I’m driving to Fargo tomorrow, thus I took my trusty 2000 Chevy Blazer to Jiffy Lube and got the thing checked out. I used to do all my own stuff under the hood, but since moving to an area where driveways are essentially non-existent, I’ve had to make do with the local Signature Service down in Willow Street.
Anyway… this one will be eventful, so I must get decent sleep tonight.
Yeah, ok.
Gas: About to get higher as I drive west.
Weather: About to get hotter as I drive west.
Recruiting ranks released
InterMat released it’s 2008 Division I Recruiting Class rankings earlier today and Minnesota comes in team with the nation’s best haul of incoming freshman. People are making a big deal about Jake Deitchler being a Minnesota recruit, but newsflash people, he was ranked #1 by InterMat all season long at 152 pounds. A three-time champ from Anoka, he’ll join some studs like Mario Mason, Ryland Geiger, Atticus Disney, Cody Yohn and Matt Mincey. There’s some great depth in these classes, so to check it out, hit up the Premium Service breakdown here.
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The next UFC card has much wrestling to it
I was reading a blog today from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the upcoming UFC fights on July 19 and noticed something quite astounding. Reece Andy, Brandon Vera, Frank Edgar, Cain Velasquez, Jake O’Brien, Jesse Taylor and C.B. Dollaway are all former collegiate wrestlers. Andy was a two-time All-American at Wyoming and a 1996 NCAA Finalist. Vera wrestled at Old Dominion before joining the Air Force, Edgar wrestled at Clarion, O’Brien at Purdue, Taylor at Palomar and Cal State-Fullerton while Dollaway and Velasquez were All-Americans at Arizona State.
It’s a very wrestling-heavy card. Good stuff. Oh, Marcus LeVesseur is fighting the same night in Fargo for some local MMA outfit. If I get into town soon enough, I’ll have to check it out.
A new twist to Title IX
I subscribe to several “Google Alerts,” one of which is on Title IX. Mainly because I want to read what the media’s perception is of this law gone wrong as it relates to athletics. Well, you know the days of writing congress about our plight in wrestling with our programs being dropped? I think we just picked up a serious ally in the fight for the return of common sense to Title IX — scientists! Yes, the white lab coat is as far removed from a singlet as you can get, but the Oregon (of all places) Commentator had an interesting blurb today. Here’s the quote I found most telling from someone from the scientific community worried this “quota” (yes, the smart people are calling it that too, not just the meathead wrestlers) would slow down scientific progress in their respective fields.
“Colleges already practice affirmative action for women in science, but now they’ll be so intimidated by the Title IX legal hammer that they may institute quota systems,” Dr. [Christina] Sommers said. “In sports, they had to eliminate a lot of male teams to achieve Title IX parity. It’ll be devastating to American science if every male-dominated field has to be calibrated to women’s level of interest.”
I think the most pertinent statement there is “has to be calibrated to women’s level of interest.” It’s already been devastating to men’s non-revenue Olympic sports.
Here we go again … I can already hear the WSF and like organizations talking about what defines interest and there being no studies to define it, then contradicting themselves saying “why do you need to measure interest?” Uh, because how else does anyone know ANYONE is interested? Common sense, get here soon.
Fargo Points of Interest
Green Mill, Buffalo Wild Wings, Granite City, Bison Turf, the other Buffalo Wild Wings, Borrowed Bucks Roadhouse, Playmakers, the Subway across the street from the FargoDome, anything in Moorhead.
Food: Wings, Buffalo Burgers, Wings, regular burgers, wings, Subway.
Birds: Mosquitoes.
The Fargo-Moorhead Red Hawks will be in town, too. One of my buddies from college plays for’em. Another guy does too, but I didn’t know him too well.
See you guys in Far-goh!
Oh, and if you’re on 94 and you see a Maroon Blazer with its hood up … stop.
And I didn’t spell check this today.
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July 18, 2008 at 8:10 am
Granite City beer & Happy Joe’s taco pizza
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