is nearly complete.

Was a nice touch, wasn't it, 'encouraging' so many super delegates to 'declare' to the AP the day before the California primary in a transparent attempt to depress turnout.

The super delegates don't vote till July 25th, but screw it, let's all pretend like they already voted! Americans are too dumb to care, right?
Puerto Rico only had 1/3 of their polling places functional. That's similar to the extreme restrictions on voting locations in most of the other primaries. In 2008 many counties had twice or three times that many as they've had in 2016

2008: DNC 28 debates
2016: DNC 6 debates including 3 on weekend days one curiously timed for the Saturday before Christmas.

There was the time the DNC and Hillary colluded to keep the list of democratic voter rolls out of sanders' hands. Didn't hurt to have the media fawning over Clinton and dismissing sanders at every turn.

Last week, Golden State hosted game 7 of the western conference finals. A big deal, right? I know i watched all 7 games of that epic series.

Yet at the same time Bernie had a crowd of well over 50,000 people come out to see him in Oakland at the same time. Media ignored it as they always ignore Sanders.

Trump and Bernie have consistently drawn huge crowds throughout this process. Hillary's rallies struggle to fill a HS gymnasium. Hmmmm....

There have been reports in every state of scores of people mysteriously dropped from the ballot of their polling places.

Today, I was one of them. I checked my status repeatedly and even changed my party affiliation to Dem to vote Bernie. Yet when I showed up they didn't have a ballot for me. Worse, the poll workers were telling everybody in my position to vote by provisional ballot. Problem is, in Cali provisional ballots only count when the race is so close there's a recount. So I drove 50 miles round trip to the West Side in early morning rush hour traffic to fill out a ballot at the registrar's office.

I was able to vote because I have a car and cause I took today off to vote and canvass.

Most others weren't as fortunate. It's early so I can't vouch for this, but one local public radio station did some research including an online poll and found that roughly one out of three Bernie supporters were mysteriously dropped from the voting rolls even though all appear as active registered voters on the county website.

The use of so many SuperDelegates, the media bias, and the work of the DNC stacked the deck against Sanders at every turn.

And he still nearly won. The Democratic Party is a sham. I'm done picking the most likable person out of a lineup of wannabe oligarchs.

Hillary and Bill can burn in hell

but my subscription is up, and my interests are moving elsewhere.
I've enjoyed the banter on DT, not the vitriol.
I've gotten some good laughs from some of the characters here, but no more than from bradt42. Thanks for the laughs!
I post this here on DT b/c that's where I most posted, but I was a reader of the Gopher Report to find out what Gopher fans are thinking.
I am the parent of a former football player, but chose to remain anonymous and not post on things related to my son. I preferred the very limited interaction with other Gopher Report posters be as if they were just interacting with another fan.
From my perspective, a word of caution. The one most important fact, and it is a fact, that the Gopher Report forum is an opinion exchange and very, very sparse on facts. Most comments are shear speculation, and that's okay b/c it's an opinion forum. Just remember, you probably don't have most of the facts when you form your opinions.
I say this for those that are most confident in their opinions about Gopher sports b/c I found those posters to be the most off base with their opinions. Of course, being anonymous, I didn't often chose to challenge misguided opinions.
Circumstances and outcomes are complicated, and rarely simple to explain, but the forum is place where fans go to make sense of them. And, certainly those circumstances and outcomes are viewed quite differently depending on who is judging them.
Anyway, it's been entertaining and I've enjoyed the personalities.
Thanks!

Talked with Matt about AAU and Gophers. Matt is a man of few words but opened up pretty good for this article.

https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/matthew-hurt-is-one-of-the-nation-s-elite

And I threw a ton of numbers in there that I simply marvel at considering his age.

Gordie Howe, which, to me, was the greatest hockey player of all time passed away at the age of 88 today. Amazing player, local guy; played 5 decades in the NHL. The Gordie Howe hat trick is still proclaimed to this day and my favourite quote of his: "I’m really just a lucky old farm boy." - Gordie Howe
A picture from his birth place


RIP #9

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The Gophers offered Grant Ryerse back when he was a freshman, and he's now chosen Minnesota over offers from Cal and Northwestern.

