{"id":10387,"date":"2012-03-26T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2015-05-28T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:14:19","slug":"fighting-sioux-team-wears-blank-uniforms-due-to-ncaa-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/fighting-sioux-team-wears-blank-uniforms-due-to-ncaa-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fighting Sioux&#8221; Team Wears Blank Uniforms Due to NCAA Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of North Dakota hockey team ordered new uniforms&#8211;ones that don&#8217;t bear the school logo, &#8220;The Fighting Sioux.&#8221; That&#8217;s because the NCAA considers the nickname offensive to Native American tribes, and has forbid its use. The ban even extends to the use of UND&#8217;s hockey arena:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The school also is barred from hosting postseason tournaments even though college hockey&#8217;s Taj Mahal, the $100 million Ralph Engelstad Arena, would be an ideal place for an NCAA regional. The arena has at least 3,000 Fighting Sioux logos in the building, including a 10-foot sketch of the logo embedded in the granite lobby floor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The irony in all of this? The Sioux tribe has permitted UND to use the nickname, and considers it a source of pride.<\/p>\n<p>Read TCF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/208.109.248.52\/~thecolle\/post\/10298\">previous coverage of the Fighting Sioux controversy here.<\/a><\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ban even extends to the use of UND&#8217;s hockey arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-2Hx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}