Bemidji State Advances to NCAA Frozen Four

Who would of thunk it? North Dakota and Minnesota Duluth were both knocked out but little 'ol Bemidji Beavers marched on.

Courtesy of Western Michigan:

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Tyler Scoefield netted to goals to propel Bemidji State over Cornell 4-1 Sunday night at Van Andel arena to advance to its first ever appearance at the Frozen Four, becoming the first ever No. 16 seeded team in NCAA history to do so.

Bemidji State now advances to face Miami on Thursday, April 9, at the semifinals of the Frozen Four in Washington D.C.

Professional Bull Riding

A couple months, ago bored out of our minds (long long winter), Makita and myself found ourselves watching Professional Bull Riding. We can't stop watching. These cowboys are unbelievable. They are nuts (and have huge one). Well like every other sport, we picked our favorites. Makita jump right in and choose Guilherme Marchi and Renato Nunes, both from Brazil. Marchi is currently in 2nd place in the Built Ford Tough series. Nunes is in 6th. In typical Kimkay fashion, the kid I was pulling for, Ryan Dirteater (yes that's really his name), had a serious injury (broke his femur) last weekend and is out for the year. My other cowboy, Austin Meier is in 8th place. So I'm on the lookout for another cowboy to wreck. Here's a clip from Ryan's accident.

Mackey Wins 2009 Iditarod

All the mushers that are going to finish the Iditarod this year have completed the race to Nome. Yesterday afternoon the 52nd team crossed the finish line. 15 teams had already dropped out.

Last week, on March 18th, Lance Mackey finished first for his third consecutive win. He matches only two others to win three in a row, Susan Butcher (1986, 1987 & 1988) and Doug Swingley (1999, 2000 & 2001). As a matter of fact there's only been 7 mushers to win multiple races. Rick Swenson holds the record for the most wins at 5. One multiple winner, Martin Buser, who's won four times, also holds the record of the fastest finish ever in 2002 (8 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, 2 seconds). My brother Bob actually went to Alaska years ago and lived and worked with Martin and his dogs.

Here's a photo of me and Brad in Alaska in 2007 posing at the end of Martin's driveway. We were excited to find the Buser Kennels. We went up to the kennel's and spoke with Martin briefly. He didn't have much time to talk, he was cleaning up dog crap. Lots and lots of dog crap.

Big Blizzard

Lorrie, Brad and family are snowed in up on Casper Mountain. Yesterday they received three feet of snow up there. Winds were reported at up to 50 miles an hour. That's about 5 miles an hour higher than normal (LOL). The news was saying that Casper was shut down yesterday. I think they're starting to get the snow cleaned up now except the road up the mountain is still closed.

Busy Weekend

Saturday we went out to Dick's and helped gather sap. Makita had never seen the operation. It was fairly warm out and the sap was running.

Sunday we worked in Club Ed (motorhome). It's getting cleaned up, stocked and ready to roll. And of course we had the race on while working in there. I tried rooting for Kyle Busch because I hate him and it seems like everyone I root for loses. Well the mo-foe won the race. So that back fired severely.

Now the weather has turned to crap. It's raining and they're predicting snow and ice for the next few days.

Check out the NCAA Hockey update over on the left hand column of this blog. I was very pleased to see Bemidji there! I hate to cheer for them though. It may jinks them. Fighting Sioux is still in it and of course Duluth, who played superior hockey this past weekend is advancing to the NCAA playoffs.

Sure Bet

You want a sure bet? You would be very safe to bet against anyone I'm rooting for. Tuesday night while I was at the Xcel Energy Center I was cheering on the Av's and they lost to the Wild in a shootout (awesome game). Then of course last night Minnesota Gophers (both hockey and basketball) lost huge. The Texas Longhorns knocked the Gophers out of the NCAA Basketball tournaments and Minnesota Duluth knocked the Gophers out of the WCHA playoff's. It's doubtful that the Gopher Hockey team will make it to the NCAA tournaments.

St. Patricks Day in St. Paul

Holy Irishman, the people sure came out for the St. Paul St. Patrick's Day Parade. The weather was great.

