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Also, the fact that NHL network isn't even an option on UVERSE swayed me away from it, though I believe that's the cable provider at my new house next year.

728 on comcast in Ann Arbor

"Package store" is also a common name, especially in Boston and Baltimore.

Score update: Michigan down 3 to 1. Batting in the top of the 6th.

I usually see the abbreviation as UMD (MD=Maryland) or UMCP (University of Maryland College Park as there are 4 other schools in the UM system).

And this letter is hilarious and more importantly makes my Terp friends very embarrassed.

This is in order of how I and my hockey playing/following friends see the league setup.

"Adult" Professional:

NHL

KHL (Russian pro league, this is where a lot NHLer went during the lockout)

AHL (think AAA baseball)

High Level Premier European Leagues (Swedish, etc)

ECHL (think AA baseball)

SPHL (A baseball)

Federal League (not from the movie slapshot. I know they pay their players, beyond that I know nothing other than it only has 4 teams)

Next we have the junior/college level leagues which also have high school players

Canadian Major Junior (OHL=mostly Ontario; QMJHL=Quebec and east; WHL=west Canada, Washington, Oregon.) Major junior leagues pay their players a stipend which in the NCAA's eyes make them professional and destroys college eligibility. Junior requires players to be 16 to 20.

College

NCAA

CIS (Canadian University, typically older than NCAA players and most likely have played major junior as that does not make you ineligible, usually not going anywhere afterwards)

Junior A Tier I

USHL-Premier US Junior league, the NDTP (National Development Training Program) has it's under 18 team play in this league.

Canada has a series of leagues (BCHL, OJHL) that play at the same level as the USHL and do not pay their players so the players retain elibility

Junior A Tier II

The NAHL is considered a Tier II Junior A league, it is filled with young players (15 or 16) trying to move up to the USHL and then on to high leagues or 18/19/20 year olds still chasing the dream. Most of Eastern Michigan's club roster is guys who played in the NAHL at the end of or after high school.

There is Tier III junior A, then Junior B, and Junior C.

Next comes the high school or Midget levels. High school in Minnesota or the New England preps schools is equal (in my opinion) to Midget AAA played by teams out of the Detroit area.

I think there are a few logistical concerns, the one about hotel spaces has already been mentioned. The other one I see is how would WWE get their massive stage into to the stadium? I've heard large concerts cannot go to the Big House because of how smaller the 1 tunnel is.

If they could figure it out, I think it'd be fun. I was at Wretlemania the last time it was in Detroit and it was one hell of a time.

I don't like that there are lines connecting the discrete points, I'd rather see a scatter plot which each player be a seperate dot. /nitpick

Boston College and Georgia Tech please. Two good/great schools, southern exposure and BC hockey. Plus I bet BC and GT would add lacrosse at that point and we could have epic B1G hockey and a solid B1G lacrosse league.

fair enough, I'm in that endzone so I couldn't see the whole play, lots of bodies blocking the action.

Looked like the guy tried to hit Trouba and fell down how was that a penalty?

A group of friends and I will be at ABC. Maybe hop between there and MASH. I'm really shocked by the lack of things going on and it seems like those high priced things happening don't come with an open bar which is incredibly dissapointing after spending last NYE at an open bar next to Jackson Square in New Orleans.

I know they aren't AAU, but USNews ranks them #31 in the US (Michigan is #29) so it all depends what metric you rank academics on. And let's be honest, the B1G is just going after TV markets now.

The system school remark is also unneccesary. University of Maryland College Park is more seperate from UM Baltimore COUNTY (UMBC) then Michigan is from Michigan Dearborn or Michigan Flint. UMBC plays D-I athletics on it's on. UM-Baltimore is where all the professional schools are (dentistry/med school/law). UM Eastern Shore is also a completely seperate college (HBCU) as is the confusingly named (to some people) University of Maryland University College.

