‘Hey Sarah, are you dissin’ us?’
Published Thursday, October 9, 2008
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Stumble It!The Drilla from Wasilla, also known as vice-presidential hopeful and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, should consider taking a crash course in common-sense diplomacy if she occupies the second-highest office in the nation in the very near future.
The Republican Party’s favorite hockey mom accepted a jersey from the University of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks hockey team during a campaign stop on Sunday in Nebraska’s largest city.
“I love that cheer — ‘Go Mavericks,’” Palin said in an Omaha World-Herald article on Monday.
She was referring to her and presidential hopeful and running mate John McCain being the real mavericks in the presidential race rather than Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden.
She might as well have been telling Alaska Nanooks fans to go ahead and cringe.
It seems Sarahcuda doesn’t pay much attention to the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. It seems, too, that her “yes” people and spin doctors didn’t bother to research the rivalry between the Nanooks and the Mavericks before they brought their show to Omaha.
To Palin and her peeps, here’s a primer on the Mavericks-Nanooks rivalry:
• This will be the 12th straight season that the teams have been perpetual scheduling clustermates in the CCHA. They play each other four times in each regular season — two games in Fairbanks and two games in Omaha.
That many games between two teams each season constitutes a rivalry.
• The Nanooks lead all-time in the series at 19-13-8, but the teams are tied in Omaha at 9-9-3. Alaska, though, hasn’t fared too well in the last eight regular-season matchups, going 1-5-2.
• In a game at the Carlson Center on Jan. 28, 2006 that ended in a 3-3 tie, four players fought in the first period — Mavericks right wing Mick Lawrence scrapped with Nanooks defenseman T.J. Campbell and Alaska right wing Kelly Czuy and Nebraska-Omaha left wing Mike Lefley had their fists flying at each other.
Fighting in college hockey is not allowed, so each player had to sit out his team’s following game.
• Alaska lost 2-1 in triple overtime to Nebraska-Omaha last March 9 in the third and deciding game of a best-of-three, first-round playoff series at the Qwest Center in downtown Omaha. The game, which included a CCHA single-game record 64 saves by then Nanooks senior goaltender Wylie Rogers, was the ninth-longest contest in NCAA hockey history.
While the teams respect each other, don’t expect any Nanooks and Mavericks players to exchange early Christmas gifts in their first series of the season on Dec. 5-6 at the Qwest Center.
The Qwest Center, coincidentally, is located not far from the Civic Auditorium Music Hall, where Palin became the gleeful recipient of a Mavericks hockey jersey.
If Palin had brushed up on her Nanooks-Mavericks history, she would have responded to the gift from the Mavericks like she claimed she responded to the congressional earmark for the “Bridge to Nowhere” in Ketchikan — she would have said no thanks.
She would have then reminded the Mavericks team members that she’s the governor of Alaska and one of the collegiate hockey teams in the 49th State is the Nanooks of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
She could have also told them that if McCain and she are elected to the White House, she will be the hockey mom of the Mavericks and Nanooks and all the hockey teams on planet Earth.
But Palin’s Mavericks Moment in Omaha makes you wonder if anyone in Fairbanks — particularly anyone affiliated with UAF — ever presented her a Nanooks hockey jersey.
It’s not like she’s a first-time visitor to the Golden Heart City.
She had her gubernatorial inauguration at the Carlson Center two years ago. She made her first post-Republican National Convention appearance at the Alaska Aerofuel hangar near Fairbanks International Airport, and Charles Gibson of ABC World News Tonight conducted the first national interview with her at different places in the area.
If no one presented a Nanooks hockey jersey during her moments in Fairbanks, it’s too bad because she could have worn it to Omaha on Sunday.
CAMPUS TRAILS: Central Washington senior cornerback and Eielson graduate Jon Rogers recovered a fumble and returned it 79 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter of Saturday’s 49-14 rout of Dixie State (Utah) in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference football game in Ellensburg, Wash. Rogers and his brother, Nick, a redshirt freshman safety, each had three tackles for the Wildcats ... Senior wide receiver and East Anchorage grad Casey Flair caught a 3-yard touchdown pass for Nevada-Las Vegas in Saturday’s 41-28 loss to host Colorado State in a Mountain West Conference game. Sophomore defensive end Cory Macon, another East alumnus, had a tackle and a pass break-up for Colorado State ... Louisiana College senior tight end Brock Graziadei, a former Lathrop quarterback, had his first catch of the season, a 5-yarder, in Saturday’s 21-19 loss to Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss. ... Valley City State (N.D.) sophomore defensive back Coty Beck of Seward had an interception and five tackles Saturday in a 28-21 loss to visiting Dickinson State (S.D.). Valley City senior defensive back Michael Weber of Palmer had eight tackles, and North Pole grads and junior linebackers Cameron Culver and Marcus Grohman had seven and two tackles, respectively ... Wyoming senior linebacker Ward Dobbs, a West Valley grad, had six tackles in Saturday’s 24-0 loss to New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M.
