Has Sue objected?
Posted on 11/12/2006 8:19:58 AM PST by george76
A district judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop the NCAA from banning the University of North Dakota from hosting a postseason game because of its "Fighting Sioux" nickname, state Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said.
Stenehjem said judge Lawrence Jahnke alerted him to the decision Saturday night. Stenehjem did not know the details.
UND is among a handful of schools with American Indian nicknames and logos that the NCAA considers hostile and abusive.
Those schools are barred from holding postseason tournaments, or from using their nicknames during road playoff games.
Stenehjem, in asking for the injunction, said the ban might cost UND (9-1, 7-1 North Central Conference) home field advantage in this year's NCAA Division II football playoffs.
With its 33-26 win Saturday over South Dakota, UND is likely to receive a bye in the first round, starting on Nov. 18.
"We should be in good shape to be able to host in two weeks at the Alerus (Center)," said UND Athletic Director Tom Buning.
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What about the Fighting Irish ?
Why don't these schools just quit this ASSociation?
Do they have a contract with the Sioux, or not?
Good question. In fact, when I saw "UND" in the headline, I thought the article would be about Notre Dame.
Here's the deal: it is perfectly OK to portray persons of Celtic descent as brawling sots, because Celts, Anglo Saxons, and other "persons of pallor" don't deserve the protection that some other groups receive.
This pc stuff is out of hand.
In a Greeley Colorado school basketball team , they have the fighting whites !
Has Sue objected?
They are honoring the Indians not insulting them.
What do they want "the fighting pansies"
What about the Orangemen?
and St. John's University (New York) was originally called the Redmen ...now called the pc the Red Storm ?
The Miami Redskin or... Redhawks...
LOL
"The Fighting Sue "?
Wait untilthey stop keeping score because losing negatively impacts one group of valued individuals' self-esteem!
Scratch their eyes out!
Pull Their hair!
Let's go Pansies,
(I broke a nail!)
So I could say to a liberal lefty...."You're my Sioux"???
The Native Americans should rise up and protest the NCAA's agenda. To have your tribe named as a mascot for a college team should be a compliment.....unless of course your namesake is in the cellar year after year. :o)
The UND president is actually living up to the school's nickname in this one. He's one of the few presidents who are actually fighting the NCAA, and I believe has posted letters on his website explicitly stating why they're keeping the name.
As a proud UND student.... Go Sioux!
" the Orangemen of Syracuse University.. the fighting protestants "
LOL
So I could say to a liberal lefty...."You're my Sioux"???
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