He's the #15 kicker in the country according to ChrisSailerKicking.com. For some reason he's not ranked on Kohl's Kicking.

He's placed in every kicking competition he's been in, per National Camp Series:

• SUPER CAMP - 1st Place JV Punt - Super Camp IX 2/15/2015
• SUPER CAMP - 1st Place JV KO - Super Camp IX 2/15/2015
• SUPER CAMP - 1st Place Freshman Punt - Super Camp VIII 2/15/2014
• SUPER CAMP - 1st Place Freshman KO - Super Camp VIII 2/15/2014
• SUPER CAMP - 4th Place Freshman FG - Super Camp VIII 2/15/2014
• SUPER CAMP - 2nd Place Middle FG - Orlando 2/17/2013
• SUPER CAMP - 1st Place Middle KO - Orlando 2/17/2013
• SUPER CAMP - 1st Place Middle Punt - Orlando 2/17/2013

• 1st Place Upperclassman Punting - Little Rock 4/9/2016
• 1st Place Upperclassman KOs - Little Rock 4/9/2016
• 1st Place Upperclassman FGs - Minneapolis 5/7/2016
• 2nd Place Upperclassman FGs - Minneapolis 5/30/2015
• 1st Place Upperclassman Punting - Minneapolis 5/30/2015
• 1st Place Upperclassman KOs - Minneapolis 5/30/2015
• 1st Place Underclassman FGs - St. Paul 6/1/2014
• 1st Place Underclassman Punting - St. Paul 6/1/2014
• 1st Place Underclassman KOs - St. Paul 6/1/2014
• 1st Place Underclassman FGs - Minneapolis 12/21/2013

That gives us 8 total Academic AA's this year...second nationally only to Navy, which has 11!
Good work Gopher Athletes!!!


Five Gophers Earn Academic All-America Nods

The five at-large honorees raises Minnesota’s Academic All-America season total to eight – the most accolades in school history.

Gophersports.com
June 9, 2016

MINNEAPOLIS (GopherSports.com) – University of Minnesota student-athletes Lindsay Mable, Michael Kroells, Hannah Brandt, Lee Stecklein and Brett Pfarr have been named to the 2015-16 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I At-Large Teams, the organization announced on Thursday.

The five at-large honorees raises Minnesota’s Academic All-America season total to eight – the most accolades in school history – with track & field/cross country honors still to come later this month. Only Navy has earned more Academic All-America honors this year with 11 while Minnesota already led the nation with a school-record 27 CoSIDA Academic All-District honors this academic year.

A member of the women’s gymnastics team, Lindsay Mable earned CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team honors after receiving Third Team merits one year ago. The Aurora, Colo., native earned the AAI Award, which is considered the Heisman Trophy in gymnastics, this season to close out her collegiate career. Mable was also named back-to-back Big Ten Gymnast of the Year. She boasts 18 career All-America accolades, including seven this season and won the All-Around and Beam individual titles at the Big Ten Championships. Mable is a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and was named the female recipient of the Big Ten Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award. Over the course of her career at Minnesota, Mable accrued 96 individual event titles and 26 All-Around titles.

A member of the wrestling program, Michael Kroells was named CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team while continuing to maintain a near-perfect GPA as he works toward an aerospace engineering degree. In addition to his academic honors, which also include multiple awards from the Big Ten and the National Wrestling Coaches' Association, Kroells is coming off his most successful season on the mat for the Gophers. The Belle Plaine, Minn., native placed seventh in the NCAA tournament last spring, securing his second All-America season and becoming the 51st multiple-time All-American in program history. Kroells set several new career-highs last season, including wins (35) and major decisions (eight).

A member of the women’s hockey team, Hannah Brandt repeated as a CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team member this year. Brandt led the Gopher women's hockey team to the program's seventh national title in 2016. She was honored as a Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award finalist for the fourth-straight season along with receiving AHCA/CCM First Team All-American, All-USCHO, and All-WCHA honors. The Vadnais Heights, Minn., native is a three-time WCHA Scholar Athlete and WCHA All-Academic Team honoree and will graduate with a degree in health and wellness through the University of Minnesota's Inter-College Program.

