Jeff Harkness

Lennox Post 174 pitcher Jared Fodness is going to throw some of the most important pitches of his young career Wednesday in Iowa, and they won't even come in a game.

Fodness has been invited to tryout for a scout from the San Diego Padres at an event in Akron, Iowa

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A little more than a week after winning the NCAA Championship in the pole vault, South Dakota's Bethany Buell has undergone surgery on her injured left shoulder.

Buell had the surgery last Friday to repair a torn ligament, and told me in a text Monday afternoon:
Surgery went well

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The 2013 NFL season will be the last for the Minnesota Vikings in the Metrodome, but the first for the Vikes in their new uniforms, and those are starting to arrive at the team's headquarters in Winter Park

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Dakota Wesleyan in Mitchell has been looking for a new men's basketball coach since Shane Murphy resigned last month.  Last week, DWU announced they had trimmed the list of finalists to four, but didn't release the names on that short list

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This was the incredible scene in Colorado Springs this week, as Pine Creek High School played host to Greeley West High in baseball.

That's the Black Forest fire looming large over the center field fence

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After advancing to the second round of the FCS playoffs last season, the expectations are high for the 2013 South Dakota State football team.

One national publication agrees, Athlon Sports has t

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Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has undergone several changes stands over the past few years, as the seating capacity for Nebraska Cornhusker football games continues to increase. But the latest change to Memorial Stadium is the football field itself

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Former Roosevelt High School standout and Wisconsin Badger Joe Krabbenhoft will join Soctt Nagy's staff at South Dakota State.

Krabbenhoft will replace Austin Hansen, who left the Jacks last month to take an assistant coaching position at Northern Colorado

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South Dakota guard Nicole Seekamp is getting ready to take the court for an international tournament this month, representing her native Australia.

Seekamp has been named to the Jayco Emerging Australian Opals team that will compete in the Four Nations Tournament in China on beginning Saturday

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As the Heat and Spurs get ready for Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Tuesday night at 7:00pm, on ESPN 99.1, there are plenty of unanswered questions about the outcome of this series.

Another question that will be answered after the series is the status of Mitchell native Mike Miller, who has re-discovered his shooting touch in the finals, scoring nine points on three 3-pointers in Game 2, Sunday

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