You can't have an Irish parade without bagpipes!







I found me a leprechaun! Wow have they've grown.

The parties around the city were awesome. It was very easy to get into some Guinness or some Jameson. We found ourselves at a couple different pubs partaking.

Lorrie re-learns to eat and wipe

Here's Lorrie's Arm Candy. She had her tendons reattached in her right elbow last week. She's currently re-learning to eat and wipe with her left hand. My understanding is that Brad has not signed up to help with either. I love her spirit of St. Patrick's Day though!

Thursday Update

Tonight the AVs host the Wild. The Wild is fighting for a playoff spot, so expect them to come on strong. Plus there's hardly a worse team in the NHL than Colorado right now. These teams will meet again next Tuesday. I'll be there I'll be rooting for the Avs but I won't get my hopes up to high.

Fellowship last night was at Black Bear. Mac and Moon were absent. We didn't stay for Karoke. We learned that Jen's mom slipped on some ice a couple days ago and broke her pelvis. She's in the hospital in Hallock probably for at least a week. Then I'm sure there'll be a lot of therepy.

Sister Lorrie got her elbow operated on yesterday. I believe she got some tendons reattached. I recall her saying they had to chip some bone away to get at where they needed to. Lovely.

Brother Bob is in Fredricksburg Virgina preparing for his mission in Afghanistan. He leaves the states on the 21st. I spoke with him on Tuesday and it sounded like they were working his butt off there. Physical tests, an interview with the State Department, 6 shots (three in each arm), a lot of shooting etc. Pooped me out talking to him.

WCHA Playoffs kick off this coming weekend. 2009 WCHA/MacNaughton Cup Champion North Dakota is No. 1 Tournament Seed; Five First Round Winners Will Advance to Red Baron WCHA Final Five, March 19-21 at Xcel Enery Center in St. Paul. The top five WCHA seeds host the bottom five seeds in a best-of-three series. Winners advance to the Final Five. After the first round, teams are re-seeded based on their regular-season records (points). The remaining No. 4 seed will host the No. 5 seed in a single-elimination play-in game. The winner advances to the semifinals. Semifinals and finals are single-elimination.


I don't think it gets any stupider than North Dakota playing Michigan in the first round of the WCHA playoffs. Give me a break. It would be like sending me out to play H O R S E with Magic Johnson. Freak'n stupid.

Best of three this weekend will look like this: North Dakota hosts Michigan, Wisconsin hosts Mankato, Colorado College will host Duluth, Gophers will host St. Cloud, Denver will host Alaska.

This and That

Jen, this is a lunker. Webster's definition: something large of its kind —used especially of a game fish. It's not a species. It's a noun.

Bobbi has had her trache removed and is out of the hospital but will remain in Denver for another 4 weeks to receive IV's each day.

Nikki the lab is now 23 lbs - up from 13 lbs 3 weeks ago.

Bob leaves this Saturday from Minneapolis at 10:30 am. He'll be going to Virgina for a couple weeks prior to leaving for Afghanistan.

Mom's finished her second week of chemo. I believe she's on a four week stint.

Lorrie went to Dallas and got food posioning or the flu. She should be coming home today. Hopefully she won't crap her pants on the plane.

The Iditarod starts this weekend.

The Colorado Avalanche are a huge disappointment.

There's a dot sale on wine this week at Westside Liquor (Ay Carumba).

Dad's getting ready to start tapping the maple trees for sap.

The Bachlor show was a huge waste of my life. I want those hours back. I hate Jason Whats-his-name. Asshole.

It's in the forties here today and it seems like a hundred. Love it.

Last night's Fellowship was at Sheps. Missing was Nick and Moon. Everyone else present and accounted for.

More of Mike's Work

Here's one of Mike's recent project. It's a pool table light. Not bad if I say so myself.

Jeff Gordon's is 1st in Points

After 3 races Jeff currently leads in points. Obviously there's a lot of racing to do yet, but this seems encouraging to us Gordon fans. This weekend the boys will be in Atlanta. I love that track! I love it better when I'm at it. We've got our tickets for Labor Day weekend.

Kyle Busch sucks.