Also a member of the women’s hockey program, Lee Stecklein picked up her first career CoSIDA Academic All-America nod with a Second Team honor. The Roseville, Minn., native is a two-time WCHA Scholar-Athlete and WCHA All-Academic Team honoree along with being a two-time AHCA/CCM Second Team All-American and All-WCHA First Team selection. She served as a co-captain with Brandt this season, leading the Gophers to their second-straight and seventh overall NCAA title. Stecklein posted a career-high 30 points, scoring eight goals and adding 22 assists. The junior is studying Entrepreneurial Management in the Carlson School of Management.

A member of the wrestling squad, Brett Pfarr also picked up his first CoSIDA Academic All-America accolade as a Third Team honoree. Pfarr spent much of the season ranked in the top-five at his weight nationally, finishing the season with a third-place performance at the NCAA championships to earn his first career All-America honor. On his way to the podium, Pfarr won 40 matches, becoming the first Gopher to reach that mark in nearly a decade, and finished undefeated in dual competition, including all of his conference matches. The Le Seuer Minn., native maintains a 3.78 GPA in agriculture and food business management.

2015-16 University of Minnesota CoSIDA Academic All-America Selections (8)
Lindsay Mable (Women’s Gymnastics, First Team)
Michael Kroells (Wrestling, First Team)
Brandon Lingen (Football, Second Team)
Paige Tapp (Volleyball, Second Team)
Matt Fiedler (Baseball, Second Team)
Hannah Brandt (Women’s Hockey, Second Team)
Lee Stecklein (Women’s Hockey, Second Team)
Brett Pfarr (Wrestling, Third Team)

Will be the chief operating officer of their athletic department. Good luck to her!

Yes, the ex-factor of the season and the guy I know the least about overall. I wrote about him in terms of what they need from him, what they need him to be, and looked at what needs to improve based on the past numbers.

https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/focus-on-16-17-davonte-fitzgerald

Or should I say Is Your Name on It ??
New ISIS ‘Kill’ List Claims To Target Thousands Of Americans
ISIS "kill" lists have called on ISIS loyalists to attack everyone from Minnesota cops to State Department employees and ordinary Americans
By Gilad Shiloach
Jun 08, 2016 at 9:21 AM ET
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Photo Illustration: Diana Quach
A pro-ISIS “hacking” group calling itself the United Cyber Caliphate distributed its latest “kill” list this week. The group claims the list includes names, addresses, and email addresses belonging to 8,318 people, making it one of the longest target lists ISIS-affiliated groups have distributed.

In a post Vocativ uncovered on the messaging app Telegram that was written in both English and Arabic, the United Cyber Caliphate called on its supporters to “follow” those listed and “kill them strongly to take revenge for Muslims.”

Pro-ISIS Hackers Post “Kill” List Of State Department Employees
Most of thenames and the accompanying addresses listed appear to belong to people in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Out of 7,848 people identified as being in the U.S. alone, 1,445 were listed as having addresses in California, 643 in Florida, 341 in Washington, 333 in Texas, 331 in Illinois, and 290 in New York. Another 312 names and addresses allegedly belong to people in Canada, while 69 allegedly belong to people in Australia. Another 39 are affiliated with the U.K. and the rest are listed with addresses in Belgium, Brazil, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago.

It is unclear, however, if the list, posted on Telegram on Monday, includes any new information or details that weren’t already accessible online. It’s also unclear why the specific names and addresses outlined were selected, and whether or not they’re in some way related. The group that posted the directory is also dubious. A recent study by Flashpoint, an intelligence firm, showed that the United Cyber Caliphate—a merger of pro-ISIS groups—is incompetent when it comes to hacking. Their highest-profile “hack” involved taking credit for others’ work, according to the study.

