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Bison preparing for Hoosiers star Zeller

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – In preparing to face the nation’s best big man, the North Dakota State men’s basketball team is getting a running start – literally.

• Saul Phillips

MSUM snaps skid with college football victory

MOORHEAD – With 12 freshmen among the 22 starters on the Minnesota State Moorhead football team, head coach Steve Laqua acknowledges that this is a program building for the future.

• Jake Hodge

Rushing attack sparks West in 11-man Shrine Bowl game

FARGO – Despite the all-star stage, the 11-man game at the North Dakota Shrine Bowl had a familiar style for the West team’s Landon Smith.

• Jon Baune
• Wade Rath-Wald catches two touchdowns in the East team's 9-man Shrine Bowl victory

Moorhead's Cullen says expectations for Wild have been raised

FARGO – Matt Cullen was an alternate captain and one of the Minnesota Wild’s leading scorers last season.

• Matt Cullen
• Wild agree to deals with top free agents Parise, Suter

Two golfers ace same Moorhead hole within minutes of each other

MOORHEAD – A day spent on the golf course raising money for a local charity took a bizarre turn Friday at Village Green Golf Course.

Broncos back on top in Class B track and field after a second-place finish last season

FARGO – A police and fire truck escort might be the norm for Lisbon high school teams returning to the city after winning state championships. But the impact of the moment last weekend wasn’t lost on one of the boys track team’s senior standouts after the Broncos returned from winning the Class B team title at the North Dakota state meet in Bismarck.

• Lisbon’s Nick Anderson

Ex-Spuds player Cullen excited to take over as Moorhead boys hockey coach

MOORHEAD – To replace a longtime boys hockey head coach, Moorhead High School will go, at least for now, with a short-term solution.

Reigning ND cross country champ killed in automobile accident

GARRISON, N.D. – Robyn Essler, who won the North Dakota Class B state girls cross country title in October, was killed after a head-on automobile accident Friday afternoon.

• Robyn Essler

Cable One, Fox Sports North reaches agreement on Twins, Wild games

FARGO – Cable One customers will no longer be left in the dark by Minnesota Twins or Wild blackouts.

Some hope to claim their trip to Cooperstown today

It’s not uncommon to find young boys and girls in the country hoping to one day grow up to be professional athletes. On their hometown diamonds, they emulate the likes of Albert Pujols, Jose Reyes and Joe Mauer.

Columns

Goethe: Gardy deserves to be more than bridesmaid

With the Chicago White Sox rumored to be in discussions with the Los Angeles Dodgers about a trade for Manny Ramirez, you can’t blame fans of the first-place Minnesota Twins for being concerned about their team’s 3½-game lead in the AL Central.

Goethe: Butera is just latest example of ‘Twins Way’

Drew Butera is following in the footsteps of Nick Punto. You either like Butera, or you hate him. There’s no middle ground.

Goethe: Twins shouldn’t deal for talent until they recover

The Cliff Lee sweepstakes is over, and it didn’t go exactly according to plan for Minnesota Twins fans.

Goethe: LeBron's call makes NBA look like WWE

LeBron James is going to Miami. And in the course of one hour of made-for-TV drama, he went from famous to infamous in millions of households across the country.

Goethe: Bettman should stick to Olympics in 2014

Whether Canada or the United States won in the men’s hockey final Sunday, the biggest winner at these Olympic Games is the sport of hockey as a whole.

Goethe: UM’s White presents dilemma for school

College athletics is rife with fine lines and gray areas. It’s a business – as the Bowl Championship Series proves – that’s as much about money as it is about helping young student-athletes develop the life skills they need after they graduate.

Goethe: Area sports fans have many things to be thankful for

Something about Thanksgiving this year brought out the cynic in me. I guess having to go to work on a holiday will do that to even the most wide-eyed of sports fans.

Goethe: Garnett, Wolves have turned page

Not to anyone’s surprise, the Minnesota Timberwolves are off to a pretty rough start. A buzzer-beating victory in their season opener against New Jersey has been followed by a losing streak that reached 10 games Saturday.

Goethe: Like him or not, Twins GM keeps active

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Minnesota Twins general manager Bill Smith, it’s that he’s not trigger-shy.

Goethe: Tubby has Midas touch for Gophers program

If the Gophers truly are Golden, then head coach Tubby Smith is their Midas.