• Montana State senior and Lathrop grad Devin McDowell covered an 8-kilometer course in 26 minutes, 7 seconds to place seventh among 65 finishers in the University of Montana Invitational on Saturday in Missoula, Mont. Rocky Mountain College (Mont.) freshman Mark Chase from Seward placed 54th (30:08) ... Arizona sophomore Maggie Callahan, a West Valley grad, finished in 17 minutes, 40 seconds for 65th place among 186 finishers in the women’s 5-kilometer cross country race of the Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind., Saturday ... Another West Valley alumnae, Colorado State freshman Crystal Pitney, placed 62nd among 82 finishers in 22:34.26 in the women’s 6-K of Saturday’s Bill Dellinger Invitational in Springfield, Ore.
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Wow Danny get over it! Sarah wasn't dissing the Nanooks or UoA/F. If you can't see the connection between the "Mavericks" and the political campaign, and that her comments had nothing to do with state loyalty (or hockey for that matter), you need to get out into the world a bit more.
Danny Martin
Tell Palin and her peeps...
All about our Central Collegiate Hockey Association by email.
UAF-Nanooks of the Golden Heart City rivalry let it be heard:
Danny, keep Palin brushed up on our Nanooks history & CAMPUS TRAILS on games, players, titles so UAF-Nanooks, of the Golden Heart City can be out there to be quoted with facts of rivalry. Let the rivalry travel. UAF-Nanooks should send some UAF-Nanooks show pieces to her to wear & represent our teams of UAF-Nanooks.
I hope she is a recipient of a hockey jersey or other sport's jersey everywhere & donates them, possible signed to start a UAF-Nanooks' collection or musuem. Maverick's hockey jersey would be a start, a salute to UAF-Nanooks hockey fans a hockey jersey with UAF-Nanook's history with each team's hockey jersey. (:
:) Ask for her to donate them to UAF. UAF-Nanooks in the news free would be cool. Free props...(:
CAMPUS TRAILS emails for every state she's going; capitalize on it at least forward your stories on UAF-Nanooks. Keep us in the news. We need Top of The World back too.
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Just a thought..... After all she is representing Alaska & UAF-Nanooks are Alaskan's teams. (:
Nice Danny!
Good grief, Danny, You are about the narrowest-minded reporter (?) to come down the pike in a long time. If you can't get the drift of what Sarah was referring to, how did you ever get hired by a newspaper? Oh, I forgot, it was the Newsminer hired you. That explains it.
I don't care for Sarah Palin but this article is silly. First off, who cares about CCHA anyways? It's not like it's the NFL or something. Infact, you can't even find hockey on tv anymore. Again, I'm not a fan of Palin but to diss her because she received another teams jersey. Who cares!
I can't believe I took the time to read this! Wait I think she said at some point she enjoyed being in Denver.... maybe she's dissing us because she didn't say "but not as much as Alaska!".... You're pathetic Danny!
Danny, Sorry but you are just going to have to learn to share your
Gov. With the rest of us.
Bob
Colorado springs co
Thought it was hilarious, myself. Thanks for the laugh.
It's a light-hearted article that ties a general interest sports story with current events. Some of you people are waaaay too serious.
I feel dumber for having read this drivel.
Don't quit your day job Danny.
I never liked Palin and I am personally happy Danny wrote this and let me know what she said. I disgust the Mavericks so I am disgusted with Palin. I don't care if you're running for Vice President, you're Alaskas governor, there is rivalry between the Nooks and Mavs. She should have just accepted the jersey and said thanks and walked away. She's an embarassment to the hockey world in my eyes.
Love the article. Just wanted to clarify one thing. It was NOT the hockey team that presented the jersey, it was the UNO College Republicans group. I look forward to seeing the Nanooks for a great series in Omaha in december!
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