FARGO — Roger Maris was coming off back-to-back American League Most Valuable Player awards and just finished a season in which he hit a record 61 home runs, yet still found himself scraping for every dollar from the vault of the New York Yankees. Maris, according to New York Times reports, ...
GRAND FORKS — The University of North Dakota football program stayed in-state to land its first verbal commitment of the 2020 recruiting class. Mandan wide receiver Elijah Klein announced his commitment Tuesday morning. The 6-foot-7, 205-pound senior-to-be led the state in receiving yards ...
GRAND FORKS — The distance between Aberdeen, S.D., and Fargo is roughly 200 miles. It’s the same distance between Aberdeen and Sioux Falls, S.D. That geographical description underscores the fact that 23,388 residents of the Hub City have to drive a fair distance to take advantage of what ...
GRAND FORKS — When former men's basketball coach Brian Jones announced his departure May 1, University of North Dakota athletic director Bill Chaves didn't know Paul Sather personally. There was only one minor connection. Two years ago, Chaves watched the NCAA Division II national ...
GRAND FORKS — The University of North Dakota will now be able to dig into the applicants for its vacant assistant coaching position. The job posting closed Friday, May 10, after being open for two weeks. The unique part about this posting is that, unlike the last two times an assistant ...
GRAND FORKS — The only head men’s basketball coach the University of North Dakota has known in the Division I era is leaving Grand Forks. Fighting Hawks coach Brian Jones has accepted the associate head coaching position at Illinois State. Jones, 48, spent 13 seasons leading UND. The Rock ...
By Tom Miller Forum News Service GRAND FORKS — When the NFL draft ended Saturday, April 27, former University of North Dakota cornerback Deion Harris was a little nervous about not hearing much. “It was quiet,” Harris said. “I thought maybe it was over, but then I figured some team ...
By Jeff Kolpack Forum News Service FARGO — Jory Collins was a successful head women's basketball coach at the NCAA Division II level. North Dakota State is banking he can do the same thing in Division I. The Bison named the University of Kansas assistant as the school's next head coach ...
A total of 48,717 North Dakota deer hunters took approximately 31,350 deer during the 2018 deer gun hunting season, according to a post-season survey conducted by the state Game and Fish Department. Game and Fish made available 55,150 deer gun licenses last year. Overall hunter success was 64 ...
Wednesday – Lake Darling opens for boat fishing. Wednesday – Paddlefish snagging season opens. May 11 – Pheasants for the Future Fishing Derby, New Town Marina, 720-6510. May 11 – Souris River Basin Longbeards Lake Darling Fishing Derby, 721-5546. May 12 – AIM Fishing Derby, Four ...
The North Dakota Game Wardens Association, Ray Goetz Memorial Fund and Kupper Chevrolet are together sponsoring scholarships for graduating high school seniors or current higher education students, majoring in law enforcement, wildlife management, fisheries or a related field. Applicants must ...
FARGO — The weekend for North Dakota State's football team will begin with a national championship ring ceremony and football scrimmage beginning at 6 p.m. Friday night, April 26. It will end for head coach Matt Entz Sunday afternoon at Target Field in Minneapolis when the Minnesota Twins ...
Saturday – ND Sport Fishing Congress Annual Banquet. Bismarck AMVETS, 223-3093. Saturday – Badlands Bass Bandits Tourney, Lake Tschida, 6:30 a.m. May 1 – Paddlefish snagging season opens. May 11 – Pheasants for the Future Fishing Derby, New Town Marina, 720-6510. May 11 – Souris ...
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 2018 bighorn sheep survey, completed by recounting lambs in March, revealed a minimum of 283 bighorn sheep in western North Dakota, up 7 percent from 2017 and equal to the five-year average. Altogether, biologists counted 84 rams, 161 ewes and 38 ...
North Dakota’s 2019 paddlefish snagging season opens May 1 and is scheduled to continue through May 21. However, depending on the overall harvest, an early in-season closure may occur with a 24-hour notice issued by the state Game and Fish Department. Legal snagging hours are from 7 a.m. to ...
FARGO — It was around the middle of his junior year in high school in Powell, Ohio, when Griffin Crosa figured he would have enough academic credits to get his diploma early. So this January, the North Dakota State football recruit got a jump-start on college and enrolled for the spring ...
Friday – Full moon, 6:13 a.m. April 27 – ND Sport Fishing Congress Annual Banquet. Bismarck AMVETS, 223-3093. April 27 – Badlands Bass Bandits Tourney, Lake Tschida, 6:30 a.m. May 11 – Pheasants for the Future Fishing Derby, New Town Marina, 720-6510. May 11 – Souris River Basin ...
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is once again celebrating Earth Day by sponsoring clean-up days on publicly owned or managed lands. With Earth Day recognized April 22, each member of a school, Girl Scout, Boy Scout, 4-H club or youth organization who participates in cleaning up ...
The state Game and Fish Department’s annual spring aerial mule deer survey is set to begin today, Monday, in western North Dakota. Weather permitting, the survey takes a week to complete. During the survey period, people could notice low-flying small airplanes over some parts of the ...
A record 820 archers competed in the North Dakota National Archery in the Schools Program state bull’s-eye tournament March 22-23 in Minot. Oakes students claimed top honors in the elementary (grades 4-6) and middle school (grades 7-8) divisions, while Hankinson received the top prize in the ...