(NSAA)  – The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its second installment of the softball Players-of the-Week Monday. Valley City State (N.D.) swept the weekly honors for the second straight week. Emily Smith was  selected as the Pitcher-of-the-Week, while her teammate Sierra Crocker was chosen as the Player-of-the-Week.  – Smith […]

UNDATED (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have finalized the hiring of Toronto assistant Chris Finch as their new head coach. The move came hours after the firing of Ryan Saunders. The Timberwolves have the NBA’s worst record. President of basketball operations Gersson Rosas worked with the 51-year-old Finch in Houston […]

NDAPSSA Class B Basketball Polls (First-place votes in parenthesis) 11th poll, Feb. 22 Boys Team Rec. Pts. LW (First-place votes in parenthesis) 1. Four Winds-Minnewaukan (17) 18-1 170 1 2. Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier 18-1 149 2 3. Grafton 17-2 118 3 4. Enderlin 16-3 110 5 5. Langdon-Edmore-Munich 16-2 108 4 6. Dickinson […]

10:30-pm   BOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Grafton/St. Thomas 63, Langdon-Edmore-Munich 59   GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL= Class B Region 1= Quarterfinal= Central Cass 65, Tri-State 33 Kindred 76, Sargent County 42 Northern Cass 59, Richland 46   Class B Region 2= Quarterfinal= Thompson 60, North Border 15   Jamestown Civic Center Class […]

(WDA)  The ND state boys’ and girls’ hockey tournaments start on Tuesday, Feb. 23. Century staand Minot will host quarterfinal games in the boys’ tournament. The Patriots face West Fargo while Minot entertains Fargo South-S. Williston and Bottineau-Rugby have the tall task of facing perennial powers GF Red River and […]

(AP) Gonzaga and Baylor remain atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll in a week of little change. The top five from a week ago remained the same in the poll and no teams dropped out of the AP Top 25. Gonzaga received 60 first-place votes from a media […]

(AP) The Minnesota Timberwolves fired coach Ryan Saunders on Sunday night, hours after the team with the NBA’s worst record this season lost for the eighth time in the last nine games. A person with knowledge of the situation said that the Timberwolves were finalizing plans to introduce Toronto assistant […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Kobe Johnson ran for 114 yards and a touchdown and three-time FCS defending champion North Dakota State beat Youngstown State 25-7 to start its spring season. The Bison extended their winning streak to 39, the longest in FCS history, and home streak to 30, the longest […]

10:55 p.m. Lisbon 57, Hankinson 38 Bismarck St. Mary’s 72, Turtle Mountain 59 Glenburn 67, Max 63 Grafton 80, North Star 37 Griggs Central/Midkota Co-op 63, Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page 61 Hazen 87, Center-Stanton 62 Linton 61, Ellendale 56 Midway-Minto 80, Park River-Fordville/Lankin 53 Minot 87, Dickinson 75 New Salem-Almont 56, Central McLean […]