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Bison boast sizable field at NCAA West Preliminary track meet
FARGO – Brittany Page and Leslie Brost were second-grade students in Watertown, S.D., with a gym teacher named Ryun Godfrey. He’s still teaching them, only now Page and Brost are seniors on the North Dakota State track and field team.
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FARGO – There were times in the Fargo Marathon when James Kirwa was so far out in front that it got lonely in the streets of Fargo. He looked back several times, only to see nobody behind him.
RELATED CONTENTVIDEO: Exhausted at end, Porath prevails in women's marathon
FARGO – The crowd was roaring its approval when Nichole Porath was motoring to the finish line inside the Fargodome on Saturday. She took one step across the timing board, staggered and asked for assistance.
Fargo honors Boston Marathon tragedy
FARGO – It’s hard to put the bombing nightmare into sentences, but David Corbett has done his best since flying from Boston to Fargo this weekend. In one instance, words weren’t necessary.
Kolpack: When it comes to shoes for kids, it's no pain, no gain
Fargo - The work day on Friday started around 11 a.m. when the Fargo Marathon introduced Ivan Castro to the community. He has quite a motivating story, from almost being killed and blinded in the Iraq War to running 24 marathons, all within the last six years.
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FARGO – Take it from a pair of elite runners: When it comes to running long distance, less is more. As in less running gear.
One last win at Newman for Bison pitcher Straka
FARGO – It had to come sometime. On Thursday night, Senior John Straka took the Newman Outdoor Field mound for the last time in a career that will remain in the North Dakota State baseball records books for a long time.
RELATED CONTENT97-year-old all set to participate in Fargo Marathon 5K
FARGO – Kathleen McMerty is a 1933 graduate of Milton High School in the northeast part of North Dakota. As far as she can recall, there was not a girls track and field team.
RELATED CONTENTFormer winners vie for another Fargo Marathon title
FARGO – The course record for the Fargo Marathon was set in 2010 when Chris Erichsen blasted through the streets in 2 hours, 19 minutes, 55 seconds. He was only 24 years old at the time.
RELATED CONTENTNDSU pitcher Kingsley has found his home on the mound 
Fargo - The next time North Dakota State head coach Tod Brown takes an in-home recruiting visit to a local Fargo-Moorhead player, it would be ideal if he could take Kyle Kingsley with him. He’s the perfect example of a Division I baseball success story.
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Kolpack: Harsh Fargo winters may provide Bison football team with an edge
Fargo - It’s below zero and the wind was blowing the snow horizontally through the streets of Fargo. It’s commonly called a blizzard in this neck of the world.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: Bison may need 2013 class to be the next big thing
Fargo - The 2010 season was something special for the Auburn Tigers, who went undefeated behind Heisman Trophy quarterback Cam Newton. When it came to football in the state of Alabama, the Crimson Tide had to take a back seat.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: UMKC's move to WAC is just plain wacky
Fargo - Maybe the Western Athletic Conference was using old stationary when it was in communication with the Missouri-Kansas City athletic department in the last several months. Maybe at the top of the letterhead were Boise State, TCU, Tulsa, Hawaii, SMU, Rice, Fresno State, UTEP and San Jose State.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: NDSU’s cowboys take to Texas
Merely putting on boots and a cowboy hat does not make anybody a cowboy, unless you attend an ’80s party and go as John Travolta in “Urban Cowboy.” No way.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: Bison men's basketball team left to wait its turn
Fargo - The North Dakota State men’s basketball players were on a bus from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore last Friday night when they rigged a radio system that would make an engineering graduate student envious. Without access to ESPN2 to watch the NDSU and Georgia Southern semifinal football game, it was the next best thing.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: Jensen proves his worth again with winning TD run
Fargo - Well, all those Division I Football Championship Subdivision title tickets that were bought in advance are good to go, cowboy. This time, the suburbs of Frisco and Plano, Texas, will probably be better prepared to handle one massive green and yellow party.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: LaVoy' returns to defense, comes up with big play
Fargo - The last public picture of Anthony LaVoy was the North Dakota State offensive lineman sitting on the sidelines with a cast on his injured wrist. That was in August. He sort of faded away.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: Bison were in similar playoff setting in 1995
Fargo - The last conference playoff rematch of this magnitude ended when a man, presumably a North Dakota State fan, jumped on the goal post at Memorial Stadium in Grand Forks before the game ended. He got a blast of mace in the face.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: Second-half burst gives Bison a meaningful victory
Normal, Ill. - In the last few weeks, this wasn’t working. And then that didn’t go so well. This looked like three years ago.
RELATED CONTENTKolpack: Defense remains name of the game for Bison, Missouri Valley
Fargo - One of these years, the governors of North Dakota and South Dakota are going to put some teeth into their wager on the inter-state football game between the two state universities. Dinners are routine and boring. Think of something better.
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