But the latest list shows how ISIS-linked groups claiming to be hackers persist with what has become a well-known—even if potentially superficial—tactic: posting “kill” lists calling on ISIS loyalists to attack everyone from Minnesota cops to State Department employees and ordinary Americans. Counterterrorism officials have been at odds over whether such lists are simply efforts to instill fear or instead truly threaten those listed, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The United Cyber Caliphate also published satellite images on its Telegram channel showing U.S air bases around the world on Monday. The same images can be found on Google Earth.


An image published alongside the "kill" list on Monday.

I realize that limiting this to 10 is impossible.. But I have a bias towards blues music so that influences my list..I like rock, country, and Christian music besides so that all goes into my list.. I think Jimi Hendrix is amazing but I have admit I have a bias against his stuff.. Here is my list of top 10. Really this is FAVORITE guitarists and not best as that is pretty subjective.

Eric Clapton - Simply awesome( the top 3 in this list all were with the Yardbirds)
Jimmy Page - known for Led Zeppelin but a blues background
Jeff Beck - great guitarist that introduced the world to Rod Stewart
Robert Johnson - one of the greatest Delta blues guitarists ever
BB King - See Robert Johnson
Duane Allman - My teacher in Georgia dated him.. She played his music when I was young and I was amazed
Phil Keaggy - best Christian guitarist ever.. Trust me, he can play with the big boys so check him out
Stevie Ray Vaughn - amazing riffs
Joe Bonnamassa - clean in his riffs
Roy Clark - best country guitarist I ever heard(apologies to Chet Atkins). His version of Malaguena is the best I have ever heard.

Here are the prospects who have confirmed they will attend Sunday's Senior One Day Camp. This camp will be much more high profile than this past weekend. These are 2017 prospects the staff are currently looking at or want to get a closer look of before going further in the recruiting process.

I'll start with the in-state recruits first and add out of state players throughout the week. 2017 Minnesota commit and offensive tackle Blaise Andries said he will not attend because it will conflict with a basketball tournament. QB Brock Boltmann said he may attend the QB/Big Man camp on Saturday.

Minnesota
Eric Abojei, OL Minnesota commit attended last week's showcase.
Jackson Martens, ATH. Attended this past weekend's showcase
Jermaine Johnson, DE. Will be on offer watch list
Luke Chuol, DE.
Sam Byrd, DT
Tanner Sundt, DE
Powers Warren, TE
Kolade Amusan, LB
Malik Lofton, DB. Another player on the offer watch list.
Nico Bolden, S: Three-star recruit Will be on offer watch list after this weekend.
Jeremiah Coddon, WR

Wisconsin
Noah Larson, OLB. One of Wisconsin's top rated recruit for 2017.

Iowa
Nate Wieland, QB. 6-3 slinger will probably get more looks after this weekend.

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Wallace Corker and Shakur Brown, teammates at Woodland High in Stockbridge, GA announced they were offered by the Gophers late last night.
Corker, a receiver has offers from Oregon State, West Virginia and Tennessee Tech. Did not find a Rivals profile for him.

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Brown, a defensive back, has power conference offers from Purdue, Colorado State, Kentucky and West Virginia

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Hunt kicked off this string of offers to Georgia players with an offer on Tuesday.

It was the 16th offer for Hunt.

As you can see in his film, he reads and anticipates the ball and play well. High IQ player.

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Wright also said four are on him the most and I really like Minnesota's chances.

Here is the article, he says a lot of great things about Minnesota

https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/wright-talks-gopher-visit

The Gophers have zeroed in on him hard and I believe he will make his choice before Isaiah Washington so Wright is the guy they are hard after at the moment.

Dayton is a program doing a great job in Minnesota right now with former Gopher manager and Faribault Falcon Tom Ostrom having a connection to kids. I don't see them as a big factor in this in the end but they are one of four on him the most.

Iowa State will have him in for a visit and is also after him quite hard. That said they have offered 9 PGs so far and are after several of them.

Xavier is one to watch. They have a MN player already and they are coming after Wright with a ton of effort. Like Minnesota they have made McKinley a priority offering only him and top 50 guard Quade Green

Kicker/Punter Grant Ryerse, who became the Gopher's fourth commitment for 2017 when he verbally committed on Wednesday night, talks about why he chose to stay home with the University of Minnesota.

