Bluejay cafe

[OliveStPanther]

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Tune in 670AM, The Score here. Dan Bernstein and Terry Boers blow away anything you have there - by light years. Obviously not local to anything Iowan, but good stuff and not the boring, generic crap I've heard on DSM area talk radio. Given that 670 is a 50K Watt station, you can pick it up clearly at night, and I've had good luck during the day when I've been back in DSM.

Another suggestion, www.wlsam.com. You can listen to WLS (890AM) over the web for free. Roe Conn is on during the afternoons - easily the best AM show I've ever heard. His show has been the most listened to radio show on the web for several years, and for good reason.

I have 670 preset on my radio, at night it comes in great, even better when there is a thunderstorm. I'm a White Sox fan (dont hold it against me) and I enjoy when I can catch the game on the radio at night! Just too bad I cant get an italian beef through the radio or a giordanos deep dish.

[Cat80]

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Not worth the ***** envy guys. The Qwest Center is by far the nicest arena for college basketball in the Valley. It's not even close and you know it. There are many arenas that host college basketball teams with lease agreements - Louisville being one of them. Don't act like it's something unique and yes - the new building for women's sports in also top notched as will be the baseball stadium for Creighton and the CWS once it's done.

The McLeod Center is quaint but you guys couldn't even sell it out when you were 22-3 and ranked 24th in the country. There isn't much you can say to a school ranked in the Top 15 in attendance nationally that is having an off year. The McLeod Center is a barn....with suites but it's a typical non-BCS joint...nothing amazing but better than the Knapp Center. It has it's charm but it's not like I was blown away by it and I've been all over the country for college basketball.

Enjoy what you've got - appreciate it - and don't worry about where other people live or operate.

So technically the Qwest Center is also a non-BCS barn because a non-BCS team plays in it. As far as attendance goes, it's demographics and geography. And if a radio jockey doesn't understand that----

[Leatherhelmet]

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I don't remember, what does Creighton's football stadium look like?

[SMK4UNI]

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Saunders and Valvano were very impressed with the McLeod Center during their broadcast.

[JayJ79]

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I don't remember, what does Creighton's football stadium look like?

this is how it looks.

[UNI4Life]

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this is how it looks.

In the eyes of the majority of their fanbase, I was thinking more along the lines of........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:091507-USCNeb-MemorialStadium.jpg

[Newsbreaker]

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this is how it looks.

I didn't realize Creighton sponsored a High School football program, because that's a high school sized stadium.

Hell, even Drake has a football program.

[Panther-Sheik]

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Saunders and Valvano actually "raved" about the McLeod last night during the game. I agree that the Qwerst is the best facility in the Valley, but I think I will also listen more to the ESPN guys opinions of our arena rather than a wanna-be just trying to stir the pot.

[Cat80]

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I didn't realize Creighton sponsored a High School football program, because that's a high school sized stadium.

Hell, even Drake has a football program.

No kidding. Go finance ANY American Football program and see how easy it is to win basketball games. Creighton, Wichita, Bradley and you can throw in Xavier and Gonzaga too. They can crab all they want on Valley Talk about Pop Warner Leagues and all that, but without America's game in some form, you just don't measure up.

[JayJ79]

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without America's game in some form, you just don't measure up.

baseball?

[Cat80]

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baseball?

back at you, Jay. It's been football for a while.

[06panther10]

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baseball?

welcome to the 21st century.

[Newt99]

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I personally want more weekend day games. Remember when Cheryl Burnett at SMS accused Tony D. of openening the curtains when they were shooting at the West end but closing them when UNI was shooting there?

That's funny, she always threw a fit there. Was this on the same day UNI beat a ranked Bears team (when Jackie Stiles was there) and Allison Starr went off for something like 25pt-10reb-8ast-5stl against them? One of the best UNI games, men's or women's, that I've ever been to. Burnett must have stomped her foot about 50 times that day. I almost got into a brawl with some Ozark hillbilly who thought he could sit in the middle of the UNI students and talk smack. He was pretty quiet at the end of the game.....

[UNIpanther99]

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That's funny, she always threw a fit there. Was this on the same day UNI beat a ranked Bears team (when Jackie Stiles was there) and Allison Starr went off for something like 25pt-10reb-8ast-5stl against them? One of the best UNI games, men's or women's, that I've ever been to. Burnett must have stomped her foot about 50 times that day. I almost got into a brawl with some Ozark hillbilly who thought he could sit in the middle of the UNI students and talk smack. He was pretty quiet at the end of the game.....

Yes! I remember that game very well. If they tried to cramp one more person into the West Gym they would have had to sit on Tony D's lap.

[Newt99]

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Yes! I remember that game very well. If they tried to cramp one more person into the West Gym they would have had to sit on Tony D's lap.

I had to look it up, I had two years worth of games combined in my head. It was after I had graduated but still lived up there and went to all of the games.

Starr's last year was 2000, we won 75-67. I was pretty close on her line, it was 26-9-4-4. SMS wasn't ranked when we played them at UNI but they were on and off that season.

http://www.mvc.org/wbb/stats/2000/sms-uni.htm

We won again in 2001, by a score of 99-80. SMS was ranked 13th at the time and went on to make the Final Four that year. Stiles went nuts that day in the loss, 39 points on 15-22 from the field. She was an amazing player to watch (even though I hated her at the time). Such a shame that her pro career got derailed by constant injuries, she really was one of the best ever.

http://www.mvc.org/wbb/stats/2001/sms-uni.htm

Also memorable for me in the 2001 game was walking out with a brand-new free UNI leather chair. I got picked out of the crowd for one of the timeout shooting contests. You had to lay in the chair with it reclined back and your feet on the footstool, the chair was in the middle of the paint a few feet from the hoop. Make one, free t-shirt. Make two, free pizza. Make three, take the chair home with you! I knocked them all down and the chair is still the centerpiece of my living room to this day.