Valley City – VCSU Head football coach Dennis McCulloch has announced changes to the Viking coaching staff for the upcoming 2020 season. Graduate assistant Brandon Bouma has been promoted to recruiting coordinator and running backs coach, taking on a new role in the program this year. Offensive assistant coach Chad Smith […]

(AP)  — The Minnesota Timberwolves are reopening their practice facility for voluntary sessions for players starting Thursday. Only one coach and one player will be allowed on the court at Mayo Clinic Square, across the street from Target Center in downtown Minneapolis. They’ll be required to stay 12 feet apart. […]

Jamestown  (uj.edu)  The University of Jamestown has announced the hiring of Alex Raasch as its first ever women’s swimming and diving head coach. The program will begin competition in 2021-22 while Raasch will spend the 2020-21 season recruiting. “We feel women’s swimming and diving is a perfect fit for our […]

Jamestown  (Parks & Recreation)  Jamestown Parks and Recreation Director Doug Hogan reports, local slow-pitch softball associations will be able to begin league competition by June 1, 2020  cautioning that play will be closely monitored. Teams will also be responsible for social distancing guidelines from North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum’s office […]

(AP )  The final episodes of “The Last Dance” have aired, yet ESPN has one more program to show about the Chicago Bulls’ sixth championship. ESPN will show “Game 6: The Movie” on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. CDT, CSi Cable 84.14 HD, following a rebroadcast of episodes nine and […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced it will extend championship agreements for seven of its championship host sites affected this past year by COVID-19. The extensions were announced to assist further the relationship between the NAIA and its host cities. Women’s basketball (Sioux City, Iowa), […]

(AP)  Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS’s “The NFL Today” and served as the first lady of Kentucky, has died. She was 70. A family spokeswoman says George died Thursday at a Lexington, Kentucky, hospital after a long fight with a blood […]

Fargo  The 2020 North Dakota Shrine Bowl is cancelled. The news release says, “Based on the information available at this time, the North Dakota Shrine Bowl Board has come to the difficult decision to cancel this year’s game and the events surrounding the game.  The North Dakota Shrine Bowl Board […]

(AP)  The St. Paul Saints will hold a virtual home opener next week, with the independent minor league baseball club unable to start their defense of the American Association championship due to the virus-related restrictions in place. The Saints have dubbed the event “Nopening Day,” which will begin on Tuesday […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A person familiar with the decision tells The Associated Press that Major League Baseball owners have given the go-ahead to making a proposal to the players’ union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July weekend in ballparks without fans. The […]