FARGO — Artificial turf has become almost a fictitious character thought to have the answers to all of life’s problems for athletic directors. It symbolizes a hope for less injuries to athletes and a safe haven from Mother Nature. But is it the answer? “We couldn’t be happier with our ...
FARGO — The unquestioned leader on the North Dakota State defense last year was free safety Tre Dempsey, who could be quiet and unassuming off the field but vocal between the lines. Dempsey has since graduated, taking his skillset to another facet of life. The issue of his replacement this ...
By Jeff Kolpack Forum News Service FARGO — It was about as surprising as the sun coming up in the east. North Dakota State on Monday was tabbed the unanimous pick to win the Missouri Valley Football Conference title in a vote of league coaches, sports information directors and ...
GRAND FORKS — Of the five players named to the North Dakota Class A all-state girls basketball team last season, three were juniors. As of last week, all three have committed to play their college careers at the University of North Dakota. The verbal commitments from Mandan’s Megan ...
GRAND FORKS -- The University of North Dakota women’s basketball program’s 2019 recruiting class added one of the best players in northwest Minnesota late Monday night, July 16. Roseau’s Kacie Borowicz, a 5-foot-8 guard and senior-to-be, has announced her commitment to play for the ...
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Timberwolves are welcoming back a familiar face. The Wolves agreed to a one-year deal with sharpshooting forward Anthony Tolliver on Monday, July 2, a source confirmed. The deal reportedly is worth $5.75 million, draining Minnesota of most of the mid-level ...
BISMARCK — This time last year, Carson Wentz and the Philadelphia Eagles were flying under the NFL radar. One year later, the script has been flipped. An MVP-caliber season by Wentz and a Super Bowl victory by the Eagles has Philly pegged as the team to beat in 2018 by many pundits with ...
FARGO — Fargo South’s Dawson Weisenberger, considered by some the top college football prospect in North Dakota, is staying close to home. The senior-to-be ended his recruitment by giving North Dakota State a verbal commitment on Tuesday. Weisenberger will follow a path taken by several ...
GRAND FORKS — University of North Dakota men’s basketball coach Brian Jones searched a relevant statistic recently. He discovered the NCAA men’s basketball graduate transfer list features more than 100 names. In 2011, the grad transfer list had 15 players. The gap between those two ...
GRAND FORKS — Cary Eades was starting a 15-hour bus ride home from Youngstown, Ohio. The Clark Cup was by his side, having just led the Fargo Force to the United States Hockey League championship, when he received a text. It was from T.J. Oshie. Oshie and the Washington Capitals lost that ...
FARGO — There was a time in the Sanford Fargo Marathon on Saturday morning, May 19, when Semehar Tesfaye was concerned about a her three-peat bid in the women’s division. In the end, about the only worry turned out to be finding somebody to run with. The Fargo South graduate became the ...
FARGO — All Geofrey Terer has done lately in the sport of running is win. The native Kenyan now based in Colorado Springs, Colo., won the 14th annual Sanford Fargo Marathon on Saturday, May 19, his second 26.2-mile victory in three weeks. He won the Lincoln Marathon on May 6, which followed ...
FARGO — North Dakota State is taking the first step toward upping its game in the arms race of Division I football facilities. The budget and finance committee of the State Board of Education on Tuesday, May 15, approved a request to build a $37.2 million indoor practice facility. It would ...
FARGO — North Dakota State softball used a dash of raw power to earn a spot in the NCAA Division I tournament for a fifth consecutive season. The Bison blasted two home runs to fuel a six-run third inning. That power play helped lift NDSU to a 6-1 victory against South Dakota State to win ...
FARGO — South Dakota State tight end Dallas Goedert is going to be catching passes in the NFL from a former Missouri Valley Football Conference rival. The Philadelphia Eagles drafted Goedert in the second round of the NFL Draft with the No. 49 pick overall Friday night. He joins the Super ...
FARGO — The process started a day after the Division I FCS national title game in early January. At some point this weekend, Nick DeLuca will find out what city he hopes to make his next home. The former North Dakota State University linebacker has been slotted anywhere from a middle- to ...
FARGO — Three Division I FCS national titles and his football players getting high marks academically were two big reasons North Dakota State head football coach Chris Klieman received a two-year contract extension on Thursday, according to athletic director Matt Larsen. Klieman’s six-year ...
FARGO — The family ties to North Dakota State football for junior cornerback Tre Fort are strong, so knotted that it would take a chainsaw to cut the rope. That’s the way his grandfather, Bill Sturdevant, played the game after all. Sturdevant was inducted into the Bison Athletic Hall of ...
FARGO -- The rule allowing a Division I college basketball player to transfer to another Division I school without having to sit out a year was first discussed last summer by the NCAA. It was one of those proposals you thought would just go away. It hasn’t. And, in fact, it may very well be ...
GRAND FORKS — Referee Dan Dreger was on his hands and knees, blood streaming from his face and into a small puddle on the ice. His palate, the roof of his mouth, was cracked in half lengthwise -- from his upper teeth all the way to the back of his throat. When he closed his mouth, his upper ...