If anything the Maryland system is set up more like the University of California sytem (UCLA/Berkeley/Davis/etc are seperate schools with UCSF being the main medical campus).

Source: Marlyand born and raised, half my friends went to UMCP or UMBC, dad went to UM-Baltimore Law. I went to Michigan.

There are 10 public high schools in DC that play in the DCIAA. There is an east and a west division and the top two teams from each division make the playoffs. Anacostia finished second in the east and goes up against Wilson HS who won the West.

The private schools in the DC area play in there own leagues and then Maryland and Virginia also run their own playoffs.

*This was meant as a reply to another post*

Merill just got hit from behind into the boards chasing a puck, he got up and to say he was woozy was an understatement. No penalty called, hopefully it's nothing major.

why not have us ans state play for the Mason Cup each year? whoever wins the season series gets it.

It says season not played, but that's pretty close to blank

Wild are in the West.

Please not in high school, or they need to put some sort of score cap when it's used. As a coach of an admittedly bad lacrosse team stalling the ball on offense is one way we can compete and then the other teams tend to take pity on us and also hold onto the ball and work on passing rather than scoring. I don't see a coach employing that tactic if is leads to a turnover every possesion. Most boys hs basketball leagues in the country don't us a shot clock either.

I really liked those Maryland uniforms, but it probably has something to do with being from the state (we have an irrationally high love for our flag). I also think it's cool that they are trying use the look in more sports. The Maryland/Hopkins lacrosse game two weekends ago had a cool combo of uniforms. Maryland was wearing the ultra-modern graphics everywhere UA ones with pads having the same idea whereas Hopkins was sporting retro looking brown pads (look more like old leather) throw back jerseys and even had decals on the helmets to make them look like the old bucket helmets they used in the 70s and 80s right down to a decal for where the laces used to be on the back of the helmets.

Back on top, the modern/futuristic uniforms work for teams that don't really have a tradition or have a tradition of pushing the envelope, classics work well for schools that have that classic tradition.

The thoughts of a 23 year old.

I grew up and played youth hockey in the DC area and there were no good hockey stores there and really still aren't, so I usually bought most of my stuff from Perani's when I'd come up to Michigan to see my cousins or play tournaments.

Anyways, I really used to like using CCM Tack 952 wooden sticks with the Murphy curve. CCM stopped making the pattern and I was in a jam. So my dad called Perani's and tried to find a solution to the problem. Mr. Perani called him back about 2 hours later and said there was still a 12 pack of Tack 720s from a few years ago at the warehouse. He gave us a deal, I had the sticks before my next game, and I think I still have two that I use for roller hockey, etc.

I've been to the Flint, Ann Arbor, Livonia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Dimondale, and Windsor locations and never had an issue with the selection or the staff.

so usually kids bring their lax sticks to games, i was wondering if they are allowed to for the game this afternoon? i can't find anything online

Net was off

Aren't DQs automatic if a major is called in college?

That was an incredibly dangerous play and totally unnecessary, that play gets you ejected almost every time in college and it is the right call.

Ref just put um a man down on a slashing call he made purely off sound,

When you pick off a pass on a clear it needs to turn into a good shot at least. 8-2 at half

6-1 loyola

The only reason I learned what TMZ is was because they got the scope on the death and then cbs, nbc, etc picked it up from them, so as was said in the post, small outfits can make big names for themselves by reporting one gigantic headline.

Because no NHL team in a warm weather climate has ever accomplished anything right?

It seems like OSU is allowed to mug our players both during play and after the whistle. Like three of their guys just went after brown 5 feet away from the goalie.

They're all across town at the blue jackets game

Pavel; good.

in the detroit area what radio station is this game? 971 is lions pregame and 1130 is basketball talk

Do you think there would be an issue that the big house doesn't have the infastructure in place for beer sales? That is a huge amount of cash being left on the table by Ilitch

SPARTY NO!!!!!!

rigterin at umich dot edu

and the roughing the passer on vanden bosch was the same thing that matthews did to stafford. I don't mind if they make these calls, but call it the same way.