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Some highlights from who I thought stood out today. More than 200 in attendance but it was easy to notice these guys right away.

Kendrick Green is the latest to receive an offer from Minnesota.
It's the first power conference offer for Green.

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This is funny....comments from Syracuse people funnier.

http://www.startribune.com/syracuse...-semi-in-mark-coyle-s-neighborhood/382324061/

I was at the Rochester Road tour today, here are my thoughts:

-Never a bad day when you get to high five goldy
-Best ever Directors Cup finish will be this year
-Dominated Sconnie in the border battle
-Mark Coyle will SHOCK me if he says ANYTHING controversial. He seems very generic in all of his thoughts, very PC.
-Coyle, Pitino & Lucia look like they might weigh 400 collectively. They look tiny without their suit jackets on.
-All coaches and anyone affiliated with the Athletic Dept was wearing black shirts and pants. (which i hate)

-Claeys: Will compete for the big10 title EVERY season.
-We got 8 of the 10 in state kids he wanted in recruiting.
-Need the o-line to stay healthy to compete, don't have depth at O-line.
-This is the best Gopher team he's seen since he got here
-Kids adjusted well to Jay Johnson's schemes
-Facilities isn't an arms race, its an investment in kids

-Lucia-Nice to have an AD that knows where Marriuci Arena is located
-should have a top 10 schedule
-Changes to locker room will be done by Fall
-big10 looking like old wcha from when he played with adding notre dame
-ohio state will be a top team this year
-big10 hockey is here to stay and WILL be the best conference...eventually
-He got a clean bill of health from his doctors at mayo

-Women's soccer-we have the best field in the big10. We have a top10 attendance. get 1,500 to games in st paul
-returning 8 of 11 starters

Women's hoops:
4 transfers coming in
3 WNBA picks in 2 years, 2 in previous 25.
averaged 85 per game, will be top 25 team every year as goal

-Womens Gymnastics-
Had the first ever top gymnast in the country- the gymnast equivalent to the heisman

-Women's Rowing
-No notes

-Men Gymnastics
-Coach walked to microphone on his hands and he's 58.
-Team finished 6th in the nation
-Best gymnast is from Pine Island MN

Womens softball
Won big10 tourney
was 2-20 before she took the program over, best team in the big10 the past 2 years. 75% MN roster
Best player is from Rochester
facility change is huge, won't fight for space with football anymore

Pitino-
Ripped himself a pretty funny manner
Loved Joey King
Loves his incoming class talked about all 3
Michael's hurt dad was there, mentioned his loyalty
Talked a lot about Michael since we were local
Loves the barn & fanbase
Hosting team BBQ Sunday
Huge schedule coming this year- Hinted at a game at Iowa St
His best roster is this season

Richest man in Rochester Gus Shafolius sat next to Mark Coyle.

Grimm does a nice job as the MC, he's younger than I thought. Maybe not even 40 yet.

In-state kicker made his pledge to Minnesota tonight

Can someone give me a short explanation as to what the difference is between this year's team and last year's team? I don't follow baseball much, if at all, anymore. Honestly, I expected last year to be very similar to the previous year and this year. Seems like an outlier last year

Man I know this dude has had his share of bad luck lately but yikes.....
Bobby Brown Claims He Had Sex with a Ghost Bobby Brown's 20/20 interview with Robin Roberts is already making waves for his candid revelations about the deaths of wife Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina.

But amid the emotional conversation was another, more otherworldly Brown bombshell: the former New Edition member claims he had sex with a ghost.

The 47-year-old singer recounted the story from his upcoming memoir, Every Little Step, out June 13.

"I bought this mansion in Georgia ... this was a really, really spooky place," Brown says. "But yes, one time, I woke up, and yeah, a ghost. I was being mounted by a ghost."



Brown, who also claims he slept with Madonna and Janet Jackson, went on to explain that he was not on any drugs when the alleged sexual encounter occurred.

"I wasn't high," he says. "I was not trippin'."

Here are four other big revelations from the chat.

Per a Marcus reTweet, content on Leidner in this article AND I really want to see what else coaches say anonymously!

I'll buy you a beer...