{"id":74550,"date":"2015-06-10T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74550"},"modified":"2015-06-10T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:29:43","slug":"15-possible-und-nicknames-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74550","title":{"rendered":"15 possible UND nicknames announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43510\" alt=\"UND3\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A committee facilitating the selection of a new nickname for the University of North Dakota has narrowed the list of possibilities to 15.<\/p>\n<p>The group started out with nearly 1,200 potential monikers. It was whittled to about five dozen and then to the current 15. That list will be narrowed even further before a final list is brought to the public for a vote.<\/p>\n<p>State residents voted overwhelmingly in 2012 to dump UND&#8217;s &#8220;Fighting Sioux&#8221; nickname, which the NCAA considered &#8220;hostile and abusive.&#8221; The state Legislature put a moratorium on replacing the nickname until this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 names still in the running are Blaze, Cavalry, Explorers, Fighting Green, Fighting Hawks, Force, Green Hawks, Nodaks, North Dakota, North Stars, Pride, Roughriders, Spirit, Sundogs and Thunderhawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A committee facilitating the selection of a new nickname for the University of North Dakota has narrowed the list of possibilities to 15. The group started out with nearly 1,200 potential monikers. It was whittled to about five dozen and then to the current 15. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74552,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74550\/revisions\/74552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}