In a message dated 12/1/97 3:39:28 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
 
<<One can conjecture that if you are a WCHA team domiciled anywhere but
the central time zone, you have swept the gophers at the new mariucci.
Otherwise, you haven't
 
Is that an advantage or a disadvantage of being outside the time zone?
>>
 
There was a study done on this at the NFL level, and the West Coast team beat
the East Coast team a whopping 70% of the time no matter where the teams were
playing or how good they were in comparison. Point spreads and almost all
stats favored the Western teams too. Too much to be coincidence methinks.
 
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