Did she forget the words there for a second or did my cable lose sound?

This is seriously getting old. Versus is available and standard on most cable packages and a very cheap upgrade on many others. Anyone that is actually a sports fan most likely has versus and definitely know it exists.

Is not shut down, but please don't be that guy trying to drive down it 30 minutes before kick off.

Let's go blue!

Keep track of what down it is.

Thanks.

These announcers and the production in general are terrible.

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But then who's going to play goalie for my beer league team?

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Walking past that place every day on the way to work always makes me chuckle

Iowa has a team, they play in the same league as Purdue I believe.

Since when is Omaha in the south? It's north of Indianapolis.

The USCGA is in New London, CT. I think they're DIII though, same as the Merchant Marine Academy.

Which Engin 100/101 are you taking? 100 can be a huge time commitment depending on what prof you have and if you're not too good at computer programming 101 can also be a bitch.

But as for your actual question, two friends of my mine had the same dilemna coming into freshman year. One decided to beef up his calc 1 skills and retake 115 even though he had the AP credit, he ended up slacking in the class because "he knew everything" and got like a b minus or something. The other decided to do 116, stayed on top of everything and got an A. I'm not sure if it's changed but 4 years ago 116 didn't require you to turn in homework every week, but they would still give you practice problems.

If you're confident with your math ability and your ability to stay on top of your work, I'd say go for 116. I went straight to 215, and with a similair schedule to yours (also 13 credits, easier chem, but working on the side), got an A+ in 215 including a 100% on the final.

My dad was trying to fly from DC to Lansing a number of years ago for Christmas on US Airways. Landed in Pittsburgh to make the connection, looked at the monitors, Lansing was nowhere to be found. Turns out US Airways had stopped flying to Lansing 3 months prior. My dad was still issued tickets for the flight. At least they got him to DTW and paid for his car service to and from, but I don't think he's flown an airline except Southwest since.

Thankfully my department's bar crawl is scheduled for tonight. See everyone sunday morning.

When I was in high school (class of 2006) you had the choice of taking IB at a different high school or AP classes at your own. From what I could tell IB was mainly for literature and the arts where as AP let me take Calculus, Physics, and other sciences which I could then easily transfer into Michigan and get ahead in my Engineering studies, in addition to english and history. People I knew that took IB classes told me it was pretty much a scam, but it might vary from school to school. I also remember IB was good if you wanted to go abroad for college.

Rumor has it that Packard Pub at the corner of Packard and State will open on Friday. Hopefully it won't suck.

I'd love to see Michigan schedule a service academy every year. One year we get them at the big house next year we play at a big stadium near each school. Army we'd playing in NYC, Navy in Baltimore or DC, and Air Force we'd play at Denver. I think this would be good for all schools involved.

In the punk circles We Are the Union (from Ann Arbor) is getting bigger.

Also, the Cheap Girls (E. Lansing), Koffin Kats (Detroit) and the A-Gang (ex-Suicide Machines) also from Detroit.

I think it started last year against BU when everyone really liked yelling Yip and it got changed over to Woop. Around me, we do it when the opposing team is trying to breakout on a power play until they get to the red line.

If anyone has some contraption that would allow me to float over Kalamazoo during the riot that will surely precede, coincide, and then follow the MSU/Western Game let me know.

I don't know how you interpreted the "mustn't go right" anecdote as anything other than the "That is the shady side of town, go and perish" way that I took it. But, maybe that's from personal experiences of cabbies and bell boys telling me the exact same thing.

That being said, I thought the article was for the most part crap and I do agree that I wouldn't consider fans that behave like these Mexican soccer supports more passionate than respectful fans.

I would probably eat at that restaurant twice a day if I ever was unfortunate enough to end up in France.

Florida also does this.