip this week.
"I would have loved to be here to watch the games," Johnson said. "I know the coaching staff very well and that would have been a blast, but I'll still be cheering them on in spirit."
Men's and women's hockey are the only Division I sports at North Dakota, where the home arena is the opulent 11,406-seat Ralph Engelstad Arena.
Named for its benevolent donor who spent $104 million to make it happen, the arena -- which opened in 2001 -- includes padded leather seats for all spectators, state-of-the-art training facilities and just about anything else you can think of.
" It's the only Division I sport at the university, it's the focal point," Johnson said. "It's just incredible the following that school gets."
You and I are in agreement on the Globe's political leanings!! Actually most of the links I posted today are from Boston's tabloid paper, the Herald, which despite having far fewer resources than the Globe does a much better job of covering all 3 of BC's major sports (and boasts a right-wing editorial page). Interestingly enough the two actually may be related, as some have accused the Globe of ignoring BC sports out of a political bias against the Catholic Church.
ReplyDeleteShould be a great game on Thursday, I'll have more up tomorrow. Gotta think the BC-UND winner will be a heavy favorite on Saturday, but you never know.
I agree, too bad politics play to big of a part in a newspapers MO.
ReplyDeleteIt's also a shame the Bruins were so bad this season.
I'm actually from Philly originally, so I could care less about the Bruins--die hard Flyers fan (thank God I don't have to cheer for Freddy Meyer anymore).
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